Hippies

Pykrete

Hippie petitioner on campus is trying to get people to sign a thing to try to ban plastic bags in Oregon.

Banning reusable waterproof bags in a state known for its copious amounts of rain.  Yeah, great idea there bucko.

glennmagusharvey

Obligatory:

Tnophelia

Nobody EVER reuses them though, because they are free and you can always get more.

Which is why commercial stores should sell their plastic bags.

[Deleted User]

What? I re-use my bags all the time. I even have this big-ass fabric bag I use to keep my smaller plastic bag I get from the supermarket. I call it my meta-bag.

Gelzo

They are good for impromptu garbage bags.

Super Lazuli

I re-use them.

Constantly.

glennmagusharvey

I use supermarket bags as trash bags too.  All the time.

Pykrete

I use them as trash bags all the time, and my parents use them to pick up doody when walking the dog.

I also use one as an impromptu bathtub plug because this crappy apartment's bathtub valve is broken.

Nyktos

Well, up here they now charge 5¢ for a bag, the idea being that it'll encourage people to reuse them. I dunno how well it works, though.

Trash_Vortex

Thread title: Hippies

What I saw when I entered thread: "They are good for impromptu garbage bags."

TheConductor

Many shops here in Scotland charge a penny for a plastic bag.

Pykrete

It's like, why not just tax plastic bags a bit, then give tax break incentives to stores that give discounts to people who use the reusable cloth bags?

[Deleted User]

...because that's over-complicating things for the purposes of questionable social engineering.

Also, I never bring bags to the supermarket. All the uses for bags I have are at home, like making them garbage bags or storing stuff.

Pykrete

Fair enough on overcomplication, though I'm not sure how it's questionable social engineering when we really could do with using the cloth bags more and almost nobody actually does.

[Deleted User]

Questionable social engineering as in you think of something that we should all be doing as part of our lives and decide to use public policy as a way to influence us in that direction. That's not cool.

SongOfSalt

I think that they are beat on too much.  They had some interesting ideas like morphological fields.

LouieW

Pykrete,
I realize this is rather silly, but occasionally I worry that I am becoming too much of a hippie myself.

On the subject of plastic bags, I definitely have used them for other purposes rather than just trashing them right away, but I do not really have a problem with people wanting others to use cloth bags. That does not necessarily mean that I actually agree with the "hippie petitioner" in question and in truth, I know very little about the subject at hand.

Sorry, I guess I have seen petitions for things that I think make a lot less sense than banning plastic bags.

glennmagusharvey

Petition to...

• Declare marital law.
• Decriminalize jaywalking.
• Guarantee to every person a lifetime supply of scratch paper.
• Restore IJBM on the TV Tropes forum.