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Both these posts sound like satire
The MP saying this nonsense is serious, idiot that she is.
Even this post showing it off feels like satire, how exactly does a room with cigarette smoke in it "fuck the planet?" Do people think cigarette smoke emissions are remotely relevant on a global scale? Poe's law is strong in this one.
There are a lot of reasons to not bother going to Tim Horton's, and the lids on their cups is not one of them.
I have only gone in in the last three years because a sweet person gave me a gift card, and hey free lunch. It was gross.
That’s a joke, making fun of the person saying it was better before
Also Tim’s is a burger place so I am not sure why people are shocked that they bring in food
That's certified Idiots on Facebook quality! Like plastic lids and smoking sections are going to save Tim Hortons' enshittification.
Indeed. What about returning to Tims being a Canadian company and serving actual freshly made donuts? And as others have said, why not bring back mugs? And maybe sell travel mugs from the counter and allow discounted refills, and do away with travel lids altogether? It’s not like those plastic single use lids were a part of the original Tim’s experience.
While we’re at it, we can close down the drive through; that’s not original Tim’s either.
Wars, genocide, people displaces, weaponized disinformation, cost of living, the housing crisis, climate change. All small potatoes to a conservative, who is taking a stand on,checks notes, so called "woke" coffee lids.
Conservatives ruin literally everything. I defy a conservative to tell me what they have contributed to the betterment of society.
Is she tongue fucking that paper lid that it dissolved?
Probably all the action she ever gets.
When I think of Tim Hortons, I think of how I've seen the disappearance of reusable flatware and cutlery from such a large proportion of eating establishments, and the normalization of eating-in with exclusively single-use disposable stuff (usually plastic), in about two decades. Future generations will thank us /s. But it's those effing 'woke lids' that are the real problem /s. Also, who cares about Tim Hortons if you don't like it; it's not even Canadian. Do conservative voters just need a daily dose of misplaced resentment and rage to keep them going?
I think that is a really American thing though. I have never been to a place that had plastic cutlery and single use flatware. Sure some oprn air kitchens and festivals and such. But there is not really a better option for that
I think that is a really American thing though. I have never been to a place that had plastic cutlery and single use flatware.
Interesting! Care to provide your province and urban/rural? I live in downtown Toronto and unless there's waiter-to-table service, there's nothing reusable except glassware in bars and potentially plastic cups for free water. Other Torontonians, please chime in if you've seen anything different. Most places don't ask "to stay or to go?" any more, or if they do the only difference is a bag
Why are they even putting the lids in their mouth to dissolve?
Paper straws do suck though.
Paper straws do suck though.
I'm in Toronto, and I believe the city has banned plastic straws. I think plastic straw bans tend to be harmfully distracting from the larger issues. (To be clear, I think we have a massive plastic pollution problem.)
I was in a Hawaiian cocktail bar in Toronto recently, where the drinks are made to be drunk with straws and half of the people at the table asked for a second straw halfway through their drinks as the paper straws had stopped working well
We should be selling and marketing bring-your-own reusable plastic straws, with a small washable traveling case and a cleaning brush, maybe 4-packs
From the blogto article linked by op:
He says that "After a couple of sips, it became soggy and started to stain. Thereafter, I could taste a few small lid pieces in the drink, which was like 'yuck.'"
Yep sounds like terrible design and Tim's cheapen out in the material. I've had non plastic caps that were much better than that.
You know what would bring us back to the good old days? A real ceramic mug you can use to sit down, drink it slowly and enjoy. But I haven't been to a Tim's in a while where the server would ask if I wanted a mug or to go. Maybe the lady would call that woke too?
I don't believe that story about the lid for a second
I do, everything at Tim's is garbage, why would their lids be any different?
Honestly I'm really not surprised. Tim is known for choosing the lowest bidder.
What's up with people misspelling "return" with a v?
Old people without glasses, maybe?
If I were to take a guess, it’ll have to do with the conservative obsession with Ancient Rome.
Yup. See also the rampant use of ancient busts as profile pics. For some reason they are obsessed with the penis-graffiti-drawing, buttsex-enjoying, poetry-writing ancient Romans (and Greeks), when I'm pretty sure a typical aristocrat of the time would find them boorish and incredibly uneducated simpletons, barely fit to till a field.
Man thinking about the Roman empire clock now reset to 0 (again).
Did I miss the introduction of paper lids somehow? I know I don't go to timmies that often, but what?
Apparently so: https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2024/04/ontario-plastic-free-coffee-lids-tim-hortons/. I never go there so I don't know when.
Congrats Ontario on finally getting paper lids.
Between daycare, pharmacare, and now food containers; congratulations on following Québec's footsteps ;)
Conservatives call this all pinko Commie liberal stuff. Free stuff if you will. Not stuff we paid our hard earned tax dollars for.
Imagine being that small minded.
Woke.. uh.. lids?
Conservatives deeply fear change.
Status quo is their god.
they should be called regressives
They should be called narcissists, because their "conservative" beliefs shift to occupy precisely the space where they happen to live. If they personally benefit from the status quo, then they must defend the tradition. If they benefit from change, then it is a moral imperative that the world conform to their point of view. A rational person might call that hypocrisy, but it's not really anything more than selfishness.
What do conservatives even want? Like just to set everything back centuries is all I can see. I've never seen one of them create or improve anything.
To the Conservative mindset everything is a zero sum game.
Give rights to minorities, that’s taking rights away from white men.
Give restaurant patrons the right to dine in a smoke free environment, that’s taking away the rights of smokers
Increase the minimum wage, that’s devaluing the wages of everyone else
Probably the most telling in a US context is Medicare for all. Free health care devalues their paid healthcare. I mean healthcare is healthcare (sure some doctors are better than others) the only reason someone would be upset that other people could be entitled to the same healthcare as them, whilst costing themselves less, is because these people think they are more deserving of healthcare than other people.
Conservative politicians want to be elected. And the way they want to do this is by stoking meaningless (and mean) culture war issues to keep their base a)angry and b) not focused on economic inequality caused by their donors.
Everything to be like when they were a kid. Uncomplicated, no real problems like nowadays with the wokes and the taxes
They want the power fantasy of everyone having to listen to them while never having to listen to anybody else
Yup, to them freedom is both unlimited freedom to and freedom from, only for them. They never took a philosophy class to understand the contradiction (presumably because thinking too hard is woke?).