-
I'm all for a cleaner environment, but seriously cardboard straws can get absolutely fucked. Just fucking useless.
Bring back the plastic.
-
@mariner4life we have aluminium ones at home for the kids.
-
@taniwharugby said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@mariner4life we have aluminium ones at home for the kids.
I hate those too, they have a taste
We just need to accept we peaked the straw at plastic
-
@mariner4life straws are for kids...who cares if they taste
-
@mariner4life said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@taniwharugby said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@mariner4life we have aluminium ones at home for the kids.
I hate those too, they have a taste
We just need to accept we peaked the straw at plastic
Just ask them if they can fill your own mug.
-
@Snowy said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
Stainless steel ones shouldn't taste and they don't collapse with too much pressure like plastic (and yeah, cardboard are shit).
Gotta say the objective of saving the planet does seem to have diminished a bit in this conversation...
So we are supposed to judge straws based on their ability to withstand pressure?
-
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@Snowy said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
Stainless steel ones shouldn't taste and they don't collapse with too much pressure like plastic (and yeah, cardboard are shit).
Gotta say the objective of saving the planet does seem to have diminished a bit in this conversation...
So we are supposed to judge straws based on their ability to withstand pressure?
Functionality I think. Straws that collapse and don't deliver the desired result I would class as a fail. That is when in use and get a bit of a blockage they don't work.
Should we be judging them on aesthetics as well? -
@antipodean said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@mariner4life said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@taniwharugby said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@mariner4life we have aluminium ones at home for the kids.
I hate those too, they have a taste
We just need to accept we peaked the straw at plastic
Just ask them if they can fill your own mug.
Good option, but not for frozen coke
-
@mariner4life this one has a silicon straw...perfect really, can be cleaned, and still take to the movies for your frozen coke, plus, gooder for the environment, and I'm sure you could get a Darth Vader one if you wanted.
-
@taniwharugby said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@mariner4life this one has a silicon straw...perfect really, can be cleaned, and still take to the movies for your frozen coke, plus, gooder for the environment, and I'm sure you could get a Darth Vader one if you wanted.
I think we've got his christmas present sorted. Someone drop a quick word to Mrs M4L.
-
@Snowy said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@Snowy said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
Stainless steel ones shouldn't taste and they don't collapse with too much pressure like plastic (and yeah, cardboard are shit).
Gotta say the objective of saving the planet does seem to have diminished a bit in this conversation...
So we are supposed to judge straws based on their ability to withstand pressure?
Functionality I think. Straws that collapse and don't deliver the desired result I would class as a fail. That is when in use and get a bit of a blockage they don't work.
Should we be judging them on aesthetics as well?I genuinely have no idea what you are doing with your straws that collapsing due to pressure is a concern.
-
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@Snowy said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@Snowy said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
Stainless steel ones shouldn't taste and they don't collapse with too much pressure like plastic (and yeah, cardboard are shit).
Gotta say the objective of saving the planet does seem to have diminished a bit in this conversation...
So we are supposed to judge straws based on their ability to withstand pressure?
Functionality I think. Straws that collapse and don't deliver the desired result I would class as a fail. That is when in use and get a bit of a blockage they don't work.
Should we be judging them on aesthetics as well?I genuinely have no idea what you are doing with your straws that collapsing due to pressure is a concern.
I haven't used a straw in several decades, and the technology may have improved, but an icecream blockage would cause the straw to collapse when having a milkshake. That shouldn't happen.
-
I'll add that when you heard about a girl that could suck a golf ball through a garden hose you wouldn't expect the garden hose to fold in on itself...
I'm going to rest my case for better straws there, although the discussion is a bit of a straw man for climate change.
-
@Snowy said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
I'll add that when you heard about a girl that could suck a golf ball through a garden hose...
I knew that girl. She could lick the chrome off a bumper hitch, too. Good times.
-
@taniwharugby said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@mariner4life straws are for kids...who cares if they taste
but milkshakes
-
@jegga said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
Greta’s backstory has a few holes
"There have already been suggestions that Greta’s rise to fame was not quite as spontaneous as advertised."
Greenpeace Greta. What disappoints me is how easily manipulated people are. I just hope this is the bottom point. And 2020 will be a more sane year
But anyway Merry Christmas to all. Including the end-of-worlders.
Climate Change