“I go to the grocery store and buy a pound of deli ham in a plastic bag, bread in a plastic bag, milk in a plastic jug, napkins wrapped in plastic, store-made salad in a plastic tub, a plastic bottle of mustard and a plastic bottle of ketchup. But they won’t give me a plastic bag to carry it home, because the plastic bag is bad for the environment?”
The WWF would throw me into an eco-Gulag if they knew of my rate of paper towel consumption … ohhhhhhh mommmmaaaaaaa
Paper towel – PFFFFFT.
Using toilet paper over abundantly is where it’s at my fellow A’s fan.
I have one of them fancy bidet-seats … with a heated ass-dryer … hey! This IS the Bay Area! So my consumption of the GIANT package of COSTCO tp is down. However … my plastic ziploc bag use is freaking OFF the charts.
Hahahaha ha ha … the A’s get ONE All Star Selection … but the GIGANTES also only get ONE … hahahaha ha ha … sucks to be YOU GIGANTES!
If not for Costco TP I would spend way too much time buying TP, must have something to do with age.
The addition of a new puppy has sent our paper towel use skyrocketing. I’d rather not have a mop smelling of puppy pee. Just when we think he’s got it, the sneaky little bugger strikes again.
Sweet! Now please tell me that your puppy isn’t a “rescue”. Sorry … all the “rescue” pet owners are as boring as EV-drivers … who never tire of reminding you how wonderful they are …
Well they are wonderful. We took over a 10 year old Frenchie when his owner went into hospital and died. The owner was suffering from Guillain Barre syndrome most probably brought on by Covid vaccination. We’ve now had Jesse for 18 months, he’s deaf and delightful.
You’re a wonderful person.
Yeah I’m not sure what “rescue” means. We didn’t run in and get him from a burning building or pull him out of a lake. Cockapoo. Bought him fair and square. Our other dogs are a pure bred English Setter and a very old pure bred long coated Chihuahua. None from wells or deep holes either. All from reputable breeders.
I want an English Setter … my next dog. But only when I get my 35 semi rural acres OUT of the SF Bay Area
As a life long dog owner I can’t stand the phoney rescue industry.
There should be a special place in hell for that bunch.
Especially when they start bringing in 3rd world dogs as if we don’t have enough of our own.
Thomas
Indeed. And the diseases the foreign ‘rescues’ bring with them.
North America dog owners have to contend with dog diseases we have never heard of. Many of them fatal. All courtesy of the ‘rescue industry’. What crap
The ‘rescue’ industry is just another deep state tool to condition people, same as ‘recycling’ is.
English Setters are awesome dogs. My big boy, Levon, gets told he’s beautiful every time we go for a walk. I wish I had him when I was 20. Absolute chick magnet. He’s a great dog. I know a great breeder here in Wisconsin. Beirl’s Setters in Mellen.
I wonder when they will put most of this stuff in (glass) containers.
Blatant hypocrisy and absurdity are the hallmarks of authoritarian governments. Whether it’s plastic bag nonsense or being forced to call biological men women. Authoritarian governments use this psychological tactic to project their power by eroding people’s ability to speak truth to power. Brainwashing and propaganda.
The old quote is “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”. We saw a whisper of this during the segregation and discrimination of the unvaccinated. After that, I have no doubt a significant percentage of the population would be willing participants in any cleansing program instigated by our malignant government, media, legal, and medical/public health institutions.
LC
And the ‘Church’ tries to dicktate your bed room behavior. So that is their model that they are following
. And some in here wonder why I despise the “church” and their religious dictates!
TBF … sticking a perfectly good pennis into another man’s rectum has a myriad of biological risks … goes into the same category of eating pork when trichinosis occurred unchecked. God’s Word has contained some very practical advice.
I’m agnostic about religion but there’s one big difference – following religious rules are voluntary, but you are forced to follow government laws .
LC
“following religious rules are voluntary, but you are forced to follow government laws .”
Subjective, and absolutely not so in the past, as the church had enough clout to force you, and that is why many people came to the new world, to escape the “church”. As to being a religious agnostic, there is NO such creature, you either believe, and so are with them, or you don’t believe, so their enemy.
I do support the rite of choice for religion, and that covers all religions, but not extremism as practiced within some religious CULTS. And all religions are cults.
