June 25, 2003, 12:00
|
#1
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 07:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Israel
Posts: 6,480
|
Why Dont People Always Use Plastic Dishes?
You know... the ones that are used only once.
We have a dishwasher, but we dont use it on a daily basis since there arent enough dishes to wash.
So my father(and sometimes mother) spend quite a while every day on washing stuff.
(both me and my sister are lazy bastards  )
Why? What's the problem with buying a bunch of plastic one-use dishes once a week and just throwing them all to the garbage when you're done? Why wasting hours on washing them?
__________________
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:02
|
#2
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 05:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Howling at the moon
Posts: 4,421
|
Great! Why not get dressed by wrapping yourself from head to foot in bogroll too!
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:03
|
#3
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 12:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: May 1999
Location: The City State of Noosphere, CPA special envoy
Posts: 14,606
|
__________________
(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:06
|
#4
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 04:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Mu Mu Land
Posts: 6,570
|
You'd end up with a lot of trash, and it is much cheaper to wash a dish than it is to be a new one each time.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:06
|
#5
|
|
Warlord
Local Time: 05:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 217
|
Re: Why Dont People Always Use Plastic Dishes?
|
Quote:
|
Originally posted by Eli
You know... the ones that are used only once.
We have a dishwasher, but we dont use it on a daily basis since there arent enough dishes to wash.
So my father(and sometimes mother) spend quite a while every day on washing stuff.
(both me and my sister are lazy bastards )
Why? What's the problem with buying a bunch of plastic one-use dishes once a week and just throwing them all to the garbage when you're done? Why wasting hours on washing them?
|
Because it woud increse the size of that garbage dump outside Tel Aviv even more?
Mind you, if you start using it for landfill and increase the size of Israel that way, I don't have a problem with it.
__________________
Some cry `Allah O Akbar` in the street. And some carry Allah in their heart.
"The CIA does nothing, says nothing, allows nothing, unless its own interests are served. They are the biggest assembly of liars and theives this country ever put under one roof and they are an abomination" Deputy COS (Intel) US Army 1981-84
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:07
|
#6
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 07:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Israel
Posts: 6,480
|
I'm serious.
Clothes are different because other people see you in them, and often make up their minds about you on the basis of your clothes.
But in your home, with only your family there, why bother?
__________________
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:08
|
#7
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 12:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: May 1999
Location: The City State of Noosphere, CPA special envoy
Posts: 14,606
|
Wait, I have a better idea.
Why don't you stop using a dish, Eli, and just grab with your hands instead? 
__________________
(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:09
|
#8
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 05:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Howling at the moon
Posts: 4,421
|
Because dining off good china is a pleasure in itself.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:10
|
#9
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 07:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Israel
Posts: 6,480
|
|
Quote:
|
|
You'd end up with a lot of trash, and it is much cheaper to wash a dish than it is to be a new one each time.
|
|
Quote:
|
Because it woud increse the size of that garbage dump outside Tel Aviv even more?
Mind you, if you start using it for landfill and increase the size of Israel that way, I don't have a problem with it.
|
The trash argument is a good one. Someone should invent a recyclable material for dishes.
As for the cost... I'm not so sure. On the long term it definetely costs more, but then you have all that extra time, especially if you're in a large family with no dishwasher.
__________________
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:12
|
#10
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 07:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Israel
Posts: 6,480
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Wait, I have a better idea.
Why don't you stop using a dish, Eli, and just grab with your hands instead?
|
It's even messier than washing dishes. 
Laz : Well, it depends on the person. I really dont care if my plate is plastic or golden.
__________________
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:13
|
#11
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 23:31
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Underwater no one can hear sharks scream
Posts: 11,096
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally posted by Eli
The trash argument is a good one. Someone should invent a recyclable material for dishes.
|
You've never heard of paper plates?
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:14
|
#12
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 04:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Mu Mu Land
Posts: 6,570
|
That is why the Pita Pocket is the greatest invention ever
Or food on a stick!
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:15
|
#13
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 12:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: May 1999
Location: The City State of Noosphere, CPA special envoy
Posts: 14,606
|
Why would you recycle when you can reuse?
