Disney Parks to Ban Straws

NateD1226

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I have seen so many memes on Instagram about this. I have yet to experience the no lid chaos at Disney yet but I people that went told me that it is really bad and people were spilling a lot of the drinks.
 

Darkbeer1

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Look in California just get on Food Stamps aka SNAP. You get your bags for free.

You want a plastic straw. Easy... Just state you have a medical disability and can't drink out of a cup or you can't suck easily with a paper straw. And they will give you a plastic straw no proof needed. Of just claim the drink is for your Grandfather who can't use a paper straw.

Then go find a sea turtle, stick it up their nostril and take photos to the main stream media. It's a lot of fun....
 

TP2000

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Then go find a sea turtle, stick it up their nostril and take photos to the main stream media. It's a lot of fun....

I always get fresh plastic bags at my local Ralph's supermarket. Life is just too short to spend time hauling around dirty reusable bags.

But the plastic bags also come in handy when I go on whale watching trips off Newport; it's a fun sport trying to shove the bags into the blowholes when the whales come up for air. When I get a good photo I'll put it on Instagram to make college kids cry in their dorm rooms.
 

Hatbox Ghostbuster

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I was at the Corner Cafe on Saturday and I think the guys in front of me were weirded out when the cashier handed them their lid-less cups. However, over by the condiment bar, there was a bucket of straws just ripe for plucking.
 

Hatbox Ghostbuster

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I disagree with food stamps for a whole heaps of reasons. One because its 'inhumane' Want to help someone give them a green note.
Only problem is, with green notes, they have the ability to NOT spend it on food. I used to work at a store that accepted SNAP and I'd always stand there flabbergasted as customers would wheel up carts of just pure junk food to buy on food stamps...then proceed to buy packs of cigarettes with their wads of cash.
 

Phroobar

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Universal must be lidless as well. Two lidless cups, one spilled a bit in George Lucas's American Graffiti restaurant. Sorry, George!
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Tony the Tigger

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We just went to lunch with my father-in-law at a local Greek place near the beach. There in my glass of water with no ice (I like it like that - yeah, baby) was one of these newfangled paper straws.

The horror! 😉

Other than noticing it, I didn’t notice it. It’s a straw, same size as usual, maybe a slight waxy coating on it? (Or not?) and it functions much like a regular plastic straw, except - well, nothing. Turns out a straw is a straw.

The waitress kept refilling my water and we were there for the better part of an hour. It didn’t dissolve or spring a leak. It was still a straw when I left.

Dad also had water, but with ice. 😬. Same results.

B had iced tea. With ice. His looked slightly worse for the wear, maybe because the submerged part started taking on a little iced tea color?

This is a non-issue folks. You know how they say, “Pick your battles?” Save it for parking fees or other fees to park your car.
 

Darkbeer1

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'dirty reusable bags' I have reusable bags and they are not dirty

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/06/reusable-grocery-bag-germs/4341739/

>>Research shows the vast majority of shoppers are like Norton. A 2011 study from scientists at the University of Arizona and Loma Linda University found only 3% of shoppers with multi-use bags said they regularly washed them. The same study found bacteria in 99% of bags tested; half carried coliform bacteria while 8% carried E. coli, an indicator of fecal contamination.

"I classify them as pretty dirty things, like the bottom of your shoes," said Ryan Sinclair of the Loma Linda University School of Public Health, a co-author of the study.

He is finalizing another study he hopes to publish soon looking at how pathogens spread through grocery stores with the help of reusable bags. The study, conducted at a central California grocery store in early 2013, involved spraying bags with a bacteria not harmful to humans but transported in a similar way to norovirus, a leading cause of gastrointestinal disease linked to more than 19 million illnesses each year in the United States.

The tracer bacteria was detected in high concentrations on shopping carts, at the checkout counter and on food items shoppers had touched but kept on the shelf.<<

Amazing, every one of your bags are in the 1%?
 

PiratesMansion

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Easy solution to this problem! Go to Tokyo Disney! Already the best Disney property, now made better by your continued ability to drink out of a plastic straw!!!

Otherwise I really don't think this will be that big of a deal in practice. We'll get over it.
 

Curious Constance

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We just went to lunch with my father-in-law at a local Greek place near the beach. There in my glass of water with no ice (I like it like that - yeah, baby) was one of these newfangled paper straws.

The horror! 😉

Other than noticing it, I didn’t notice it. It’s a straw, same size as usual, maybe a slight waxy coating on it? (Or not?) and it functions much like a regular plastic straw, except - well, nothing. Turns out a straw is a straw.

The waitress kept refilling my water and we were there for the better part of an hour. It didn’t dissolve or spring a leak. It was still a straw when I left.

Dad also had water, but with ice. 😬. Same results.

B had iced tea. With ice. His looked slightly worse for the wear, maybe because the submerged part started taking on a little iced tea color?

This is a non-issue folks. You know how they say, “Pick your battles?” Save it for parking fees or other fees to park your car.

Or you could support not enacting policies that people decided was a good idea because it made them feel good or made them seem like a caring, loving company, when in reality it makes basically zero difference in the real world, and instead try and support something that has an actual impact. Maybe try eliciting a change in the countries that contribute 99.999999999% of the plastic ocean waste.
 

Curious Constance

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I’ll never understand when people have the opinion that sure it might be inconvenient and probably won’t make a big difference, but let’s let them have this one and save our objections for something else.

No, way.

I’ll always reject anything that is worthless and a pitiful attempt at people creating meaning in their lives by concocting BS ideas that sound so great and wonderful, but usually when you look into it a bit do nothing to help, and often have negative consequences. You can’t give in to these people ever. They have no limits or boundaries to have far they are willing to go to make themselves feel valuable. It’s a really dangerous path to go down when you think about it.
 

Curious Constance

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The no lid thing should be especially fun with toddlers.
Very fun! It’s also hard drinking a drink with no lid or straw that has ice. You end up getting a mouthful of ice instead of much liquid.

But at least Disney can a sew a patch on their sash of the Earth with a heart around it. When secretly on the underside of their sash is a $$$ patch with an evil grin because now they are saving money on supplies and charging the same amount, and people think it’s because they care so much!
 

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