LC
“…After that, I have no doubt a significant percentage of the population would be willing participants in any cleansing program instigated by our malignant government, media, legal, and medical/public health institutions…”
No truer words spoken.
We the Filthy WHITE Male UNVAXXED be:
Racist
Misogynist
Far Right Extremist…..and in the Words of He who presumes to be God, should not be tolerated.
Remember the internment KAMPF RFQ…? its, still out there and I have ZERO doubt said majority would be in favour of said Kampfs being put to use…
We are dealing with de-facto NAZI’s.
You left out Q-Anon devotee … I keep hearing that retread bee sssss show up in the leftist Press.
Obvious solution to the hypocrisy is obvious, but you aren’t going to like it.
Unfortunately, there is no movement in this country to tell governments “No, you do not have that power” when it comes to micromanaging every little bit of society.
Instead we get bans on plastic bags that are labelled “single use” but often get used 2 or more time, bans on plastic straws, with their paper replacements melting into your drinks, bans on “plastic cutlery” which gets replaced with more expensive wood versions, etc
I’m just waiting to see what new idiocy Comrade Mayor Chowcescau will be coming up with over the next 2 years…
Don’t forget. Oil for your car or truck come in plastic jugs I remember when they came in glass then the old cans.
I can’t stop laughing at these fools.
Shhh…stop telling them of all of our conveniences lest they take them away too.
I put everything in the trash as I have faith that human technology will advance to the point where it will be economically feasible to mine old landfills in the future. Besides that, the plastic came from the ground, we’re just putting it back in.
Brandon…
“..Besides that, the plastic came from the ground, we’re just putting it back in..”
That right there is not only bang on, near spit out my coffee this morning..!!
Lmao.
Being a bit of a skeptic who employs logic, common sense and critical thinking, will only make you lonely.
When all of our garbage was land-filled we didn’t have the extensional crisis of PLASTIC. My plastic bags were resued to hold other plastic bags and finally sequestered in a giant plastic lined pit.
Anyways, please put as much plastic in the recycling as you can. Every scrap. Their system obviously can’t handle it so maybe we can love it to death. Absolutely no metal though.
An environmental hearing where a Senator quizzes anti-plastic Democrat Angelle Bradford. These are the people we’re up against. Let the stupidity flow through you like a river. When Jordan Peterson claimed national IQ’s are in decline I think he’s on to something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V5CHCc8dfY&t=100s
Senator:“The glasses around your face are made of plastic”
Einstein: Ummm…maybe, I don’t know what they’re made of.”
It gets better.
It’s not just government engaging in the stupidity — it’s the retailers, too.
The most shameful is — you’re expecting Walmart, aren’t you? — Co-Op. Yeah, that Co-Op — the rah-rah-western-community we’re-here-for-you-because-we-understand-the-little-guy Co-Op that still has covid warnings on video monitors all over their city grocery stores. Co-Op sells a reusable bag that comes neatly folded and wrapped in its own decidedly non-reusable glossy wrapper. Total imbecility.
I’ve noticed, too, that reusable bags no longer have and labelling on them indicating where they are made. I wonder why that is.
Albeit Co-op has their green compostable grocery bag at the checkout and the Feds ruled recently to refuse to accept it as an alternative (heard an interview on radio with Co-op dude). The idiocy of government still amazes me. Not sure why at this point.
I come back to the fact that plastic use with foods has significantly decreased illness and death. That is not part of government’s playbooks anymore. Less humans please and make them suffer more while still alive.
China, they are all made in PRC
Elect clowns, expect a circus!!
And is the Trudeau regime a clown show!
A dangerous one.
All those bastards in Moose Jaw have been throwing their plastic straws into the South China Sea where they get stuck in the noses of sea turtles.
Somehow.
take many many handfuls of the plastic produce bags and bag your groceries with them.
Better quintuple-bag ‘em as those produce bags are thinner than a 50-cent condom
mhb23re
And those reusable grocery bags….I am always bringing an assortment of dog hair to the store whether they like it or not.
Also ask to have the meat put in a vegetable bag before it goes into the reusable. I will poison my family on my own terms….
And if I forget the reusable, I will use a multitude of vegetable bags instead.
This is all so stupid.
Great subject.
