20 Replies to “If It Saves One Turtle”

  1. If only Canadians would stop throwing plastic straws off the coast of China! I blame Doug Ford.

    1. Yes, what no one dare admit is that Canada, the US, Japan and most of Europe aren’t the source of the plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean.

      So while these bans will make the usual suspects preen over their own wonderfulness, plastics will continue to be dumped into the sea by most of Asia.

  2. I look forward to Quentin Tarantino’s next Chapter of Kill Bill … where Uma Thurman travels to Japasia to have a deadly “throwing straw” crafted by “Hanso” … I amuse myself.

    But on a serious note, my wife drinks her commute coffee from a straw so she doesn’t spill on herself. I have just forbid her from ever accepting or purchasing an Eco-friendly straw from Starbucks (where she regretably obtains her coffee).

  3. Oh c’mon. I wouldn’t blame the straw any more than I’d blame a gun for a shooting. It was a freak accident and could have been a pencil.

  4. “should never be used with a lid that fixes them in place, and “great care should be taken” while using them.”
    hey, A**WIPE, they should ‘never be used’ AT ALL. m’kay?

  5. Plastic straws, forks and plates are extremely dangerous.
    Settled scientists have proven their catastrophical properties.
    While testing large rat’s, they discovered that if you shoved ten plastic straws up a rat’s ass it will die.
    It only took two plastic forks.

  6. I bought some Tervis cups, 24 ounce ones. 24 ounces matches exactly the size Booster Juice sells. Stainless straw is awesome for sucking smoothies or real milkshakes like you get at Marble Slab or Homestead.

    But I did realize very quickly that one should not simply leave that sticking out of the cup. When you’re not drinking, straw has to be layed flat somewhere out of the cup.

  7. I don’t understand why so many people take so many of their drinks through a straw. Stop the car. Take the lid off that cup, pretend you are a grown-up, and don’t suck, drink.

    1. Hey! I learned to stop critiquing my wife’s goofy habits about 10 years into our current 37 years of marriage. Pro tip: that’s how couples manage to stay together

  8. Now that was a side effect I never thought of,better than an icepick,faster than a pencil.
    Every homocidal maniac will be happy to regard drinking staffs,metal,as a new accessory.

    1. aaaaand remember J R, in canuckistan, if’n ya wanna off sumbuddy, practice getting soused and driving.
      record how many shots put ya over the limit but can still focus on the correct traffic marker.

      now, line up the target, stalk them, and RUN THEM OVER. when the cops show up, be sure and act the part.
      typical penalty is,oh, say mebbe 2, 3 yrs and gasp!!! suspended license !!!
      far better than 20 life sentence for murder eh?

      only in canuckistan !!!
      gawd I hate lieberals.

  9. I blame the turtles for drinking through straws in the first place.

  11. I vaguely remember paper straws when I was growing up. Are these now too passé to be resurrected? Green absurdity is exemplified by the coffee stir sticks available in our lounge at work. To be more eco-friendly the plastic stir sticks were replaced by ones made of wood; but each one is enclosed in its own clear plastic wrapper!

  12. The sudden fetish of offing single use plastic is designed for only thing, and that is to hurt the oil industry in any way they can, The Ludditism is strong in this bunch. Once they are successful in some way they will ratchet up the anti. It is what reds do.

    That said, we use metal straws in our travel mugs. It is easier to use straws while driving. Less dribbling on the lap that way. We are do not use them around the house or yard.

    We are also careful when we walk around the kitchen, or anywhere for that matter, with any sharp or semi sharp utensils of any sort.

    Please use chainsaws responsibly.

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