A question regarding a american mystery

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
I still haven't had that "Why do british sinks and handbasins have separate taps for hot and cold water" query answered.

Mine doesn't. I'm enlightened.

[Demerzel]

because sometimes I want cold water and sometimes I want hot?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Sten Sture
that was a delayed simul post. you will note that 2 feet can now be considered to be a verified standard distance for Ameros

That being the average distance from the average American's spine to his belly.

[Atahualpa]

To all you wise Americans and Europeans who STILL USE BAGS (lol) I tell you what the next step into the future is!

Shopping Boxes or in German: Klappbox (direct-translated: flapping box)

Yep right. They are made out of plastic and are constructed to take minimal space when you do not need them and when you need them unfold their full potential.
They are completely enviroment friendly because they hold out much longer. Usually you would need 2-3 per Family and maybe every two years you need to renew one of them. They can also hold much longer though.

I have lifted such boxes filled with goodies (yummi) that were really more than enough weight than anyone wants to handle alone and those boxes are still alive. They get taken with to any shopping course.

Even more pracitcal is that you can put all the stuff into them that you do not put into the fridge and place them somewhere else (bottles of coke, mineral, beer, whatever you drink). You can also put your empty bottles or metal thingies into them to take them with you and recycle them at the supermarkt (assumed your supermarkt has a place for recycling).

And you can also carry them like paper boxes without handles, though you would need 2 arms for one box. Which I guess is recommended for 20+ kilogramms.
And you do not need to put extra care where you put them in the car because they will stand ground and not fall and everything roll out.

It is enivronment friendly, safe, more convenient and cheaper!


Here are some pcitures:
1. http://www.ecodesign-beispiele.at/data/art/22.jpg
2. http://www.mytoys.de/intershoproot/e...-1025563-n.jpg
3. http://www.boulevard24.de/Shops/clax/klappbox_animi.gif (animated folding and unfolding - watch this!!)
4. http://www.ieq.de/images/grafik1/278315.jpg

Ata

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Atahualpa It is enivronment friendly, safe, more convenient and cheaper!

Carry a plastic box to the grocery store in order to shop. Not in America my friend. Didnt you see the 2 feet comments (ie max distance most americans will carry a grocery bag)? They werent joking.






Well maybe a little, but no-one would take a bag or box to the store to carry their groceries in.

[Atahualpa]

sorry if I made myself not clear.

You have a trolly. And you place the box into the trolly. And everything you buy is in the box. And you trolly the box to the car and lift it in and then trolly the trolly back to the place were all the trollys stand.

I find it very practical. Even more because in a high paper bag the whole weight lies on the bottom and that gets squashed.

A positive side effect is that you always have a box at home where you can put stuff in when you need it. And when you do not need it, it takes virtually no space.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by SpencerH

Well maybe a little, but no-one would take a bag or box to the store to carry their groceries in.

My family must be weird. We have three or four canvas bags (*with handles, no less*) that my wife takes to the grocery store each time she shops. When we lived in New Hampshire, the store actually knocked 5 cents per bag off your order to encourage the practice. Pennsylvania isn't quite as enlightened.

[SpencerH]

I understood that you have a cart while at the store. The 2 ft comment has to do with laziness. The problem is that we'd have to take the box to the store. Thats way too much effort. We'd much rather fill up garbage dumps with billions of plastic bags.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Stuie

My family must be weird. We have three or four canvas bags (*with handles, no less*) that my wife takes to the grocery store each time she shops. When we lived in New Hampshire, the store actually knocked 5 cents per bag off your order to encourage the practice. Pennsylvania isn't quite as enlightened.

Heathen, you probably recycle too NH has obviously picked up too many of those strange foreign ways.

[Kropotkin]

Atahualpa: So you can make magic boxes but it's still near impossible to get a pack of milk on a sunday? Well, that's what I call development.

[Spec]

Have you ever heard the saying:

Paper or plastic?

We do have the choice you know?


Spec.

[ricketyclik]

Originally posted by Spectator
Have you ever heard the saying:

Paper or plastic?

We do have the choice you know?


Spec.

I thought that means the same as "cash or charge?"

[Stuie]

Originally posted by SpencerH


Heathen, you probably recycle too NH has obviously picked up too many of those strange foreign ways.

That's why we moved back to Pennsylvania. Too many French speakers up there in NH; I didn't want the children exposed to that.

Just so we're all clear, the above statement was intended as humor. I have no ill-will toward French speakers and do not believe there would be many ill effects from having my children associate with them.

I would like to apologize for the above disclaimer. When I said "many" I was again attempting "humor". I in no way believe that exposure to French speaking individuals can cause harm to children.

[Arrian]

@ Stuie.

Reminds me, kinda, of the "disclaimer" at the start of "Dogma"

-Arrian

[Japher]

With handles it's easier to carry and if it's easier to carry you can consume more!!! That's your solution for the current economic situation!

Bags with handles will cost more, that additional cost would be passed on to the consumer, causing grocery prices to go up, resulting in less consumption.

Whereas the other bags are cheaper to make, which allows prices to go down, which increases consumption, leading to an increase in sales.

I think your logic here is backwards