My public health warning to the world.

[Rain Man]

I was thinking about this today.

I had a Coke, and as you know, the bottle is sealed. I finished my liquid poison and started to throw it away. As a neat person, I put the lid back on, and then gasped with alarm as I understood the implications.

I present to you the following facts:

1. Plastic soda and water bottles degrade very slowly over thousands of years.
2. The lids on these bottles seal tightly.
3. If you put the lid on before throwing it away, you essentially seal air into the bottle.
4. The earth is a closed system.

If you put all of these pieces together, the truth becomes evident. If you put the lid on your soda bottle before throwing it away, you seal away some air into a container that won't degrade for thousands of years. In essence, you're removing air from the environment.

If we keep doing this, we will all eventually die of suffocation as all of the atmosphere ends up in landfills inside sealed soda bottles and water bottles. It's just a matter of time.

So when you throw your bottle away, don't put the lid on it or we'll all die. Or I guess you could recycle it.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Bob Dole

Our city recycling program explicitly requires plastic bottles to have the lids removed.

Bob Dole now knows why.

Ours used to require them to be off as well, but a while back they decided it was ok to leave them on. And now I know why...those one who sucks the peniss are using the bottles to hoard air.

[MahiMike]

I hate the offseason.

[sd4chiefs]

'I was thinking about this today.'

Thinking is bad for your health.

[Easy 6]

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-li...ive-chef/n9695

[eDave]

Originally Posted by MahiMike

I hate the offseason.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I was thinking about this today.

I had a Coke, and as you know, the bottle is sealed. I finished my liquid poison and started to throw it away. As a neat person, I put the lid back on, and then gasped with alarm as I understood the implications.

I present to you the following facts:

1. Plastic soda and water bottles degrade very slowly over thousands of years.
2. The lids on these bottles seal tightly.
3. If you put the lid on before throwing it away, you essentially seal air into the bottle.
4. The earth is a closed system.

If you put all of these pieces together, the truth becomes evident. If you put the lid on your soda bottle before throwing it away, you seal away some air into a container that won't degrade for thousands of years. In essence, you're removing air from the environment.

If we keep doing this, we will all eventually die of suffocation as all of the atmosphere ends up in landfills inside sealed soda bottles and water bottles. It's just a matter of time.

So when you throw your bottle away, don't put the lid on it or we'll all die. Or I guess you could recycle it.

Awesome.

Do you mind if I steal this for my fb status??

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

Awesome.

Do you mind if I steal this for my fb status??

I would be delighted, as long as you express appropriate concern and ask others to share it.

[AndChiefs]

Actually, when garbage arrives at the landfill it is crushed by a large machine called a compactor. This is after it is compacted in the truck on the way there.

The vast, vast majority will have enough pressure on them to flatten and pop the cap off.

Breathe easy, fellas.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by AndChiefs

Actually, when garbage arrives at the landfill it is crushed by a large machine called a compactor. This is after it is compacted in the truck on the way there.

The vast, vast majority will have enough pressure on them to flatten and pop the cap off.

Breathe easy, fellas.

Vast majority? So you're saying that this process may slow down our eventual asphyxiation, but it won't stop it.

[ROYC75]

Originally Posted by AndChiefs

Actually, when garbage arrives at the landfill it is crushed by a large machine called a compactor. This is after it is compacted in the truck on the way there.

The vast, vast majority will have enough pressure on them to flatten and pop the cap off.

Breathe easy, fellas.

Those poor people buried alive in the landfills, I had hope for them after Rain Man's findings.

[AndChiefs]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Vast majority? So you're saying that this process may slow down our eventual asphyxiation, but it won't stop it.

Will slow down. And the reason I said vast majority is because nothing is 100%...but...you can be very certain it's well into 99.99999999% territory. Well die from something else much sooner.

[AndChiefs]

Originally Posted by ROYC75

Those poor people buried alive in the landfills, I had hope for them after Rain Man's findings.

Well you can at least rest easy knowing that they died quickly and didn't suffer.

[AndChiefs]

Originally Posted by AndChiefs

Well you can at least rest easy knowing that they died quickly and didn't suffer.

Well, died quickly at least. They suffered a lot.

[RobBlake]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Vast majority? So you're saying that this process may slow down our eventual asphyxiation, but it won't stop it.

are we losing trees at the same rate we are recycling closed bottles or something?

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

I've been having trouble breathing lately. I was going to go to the doctor , but now I see I would be wasting my time. I will visit with the county landfill instead.