hi so first off the world is burning and
we’re all doomed
yep climate change it’s a doozy and it’s
really important that we all do a bit to
help the environment including cutting
down the singly use straws if we’re able
to but not all disabled people are able
to however whilst doing their bit
personally is really important we also
need to be focusing our energies on big
corporations because they’re the ones
setting us down
we’re being encouraged to tender fan
single-use plastics narrative on each
other to the extent that people leave me
messages daily saying oh well the world
can do without disabled people and just
people people are a sacrifice worth
making fYI that’s called supporting
genocide and honey that’s never a good
look you need to be angry at the
multinational corporations who are
supporting the strawberry cloud and yet
aren’t actually investing in researching
alternatives that work for everyone
because the current reuse of
alternatives don’t here’s why Michael
they seem like a great idea because you
can keep them clean but it can’t be used
with a hot liquid out and if a person’s
on a liquid diet in hospital that’s a
lot of cold soup and they’re often
coated which then falls apart this used
to be coated in a pink plastic and I
don’t even want to think about how much
of that’s in my system now they’re held
in one position even the bent ones make
curved that they don’t flex how is this
useful most importantly though they’re
in injury risk you could just be
drinking your drink and then you have a
seizure you’re cracking your teeth and
sending it through a soft palate a woman
recently died whilst drinking through a
metal straw and she slipped and fell and
it went through her eye thank God
environmentally friendly except the ones
that have an inner wax coating because
then you can’t actually recycle them all
sober than the ones that don’t
disintegrate and become a choking hazard
plus you can’t use them of lying down or
with hot liquids
basically there are three to five times
more expensive than plastic straws
completely useless to many disabled
people but please do use them if you can
just don’t judge other people for not
being able to side note just last year
in the UK
McDonald’s accidents plastic straws
which could be recycled to replace them
and paper straws which were too thick to
be recycled and had to go into general
waste a mass do I really need to tell
you why putting a gas drawer in the
mouth of someone who shakes has seizures
or is mentally incapable of knowing you
shouldn’t bite down on it is a bad idea
also again can’t use them while lying
down and they’re weirdly expensive for
something so useless silicon they seem
so fun sadly they just don’t end
properly oh and sometimes they float to
the top of your drink also they have a
very strange mouthfeel and I seem to
never be able to suck liquids up them
quickly am i doing this wrong acrylic an
allergy risk
who knew also an injury risk yes they
can take teeth out too and you can’t use
it as hot liquids or bend them it can
also be pretty expensive a star there’s
literally nothing good about these
straws I accept that are incredibly
expensive they’re an allergy risk injury
risk choking hazard dissolvable break
down in hot water and an utter waste of
your money Rumble oh my god I hate
bamboo straw custom straws I have cut my lip three
times now and I honestly just can’t note
interestingly some people are actually
really allergic to them and they’re not
positionable and they give too wide or
too narrow and they’re really expensive
one of the great of all this is such a
great idea I have loads of them and I’d
use them all the time I mean it doesn’t
make me want to not cry about the price
though stop people from yelling at me on
the Internet
funny thing is they do biodegrade within
six months but you can’t actually do
that on a regular household composter
because it doesn’t get hot enough so
you’ve got to put it into landfill like
a regular plastic straw but as I said it
does take six months to break down so at
any point within that six months it
could find its way into the ocean and
the nose of a portal turtle also can I
just point out by degrading releases
methane anyway
panicking in tow please remember to
dispose of your biodegradable straw
safely by cutting them in half
lengthways oh and these are also an
allergen risk look it’s right that we
reduced our plastic consumption
obviously we maybe focus on the ones
that don’t keep people alive do false
nails keep anyone alive
no do helium balloons no just cigarette
butts no let’s get rid of those fast and
then and only then once there is a
proper alternative if made of plastic
straws and I mean genuinely only once
there’s an alternative just go and fight
some big businesses okay making them
invest in the environment
a recent study says just 100 companies
are responsible for 71 percent of the
world’s emissions — which you may say
well if they’re that essential just
saving people should just bring their
own straws and we do I carry at least
five of the things with me in my handbag
but I also have memory problems so I
forget to remove them and clean them and
put them back so I tend to make myself
feel a lot by taking one of these
disgusting things and the bottom of my
bag when a restaurant won’t provide me
with one drinking from it and destroying
my own compromised immune system oh and
everyone comments she looks fine to me
has just volunteered to come and look
after me on a day when I’m in so much
pain I can’t even scream and all I want
to do is vomit over the side of the bed
thanks guys that’s actually really
helpful do I need to use a single-use
plastic straw every day no and I don’t
but I will defend to the death the
rights of people who do need them it’s
not sharing the burden of being plastic
free when that burden is deeply unequal
you cannot say you care about the world
without caring for those who are most
helpless also I assume you’re not
watching this on a mobile phone right
because of the environmental societal
issues oh and I’m going to save a person
and I don’t need straws so no disabled
person needs them it’s not a valid
argument I’m a redhead and I hate
chocolate that what I know
an empirical fact that all redheads hate
chocolate oh and it should be banned for
them actually I’m going to ban it for
everyone sorry chaps chocolates now
burned
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