One only need look at the big box stores, and their hard clamshell packaging…Costco, Best Buy etc.
I dont see ANY governmental push to have THEM go paper/recycled cardboard…. but hey it’s us consumers that need to be controlled right..?
Costco’s “contribution” was to eliminate straws from their food court, replaced with a “sippy Lid”.
My My …. Such aggressive compliance…
Costco decided to change from what was a nice aluminum bottom to a full plastic package that doesn’t seal properly, and is flimsy… probably in a cost cutting manner, but it means more packaging is required if you want to get it home safely
Pennies were dropped as ‘inconvenient’ and ‘expensive’.
Plastic bag ‘sin fines’ in BC started out at 5¢.
BCLCB paper sleeve ‘sin fines’ are now 25¢.
Governors love lashing the serfs.
Life Follows Art dept.
Heart Attack and Vine – Tom Waits
there ain’t no devil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C49H3aWdiK8
And then we carefully separate and recycle all that stuff so it can eventually be sent to landfill very neatly.
It’s not about “fixing the environment”, it’s about nudging you towards being a good little socialist peon who doesn’t ask too many questions.
Bang-on.
Edward
About 30 years ago, my friend from Hungry said exactly that.
Easy solution – just incinerate the damn stuff. It’s not rocket science. The Durham York Energy Centre energy from waste operation produces about 17.5 megawatts of base load energy (14 exported to the grid) and reduces waste volume by 90%.
https://apps.durham.ca/applications/works/DYEC/EmissionsData/ElectricityGeneration.aspx
Exactly. This is why the Good Lord gave us fire. He wanted us to burn our trash.
No, that’s common sense.
The eco-tards would rather ship it around the world for “recycling”!!
It’s f**king oil for chrise sakes, burn it locally, generate energy, cease all restrictions.
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I tell every cashier that I would have bought way more stuff if they supplied free plastic bags like they used to.
The cashiers are at the bottom. They have no say.
As I recall it was the previous Turdeau that banned paper bags and ordered them replaced by plastic to save the trees and hence the planet. The stupidity goes full circle for the Libtards.
Me too. Remember my Mom wrapping the sandwiches in paper and they were hard by lunch! Yummy!
We’re all supposed to go to the store on bikes and only carry home what we can in our packsacks.
In the supermarket next door to my condo I see many MANY people wandering around with all their purchases held in both hands. Presumably they transfer these to a bag in the car which, if true, leads me to wonder why they don’t being the bag into the store.
Theory: A new kind of virtue-signalling. Not just caring but seen to be caring for the planet.
For me it’s not virtue-signaling.
Wife “Did you bring the bags?”
Me “…………….”
We always bag at the car, isn’t that normal? There’s about 42 different branded reusable bags in the car…..
I’m with Davis. Costco style now. I just put everything back in the cart, clutching my bill lest it flies away, and then take my time packing in the car. Some folks take an unprecedented amount of time neatly packing their bags as my groceries pile up. Also, with the standard plastic bags, the cashier could bag on the spot using a neatly stand. But with the variety, sizes, shapes… of the “reusables”, it’s often impractical.
The cloth reusable they sell now are almost impossible to put anything in. Useless.
Bins are the way to go, either the collapsible ones or Superstore type plastic ones.
Can have my groceries packed by the time she hands me the receipt.
With lots of spare any label plastic bags as back up.
This just in:
In my Vancouver condo elevator there’s a posted letter to the effect that plastic-looking bags labeled compostable ….. are not to be put in the compost bin. We buy our super thin sweaty slimy ones at London Drugs and they are clearly labeled compostable.
Apparently the waste cartage company can fine the strata corp for non-compliance. I’m gonna suggest an in-bin surveillance camera in order to catch the miscreants to whom the fine can be transferred.
Terminal silliness all round eh VOWG.
So how do you transfer your compostables to the compost bin?
Just returned from an Ontario LCBO (Guv’ment controlled liquor). Woman apologised for placing my various bottles in various small, paper bags. Informed me that all the large paper bags are gone, and that they won’t be having them anymore. Once the small paper bags are gone, that will be it for them as well. Paper.
Is there a normal person that would accuse bureaucrats of common sense?
BTW, Lorne Gunter gets paid to be a jornolithp by sharing someone else’s comment.