Posted on 07/09/2019 3:21:25 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
You've obviously never heard of Hoppes #9 and a bronze bore brush.
Oh please, anyone’s who ever been to a party supply store has to admit that most of that stuff is pointless. I mean, you’re seriously gonna tell me that plastic (made in China) kazoos with wax paper reeds that break in an hour and can’t be replaced is a good idea just because some soccer mom occasionally makes an impulse buy? Hell, I every chance I get I go as far away from human habitation as possible, I can be two hours down a dirt road from the nearest human being, but I sure as hell can’t get away from their plastic garbage no matter how far I go because most people are fundamentally lazy a-holes who are generally happy to externalize costs/effort rather than do the right thing. The free market supplies heroin and crystal meth too, does that make taking or supplying either of them a good idea? What about illegal immigration? There’s a huge market for that too... and it isn’t the employer who bears the brunt of the costs the immigrants impose on society.
Advantages for a straw:
Keeps things tidy in a car. Very hard to drink anything in the car without one.
Keeps your lipstick in shape.
Kids make much less mess with one. Same with anyone disabled in that way.
It does reduce sugar exposure on your teeth.
Spares you pain if you have sensitive teeth.
Lots of good reasons to use straws. Imo the permanent ones are not very sanitary (yes I have a dishwasher but it doesn’t derail like that! I’d need to use a tiny pipe cleaner!)
I will stick with plastic.
Maybe Toby Keith will write a song about blue plastic straws to embolden the masses.
Food and history are fun. Food history is even better!
Those are just huge hypodermic tubing. Cut them at a slant.
“Keeps things tidy in a car.”
That was my first thought. Eating in the car with kids. Started in the 40’s or 50’s? No car seats. No seatbelts. Covered cups with straws...Logical solution.
Metal straw (and a convenient fall) have been the weapon of choice for this pair of “partners”.
Metal straw (and a convenient fall) have been the weapon of choice for this pair of “partners”.
From the Dark Knight movie:
The Joker: I’m gonna make this pencil disappear.
[Gambol’s thug walks over to kill The Joker, who slams his face into the pencil and kills him]
The Joker: Ta-daa! It’s... it’s gone.
We should make straws out of a safer material, like plastic.
Sounds as though she was murdered and the weapon was a metal straw.
RIP.
That is a Hillary robot that short circuited.
She was a victim of probabilities. The positioning of that straw was a low probability to fall in that exact orientation. Such is life.
Yes, the universe punched her ticket. There is no escape when you time is up.
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