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| It's not you, it's me.  |
They suck ass. They really disintegrate the minute they touch liquid. | ||
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Misanthropic Philanthrope |
They're pretty good for snorting your coke or heroin or meth ... ___________________________ Originally posted by Psychobastard: Well, we "gave them democracy"... not unlike giving a monkey a loaded gun. | |||
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Frangas non Flectes |
Yeah, we went out to dinner last weekend and got our first experience with them as a family. What a useless concept. Absolute waste of paper. The only way to make them work is to only dip them in the drink when you’re going to take a drink, and then shake out the excess liquid and place the straw on a napkin. Who wants to mess around with all that? ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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Objectively Reasonable |
Nobody. At least the old-school paper ones were paraffin-coated. Single-use, sure, but they at least held up for that single use. | |||
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W07VH5 |
That's not how you use a straw.  | |||
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| It's not you, it's me. |
Google “Feltching” | |||
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| Freethinker |
When I was a kid, not only did I have to walk through the snow 10 miles uphill both ways to school, we also had to put up with paper straws! And don’t get me started about those little pull tabs in the tops of milk cartons that never worked right and the fact that the cartons only held a quart. Plastic straws, half gallon cartons, and being able to form a pouring spout with the top of the carton was like the Second Coming. ► 6.4/93.6 | |||
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In addition to using paper straws we had glass milk containers with paper caps. The bottles of milk had lots of condensation and hence were slippery. Needless to say the broke easily when dropped. I grew up thinking that only women used straws and with a group of guys we would always throw the straws to the side. | |||
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| Frangas non Flectes |
I'm guessing you didn't spend a lot of time working in restaurants. Because until I did, I used to think only women and children used straws, also. Just let your imagination run wild. I didn't have to, I saw enough to convince me to use a sealed and clean drinking surface when I dine out. You know how plastic straws often get served with a bit of the paper wrapper left at the top so you have to pull it off to drink? Yeah, there's a reason for that. ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
Nope. I ain't gonna do that. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Yeah my wife went into great detail about that shit. She also gets really pissed when they bring the lemon floating in the ice tea. Growing up, masculinity trumped health. Today not so much. | |||
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| Slayer of Agapanthus |
I worked as a busboy-dishwasher for several summers for a chain called Jim's in San Antonio, TX. Jim's is like Denny's or IHOP. The cleanliness of the dishes depended a lot on the commitment of the guy who loaded the dishwasher. He had to try to keep food scraps, napkins, toothpicks, and such out of the machine. Also to change the water, clean the screens, hose out the interior, and such. Not all were diligent. One reason that the restraunts that I usually eat at are Taco Bell, What-a-Burger, and sandwhich shops is that the product is delivered in one-use paper wrapping. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre. | |||
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Unhyphenated American |
My first encounter was over 50 years ago, they worked fine. Handled a real milkshake with no trouble. __________________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M Nixon It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice. Billy Joe Shaver NRA Life Member | |||
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| Unhyphenated American |
Used to have a wax coating. __________________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M Nixon It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice. Billy Joe Shaver NRA Life Member | |||
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Ok, let me get this straight. Paper is virtuous, plastic is now evil. Looks like the spotted owls had a good 25 year run, now it’s back to saving the whales. Got it. Hey, would a paper golf ball still get caught in a whale’s blow hole? Anything to save George from getting wet. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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Shorted to Atmosphere |
"Armageddon!!" | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Wisdom come early to you, youngling. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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That's the way I grew up, too, and I didn't realize until now that not everybody is old enough to remember it. Guys were too practical to waste time drinking through a skinny, collapsing straw, when a Coke could be finished in a couple quick gulps. Girls were too concerned about messing up their lipstick. Anybody remember trying to use two straws at once to get the job done? -------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18 | |||
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| It's not you, it's me. |
Only homos and communists use straws. | |||
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