Sometimes I forget that something as simple as "reusable bags are easy" and "I put them in my truck and carry things with my hands" is enough to really cause a big reaction from some of our more colorful friends.
The correct term is BIPOC. "Colorful" isnt exactly racist, but it's not PC either.
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The fact Gullfoss is not banned for life on here is such an embarrassment. Just a joke.
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lol, No one on here genuinely believes a word of that post was sincere, pre or post-edit.
Well I certainly hope that’s not the case and that you’re just projecting your own feelings on other people. I clearly think a whole lot more of you than you do of me, which sucks but I’m sure it’s my fault.
Sorry I’ve given you the impression that I’d do something reprehensible like you mentioned, that’s on me even if I know what my intentions were. Hope we’ll be cool at some point in the future, as I really respect and enjoy your perspective.
Well I certainly hope that’s not the case and that you’re just projecting your own feelings on other people. I clearly think a whole lot more of you than you do of me, which sucks but I’m sure it’s my fault.
Sorry I’ve given you the impression that I’d do something reprehensible like you mentioned, that’s on me even if I know what my intentions were. Hope we’ll be cool at some point in the future, as I really respect and enjoy your perspective.
I just called it how it landed is all. We're cool.
That's OK if it were the reality. I personally feel environmental pollutants are a bigger threat than climate change, but we can all have our hills. The problem is a lot of single use plastics end up as litter and eventually microplastics. Unfortunately reusable bags are typically just thicker plastics or woven polyester which is just as big a problem. Essentially we are all ####ed in many ways at this point, so trading one for the other is all we are achieving.
If microplastics is the biggest concern we need to optimize for, banning plastic bags won't do crap. Tires and synthetic textiles are the biggest source of microplastics in our waterways by FAR.
So you have two bags that you bought a couple years ago that you carry with you every time you leave the house, you’ve used them exclusively for every purchase you make of groceries, clothes, office supplies, medication and toiletries, gifts, spur-of-the-moment impulse buys, etc and not bought or received another multi-use bag?
If that’s true, then take a bow. You’re exceptional.
Exceptional, or like the rest of us he ... you know... just puts them back in the trunk of his car when he gets home. I've had the same 2 bags in my trunk for at least 15 years now. And a couple at the back door for when I walk to buy things.
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I actually admire folks like Cliff.
"I can't figure out how to put/keep reusable bags in my car" is a bit of a weird flex, but imagine having the self confidence to double down on that.
I could only dream of being so aggressively positive about my own self image that I would be weirdly proud that I couldn't figure out this reusable bag thing.
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Somewhere here is a genius invention where you can carry a reusable bag with you everywhere and anywhere without so much as a thought.
Some one make it happen.
You know how in the 90's you could get Columbia jackets that were two jackets zipped together, and the hood could be removed and stuff? We just need to get creative and have detachable bags. Sleeves? Ya zip them off, cinch the wrist hole and boom, you've got a couple tubes you can fill with booze. A decent sized hood could be a useful bag. Then, just, like, bags upon bags layered inside.
Somebody get me the Dragons on the phone.
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I'm more annoyed with the Scene card ask(s) at this point. I will die on the straw hill though.
Say "no" to the first one because you know you'll be asked again. And then do it on the second prompt when you've got your wallet/phone out for the payment.
I agree though - such a weird time to prompt for it. Let me scan my five items before interrupting my flow.
Imagine if a human cashier scanner your first item and then asked for the loyalty card before scanning the rest. Weird.
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You know how in the 90's you could get Columbia jackets that were two jackets zipped together, and the hood could be removed and stuff? We just need to get creative and have detachable bags. Sleeves? Ya zip them off, cinch the wrist hole and boom, you've got a couple tubes you can fill with booze. A decent sized hood could be a useful bag. Then, just, like, bags upon bags layered inside.
Somebody get me the Dragons on the phone.
Reminds me of those windbreakers that would fold up into itself and present as a stylish fannypack.
Beyond that, I can’t stop laughing at the notion of returning home in a makeshift vest while bringing in a couple tubes of groceries from the truck.
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Say "no" to the first one because you know you'll be asked again. And then do it on the second prompt when you've got your wallet/phone out for the payment.
I assume if you’ve got a Scene card as part of your debit card (eg: Scotia), you just dismiss it and the Scene points are calculated automatically as part of the transaction. Would be a janky solution to have to need to provide the same card in two separate prompts.
I assume if you’ve got a Scene card as part of your debit card (eg: Scotia), you just dismiss it and the Scene points are calculated automatically as part of the transaction. Would be a janky solution to have to need to provide the same card in two separate prompts.
We don't have a train that goes north because Bronconnier pushed throguh the west leg so he could make big bank on the land he owned. The north central line had always been the next route to happen based on massive ridership demands, and he went and did that. Here we are 20 years later, still getting ####ed by ####ty politicians looking out for their own interests above what is actually needed.
The West LRT had an approved alignment for almost 20 years by the time it got approved. When it (West LRT) was approved, the North LRT only recently had the Nose Creek alignment being approved (before anybody bothered asking if mass transit should be built where people can actually use it). It wasn't until after the West LRT was built the Centre Street alignment was approved.
The North Central line was never the next route.
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I’d guess most households make around 100 purchases of stuff a year, and since many are impromptu and unplanned, even if you remember to bring a reusable bag 80-90 per cent of the time, you’re still going to wind up accumulating 15-20 of them over a year.
I’m confident if I went to the homes of the people who signed off on the policy, I’d find a bag of bags hanging on a foyer hook or stuffed in a shelf, like the rest of us have.
In the Waste and Recycling mindset, those 15-20 bags bags being hoarded in your house for 100 purchases are 100 bags not making their way into landfills. It was the landfill capacity info that drove the decision more than any environmental argument did.
Say "no" to the first one because you know you'll be asked again. And then do it on the second prompt when you've got your wallet/phone out for the payment.
I agree though - such a weird time to prompt for it. Let me scan my five items before interrupting my flow.
Imagine if a human cashier scanner your first item and then asked for the loyalty card before scanning the rest. Weird.
I know how to get past it, just a stupid annoyance. Like asking for a charity donation at the till.
Would you like to donate to Cerebral Palsy?
Would you like to go fata yourself wanting a bigger tax writeoff for nothing?
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