Posted on 02/17/2017 8:33:26 PM PST by BenLurkin
or decades, customers have complained that McDonald’s straws were pretty much useless when used to drink milkshakes....
But now, with the announcement of several new Shamrock Shakes, the fast food giant has swung the pendulum far in the other direction, with a straw that’s overengineered – seriously, two engineering firms worked on it – to look more like mountain climbing equipment than it does any straw we’ve ever seen. Here’s the result of design, a determined product development team, and a 3D printer:
A ridiculous item like this requires an equally bombastic name, which McDonald’s has, of course, bestowed upon the item. It’s the STRAW. Naturally, it’s got an acronym as contrived as the device itself: Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal.
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Our Sonic has great shakes. I love in the summer when they are half price after 8pm.
Johnny 5 will be happy to know that there is a tool to assist him when he disassembles a McDonalds shake.
So, how much will these STRAWs go for on Ebay?
Potbelly’s makes good malts.
Shakes from most chains contain a filler made from wood pulp. It’s what gives it that “creamy” texture.
Shakes from most chains contain a filler made from wood pulp. It’s what gives it that “creamy” texture.
Its fake food. And it is killing us.
Jesus Christ, the Messiah, true God and true man, warned us of these times when he said:
“[34]And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly. [35] For as a snare shall it come upon all that sit upon the face of the whole earth. Luke Chapter 21:34-5
McDonalds is food made for gluttons. It has no nutritional value. It is full of toxins. It is full of sugar that opportunistic pathogens turn into toxins. The meat is treated with Ammonia to kill the antibiotic resistent bacteria present in the meat from cows that spend their whole existence standing in their own excrement.
I believe the hot glue brings the design into FDA regulatory regimen, so nobody will be sipping from your straw until after the clinicals start in 2027, and are finally reviewed well into Barron’s second term.
The straw and vacuum cleaner are two rare examples of Gödel statements manifesting themselves in the material universe: when they suck, they don’t suck. But when they don’t suck, they suck.
That's the takeaway.
Well, it's a step up from the duct tape I considered using, but my grandkids would have objected to that. They make me test my products first.
The first race Barron is eligible to run in will be in 2044.
If, like his daddy, he is a late bloomer politically, expect to see him running in 2076. Hopefully, there will still be a United States.
I've come up with a design that skips the hot glue. I'm constructing the double-J design with PLA material on my 3D printer. PLA is biodegradable. An improvement on the design is an addition of a whistle that blows if you suck the straw too quickly, thereby preventing a brain freeze.
Dude, you’re a genius. Stop talking (and call the patent attorneys!)
I see what you did there, but you're a little wrong.
Straws don't suck. People who use them do. Even if they can't get them to work by sucking harder. That's how much people, those be-troubled beings can and do suck.
Yet you are still also a little right about when straws, if we were to change don't "suck" to don't work (like in milk shakes) suck (when they don't).
When seeing the design I immediately thought -- aha! maybe that's how fuel pick-up line ends, in marine (diesel) fuel tanks (that are built integral to steel hull vessels) could be made, except with the small hole in the bottom of the curve ---instead of the sides of the bottom curve, be actually at the bottom (to allow anything desired to settle out when not running be allowed to settle out instead of clog at that point).
That is, if having a small hole (just the right size compared to the others) would still work, gaining any advantage in tending towards drawing (and creating flows near the various sized holes) generally from a little higher, thereby putting just that more distance between the pick-up point(s) and lower down in the tank nearer accumulations of rust, algae growth detritus and water during the majority of the time fuel was being drawn out of the tank.
I dunno...maybe my hole thinking here sucks.
2076 - Tri-Centennial! We gotta make it...
Looks like an IUD for an Elephant
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