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Conservatives want to bring back the smoking rooms in Tim Hortons ultimately, and fuck the planet.
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Woke.. uh.. lids?
this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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And why are they eating the lids?
Conservatives.
Because they pair very nicely with a plate of crayons.
Conservatives deeply fear change.
Status quo is their god.
From the blogto article linked by op:
He says that "After a couple of sips, it became soggy and started to stain. Thereafter, I could taste a few small lid pieces in the drink, which was like 'yuck.'"
Yep sounds like terrible design and Tim's cheapen out in the material. I've had non plastic caps that were much better than that.
You know what would bring us back to the good old days? A real ceramic mug you can use to sit down, drink it slowly and enjoy. But I haven't been to a Tim's in a while where the server would ask if I wanted a mug or to go. Maybe the lady would call that woke too?
I don't believe that story about the lid for a second
Honestly I'm really not surprised. Tim is known for choosing the lowest bidder.
So, capitalism?
I do, everything at Tim's is garbage, why would their lids be any different?
Every Tim Horton's around here will give you a ceramic mug if you ask for it to stay, but the default is to go.
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There are a lot of reasons to not bother going to Tim Horton's, and the lids on their cups is not one of them.
I have only gone in in the last three years because a sweet person gave me a gift card, and hey free lunch. It was gross.
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they should be called regressives
What do conservatives even want? Like just to set everything back centuries is all I can see. I've never seen one of them create or improve anything.
They want the power fantasy of everyone having to listen to them while never having to listen to anybody else
Yup, to them freedom is both unlimited freedom to and freedom from, only for them. They never took a philosophy class to understand the contradiction (presumably because thinking too hard is woke?).
Conservative politicians want to be elected. And the way they want to do this is by stoking meaningless (and mean) culture war issues to keep their base a)angry and b) not focused on economic inequality caused by their donors.
To the Conservative mindset everything is a zero sum game.
Give rights to minorities, that’s taking rights away from white men.
Give restaurant patrons the right to dine in a smoke free environment, that’s taking away the rights of smokers
Increase the minimum wage, that’s devaluing the wages of everyone else
Probably the most telling in a US context is Medicare for all. Free health care devalues their paid healthcare. I mean healthcare is healthcare (sure some doctors are better than others) the only reason someone would be upset that other people could be entitled to the same healthcare as them, whilst costing themselves less, is because these people think they are more deserving of healthcare than other people.
Not centuries. It's more like they want to live inside a sitcom from the mid-20th century, where everyone is white and middle-class and living in a "traditional" male-led nuclear family that occupies a house in the suburbs, and pollution and its ilk aren't even worthy of mention.
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They should be called narcissists, because their "conservative" beliefs shift to occupy precisely the space where they happen to live. If they personally benefit from the status quo, then they must defend the tradition. If they benefit from change, then it is a moral imperative that the world conform to their point of view. A rational person might call that hypocrisy, but it's not really anything more than selfishness.
The Regressive Cutservices Party.
As a filthy American, it’s sad to see standard-issue republiQan Southern Red State rhetoric in Canada. You guys deserve better.
Well we did have the trucker convoy here. A great many people who live in small towns or the northern parts of the country hate Trudeau. I am not a fan either but that's because I think he should be much more left and do a lot more for us,rather than being a craven centrist. But all Liberals (that's capital L Liberal) are. But conservatives here HATE him on a personal level and drive around with Fuck Trudeau flags on their obnoxious trucks.
We like our socialized medicine and services here, even conservatives, but that doesn't make them any less obnoxious.
Well that’s the danger - the conservatives here went full mask-off racist poor-haters which wasn’t as much of a surprise as their unbelievable lack of belief in anything.
No ideology, values, or any other mechanism holds them - not even science, which they pretend to believe in, when it suits them. The so-called ‘adults’ in the party have succumbed utterly to the cult. There are no rational leaders, only figureheads and capos.
It’s shameful and beyond pathetic, and I’d like to think Canada would never fall to such insanity, but the mechanism by which it was carried out (facebook, twitter, Qanon, convoys, right-wing news) are all the same. More power to you progressive Canadians. Hopefully you can weather it.
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I've been saying for a long time that as a Canadian, you can predict the future. Just look across the border, and what you see down there will be arriving here in 10-15 years.
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When I think of Tim Hortons, I think of how I've seen the disappearance of reusable flatware and cutlery from such a large proportion of eating establishments, and the normalization of eating-in with exclusively single-use disposable stuff (usually plastic), in about two decades. Future generations will thank us /s. But it's those effing 'woke lids' that are the real problem /s. Also, who cares about Tim Hortons if you don't like it; it's not even Canadian. Do conservative voters just need a daily dose of misplaced resentment and rage to keep them going?
Why are they even putting the lids in their mouth to dissolve?
Paper straws do suck though.
Paper straws do suck though.
I'm in Toronto, and I believe the city has banned plastic straws. I think plastic straw bans tend to be harmfully distracting from the larger issues. (To be clear, I think we have a massive plastic pollution problem.)
I was in a Hawaiian cocktail bar in Toronto recently, where the drinks are made to be drunk with straws and half of the people at the table asked for a second straw halfway through their drinks as the paper straws had stopped working well
We should be selling and marketing bring-your-own reusable plastic straws, with a small washable traveling case and a cleaning brush, maybe 4-packs
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That’s a joke, making fun of the person saying it was better before
Also Tim’s is a burger place so I am not sure why people are shocked that they bring in food
I thought that person was just the run of the mill social media idiot until I saw her name on an anti abortion list.
Crazy politics has gotten so bad in Canada people will vote to pay this person 210k a year.
What's up with people misspelling "return" with a v?
If I were to take a guess, it’ll have to do with the conservative obsession with Ancient Rome.
Man thinking about the Roman empire clock now reset to 0 (again).
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Did I miss the introduction of paper lids somehow? I know I don't go to timmies that often, but what?
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smoking rooms are still common in Korea. they're quite nice. they are walled off so you don't have to smell it
I've seen them done well in airports. They have additional extraction and filtering. They are also kept at a negative pressure, so the smoke doesn't roll out whenever someone opens the door.
I've no issues with what people want to put into their bodies. I only take offence when others are forced to be exposed to it.
I only take offence when others are forced to be exposed to it.
People such as the staff who have to work in the smoke filled environment?
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No, this giant corporation was never "for the little guy", and bad pizza is not some elitist thing.
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That's certified Idiots on Facebook quality! Like plastic lids and smoking sections are going to save Tim Hortons' enshittification.
Indeed. What about returning to Tims being a Canadian company and serving actual freshly made donuts? And as others have said, why not bring back mugs? And maybe sell travel mugs from the counter and allow discounted refills, and do away with travel lids altogether? It’s not like those plastic single use lids were a part of the original Tim’s experience.
While we’re at it, we can close down the drive through; that’s not original Tim’s either.
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