co-ops new carrier bags - sinister.

[wildoliver]

Just been to co-op to buy my fish finger sandwich ingredients.

Bread - Check.

Fish fingers - HOW MUCH!!! - Check.

Get to the checkout as usual get looked at like the social pariah I am for actually wanting some means of carrying my goods back to the car.

WTF!

The carrier bags feel like a used condom now? It's some kind of slippery rubbery feeling plastic.

Sinister I tell you. Sinister.

[beanbag]

wildoliver said:

Just been to co-op to buy my fish finger sandwich ingredients.

Bread - Check.

Fish fingers - HOW MUCH!!! - Check.

Get to the checkout as usual get looked at like the social pariah I am for actually wanting some means of carrying my goods back to the car.

WTF!

The carrier bags feel like a used condom now? It's some kind of slippery rubbery feeling plastic.

Sinister I tell you. Sinister.

Were those fish fingers past their sell-by date?

[Simpo Two]

Go to Morrisons - nice big strong carrier bags, free of charge and no leftie politics.

I don't buy any more than two items in my Co-op now. As I explain to the confused bird on the checkout, 'I'm sorry but I only have two hands and you don't do carrier bags any more'.

[Mc Lovin]

wildoliver said:

Just been to co-op to buy my fish finger sandwich ingredients.

Bread - Check.

Fish fingers - HOW MUCH!!! - Check.

Get to the checkout as usual get looked at like the social pariah I am for actually wanting some means of carrying my goods back to the car.

WTF!

The carrier bags feel like a used condom now? It's some kind of slippery rubbery feeling plastic.

Sinister I tell you. Sinister.

God, you insensitive fool, do you not realise that fish die a slow and painfull death, usually by suffocation when caught? You're fueling the need to catch more fish with you're fish finger buying!

[Pugsey]

wildoliver said:

Just been to co-op to buy my fish finger sandwich ingredients.

Bread - Check.

Fish fingers - HOW MUCH!!! - Check.

Get to the checkout as usual get looked at like the social pariah I am for actually wanting some means of carrying my goods back to the car.

WTF!

The carrier bags feel like a used condom now? It's some kind of slippery rubbery feeling plastic.

Sinister I tell you. Sinister.

They ARE 'compost heap friendly' you know. So no more guilt trips for you!

[Andy Zarse]

wildoliver said:

The carrier bags feel like a used condom now? It's some kind of slippery rubbery feeling plastic.

Feels like a used condom eh? Cor crikey, I'm cracking my knuckles and warming my hands in anticipation.

[wildoliver]

Mc Lovin said:

wildoliver said:

Just been to co-op to buy my fish finger sandwich ingredients.

Bread - Check.

Fish fingers - HOW MUCH!!! - Check.

Get to the checkout as usual get looked at like the social pariah I am for actually wanting some means of carrying my goods back to the car.

WTF!

The carrier bags feel like a used condom now? It's some kind of slippery rubbery feeling plastic.

Sinister I tell you. Sinister.

God, you insensitive fool, do you not realise that fish die a slow and painfull death, usually by suffocation when caught? You're fueling the need to catch more fish with you're fish finger buying!

Yes but I heard they throw the fish back once they have cut their fingers off?

[elster]

Pugsey said:

wildoliver said:

Just been to co-op to buy my fish finger sandwich ingredients.

Bread - Check.

Fish fingers - HOW MUCH!!! - Check.

Get to the checkout as usual get looked at like the social pariah I am for actually wanting some means of carrying my goods back to the car.

WTF!

The carrier bags feel like a used condom now? It's some kind of slippery rubbery feeling plastic.

Sinister I tell you. Sinister.

They ARE 'compost heap friendly' you know. So no more guilt trips for you!

Paper is even more friendly to well everything. If people used logic, would go back to paper rather than the pathetic excuses for bags ever.

[tomTVR]

wildoliver said:

The carrier bags were rubbery

Great to see youre pleased!

[PhantomHumper]

So it is a condom that smells of fish...

[Garlick]

I know how you feel.

Shopping piling up as they scan it through as you ask for a bag, and get ignored.

Eventually with a tut you get three bags handed to you for £100 worth of shopping....I should have walked off and left it there really.

[wildoliver]

PhantomHumper said:

So it is a condom that smells of fish...

Please note the fish fingers and the carrier bag are seperate items!

[JonRB]

I asked for bags at a checkout once and the girl said "so you don't recycle them then?"

To which I replied "yes, I do recycle them actually. I have a dog and I use them to bag up his poop. Is that ok with you?"

[toppstuff]

I suspect that the carrier bags in question are NOT made of plastic, but from corn starch .

They disintegrate in landfills and do not kill Ickle animals.

Which is nice.

[toppstuff]

I suspect that the carrier bags in question are NOT made of plastic, but from corn starch .

They disintegrate in landfills and do not kill Ickle animals.

Which is nice.

[PeteG]

I hate that, when you put a belt-ful through of little items, and the muppets at T***o ask if yo uwant a bag. No thanks, I'm going to juggle them...

[Lord Snot]

JonRB said:

I asked for bags at a checkout once and the girl said "so you don't recycle them then?"

To which I replied "yes, I do recycle them actually. I have a dog and I use them to bag up his poop. Is that ok with you?"

Awesome reply!

Edited by Lord Snot on Thursday 20th November 19:00

[Nigel Worc's]

elster said:

Paper is even more friendly to well everything. If people used logic, would go back to paper rather than the pathetic excuses for bags ever.

Oh is that right ?

I think someone needs to do a tad more research.....according to the stuff I've seen.

[Nigel Worc's]

A couple of factories I go to blow that corn starch stuff.......boy does it stink !

[elster]

Nigel Worc's said:

elster said:

Paper is even more friendly to well everything. If people used logic, would go back to paper rather than the pathetic excuses for bags ever.

Oh is that right ?

I think someone needs to do a tad more research.....according to the stuff I've seen.

why? The current ones rip when you put more than a bag of crisps in them. The paper ones seem to be great.

This is from personal experience, I'm not planning on doing a research project on the pro's vs con's of micron thick plastic bags vs paper bags.