gets into slapfights 
on Twitter over garbage 
bags
A friend of mine used to use plastic grocery bags as trash bags, which he threw out daily. Then Philadelphia banned plastic bags, and the local Target switched to providing virtually free reusable bags.
— TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) September 16, 2024
Now he uses reusable bags as trash bags, throwing them out daily.
As so many of us do here on rdrama, I follow @TracingWoodgrains for my entertainment
I also follow him on Twitter, and there's a funny discussion there.
Trace talks about his 'friend' (clearly him, dramatards don't have friends) who uses his re-usable store bags as garbage bags.
I don't do this personally because our store bags suck peepee. I just throw the store bags directly in the trash once I get home to cut out the middleman and buy more when I get there, they're like ten cents.
Now, people start taking offense. I don't know why.
Trace gets into the weeds with one of them.
It's weird seeing people get so mad over like thirty cents of bags a week or something. This is an amount of money that takes, what, an equal number of seconds to earn? If it was thirty dollars a week, sure. That's a dumb spend. But who spends time agonizing over less than a dollar per week?
Trace neurodivergentally owns this guy.
This guy is genuinely r-slurred though. Who re-orients their life over a couple of cents of plastic bags per week? 'Your friend [you] is dumb because he's spending a hundred bucks a week on McDonalds' might be a good point, 'your friend (definitely Trace) wastes twenty cents a week, what an r-slur' is !peakpoors thinking
I genuinely think these people might just be !r-slurs
'In their pack'. Now you gotta carry around a backpack to carry your 'reusable' bags? What next, should I wear cargo shorts so I can keep more bags in them and maybe wear brightly coloured velcro sneakers so I can make sure I never lose them (only an r-slur would wear nice black shoes, very easy to accidentally lose).
'Give your bags to the homeless so they can re-use them.'
Or rather 'go talk to meth-addled half-people who shit on the street so you can give away your thirty cents worth of bags or you're a monster'.
Is this some envirotard thing? Like taking your re-usable bags to the supermarket is the leftoid equivalent of communion?
This r-slur doesn't even know what re-usable bags are.
Doubles down which I can respect. Even if you're wrong don't admit it, just say the same thing louder.
But incredible stuff. I appreciate Trace saying even boring shit about his friend's life (definitely him lmao) can stir up r-slur drama on Twitter.
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daily reminder the internet is not a serious or real place
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My daily reminder is visiting this site.
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I mean that's exactly why I have foldable bags in my purse but I did notice I'm often the only trying to save the environment!
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no this is slander
rdrama special infodrop: it was my husband and every time I see we have another reusable bag in the bin it drives me bonkers
not bonkers enough to, y'know, do anything about it. but it hurts
he wouldn't let me post it to twitter until I obfuscated it a bit
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thats actually a super cute story but thank you for taking my Trace-shaped bait I knew your fact-correcting pedantry wouldn't be able to resist if you read this
!metashit Trace's husband is presumably the very attractive and forgetful one in the couple whos nerd husband runs his life with an iron fist.
its not though, having a husband is a romantic life partner and does not at all invalidate my legally binding statement 'dramatards don't have friends'
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he's actually incredibly organized and on top of basically everything except this
I'm the forgetful one whose nerd (
) husband runs his life with an iron fist tbh
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/plastic-bag-use-falls-by-more-than-98-after-charge-introduction
Sorry too break it too you, but it seems like even bongs are smarter than you're husband, and can remember too take a bag when they go shopping.
Black trans lives matter more than Target bags
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I'm with Trace, $0.08 bags are r-slurred and do nothing but extract money
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Peverse incentive maxxing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre
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You just know the reason he's going to bat so hard for his irredeemably r-slurred friend is that he has a diverse background.
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Also, can someone explain how you're suppose to tie the opening of this into a knot to throw down the garbage chute?
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Lmbo, rentoid that lives in a pod detected.
But also who cares? Building management can deal with the mess.
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How does the garbage juice not seep through everywhere?
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That's what I'm thinking. I don't go to target, but if they're made of fabric like the ones I see in most grocery stores, their asses aint holding ANY water.
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I used these for like a week as garbage bags before deciding to just throw them out so im an expert
the key is you gotta pinch the two sides of the strap together so it's basically one piece of plastic. you then tie your two plastic straps together extremely tightly to minimize (though not prevent) leakage
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You stuff it absolutely full and tie the handles across the top to hold everything in
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Complain to your landlord about getting a wider garbage chute
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It's clearly Trace? And yes, Trace is one-quarter black so he does have a diverse background.
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Isn't he Mormon? I didn't know there were black Mormons.
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There
aren't, at least they don't stay black 
for long if they're faithful.
