# Fuck the environment! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 8, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461 "2005-03-08T00:22:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scarface\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Scarface\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarface_Z)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/1 "2005-03-08T00:22:30Z")
Goddamit I want to save the environment as much as the next person, but why the fuck do we need biodegradable utensils in the food court. My knife fucking melted whilst cutting apart the slices of my pizza! And my spoon turned to mush when trying to stir my coffee! Fuck you, you environmentalist sons of bitches! You didn’t even leave the good utensils there to give me the option! You can fucking go to hell and bring me back a sandwich, I am very hungry because it is hard to eat with putty for a fork! :mad: Not to fucking mention your piss-ass forks are probably dissolving slightly in my mouth, slowly filling me with carcenagenic chemicals. Come on, I know other people hate the environment as much as i do right now, at least sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/2 "2005-03-08T00:45:49Z")
What carcinOgenic chemicals would those be? Most of the quickly biodegradable utensils I am familiar with are made with little else but potato statch and calcium carbonate. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/3 "2005-03-08T01:25:22Z")
> [@Scarface Z](#): > > Not to fucking mention your piss-ass forks are probably dissolving slightly in my mouth, slowly filling me with carcenagenic chemicals. Why don’t you try carrying even more environmentally friendly nondegradable metal utinsils with you? As an additional benefit, it has the whole Howard Hughes/germ-phobic aura about it, which raises the perception of your IQ by at least fourteen points. 😃 Stranger ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/4 "2005-03-08T01:27:37Z")
Use your fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/5 "2005-03-08T01:30:22Z")
Sometimes I blow on my pizza to cool it off. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/6 "2005-03-08T01:33:03Z")
Where I come from, only wussy-boys eat pizza with a knife & fork. Therefore, you are obviously a pervy little pony fancier. \ ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/7 "2005-03-08T02:15:05Z")
**Bosda** , I know where you come from, and the men there go straight from the tit to raw meat. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/8 "2005-03-08T02:21:36Z")
Yeah, you’re supposed to stir your coffee with your thumb anyway, you wuss. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/9 "2005-03-08T02:35:23Z")
You use your thumb? Ahh, no wonder people tended to stare when I stirred my coffee… Of course, I tend to get quite a few numbers from the ladies right afterward. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scarface\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Scarface\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarface_Z)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/10 "2005-03-08T02:36:15Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > Why don’t you try carrying even more environmentally friendly nondegradable metal utinsils with you? As an additional benefit, it has the whole Howard Hughes/germ-phobic aura about it, which raises the perception of your IQ by at least fourteen points. Hey they just did this today, I had no warning and was forced to use the provided utensils. I call this an ambush. > [@](#): > > Where I come from, only wussy-boys eat pizza with a knife & fork. Did I say fork? No, the cheese had melted together and the pizza wasn’t sliced well. Rather than rip them apart and lose half the cheese, I choose to get a knife and do the job right. Imagine my frustration when 5 seconds into the meal my knife folds in half from the heat. Remind me sometime to pit people who don’t know how to slice pizza properly. > [@](#): > > Yeah, you’re supposed to stir your coffee with your thumb anyway, you wuss. I was a shop student, I have no thumbs. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/11 "2005-03-08T04:58:21Z")
> [@Epimetheus](#): > > You use your thumb? Ahh, no wonder people tended to stare when I stirred my coffee… Of course, I tend to get quite a few numbers from the ladies right afterward. 😃 I prefer my coffee without cream. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/12 "2005-03-08T05:55:31Z")
Besides, some colleges have regulations preventing students from carrying anything that can be used as a weapon. Which would perclude the metal knife and fork that were previously suggested. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/13 "2005-03-08T05:56:43Z")
Gah. Can’t even dance to this. A -2. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/14 "2005-03-08T06:04:30Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Besides, some colleges have regulations preventing students from carrying anything that can be used as a weapon. Which would perclude the metal knife and fork that were previously suggested. :rolleyes: They would panic, then, at what I regularly carried on my person while at school, in addition, of course, to the variety of tools and sharp, pointy things I normally carried in my satchel. (Heck, my draftsman’s mechanical pencil was one of the most dangerous things I carried; I can’t count the number of times that thing gave me an infection when it snuck under a fingernail as I was rummaging around in my pack.) Not to start a simplistic armed society=polite society argument, but whatintheheck is with people who think they can wish violence out of existance by banning anything sharp or dangerous-looking? I swear, my cow-orkers freak out when I pull out the Swiss Army Knife to slice an apple or derind an orange. Calm down, guys…if I wanted to do you in, it wouldn’t be using any 2.5" knife to do it. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/15 "2005-03-08T06:07:21Z")
These things sound like they really, really suck, but I’m just not familiar with these things. Can someone point me towards some of them? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/16 "2005-03-08T06:08:12Z")
I have no idea. I’m not suggesting it as a regulation that can reasonably be enforced. (After all, how many murders have been accomplished with pillows?) Just saying that there may be reasons for not carrying silverware on campus. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/17 "2005-03-08T12:33:02Z")
I’m pretty sure some engineers would be more to blame at here. It’s not the _idea_ that’s so bad, it’s the _implemetation_. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/18 "2005-03-08T13:14:01Z")
> [@Go You Big Red Fire Engine](#): > > I’m pretty sure some engineers would be more to blame at here. It’s not the _idea_ that’s so bad, it’s the _implemetation_. Well, isn’t the idea itself that you should use flatware that degrades upon contact with moisture? Most food is moist. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/19 "2005-03-08T17:47:24Z")
Actually, I suspect it’s more a combination of the people writing the requirements and what’s currently available from the engineers than a matter of the engineers saying, “This a good plastic for utensil use.” Rather what I suspect happened was that the administration made a request for recyclable plastic silverware (I hate that phrase, btw.), and was told that the only plastic currently available that meets the requirement of recyclability was one that had a relatively low melting point. And was told that that was good enough, after all, if the plasticware melts at 140 degrees, it’s still good enough for _most_ purposes. And if students should appreciate something so green. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461/20 "2005-03-08T19:11:30Z")
Two words: Bamboo chopsticks. Stranger [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-environment/293461.md?page=2)