Reply to: Another great advance for hu-manity in the Principality.

[minestrone]

WHAT! Those who get rounds in normally get a discount!?


Not my fault I was born a tight northerner and so never get a round in.

Was just in Oddbins to get some beers and all the beer deals had been taken off the tills so she had to put it through as cash. No more 6 for 5 quid stellas as of tomorrow, 1.50 a can each

[gingerjedi]

I did that until a fortnight ago.

I shall start doing that again as of tomorrow.

In the interim, I've acquired sufficient bags to keep me going for a while.

Those tesco bags are crap though.

I think the Tesco bags are designed to degrade, they've got some tinkering to do though as mine always lose integrity before I get home.

For this reason I try and use Sainsburys bags in Tesco, everyone thinks I'm dead posh.

[PAH]

Group discounted drink is being banned tomorrow in Scotland.

WHAT! Those who get rounds in normally get a discount!?


Not my fault I was born a tight northerner and so never get a round in.

[minestrone]

Group discounted drink is being banned tomorrow in Scotland.

I will have to go down for my BOGOF Lambrusco tonight.

[Pondlife]

I see the feckwhits will be giving you targets by which 'to measure their performance'.
BBC News - Labour's targets pledge in five-year programme in Wales

That'll be fun.

At least we'll still get free prescriptions to help medicate the pain away.

[Mich the Tester]

But, but, but, you're missing the opportunity of having your very own feckwhits employed at vast expense doing even stupider things than the UK parliament does already.

How can you resist such an offer?

I see the feckwhits will be giving you targets by which 'to measure their performance'.
BBC News - Labour's targets pledge in five-year programme in Wales

That'll be fun.

[Mich the Tester]

The problem with carrier bags relates to their immortality as things stand, so this would be the Freddy Krueger of the grocery bag world.

Will the chav classes still be able to use the new biodegradable bags for glue sniffing?

[Mich the Tester]

We're all delighted.

As I mentioned previously, they may be feckwhits, but at least they're our feckwhits, not some Anglo Saxon git parachuted in to keep the natives in line.

Well very good for you. It's also a fantastic argument against the idiotic idea of a seperate English parliament. I think there's enough government in the world thank you very much.

[TimberWolf]

Advances in self-healing materials, including plastic, could make the carrier bag eternal.

BBC News - Self-healing materials take cue from nature

Not quite as biodegradable as environmentalists would like, but there would be no need to throw them away in the first place.

Would also be handy if they could get it to work with tarmac so they didn't have to keep resurfacing roads, and potholes would be banished to history.

The problem with carrier bags relates to their immortality as things stand, so this would be the Freddy Krueger of the grocery bag world.

[Mich the Tester]

Just out of interest, how do the people of Wales feel about their government spending money on carrier bag departments and websites, let alone spending time drawing up regulations for such matters?

Carrier bag charge Wales | Home Page ...

Isn't this a perfect example of how Europe's governments have got us into the bloody mess we're in now?

[NotAllThere]

The law states that you and your customers may only place the above items in the exempt bag. If an item which is not an exempt item is placed in the bag - the bag would need to be charged for.

So, outside shops, police will be checking that you've not sneakily added that pack of chewing gum to the bag of apples you just bought.

All those exceptions show one thing: "Not properly thought through".

[PAH]

A bag for life soon to be reality

Advances in self-healing materials, including plastic, could make the carrier bag eternal.

BBC News - Self-healing materials take cue from nature

Not quite as biodegradable as environmentalists would like, but there would be no need to throw them away in the first place.

Would also be handy if they could get it to work with tarmac so they didn't have to keep resurfacing roads, and potholes would be banished to history.

[PAH]

I'm going for a lie down in a darkened room now.

I do that too. It's where I keep the mushrooms.

[Pondlife]

Zeity you're missing a trick here. You need to combine your alien cunning with PAH's business plan.

Next time you go to Tesco (other supermarkets are available) you buy some spuds and put one in each bag and nothing else (free). You then pour all the spuds in to one bag and sell the rest on at tupence a bag.

[doodab]

It seems like a sensible idea to me, at least a lot more sensible than simply throwing away several billion of the things every year, but I tend to take my own bag(s) to the shop when I can anyway.