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ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 1:06pm

 winter wrote:

Weird. When I buy alcohol here, they often put it in a brown paper bag and then put that in a plastic sack.
 
Could just be that the paper is used to keep heavy glass bottles from clanking together and biodegrading all over your pants.
Red_Dragon

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 1:01pm

 winter wrote:

Weird. When I buy alcohol here, they often put it in a brown paper bag and then put that in a plastic sack.

 

tell them to keep that.  I frequently tell the clerk (at all stores - not just liquor) that I don't need a bag if I'm just buying one or two items.  if I'm buy a bunch of stuff, I bring one with me.
cc_rider

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:57pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Right to privacy or something. In a brown bag, cops can't "know" it's booze so you can drink on the street w/o getting arrested.

  Here, there are certain areas where public drinking is not allowed, but otherwise it is legal to drink. At least I think it is. Back when my office was walking distance from home, I'd stop at the liquor store and get a couple beers for the trip. Never had any trouble, but then I wasn't standing on a streetcorner or huddled in an alley either, I was walking pretty briskly.


winter

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:53pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Right to privacy or something. In a brown bag, cops can't "know" it's booze so you can drink on the street w/o getting arrested.

 


Weird. When I buy alcohol here, they often put it in a brown paper bag and then put that in a plastic sack.
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:51pm

 winter wrote:

What's the deal with brown paper bags for liquor, anyway?
 
Right to privacy or something. In a brown bag, cops can't "know" it's booze so you can drink on the street w/o getting arrested.
Yibbyl

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:51pm

 oldslabsides wrote:

"Los Angeles just enacted a ban on plastic grocery bags. That put three or four manufacturers out of business,'' Stone, a pharmacist from Temecula, said.

wow.  there's some priorities for ya.  hey, Stone, let's bring back the manufacture of DDT, I'm sure that'll provide lots of jobs for your new state.  idiot.

 
San Francisco beat LA to the punch about 4 years ago. Don't know how many bag manufacturers that put out of business, but the US's largest manufacturer of plastic bags is located in Phoenix and that company miraculously survived! {#Wink}

When the SF law passed, I had our company stop sending plastic bags to all of our CA stores. Customers bitched for about 2 months then forgot all about it. The owner of our company took the cue and stopped purchasing plastic bags for all of the company's stores. Enviro-type customers literally thanked us and the rest acted like the CA customers...a short period of bitching and then acceptance. Long story short, no one needs those stupid bags.

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:47pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
When I worked in a liquor store (Oakland California so yes it's on topic) people would buy a single-serve bag of fritos and ask for a bag. I'd say "they're in a bag already" and then they'd shoot at me. But the point was made! Also if they bought a bottle of night train and asked for a bag we'd put it in a clear plastic bag because they want the brown paper so they can stand out in front of the store and drink. The kids with their Sunkist orange wanted a brown bag too so people would think they were drinking a 40. So to recap: people who were drinking booze wanted a brown bag so that no one could see that they were drinking booze. People who weren't drinking booze wanted a brown bag so everyone could see that they were drinking booze.
 
That's sounds like exactly what I would do. Give everyone the OPPOSITE of what they wanted! Man, I hate customers. I learned that working as a video store clerk in Marin. 
winter

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:46pm

 Manbird wrote:

Yeah, we know about your lists...

 

 


I already have all that stuff.. So most of it isn't on the list anymore.
winter

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:43pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
When I worked in a liquor store (Oakland California so yes it's on topic) people would buy a single-serve bag of fritos and ask for a bag. I'd say "they're in a bag already" and then they'd shoot at me. But the point was made! Also if they bought a bottle of night train and asked for a bag we'd put it in a clear plastic bag because they want the brown paper so they can stand out in front of the store and drink. The kids with their Sunkist orange wanted a brown bag too so people would think they were drinking a 40. So to recap: people who were drinking booze wanted a brown bag so that no one could see that they were drinking booze. People who weren't drinking booze wanted a brown bag so everyone could see that they were drinking booze.

 


What's the deal with brown paper bags for liquor, anyway?
JrzyTmata

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:39pm

 Manbird wrote:

Yeah, we know about your lists...

 

 
ahhhh! Christmas In July!

Manbird

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:36pm

 winter wrote:

Good points. I try not to buy groceries more than once a week, and I try to stick to a list.
 
Yeah, we know about your lists...

 


Proclivities

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:36pm

 oldslabsides wrote:

want.
 
The site where I got that picture from is "out of stock" on that item at present, but I have seen similar bags elsewhere.  The item description is amusing, though.

ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:36pm

When I worked in a liquor store (Oakland California so yes it's on topic) people would buy a single-serve bag of fritos and ask for a bag. I'd say "they're in a bag already" and then they'd shoot at me. But the point was made! Also if they bought a bottle of night train and asked for a bag we'd put it in a clear plastic bag because they want the brown paper so they can stand out in front of the store and drink. The kids with their Sunkist orange wanted a brown bag too so people would think they were drinking a 40. So to recap: people who were drinking booze wanted a brown bag so that no one could see that they were drinking booze. People who weren't drinking booze wanted a brown bag so everyone could see that they were drinking booze.
oldviolin

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:32pm

 Manbird wrote:

You're a handsome bruise! 

 
I'm just a million miles left to go on your odometer...

Manbird

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:30pm

 oldviolin wrote:
 

 and they leave a handsome bruise the next day.
 
You're a handsome bruise! 
Alexandra

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:30pm

 winter wrote:

Put down the weapon. I mean your mother no harm.

 

Not yet. I might have to do full-on "Highlander" combat with my brother this Sunday when we have a family meeting on the issue. There can be only ONE.
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:29pm

 cc_rider wrote:
One thing I wonder though: landfills have vents, to allow gases like methane to escape. But what is 'natural gas' but methane? Why not capture it? Yeah, the concentration/pressure is very low compared to underground sources, but since it is a good fuel AND a greenhouse gas, why not capture it?
 
It's a very big deal these days.
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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:28pm

 Manbird wrote:

We bought some biodegradable trash bags. The dam things started to degrade before we could get it out to the trash. It just reacted with the garbage scraps and almost fell apart as I took it out to the bin. FAIL. 

 
Those corn-based plastic cups and utensils have had the same problems. A big facility like a stadium buys those things by the truckload, right? Well, if they get too hot, or too humid or whatever, they start breaking down, and you've got a truckload of biodegraded garbage.

Alexandra

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:28pm

 Manbird wrote:

We bought some biodegradable trash bags. The dam things started to degrade before we could get it out to the trash. It just reacted with the garbage scraps and almost fell apart as I took it out to the bin. FAIL. 

 

{#Lol}
winter

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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 12:24pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Well there's a happy medium somewhere where the time and energy used to go to the store every single day is cut dramatically if you can just plan ahead and make one trip a week. Or if you go once a month (or quarter) and get a month's worth (or 3 months worth) of canned goods and other staples, and then once a week for perishables. Justine's got a semi- rule about not going to the store for just one item. Too inefficient and if you grab something else on a lark, then the cost of the trip winds up being double what the thing would have cost if you'd waited and put it in the cart with the rest of the week's stuff.
 
None of this means plastic bags are needed though. Costco has the A-No.1 best solution to getting your stuff to your car, btw. 

 


Good points. I try not to buy groceries more than once a week, and I try to stick to a list.
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