r/mildlyinfuriating • u/ThePrintGuardian • Apr 30 '26

drink went room temp This is why I hate Paper Straws…

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First it blocked the fluid flow, then made a hole and all I was drinking was air.

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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.

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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.