# Taking it Slow, Saying Hi **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 15, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-it-slow-saying-hi/678846 "2014-01-15T03:25:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FightMyIgnorance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71e660/32.png) [@FightMyIgnorance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FightMyIgnorance)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-it-slow-saying-hi/678846/41 "2014-01-15T21:51:12Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Debit or Credit? > Bills or Coins? > Prepaid or Postpaid? > Visa or MasterCard? > French or English? Credit Coins Prepaid Visa English, me no speakie Francais. ETA: Shoes in the house: off! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-it-slow-saying-hi/678846/42 "2014-01-15T23:01:15Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Welcome, fightmyignorance! The bathrooms are out back. If you change a toilet paper roll, make sure the roll unspools from the bottom up, o.k.? > [@QuickSilver](#): > > You think this is [some kind of joke](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17016141&postcount=42)? > > Did you think no-one would notice?? > > I bet you were the kind of kid that put two beta fish into the same fish tank. 😛 > [@snowthx](#): > > You have chosen wisely with regard to the ketchup/hot dog question. Now, let me ask you about the following: > > - Eating corn on the cob - around, or across? > - Toilet paper - over, or under? > > Answer carefully, as this will tell us all we need to know. > [@FightMyIgnorance](#): > > Across > Over Sounds like _someone_ could use a little more squid… ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-it-slow-saying-hi/678846/43 "2014-01-15T23:12:39Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Sounds like _someone_ could use a little more squid… We could all probably use a little more squid, but a side effect of surviving Mariah is that squid no longer has any effect. That’s why there must always be new [DEL]victims[/DEL] members. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-it-slow-saying-hi/678846/44 "2014-01-16T02:46:56Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Actually I was referring to grocery store bags (though I suspect you already knew that) but in my hometown it’s sadly [“Paper, or paper?”](http://www.dailybreeze.com/environment-and-nature/20140103/after-los-angeles-plastic-bag-ban-success-and-confusion) as of the New Year – end of an era, I know. ☹ Yes, I encountered “Paper or plastic?” when I visited California in the nineties. It always seemed to me to be the wrong question, though. As the link you added implied, the real choice is between a store-supplied disposable bag, and a reusable one brought by the customer. When plastic bags were taxed at 5c each in Toronto, it was just enough of a push to get maybe 40% of people to bring their own reusable bags. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-it-slow-saying-hi/678846/45 "2014-01-16T03:01:50Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > As the link you added implied, the real choice is between a store-supplied disposable bag, and a reusable one brought by the customer. No, it was a choice between a disposable paper bag (thus contributing to deforestation and global warming) or a disposable plastic bag (thus contributing to overflowing landfills and scattered litter.) Paper bags are still available but now cost 10 cents each (which makes me think this law was one big conspiracy by the paper companies and the grocery stores themselves, heh) and while I’m still getting used to using recyclable cloth bags, it’s obvious they will soon become gross and disgusting due to leaky frozen food boxes & milk cartons, so they’re technically disposable, too. What really sucks is that plastic bags are now an endangered species, and they had many valuable uses, such as picking up dog poop (though I don’t own a dog) among other things. I did manage to build up a stockpile of good plastic bags before the deadline, but like gasoline & cigarettes after a nuclear war, they won’t last forever. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-it-slow-saying-hi/678846/46 "2014-01-16T04:32:28Z")
Hell, if we’re going to question him anyway… Jennifer or Bailey? Martin or Gibson? Elvis or The Beatles? m&ms or skittles? Bill the Cat or Hobbes? Epstein or Barbarino? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-it-slow-saying-hi/678846/47 "2014-01-16T06:31:13Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Jennifer or Bailey? The proper answer to this question is “yes”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-it-slow-saying-hi/678846/48 "2014-01-16T11:22:17Z")
Welcome to you sir/madam. As you’ve already been lurking you’ll be feeling just a little patronised that no-one has gratuitously insulted you yet so…allow me “fuck off back to your farm shack, geeky-corn boy” (I’m from the UK and know very little about Ohio but farming and corn production was implied so it’s the best I can do at short notice. Feel free to insert a more geographically relevant reference should you wish) The one thing the dope will definitely do for you is to make you stop and think "hang on…can I really support what I’m saying claiming here? does my argument really hold water? " People won’t be shy about calling you on it but it is all character-building and a cracking educational tool for you at your tender years…enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![FightMyIgnorance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71e660/32.png) [@FightMyIgnorance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FightMyIgnorance)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-it-slow-saying-hi/678846/49 "2014-01-16T12:56:52Z")
> [@](#): > > “fuck off back to your farm shack, geeky-corn boy” Go two feet (or meters, if that strikes your fancy) outside of a city, and you’re more likely than not in a corn field. 😛 > [@](#): > > The one thing the dope will definitely do for you is to make you stop and think "hang on…can I really support what I’m saying claiming here? does my argument really hold water? " Oh yeah, I’m not gonna argue something without good cites. Argumentation 101 and all that nice stuff. > [@](#): > > cracking educational tool for you at your tender years…enjoy! One of my favorite favorite things about the Dope is how much I learn here. It’s amazing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-it-slow-saying-hi/678846.md?page=2)