[GDT] YYC Votes 2025

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Super fancy hotel right at the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome, big Calatrava book sitting in the lobby seating area. What's the cover shot? The Peace bridge.

Rick Bell can suck it.

I have a $500 Calatrava book on my coffee table.

His son is a character.

[Flames0910]

I can't believe there are people who say "ohhh but what about the welds and naming of the peace bridge?".

It was 15 ####ing years ago. Live in the present please.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

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.

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.

I’ve mastered the dark art of re-usable bags by having them in my vehicle and knowing how to carry things in my hands.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

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.

If we went north back then it would have been a crappy Nose Creek alignment, and it would have meant three lines entering the west end of DT on 7 Ave

[simmer2]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I’ve mastered the dark art of re-usable bags by having them in my vehicle and knowing how to carry things in my hands.

From Google:

Polypropylene (thicker plastic): Needs to be used an estimated 10 to 20 times to have the same climate impact as one single-use plastic bag.

Cotton (conventional): Can require 50 to 150 uses to break even with a single-use plastic bag.

We have about 30 re-usable bags in our house. We do our best to re-use them as frequently as possible. I don't know if we've achieved the goal of re-using each one 10 to 20 times though.

[Ashartus]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

The Peace Bridge is great now, but lets not pretend it's construction and cynical naming wasn't a complete disaster at the time. We don't need to re-write history. And it still suffers from the critical failure of not crossing Memorial that led to an additional traffic light.

At the time I was really unhappy with the process more than the bridge itself - going and picking a foreign architect instead of a public tender process. Then they use the approach I would have gone with for the next bridge, which ended up costing just as much and being rather unmemorable. So I concluded I was wrong and it was worth doing it that way.

[troutman]

I keep the re-usable bags in the car, and use them many times a week.

In September we cleaned up the Crowsnest River. We pulled out a lot of single use plastic bags.

[Mazrim]

The way some of you talk about reusable bags makes me think it's a miracle you remember your wallet or purse when you leave the house.

[CliffFletcher]

According to Google, the average Canadian accumulates 23 reusable bags a year, resulting in 900 million excess bags per year.

[Looch City]

Whatever happened to cardboard bags?

Easily recyclable or compostable.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Cardboard? You mean brown paper bags? They still offer them at some places but you have to pay for them.

[Firebot]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

The best way to save the environment aside, how have y’all not figured out re-useable bags by now.

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

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.

As one eloquent TorqueDog once said in response to this:

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

'Why not just pay the $0.15', 'people have a choice, it's a very minor cost', 'do people not have reusable bags in their cars'; god damn, do some of you ever go out of your way to justify unnecessary performative nonsense just because someone you don't like has signaled they're against it.

For some posters, topics like this gives them a purpose of existence, and this topic resurfacing is like the perfect opportunity for more nonsensical grandstanding.

And I am sure he will post his 2 2022 reusable bags attached to a fanny pack he reuses daily with a perfect mix of Filet-o-Fish and Wendy's Single grease and some lettuce water stains, a bunch of dried up onion skin peels with some left over soaked grocery receipts at the bottom to prove he is doing what he preaches and caring about the environment, unlike troglodytes like you who hasn't heard about reusable bags like he has. /s

And yet, ironically I likely have a bag like I described...heck I literally have one next to me right now with about 15 paper receipts and some vegetable plastic wrapper bag at the bottom. I also keep around 10 reusable bags in my car at all times to permanently clutter up the car (as I don't shop for 1 person), along with 80$ worth of other useless re-usable 'environment-conscious' bags in my garage stored in a plastic garbage bag that have piled up because practicality was never the purpose of such progressive thinking, performative self-gratification was.

And hey it enables this:

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I’ve mastered the dark art of re-usable bags by having them in my vehicle and knowing how to carry things in my hands.

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

According to Google, the average Canadian accumulates 23 reusable bags a year, resulting in 900 million excess bags per year.

That's the equivalent of buying a new reusable bag approximately once every two weeks. How is that even possible? I own a total of ~5-6 reusable bags that I've accumulated over a period of 3+ years, I keep them in my coat closet next to my shoes, and I always remember to take one with me as I head out the door if I'm leaving my home to run a shopping errand. This isn't rocket surgery.

