“I’ve never met a single person who enjoys using a paper straw. They fall apart and turn to mush quicker than Joe Biden trying to string together a coherent sentence.”
The first time I encountered a paper straw, it was when I ordered a milkshake.
I could hardly believe the stupidity. The straw was not in any way up to the task of transporting a thick liquid milkshake from the cup to my mouth. It just became soggy and collapsed every time you tried.
I ended up going back and having to get a long plastic spoon in order to consume the thick drink.
What is worse for the environment? A thin plastic straw, or a long plastic spoon?
Typically stupid Leftism and Environmentalism.
She turned off the Perky.
I slid he tip back into my pocket.
Does anybody remember the pea shooter with a paper straw?
As I started to sputter, I felt my wife's hand on my back, a sure sign she was trying to calm my incredulous indignation down.
I said "What? Really? Unhealthy? More unhealthy than a fat and sugar filled sundae?" as I pointed at a sundae another customer was walking away with.
See...it wasn't about the cherry per se, as nearly everyone I tell this account to seems to assume.
It was about something far more dangerous than a cherry-it was about the acceptance or legitimization of GIVING other people the power to make choices for you about something as innocuous as a maraschino cherry. And in my gut, as I sputtered trying to express what my instincts told me, I knew my outrage I was feeling had nothing to do with a stupid cherry. I could buy a jar of them at a store less than five minutes away.
It was about someone telling me what was good or bad for me, and not allowing me to make my own decisions on that.
Because if they will eagerly assume that power and exercise it over a cherry, think of other areas of life they would be willing to employ it in. Look at what we see with mask mandates, social distance requirements, and vaccination endeavors. Same thing.
And this paper straw BS is the same thing. Exactly. We ban them because we think it is good for you.
It brings to mind a famous quote by C.S. Lewis:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult.
To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
Another frivolous Oklahoma politician. I sort of get the point but I have not seen a paper straw since Noah was a child.
Did you think they would stop after plastic straws? Do you think they will stop after paper straws? The goal is to bring down the entire industrialized society that depends on petroleum products.
The best way to insure that your plastic straw ends up in a sea turtle’s nose it to recycle it.
Regular trash goes straight to your nearest landfill. Absolutely zero chance of the straw getting to the ocean.
But if you recycle it, it could be shipped overseas where it is manually sorted for recycling. Unfortunately dirty plastic won’t be used so it gets dumped in the nearest river or body of water. Cue the sea turtles.
So feel free to use plastic straws but don’t fall for the recycling scam.
For the eating establishments, not having to run glasses, spoons, and straws through the dishwasher means that, for smaller stores, they don't need a dishwasher. Ever get take-out at a sit-down establishment? When you ask for utensils, you get plastic, but when you order in you get stainless steel.
Paper straws are a cop-out -- they don't work.
In my case, I have a nice drawer of reusable dinnerware, so when I do take-out I bring it home and not add to the plastic waste stream.
I tend to agree. I had few paper straws at Disney and it changes the drink. I was hoping it’d improve the drink. Boomers always brag about how tasty the shakes were when they were kids and used paper straws. Once again, boomers get it wrong. No surprise.
The whole “banning plastic straws” started in and was carried out in the western nations, and in the U.S. in the idiotic “progressive” states like California.
The whole thing came from two things. The first thing was the animals in the oceans that get caught up in plastic waste in the seas. The second thing was the ignorance of those banning plastic straws when it comes to origins of the plastic waste in the oceans.
A huge study of plastic waste in the oceans had previously determined that 90% of it came NOT from western nations at all, but from a number of river systems in Asia and Africa, coming out of nations that do not have robust trash collection and recycling infrastructures like found in western nations.
The “culprit” was never the plastic straw. It was under developed societies.
Yet the idiots in California still pat themselves on the back for banning plastic straws. They still think they did something “good” and “noble” when all they did was something stupid and dictatorial.
How much plastic and paper can be found in this moron’s office?
With “Republicans” like this who needs Democrats?
Saying this makes Dahm a fool, seen from the practical stance of a paper-maker. This kind of idiotic premise came when petroleum-based plastic bags were promoted by "environmentalists" to replace paper bags. Trees have souls, don't they?
Actually, plastic bags are made from non-renewable resources; whereas paper is made from trees that are constantly renewed by the sun's energy and chlorophyll combining carbon dioxide, air, and water to make new wood. The products that the wood is used to make are recyclable for less costly packaging, looking at the total picture.
I was born and grew up in an age when plastics for straws and bags did not exist. Wax-paper straws worked fine, as did Kraft-paper wrapping and boxes. When the plastics came, they were stronger, durable, and cheap--maybe too good in each of those areas, eh?
The last sentence is the key.
This doofus will be a National news story next week because of his comment about the female VP and paper straws.
This absurdity could go nation-wide. If that is the case I better hurry and do the “Paper Straw through the Potato” Object Lesson for the congregation during Kids Corner that I just came across. Here it is. . .I plan to change some of the dialog. https://www.apostolicsundayschool.com/christ-strengthens-me-straw-through-potato/