__________________
(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:17
|
#14
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 00:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Fort LOLderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
Posts: 9,091
|
You could go the South Asia route, eat everything off a banana leaf.
__________________
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:19
|
#15
|
|
Settler
Local Time: 06:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Oct 2000
Posts: 65,535
|
NOT EVEN PLASTIC DISHES!
Oil paper! It comes with the souvlaki.
And not even oil paper if you get a kalamaki. Just a stick of wood.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:20
|
#16
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 23:31
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Republic of Texas
Posts: 27,637
|
Paper plates are fine.
Do you realize what the half-life is for plastic?
You're children's children's children will still be dealing with plastic refuse from now.
__________________
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:24
|
#17
|
|
Prince
Local Time: 05:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Antwerpen
Posts: 398
|
Bah, who needs dishes. I always eat my french fries and pizza's out of the karton they came in.
__________________
In een hoerekotje aan den overkant emmekik mijn bloem verloren,
In een hoerekotje aan den overkant bennekik mijn bloemeke kwijt
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:24
|
#18
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 23:31
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Underwater no one can hear sharks scream
Posts: 11,096
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally posted by SlowwHand
Do you realize what the half-life is for plastic?
|
Not to mention the fact that you can wash plastic.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:25
|
#19
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 04:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Mu Mu Land
Posts: 6,570
|
Or even recycle plastic
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:26
|
#20
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 23:31
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Republic of Texas
Posts: 27,637
|
Yeah. Doc. People buy plastic so they can wash them.
That's the primary reason.
__________________
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:30
|
#21
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 07:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Israel
Posts: 6,480
|
Plastic or not is unimportant. I'm talking about the concept of using one-time dishes vs "permanent" ones.
__________________
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:46
|
#22
|
|
Settler
Local Time: 06:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Oct 2000
Posts: 65,535
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally posted by SlowwHand
Yeah. Doc. People buy plastic so they can wash them.
That's the primary reason.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 12:50
|
#23
|
|
Settler
Local Time: 06:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Oct 2000
Posts: 65,535
|
i missed that "always" in the thrad title. because that's just cheap and expensive.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 16:17
|
#24
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 07:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: A pub.
Posts: 3,161
|
It's either a highly unentertaining troll, or a very sad testimony to modern society.
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 16:35
|
#25
|
|
King
Local Time: 05:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Just one more thing
Posts: 1,733
|
Why stop at plastic plates? That blank surface is just begging for something to be printed on it. Why not combine disposable plates with TV guides?
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 17:42
|
#26
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 06:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Republic of Flanders
Posts: 10,747
|
Does someone here even uses forks and such???
Paper & plastic plates 
__________________
#There’s a city in my mind
Come along and take that ride
And it’s all right, baby, it’s all right #
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 17:42
|
#27
|
|
King
Local Time: 06:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Belgium, land of plenty (corruption)
Posts: 2,647
|
You may have hit the Jackpot there, but I'll go even a bit further...
How about printing advertisement on plates.. that way people will see McDonalds every single frikking day until they get freaked out and go buy a burger at el macdo!
oh boy $$$ guaranteed!
__________________
"An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
"Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - Seneca
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 23:51
|
#28
|
|
Emperor
Local Time: 00:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 9,706
|
umm... we re-use styrofoam dishes... wash them off and use them for the next meal
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 23:55
|
#29
|
|
Deity
Local Time: 12:31
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: May 1999
Location: The City State of Noosphere, CPA special envoy
Posts: 14,606
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally posted by Eli
Plastic or not is unimportant. I'm talking about the concept of using one-time dishes vs "permanent" ones.
|
Then you should consider banana leaves, or food wrapped in bread.
__________________
(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2003, 23:58
|
#30
|
|
King
Local Time: 23:31
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Halloween town
Posts: 2,969
|
If ur gonna wash disposables, why not just use regular dishes and wash them? 
for those people who think washing disposables saves u money.. I got an idea! dont buy disposables! think of how much money you can save by using the dishes at home! 
__________________
:-p
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is On
|
|
|
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 00:31.
|
|