[simmer2]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

That's the equivalent of buying a new reusable bag approximately once every two weeks. How is that even possible? I own a total of ~5-6 reusable bags that I've accumulated over a period of 3+ years, I keep them in my coat closet next to my shoes, and I always remember to take one with me as I head out the door if I'm leaving my home to run a shopping errand. This isn't rocket surgery.

Running around with a family, sports, school, work, forgive a parent for forgetting to bring the reusable bag as they try to fit in errands between tasks.

[Firebot]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

That's the equivalent of buying a new reusable bag approximately once every two weeks. How is that even possible? I own a total of ~5-6 reusable bags that I've accumulated over a period of 3+ years, I keep them in my coat closet next to my shoes, and I always remember to take one with me as I head out the door if I'm leaving my home to run a shopping errand. This isn't rocket surgery.

I have a family and use 5-7 re-useable bags every 2 days for daily activities.. Things happen. I consistently reuse bags, I haven't bought a new one in months, and I still accumulated this many over the years. Just a simple thing of grabbing some groceries after having a bite, could cause purchasing of new bags (unless people genuinely bring reuse bags to the restaurant or something in multi errand trips and get their lives tied up to always having reusable bags on them)?

Having a family and life just happening changes things significantly in this accumulation.

[DFO]

After unpacking groceries I just take an extra 15 steps into the garage and throw my reusable bags back in the car. Am I a crazy anomaly?

[Bigtime]

What's all this bag nonsense? Don't you all just walk to your grocery store with your collapsible cart?

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by simmer2

From Google:

Polypropylene (thicker plastic): Needs to be used an estimated 10 to 20 times to have the same climate impact as one single-use plastic bag.

Cotton (conventional): Can require 50 to 150 uses to break even with a single-use plastic bag.

We have about 30 re-usable bags in our house. We do our best to re-use them as frequently as possible. I don't know if we've achieved the goal of re-using each one 10 to 20 times though.

The energy used for your google search is equal to producing 100 plastic bags.

Damnit, the energy used to post and display this post on all your machines is worth 10000 plastic bags.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

There are four main circumstances where I end up with a new reusable bag:

1. I've used all the ones I had in my car and brought them inside with groceries, and forgot to bring them back out to the car, so I either have none or not enough when I go grocery shopping.
2. I have reusable bags in my car, but it's cold and I forgot to bring them in to the store with me, so I go "F it" and get a new one.
3. I am shopping without my car (e.g. at work), or just randomly stopped in somewhere, and have no reusable bags with me, and end up getting more stuff than I can carry without a bag.
4. I have ordered groceries etc by delivery, and they have delivered my order in a bunch of reusable bags (this can also happen on food delivery or pickup orders where the restaurant uses reusable bags for their orders which happens occasionally).

Just those four scenarios alone would account for an accretion of reusable bags at a rate of 1+ per week, I would think.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

That's the equivalent of buying a new reusable bag approximately once every two weeks. How is that even possible? I own a total of ~5-6 reusable bags that I've accumulated over a period of 3+ years, I keep them in my coat closet next to my shoes, and I always remember to take one with me as I head out the door if I'm leaving my home to run a shopping errand. This isn't rocket surgery.

Oh, it's totally possible. Some people treat these things like they're the plastic bags of yore and stuff them straight into the garbage when they're done.

I know an older lady who was bitching about how much space they take up in her trash these days. I'm staring at this overfilling bin like... if nothing else, I'll take the large Lululemon ones to use... They're big, look nicer and way more durable than a bunch of the other ones.

No DoubleF. You can't have them because those are in the garbage now. But I'll put aside some Lululemon ones for you next time I go. I usually end up with a few of them every month (supposedly a few a month for Lululemon alone, not including other grocery stores, shopping etc.)).

She never remembers and just throws them out. Those are the people royally screwing up the averages. I estimate she easily throws out 20-30 a month. Someone like this alone contributes the accumulation average for a dozen people around them alone.

Accumulating about 2 a month makes sense for my household though. I probably rip 1-2 a month or use them to hold things when giving it to someone else. Sometimes, those bags are filled with stuff that's being stored and is not available. Or I'll walk into a store with just 2-3 to grab something quick and realize I decided to buy 5-6 bags worth of stuff. I'll just buy a few bags out of convenience vs putting everything aside and running to my car for more bags.