STRAWS?

[coevan]

Stop the madness, it's a straw with 100 posts. 

[ShakyBeef]

A five-page thread about straws.

 

Never before have so many said so much about so little for so long.

 

Gotta love CruiseCritic.

[jimbo5544]

19 minutes ago, ShakyBeef said:

A five-page thread about straws.

 

Never before have so many said so much about so little for so long.

 

Gotta love CruiseCritic.

Speaking like you have never been involved in one of these....remember the chocolates discussion?

[ShakyBeef]

Just now, jimbo5544 said:

Speaking like you have never been involved in one of these....remember the chocolates discussion?

 

How could I ever forget it? I put a lot of time and effort into authentic pseudoscience all for the furthering of mankind's knowledge in regards to fake chocolates.  Based on my efforts in that topic alone, I should probably have been made a saint or at least knighted or maybe sent a box of real chocolates or something.

 

I don't deny I'm (almost) as guilty as (practically) everyone else here.

[jimbo5544]

30 minutes ago, ShakyBeef said:

 

How could I ever forget it? I put a lot of time and effort into authentic pseudoscience all for the furthering of mankind's knowledge in regards to fake chocolates.  Based on my efforts in that topic alone, I should probably have been made a saint or at least knighted or maybe sent a box of real chocolates or something.

 

I don't deny I'm (almost) as guilty as (practically) everyone else here.

LOL, I resemble that remark.

[ShakyBeef]

1 minute ago, jimbo5544 said:

LOL, I resemble that remark.

 

Nothing gets past you, Jimbo.

 

[jimbo5544]

8 minutes ago, ShakyBeef said:

 

Nothing gets past you, Jimbo.

 

According to my wife, just about everything.... but that is a different story.

[jimbo5544]

10 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

 

I doubt that. I figure I use 70-100 straws on a one week cruise. That has to add up across the fleet. I think it’s about saving money. It would make sense if they weren’t giving out straws on lido deck where maybe they could blow away (though I’ve never seen that happen). but that’s the one bar where I’ve been getting them automatically. Why try to deprive me of a straw at the atrium bar on a drink I’m not allowed to take on the lido deck? The only way that atrium bar straw is going to end up in the ocean is if carnival dumps it there.

One more set of questions and I will move on... how much does a box of straws cost Carnival?  Can you still get straws if you want them?  Have you ever walked around decks in the morning and look at the drains by the edge?  Number one thing there...straws.  But your right, they will save millions...

 

I just looked on amazon (they would get them considerably cheaper, but this discussion it works) box of 500 costs 11 bucks, which equals 2 cents a straw.  You use 70 to 100 for a week (I use none) so lets average it out to 40 per client...do the math carry the 3 divide by 60 square root of Pi..... that makes 80 cents ( a week) but you can still get straws, so we discount that by 50% (people like you who can’t live without them) do the math again back down to 40 cents (and I am being generous here).  Of all the things that they could economize on, this would def be on the top of my list if I could choose....  your right

Edited January 26, 2019 by jimbo5544

[Saint Greg]

18 minutes ago, jimbo5544 said:

One more set of questions and I will move on... how much does a box of straws cost Carnival?  Can you still get straws if you want them?  Have you ever walked around decks in the morning and look at the drains by the edge?  Number one thing there...straws.  But your right, they will save millions...

 

You’re talking lido and since they’ve started this straw thing, Lido deck and comedy club are the two places I got straws automatically. It’s atrium, casino, and sometimes alchemy where they don’t...inside bars with glassware you aren’t supposed to take on lido. That makes no sense. My rough estimate is they could save up to 1.16mil/yr on straws. If they go to eco friendly straws, it could cost them that much more. Let’s see which they do.

Edited January 26, 2019 by Saint Greg

[jimbo5544]

One million....hahahaha. If they eliminated them it would not cost that.  I give up

[Luckiestmanonearth]

49 minutes ago, jimbo5544 said:

One more set of questions and I will move on... how much does a box of straws cost Carnival?  

 

I think you can get straws cheap.  It comes from the same factory that makes hotel hangers, those little plastic things on the end of shoelaces and the annoying pins they use when you buy a new shirt 

[schazzy]

13 hours ago, fyree39 said:

They can blow under.

 

I think the US and most 1st world countries do a good job of protecting the environment.  Poorer countries, maybe not so much.  I remember when I spent 2 weeks on Guam and I was shocked at how trashy the waterfront was.  Guamanians don't seem to care about plastic and other garbage getting into the ocean.  I noticed the same thing in Nassau when we were pulling in: lots of trash floating out to meet us sailing in. When I think of all the plastic in the ocean, such as those "plastic islands" we read about, I'm thinking the majority of the trash isn't from the U.S. The majority is from any country but the U.S.

 

I listened to this story not long ago, it pretty much sums up the problem.

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/01/15/683734379/an-island-crusader-takes-on-the-big-brands-behind-plastic-waste