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[Anonymous No.10874655]

>Why am I so concerned for the humble plastic straw?

>To put it simply, this piece of plastic is the only means by which many disabled people, like me, are able to independently consume liquid on a daily basis. Literally I am talking about every time we need to drink something, be it hot or cold.

>Just imagine, how you would feel if you had to take your own wine glass on a night out? If the purge against single-use plastic straws continues, that is exactly what it will feel like for a disabled person.

[Anonymous No.10874661]

This is the face of the straw movement, btw.

[Anonymous No.10874668]

why can't restaurants just have straws available if needed but stop giving them out to everyone? i never understood why they gave them out in the first place. do they not wash a glass if the patron used a straw?

[Anonymous No.10874691]

>>10874655
The solution is so fuking simple, in fact, there are multiple solutions:

>paper/cardboard straws
>multi-use straws requestable in restaurants
and the zinger
>personal straws, like personal chopsticks

Thank you for your time.

[Anonymous No.10874692]

My dad needs straws because of a neurological problem. I understand the need. He would spill everything without one.
Maybe just maybe sure you carry them with you?

[Anonymous No.10874695]

>>10874668
Some people have a real aversion to putting their mouths on restaurant glassware.
Myself included, because I've worked in restaurants my entire working life. Fuck that. I will always demand straws when eating out.

[Anonymous No.10874701]

>>10874692
the stated reason against that seems to be, "that'd be hard". They anticipated most of the common rebuttals, but their counter-arguments are retarded. But, they are literally handicapped.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/news-opinion/how-banning-plastic-straw-could-14703040

[Anonymous No.10874713]

>>10874695
but you'll eat the food off the plates and use the silverware? why do you think those will be clean but the glasses won't?

[Anonymous No.10874714]

>>10874655
What's wrong with paper straws? Or re-useable plastic or metal ones?

[Anonymous No.10874720]

>>10874655
>REEEEEE Give me free shit because I'm a spacky
Help to die clinics do exist

[Anonymous No.10874727]

>>10874713
Because I work in restaurants, so I know how that shit is taken care of.
Servers polish the silverware as they roll it in napkins, and plates are wiped before being used, even in shitty casual restaurants like an Olive Garden. No one polishes glassware because there's so much of it and the real dirt is disguised by water spots. It takes A LOT of work to make glassware sparkle so no one ever bothers.
I barely even want to drink out of the glasses (besides bar glasses,) straw or no straw. Putting my mouth on the rim of the cup where some fat Murrican mouth might have been guzzling coke from is just too far.

[Anonymous No.10874735]

>>10874727
I already knew you were a faggot by the content of your post, but you really solidified it with that last part.

Obsessed.

[Anonymous No.10874737]

>>10874713
Besides you’re still drinking from the perceived nasty cup.

[Anonymous No.10874738]

I love it when the left cannibalizes itself, this is what we call a progressive car crash

>no more straws because of environment or something!
>but what of potato people!
>someone gets called a fascist
rinse and repeat

[Anonymous No.10874875]

>>10874727
>running a dirty rag over a dirty plate will clean it

[Anonymous No.10875330]

>>10874738
Since when is accommodating the disabled a partisan issue? Christian groups usually are the biggest supporters of disability-related causes.

[Anonymous No.10875339]

>>10874727
You're a fucking autistic retard. Get a life.

[Anonymous No.10875350]

>>10874655
I live in FL this is a big thing right now. People who don't live near the water don't really understand it and thinks its silly.

[Anonymous No.10875355]

>>10875350
cause you can't drink the salt water without plastic straws i getchaya

[Anonymous No.10875356]

>>10874668
I just read that in Howard's voice. Fuck me

[Anonymous No.10875379]

>>10875355

[Anonymous No.10875387]

>>10874655
Mother Gaia will be better off without you cripples. I can't wait to throw all your bodies in the compost heap and recycle your wheelchairs and breathing tubes. Now if only I can come up with an argument that jews are bad for the environment too...

[Anonymous No.10875391]

>>10874695
being a weird germophobe isn't a valid reason to destroy the earth ok

[Anonymous No.10875397]

>>10874661
>a disabled person paints better than i do

[Anonymous No.10875405]

>>10874655
>Just imagine, how you would feel if you had to take your own wine glass on a night out?
Are there really plebs who don't do this?

[Anonymous No.10875414]

>>10875405
well I carry a porcelain mug everywhere

[Anonymous No.10875429]

>>10875379
bunch of litter bugs down by the coasts, no wonder only drug addicts and the dying live there

[Anonymous No.10875435]

>>10874655
You special nignogs don't get to have a say in every day life.
Okay, if I feel bad for seas, or sea creatures (which I don't), why would you disagree to another special device made just for you that I'm not allowed. Service animal, store vehicle, gum based crutch supports, handicap spots in every parking lot.
I'm asking you are against technology when it doesn't benificate you, but for it when it's beneficiary.
People who aren't anti-abmulatory as yourselves, they "fight" (vote) for you because you're disabled. You're mean, unworthy of our sympathy.

[Anonymous No.10875448]

Disabled people should unironically be removed from the gene pool

[Anonymous No.10875449]

>>10875405
I know that some old-school wine snobs carry around special cups called "tastevin". They are sometimes carried around the neck on a chain or ribbon.

[Anonymous No.10875555]

>>10875449
do they carry rags to wipe them out with or is staining your shirt just part of being a G

[Anonymous No.10875577]

>>10875555
I'm not sure.

I know about 'em from dealing in antiques but I've only seen them in use once: one of Bourdain's TV shows. There were a bunch of Basque dudes with those things getting absoloutely trashed on fancy wine. I have no idea how they are meant to be used. But I do know that I can sell them to rich housewives for a lot of money. And apparently they are a thing in France too since a many of them have French hallmarks.

[Anonymous No.10875601]

Get a bal-point pen, take all of the shit out of it
>WA LA

[Anonymous No.10875610]

>>10874668
just make it mandatory to use biodegradable plastics

they're single use anyways
fuck

[Anonymous No.10875611]

>>10875429
That's not FL

[Anonymous No.10875625]

>>10874720
>>10875387
>>10875448

[Anonymous No.10875631]

>>10875387
>Mother Gaia
doesn't give a shit, you looney fag.

[Anonymous No.10875647]

>>10875449
those are for wine tastings, not general drinking