"By righteous living, the dark-skinned races may again become white
and delightsome." 
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Yes, Trace is 1/4 Negro by ancestry but his phenotype is 100% Angloid. The reason for this is the transformative power of God during his time as a Mormon.
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Gotta be adopted or one of the kids friends.
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Mormons have recently become very accepting of black people in the last 50 years. The outreach towards non-black communities is immense.
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I thought he was Chinese
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he has distant Chinese ancestry on his mother's side but that's over twelve generations ago and I don't think means anything
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Any amount is meaningful if you can see it
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i dont see race
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The only race I see is une fΓͺte populaire
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White
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it drives me crazy but we really do have too many of those target bags bc he picks things up on the way home from work pretty regularly
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In TERF Island you used to be able to buy Bags for Life - thick strong plastic bags with a nylon handle. Think of the blue IKEA bags but smaller. They'd last for years and cost about Β£0.50. Now you only get shitty plastic bags that cost the same but barely make it home before breaking.
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When they introduced the bong tax on bags it was 5p, just enough to make people bring bags.
Then all the supermarkets realized people had no choice and jacked up the price if you failed to have your own bags
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I have literally never used grocery bags or a cart. I carry all my groceries in my arms because I'm not buying random garbage at the store.
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talking about the amount of groceries first-worlders can afford
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I can afford cheese-its and coke I just choose not to buy them
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In developed countries the bags are free
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I don't care. I don't use bags anyway
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I haven't grocery shopped in 6-7 years now. Wagies bring it to me for free anyway.
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King
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Wall-E already proved we'll have robots deal with it in the future
They make our garbage into little cute cubes and make sustainable houses out of them for robots to live in while I float around in a space cruise ship
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Wow cool I can't wait
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You guys are paying for those "reusable" plastic bags?
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Of course not. You go self checkout, take 3-4 "reusable" bags and hit "no bags" on the fricking till. You stuff them in some cupboard or nook in the fricking kitchen and use them when you need a fricking small trash bag for some reason, then throw them out.
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I get that this guy was being intentionally obtuse about the central point, which I took to be "if you implement a fine to reduce a certain behavior, the fine has to he high enough that people actually care" but after the first respone why continue to speak in parables? If someone is obviously not going to engage with your symbolism just drop it.
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Because then all the other mouth breathers will think the soy was right. Can't have that.
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His friend sounds like an r-slur but r-slurs exist in this world and policies ought to be designed with their r-sluration factored in
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His friend is r-slurred tbh. Just put them in your trunk so you don't forget them. But yeah the answer is to jack up the price of the reusable bags.
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Why not buy a roll of smol trash bags for a couple bucks?
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its the principle. safeway used to not charge me extra for garbage bags. now they do. i'm not giving them box money necause the feds made a stupid rule that created more pollution than the baseline scenario
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Did it actually create more pollution?
People who aren't r-slurred got used to having reusable bags. I have one in my work truck with me right now for catfood runs.
Single-use tshirt bags are a nuisance and my cat keeps trying to chew them, so any that get in the house get thrown out
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Okay but think about what percentage of the population is not r-slurred. Tailoring your policies to the behavior of the non-r-slur is stupendously r-slurred.
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He's not wrong lol.
Compared to a disposable trash bag, you need to use those reusable bags dozens of times for it to be less wasteful. Nobody does that.
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Are Americans that r-slurred? Can't unload a bag and put it back into the car?
!eurochads
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....do you really fricking reuse trash bags?
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No you tard. It's about normal grocery bags. They can't reuse them because they're mentally apes. They had always plastic ones and now they're forced to use normal ones like civilized people
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Oh those yeah. Been using clothes ones for years now. The price on plastic ones is now so high it would be r-slurred to not do so.
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It's called being efficient, aint nobody got time for that
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Yes
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People care about this stuff?
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I do this too but just dont go through so many bags and I use reasuable ones too to keep my shit cold
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Why di you freeze your feces
?
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reduces the smell
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how far away from the grocery store do you live?
are you a rural?
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no im a
and its like half a mile away
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half a mile is roughly, what, 300 fathoms? you can pedal at a speed of around 5 fathoms per second, so that's at most a 310 second ride, surely?
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ye but its hot in FL ice cream melts
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Snapshots:
https://x.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1835677652356636816:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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I do, r-slur. Plz castrate then off yourself asap.
It's a good show though.
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No, it isn't
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Dumb. Just use the bags from the grocery store
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Had a giggle working out in Portland.
Two old ladies walking towards the store, one remarked "shit, i forgot the bags"
Other responded "frick it, we have two hands, we can just carry the shit"
Never heard such language from the Golden Girls
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I this what kids these days call a "train"?
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