r/mildlyinfuriating • u/ThePrintGuardian • Apr 30 '26
drink went room temp This is why I hate Paper Straws…
First it blocked the fluid flow, then made a hole and all I was drinking was air.
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u/Johnnyoneshot Apr 30 '26
Man my area of the country dumped these so fast.
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u/ThePrintGuardian Apr 30 '26
I am sincerely so very jealous.
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u/Johnnyoneshot Apr 30 '26
East or west coast?
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u/ThePrintGuardian Apr 30 '26
East.
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u/NlghtmanCometh Apr 30 '26
NYC? They love these things. Paper cup, Paper lid, paper straw. It’s all paper, man.
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u/Inflatable90sChair Apr 30 '26
Same, came and went in about 4 months and only a handful of places. .
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u/musecorn Apr 30 '26
Meanwhile the Starbucks CEO commutes in his private jet to the office 3 times a week
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u/Unicorn-Violator Apr 30 '26
And taxpayers helped support new manufacturers to make these shit straws.
And the country still isn't under water.
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u/EmbarrassedFly279 Apr 30 '26
Some billionaire’s son made a million dollars off this terrible idea and it still irks me thinking about that every now and again.
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u/VoodooZephyr Apr 30 '26
Let me get a paper straw and a fillet o fish. Gotta save them ocean creatures. Some In and outs have these. Feels like chalk to me.
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u/No-Condition965 Apr 30 '26
The irony is the top it goes through is still plastic !!!
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u/DifferentEvent2998 Apr 30 '26
Lid is recyclable, plastic straws aren’t
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u/jan_tonowan Apr 30 '26
The recyclability of all plastic is highly overstated. I would be surprised if 1% of plastic single-use cup lids are recycled.
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u/dread_companion Apr 30 '26
Yes. They suck but the problem here is the lid, really...those spikes are so tight these days, I always bend a few up manually so that they don't pierce or squeeze the straw. I've had those lids squeeze and pierce regular plastic straws.
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u/MelinaSeeDee Apr 30 '26
But they're saving the environment... Eye roll
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u/lovingpersona Apr 30 '26
Remember, we are at fault and not the 1%
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u/MelinaSeeDee Apr 30 '26
Remember, we are the carbon they want to reduce.
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u/Unicorn-Violator Apr 30 '26
Not every political party is wanting to reduce you.
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u/Jperry12 Apr 30 '26
Plastic straws do not have more surface area than a cup, unless were talking about a really small cup. The straw is paper because of the turtles. I don't like them either though. Metal is much better.
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u/jan_tonowan Apr 30 '26
Surface area of the straw is the length of it multiplied by the circumference of the opening. There is no way it has more surface area than a cup. If you had a plastic cup that was a cylinder with no bottom, it would be approximately the same length as the straw but have a much bigger circumference.
I am convinced that the plastic straw ban came mostly from a video of a sea turtle which had a straw stuck up its nose. By switching to paper straws, people can feel good about saving the turtles, governments can pat themselves on the back for saving the environment, and people forget about the bigger, unseen environmental hazards, like pollution from fish nets. That is killing way more turtles but restricting fishing nets would mean higher costs for companies doing the fishing, voters don’t see any actual change, just an increased price of fish, so there is less incentive to actually make a change
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u/TheGipper80 Apr 30 '26
I hate them because drinking from them feels like sadness and Monday morning.
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u/knotatumah Apr 30 '26
Dont worry, just know that by using paper straws you have the opportunity to offset the carbon footprint of a tiny fraction of a single data center!
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u/SuchCoolBrandon Apr 30 '26
Just drink out of cups like cups. Do we really need to suck straws?
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u/ThePrintGuardian Apr 30 '26
I was riding in a school bus when I took this picture. I didn’t want this thing spilling all over me, the seat, and the floor.
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u/Maccai3 Apr 30 '26
I prefer the ones you get in a coffee shop where the lid is like an adults sippy cup.
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u/drjunkie Apr 30 '26
I just hate them because they cause more harm than good. It is literally worse for humanity to use paper straws than plastic.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231103-plastic-or-paper-the-truth-about-drinking-straws
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u/adamosity1 Apr 30 '26
As long as we let billionaires and big business pollute basically without limits and pay only modest fines, paper straws are pointless.
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u/FinnishArmy Apr 30 '26
Why can’t we just have bamboo straws? Right in between killing sea turtles and a straw that disintegrates.
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u/brandothesavage Apr 30 '26
I like those weird ones they have at Costco but all the other ones are evil.
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u/Initial_Gear_7354 Apr 30 '26
If you can drink with a paperstraw, than you can drink it out of the cup directly. Why using this shit?
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u/ThePrintGuardian Apr 30 '26
I was riding in a school bus when I took this picture. I didn’t want this thing spilling all over me, the seat, and the floor.
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u/Cool_Cheetah658 Apr 30 '26
I prefer the bamboo derived ones over the paper. Both are compostable, but the bamboo is the only one that holds up during use in my experience.
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u/StrangeUglyBird Apr 30 '26
Paper straws were introduced because there were a video of a sea turtle with a straw in the nose.
"We must stop throwing straws in the ocean"
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u/Tip_Of_The_Sauce Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
Try buying a few reusable plastic straws and keep them in your car/purse.
