{"id":24536,"date":"2011-12-14T17:20:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T00:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/in-da-bag-boss.html"},"modified":"2011-12-16T05:55:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:55:39","slug":"in-da-bag-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/in-da-bag-boss.html","title":{"rendered":"In da bag, Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We keep a dozen or so reusable shopping bags in the car, where we promptly remember them as soon as half the groceries have been bagged in plastic. <b>sigh<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon in the cartoon is at least in part because the plastic in plastic bags seems to split apart if you look at it crooked. I still prefer paper, which at least stands upright. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We own a number of reusable shopping bags.<\/p>\n<p>We are absolutely terrible at remembering to take them to the store with us. So much so that I have to wonder why the hell we bothered to buy them.<\/p>\n<p>That said, yeah, they do seem to be doing the following with the plastic bags. #seb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fimgs.xkcd.com%2Fcomics%2Fplastic_bags.png' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/xkcd.com\/990\/'>Plastic Bags<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We keep a dozen or so reusable shopping bags in the car, where we promptly remember them as soon as half the groceries have been bagged in plastic. sigh The phenomenon in the cartoon is at least in part because the plastic in plastic bags seems to split apart if you look at it crooked. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/in-da-bag-boss.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In da bag, Boss&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,63],"tags":[107,113],"class_list":["post-24536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-environment","tag-ddtb","tag-sebin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18179,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/the-majestic-plastic-bag.html","url_meta":{"origin":24536,"position":0},"title":"The Majestic Plastic Bag","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Aug-10 9:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is awesomely brilliant. 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