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Some restaurant chains have replaced their plastic straws with a version that looks/feels/tastes like cardboard because, I'm told, sea turtles end up with those straws in their stomach. Or some such. The inside of these cardboard straws seem to be lined with something that isn't cardboard because, I'm assuming, cardboard itself would otherwise absorb the liquid and start decomposing immediately.
Only, the cardboard straws do start to decompose before I can even finish my drink, and I end up with pieces of cardboard and whatever that coating is, in my stomach.
Somehow I'm not thinking this helps me. But then, I'm sure that sort of thinking is wrong, because the goal isn't to help me.
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Stop buying the drinks, or stop using the straws...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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You don't drink when you eat at a restaurant?
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From a glass or a demi-tasse I do!
From a cardboard / styrofoam cup full of chemicals? No ...
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I'll keep an eye out for the guy who brings his own glass at a restaurant.
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Most restaurants provide them, normally without my making any special request ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Even my 3-year old grandson can drink straight from a cup or glass.
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Why would anyone want such a thing?
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The restaurant Blaze Pizza doesn't even offer straws. Instead they have lids that you sip from. Yup, that's right, adult sippie cups.  And it is still difficult to get much out when there's a lot of ice.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Such drinks should be banned for ecological reasons. Ice and plastic are both a huge waste of energy.
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Long ago in a country far away, we grew up only knowing straws made of waxed paper. Yes, they weren't perfect but at least we did not pollute the environment with plastic. I look forward to their return when we finally come to our senses and ban plastic straws forever!
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I also remember them regularly collapsing.
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As I said, they weren't perfect but they were usable and not plastic.
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So you are not old enough to remember when straws were made of straw...
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I am old, not ancient! 
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We used to dream of a straw made of straw...
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Bird bones are hollow.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The bird population would take a hit...
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Cp-Coder wrote: I look forward to their return when we finally come to our senses and ban plastic straws forever!
He says while typing on a keyboard/computer/monitor that uses as much plastic as 2 decades worth of straws and that he has replaced how many times over the years... 
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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For those who know Norwegian (maybe it goes in Swedish/Danish as well):
Det er mer kultivert å drikke fra flasken. For da holder du på etiketten.
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It goes even a bit in Dutch; a flask is a bottle, drikke to drink. No idea why you are holding labels though.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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"Etikett" is the label, e.g. on the bottle.
"Etikette" is the etiquette, the rules for proper formal behaviour.
I guess both are French imports.
The definite form of both terms is "etiketten".
So if you grab the label on the bottle, "etiketten", you hold on to the rules of formal behaviour, "etiketten".
Explaining jokes may be a symptom of a poor joke, but when the jokes are in a different language, I think it may be in its place.
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