cods wrote on Jul 2
nd, 2018 at 9:25pm:
rhino wrote on Jul 2
nd, 2018 at 2:24pm:
Gnads wrote on Jul 2
nd, 2018 at 2:20pm:
rhino wrote on Jul 2
nd, 2018 at 2:14pm:
The smarter ones amongst you should view this as the start of the end of single use plastics. Get used to it, single use plastic has to disappear. Purchasing plastic bin liners instead is just stupidity. Get used to living plastic free, change your lazy
ways.
Impossible.
Strange. However did people survive 50 years ago without single use plastic? Didnt anyone tell them it was impossible?
I remember my mum going to the fruit and veggie shop....where you were served you didnt serve yourself..she would buy the spuds the guy would weigh them up and tip them into her canvas bag...if anything needed wrapping it was in newspaper....
then it all went posh and it was brown paper bags....then they became they were taken over by the dreaded plastic bag...
what annoys me the most is we the consumer never asked for these changes they were all basically forced on us....then suddenly they become a NO NO and we the consumer get to pay for it all over again...
the whole packaging thing has now got completely out of control.....has anyone bought a kids toy that comes in a smart box usually with a try me sign on it.. saying its for the under 2s... and when you get it home it takes two of you, a pair of scissors, a saw and screwdriver. to get the thing open....
I have never seen packaging like it....I bought some batteries the other day,...dont ask me I think they are still lying in a corner somewhere..
In 1958, Asbestos was the first miracle of modern science listed in the Giant Encyclopaedia of World Knowledge, which my father got for his tenth birthday and then gifted to me for my tenth too. Asbestos! The greatest modern invention man has ever invented! (This was before colour tv which Australia didn't get until 1975. I reckon that we all thought color was better than asbestos in 1975.)
Now here's the thing, Cods. Plastic is the greatest invention that man has ever invented ever since yesterday. We all asked for it. We all wanted it. We threw out the newspapers and fell in love with plastic frucking bags, one and all of us.
Don't expect every Australian to suddenly drop their holy religion that tells them how to live their entire lives, and give up on their entire history just to please some green wanker who likes to fondle gay baby whales. It is expecting too much from plain old simple human nature, and that is the nature of Australia - HUMAN nature.
The other problem is that this anti-plastic shopping-bag scam is an ABC trick to hide the fact that Australia is running out of decent hard-working Australians who will delve through all these yuppies' garbage to pick out the stuff to keep from the stuff to feed to those gay whales.
When I was young, (as they all say), we used to wear around four new pairs of cotton gloves per day, and the garbage would come in on the tines of a forklift in frigging potato bins. The two biggest fingers on both my hands are twisted inward because when I was working in the recycling business, I was the best, and I could pick eight(8) YES! eight flagons out of a potato bin in one dive. I remember what the recyling business was like as a
'first-responder' in 1989. Things have certainly changed now.
The reason that we are getting all political about the innocuous plastic shopping bags which 90% of Australians do not throw to the whales is that there are not enough tough hard workers left in this country to do the dirty work, and so we have sold it all off to China, but now they have all gone and got degrees too, so there is no one who wants to lower themselves and do the hard work in this world anymore .
We only want to consume now, Cods.
(I have a right to retire. I am old)