Or just rip your sleeves off every day like Hulk Hogan.
Tinkling background music when people are speaking, on TV productions
The texture is of indifference to me, but the reason Madame Ecological eschews them is because unlike the plastic bags which I wash and reuse until they fall to pieces, you cannot put produce into the fridge in them. They are ‘breathable’. Hence your lettuce will immediately wilt. They also tear very easily. In fact, the only use those compostable bags have is to carry your produce from the checkout stand to your house, where you will transfer your lettuce to a proper plastic bag, and throw those eco-bags in the compost. They are true single-use bags.
They also compost very poorly in a typical home composting system. Okay for me, because I compost stable cleanings on a massive scale, so I provide semi-industrial-strength composting. But not for most.
Summary: nice idea but in practice they suck.
What happens is I stick my hands under the faucet before I remember to push my sleeves up. Every time.
Yes! I just started noticing this. Freshly-bought scallions are wilted the next day. I think I’ll start bringing real plastic bags with me to the store.
My supermarket had them for a while, just about the time we started using a composting service, so I could put them in our bin. But the store switched back to regular plastic after a few weeks, perhaps because of complaints like those expressed here.
Oh yes, especially random noodling vamp-till-ready muzak in documentaries, that doesn’t add anything to the text and pictures.
Cheap toilet paper in public toilets. For one, it seems to be getting narrower than TP purchased for home use. And it never tears at the perforations, if it has any. Cheap two-ply frequently delaminates when you tear it off, leaving two strips of exceedingly thin tissue that are no longer connected. And it lacks absorbancy, so it requires a longer piece, folded many times to avoid the dreaded soak-through.
Just one of several reasons to do your pooping at home.
Women use toilet paper when we piss.
I am aware of that. However, I assumed based on the avatar that @Fear_Itself is male.
And what I do not know is whether the qualities that make TP good or bad for Number 1 are identical to those that make it good or bad for Number 2.
Ah. I took it for a general “you”. (And I don’t know @Fear_Itself’s gender.)
Pretty much, yes. Thin paper with poor absorbency that tears in the wrong places isn’t good for wiping much of anything.
The skinny toilet paper without perforations is usually in a dispenser that has a toothy edge that’s supposed to rip through the paper, but because the dispenser is too low, you can’t get the paper at the right angle to make the teeth cut the paper, so you try to rip through the paper and end up with a handful of shreds. So useful! I also love the paper towels that are too thin for the dispenser, and little bits of them rip off when you try to pull one out. And the little bits of paper towel stick to your wet hands. I want to dry my hands, not make paper mache.
The colons wants what it wants.
I do! But sometimes the sleeves fall down and then my hands are wet so fixing them defeats the purpose.
Likewise, media reports are referring to the plane that crashed in Toronto today as a “Delta plane”. It’s actually an Endeavor Airlines plane.
And NPR’s coverage is calling it a “commuter plane”. By the FAA’s definition, a commuter plane can have no more than 9 seats. While smaller than a 737 or A320, the CRJ-900 that crashed today has over 9x the number of seats allowed in a commuter plane. (Interestingly, I don’t think they used that word for the CRJ-700 that crashed at DCA last month, and that plane is slightly smaller).
Endeavor Air is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines .
Close enough for me.
Most of what I said earlier about PSA vs. American applies here as well. Just replace PSA with Endeavor and American with Delta:
But besides that, if the plane had belonged to SkyWest, which also operates flights under the Delta Connection brand (as wells as others) and is not a wholly owned subsidiary of anyone, I guarantee the media would still be calling it a Delta plane.
Gotta say, the posts complaining about the dangling sleeves seen alongside the posts about the shredded toilet paper give me some ideas
There are some professionally printed cardboard signs posted along the road that I drive on my way home. The only words I can catch are “Neighborhood Association” printed in white. The other words are printed in purple, against a navy blue background. Also, whoever put the signs in the ground made only a cursory effort to orient them toward the drivers, instead putting them almost parallel to the road, where the speed limit is 50 miles per hour. It really angers me that someone wanted to post some information, and flubbed such a simple job so badly. Morons!