San Francisco banning straws, banning free lunch, banning thought

San Francisco is having a phenomenal week. They've banned plastic straws to save the world from total annihilation and now they're banning free lunches to save restaurants.

It would be funny if it wasn't true.

President Trump referred to certain foreign countries as "S**t-holes. He was wrong to use that term but he certainly would be accurate if he referred to San Francisco as such.

While the city is concerned about the use of plastic straws destroying the environment, (one town is fining restaurant servers $1,000 or 6 months in jail for providing a straw and the same fine for every straw thereafter to a customer) they don't seem to care about the homelessness problem and the environment that is being ruined by the depositing of human feces and garbage by this population on the streets of their town.

The straw ban also prevents vendors from using takeout containers made with fluorinated chemicals while also preventing people with debilitating oral problems from drinking or eating liquified food. Screw 'em!

"The legislation prohibits eateries from using plastic anti-splashers, stirrers and other plastic items that environmentalists say are too small to be recycled properly," Newsmax reported. "Retailers would no longer be able to sell the items starting July 2019. In addition, food and drink vendors would be allowed to dispense cutlery, napkins, condiments and lids only on request or through self-service stations."

Feces on the streets, however, will remain intact.

"It's a movement not just happening in San Francisco but nationally and internationally," said Peter Gallotta, a moron who works for the city's Department of Environment. "The larger elephant in the room," he said, trying to sound original, "is the single-use disposable culture [how redundant] we find ourselves in, and straws are the epitome of this unnecessary daily waste."

The city will probably soon consider the banning of disposable diapers if this nonsense continues.

The statistic often cited that suggests Americans use 500 million straws per day is not only crazy, it's based on the research of a 9-year-old. With only about 300 million people living in the USA, everyone would have to use more than one straw per day on average.

As far as all plastic waste being dumped into the ocean, five countries are responsible: China, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, according to a study by Ocean Conservancy and McKinsey. The United States ships much of our waste plastic to China for recycling and they reportedly dump it in the ocean.

But the nanny state isn't finished with merely a straw problem, man, they're upset with companies that provide their employees with free lunches. It's hurting the businesses of neighborhood eateries and they're complaining and might get their way.

It's possible that companies that provide free lunch want their employees happy and maybe not have to go out onto the streets where they then have to walk looking down to avoid human excrement. Plus, it would probably destroy their appetites anyway.

Straws are not the problem in San Francisco. According to Yahoo News, the city hands out an estimated 400,000 drug syringes every month to reduce HIV among drug users, they say, and out of that number, 245,000 syringes get properly discarded in the city's 13 syringe access and disposal sites. But the remaining 155,000 end up on the streets, sidewalks and parks, making the straw problem a non-issue.

The city spends about $30 million a year to clean human feces and syringes off the sidewalks, according to NBC News.

Now who in the world would want to walk the streets to go to lunch when they can stay at work and get it for free?

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