# Quote — Douglas Coupland, JPod

> Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world — everyone has one and it never gets used.

- Author: [Douglas Coupland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland.md)
- Book: [JPod](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/jpod.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Coupland#JPod_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/jpod/hip-flasks-are

## More from this book

> “What do lesbians have against capitalized letters?”
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> “Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/jpod/what-do-lesbians.md)

> It turns out that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony — which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. I can’t imagine anything worse than that. Okay, maybe I can, but imagine reading the morning newspaper and believing it all to be true on some level.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/jpod/it-turns-out.md)

> Older staffers don’t even bother coming in on weekends. Where is the sleep-crazed, Pepsi-fuelled one-point-oh tech environment that can only be created by having no green vegetables, no sex and no life?
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> Cowboy said, “I miss the greed of the 1990s bubble.”
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> John Doe said, “I miss the possibility of unearned wealth.”
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> Bree said, “I miss the possibility of doing something Apple, something one-point-oh.”
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> Evil Mark said, “I miss people having Hot Wheels tracks set up in their cubicles.”
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> Gord-O walked into the pod. “You can’t miss the nineties, because you weren’t there. They were great. Too bad you screwed-up twits missed out on the party.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/jpod/older-staffers-dont.md)