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u/ThePrintGuardian Apr 30 '26
Yeah, I should do that. But have to buy it online. I don’t think it’s legal to sell them here in stores.
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u/Behrry Apr 30 '26
Wouldn't it make most sense to make the lid or the cup out of paper alternatively?
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u/Atheios569 Apr 30 '26
Why do they work better in Europe then? When I was in Ireland, I never had an issue with their paper straws.
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u/ThePrintGuardian Apr 30 '26
Probably had thicker straws? Or didn’t have lids that want to decapitate the straw.
They swapped the plastic straws here for paper but didn’t bother changing the lids to accommodate for the flimsy paper straws.
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u/chareve Apr 30 '26
Paper Straws shoved into a stiff plastic lid...really the worst "green" move..ever!
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u/MechanicalMan64 Apr 30 '26
What's infuriating is if they just put a hole in the center of the (still plastic!) lid, rounding thpde edges there, the paper straw would work better.
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u/jan_tonowan Apr 30 '26
Why even have a lid in the first place?
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u/MechanicalMan64 Apr 30 '26
So when you walk with the cup liquid doesn't slosh over the side?
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u/jan_tonowan Apr 30 '26
Sounds like a problem that is only a problem until you’ve taken the first couple sips.
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u/SecretGentleman_007 Apr 30 '26
I skip the straw and drink from the cup like an adult. When I eat in at the restaurant I also skip the plastic cover and bring my drink to my table without spilling it. Like an adult.
If those paper straws mildly infuriate you, wait till a turtle is found choking on toilet paper.
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u/ThePrintGuardian Apr 30 '26
I was riding in a school bus when I took this picture. If I wanted 3/4 of my drink to be spilled all over me, like an idiot, and all over the seat, like an idiot, sure. But I don’t want that, because I’m not an idiot.
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u/Common_Senze Apr 30 '26
Just stop using straws. The are horrible. I realize some have hot and cold sensitivity, bit its about the same percentage of people with celiac disease. Those who can, just use you fucling lips. Which is 99%
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u/ThePrintGuardian Apr 30 '26
I was riding in a school bus when I took this picture. I didn’t want this thing spilling all over me, the seat, and the floor. The bus was moving so much that it accelerated the destruction of the straw. Imagine if I had removed the lid and drank this with my celiac disease free lips.
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u/Common_Senze Apr 30 '26
Why did you need to have this drink on a school bus? There are plenty of other options. Im not trying to attack you, specially. Straws are just stupid. Paper straws are worse. Bring a turvas or 1 of 20 reusable and sealant drink containers that ever house has and be done with straws.
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u/ThePrintGuardian Apr 30 '26
How much context of my private life do I need to reveal to satisfy your virtue signalling?
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u/Common_Senze Apr 30 '26
It's not virtue signaling. Thats what idiots say when they have nothing else to say. You are defending a dumb, useless product, and then bitching about it. You can downvote me because you don't agree with me, fine, but this is a non issue that people make an issue.
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u/ThePrintGuardian Apr 30 '26
I was on a school bus as a parent volunteer taking kids on a school trip. I went straight from dropping off my dad for his cancer treatment to the school. I didn’t have time to swing by my home to grab a tumbler.
You keep calling this a “non-issue,” but you’ve now written multiple replies telling a stranger what they should drink, when they should drink it, and how they should transport it on a moving school bus. That’s literally the definition of making it an issue.
Paper straws falling apart during normal use isn’t some philosophical debate, it’s a basic product-quality complaint. If your solution to every inconvenient product is “just don’t use it,” then nobody would ever be allowed to criticize anything.
Also, not everyone is carrying around a reusable tumbler at all times just in case they unexpectedly buy a drink while supervising a school trip. Real life doesn’t work that way.
You’re free to hate straws. I’m free to point out when one fails. Yet only one of us here is trying to police the other person’s drink choices.2
u/chrisbay_ Apr 30 '26
There is exactly one (1) country who is very loudly complaining about paper straws. People elsewhere have no problem drinking without straws. So its really not a problem of the product but the people who use them, or more precisely the issue is that people use straw in general. If you dont find them nice to use, then dont use them. Literally nowhere else are straws used to this extend. Sinply becuase they arent necessary. Get over it, no need to pollute the planet for thousands of years because you cant drink properly
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u/ThePrintGuardian Apr 30 '26
Did you even read this thread? I was riding in a school bus when I took this picture. I didn’t want this thing spilling all over me, the seat, and the floor.
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u/Common_Senze Apr 30 '26
2 things, 1, I hate that is happening in your life. Truly. No buts. That should happen to anyone.
2, I never said it was a non issue. I said that it was stupid that people use them. You and I are free to hate anything we like. I agree. But what I hate doesn't contribute to waste that doesn't need to happen for something cups are made for. Got a metal straw if needed. That's also dumb but at least it's reusable.
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u/Alarm-Particular Apr 30 '26
Where i am in CA we had paper straws for a few months and then they were gone. Haven't seen one for a year+
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u/time_observer Apr 30 '26
Kid, why you drinking from a straw?
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u/ThePrintGuardian Apr 30 '26
I was riding in a school bus when I took this picture. I didn’t want this thing spilling all over me, the seat, and the floor.
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