California to ban plastic grocery bags, charge you for paper grocery bags

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  1. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    I'm not carrying those burlap fucking sacks. Some stores apparantly won't let you take shit just in a cart, has to leave in a bag?

    who knows. lame shit again from the People's Republik.
     
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    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    Is it really that difficult to put a few bags in a closet at home and a few in the trunk of the car?
     
  4. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    yes. I go to the grocery randomly on a whim. like if I drive by one. I don't always buy stuff either, I'm not going to walk into a store with a burlap sack and just browse around.
     
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    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    plus I use those plastic bags as quick garbage bags. have a dispenser for them. hopefully still have those shits at target.
     
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    This state sucks. Simple as that.
     
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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    Nannifornia strikes again.
     
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    OH NO NOT A BURLAP SACK
     
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    The_Lillard_King Westside

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    Pretty soon CA is going to tax you (on top of the charge) for every papar bag you use.
     
  10. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    I'll carry all my groceries in my hand, drop them in the front of the store and then walk away!

    :pimp:
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Honestly it's not that big of a deal.

    I've got two of those plastic bags stuck in trees right now. People just throw them on the ground and they blow everywhere. So annoying.

    What are they going to charge, 5 cents for a paper bag?
     
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    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    I actually like paper bags. I really don't go grocery shopping personally all that much. The idea of it is kind of ludicrous though.

    they actually do this in Europe I believe though. I did buy a burlap bag. :(
     
  14. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    my main beef is I did save those plastic bags and used them in the kitchen as a quick garbage bag.
     
  15. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    and it reeks of hippie queer-dom
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    So you don't give a shit about the largest environmental disaster in USA history but paying 5 cents for a paper bag is an issue for you?

    A little odd but well within your rights.
     
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    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    it just seems lame. the way it was was fine with me.
     
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    Sounds like an opportunity to me, buy a cheap printing press and sell ad space on the bags. You give the bags to the stores, they give them to their customers for free and your clients get great ad placement.

    Grocery stores have been doing this with receipt tape for years.
     
  19. EL PRESIDENTE

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    I think they have to use like 40% recycled bags so you know they gonna suck.
     
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    Most things, when looked at by themselves, "aren't that big of deal". The California government continues to think they know what is best for everybody, and thinks they are being so "progressive" as they run the state into financial ruin.
     

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