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She's really cute. But I feel uncomfortable around women whose last names I have no idea how to pronounce. Is it "ing"? Or do I have to do some weird thing with the back of my throat?
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I have to wonder at the practicality of storing any liquid in a bag. I mean it's bound to roll off the shelf, no? Or do Canadian fridges come with little hooks to hang the bags? The mind boggles.
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Given the title, I'm stunned that Pensive hasn't posted anything in here yet.
Milk in bags just seems weird to me. But then those little square cartons freaked me out for awhile. I'd be worried about something sharp piercing the bag and it dribbling all over the place. So in the picture she's holding a pitcher. Is the idea, that you buy the bag and get it home and then cut it open and pour it into one of those, or do you keep it in the fridge in the bag? Keep it in the bag in the pitcher? Anyway, Canadians are weird.
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Yes, you keep the bag in a pitcher. You can buy them at the grocery store right with the milk. Here, we have the option of 1L or 2L cartons, 2L jugs, and the bags. They come 3 in a bigger bag. In my family we used to store the milk bags in one of the fridge's crisper drawers before they were opened and put in the pitcher. To be honest, I'm not quite sure why we made the switch from bags to cartons... might have something to do with a drop in milk intake. *shrug*
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*shrug* As the article points out the technology originated in Europe, the UK is switching, and its already in use in China and India. Thus, I think that there are more milk bag users than milk jug users.
I'm kinda surprised that this is an issue.
Also, there are multiple different pronunciations and Romanizations that lead to and from Ng. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng You'd probably have to find out what language the name was Romanized from. There is a decent chance that that the sound is one that European languages lack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velar_nasal
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Ng is pronounced as "ing". This is a Chinese name.
Nguyen is pronounced as "nuyen", AFAIK. This is a Vietnamese name so the pronounciation is different.
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quote:Originally posted by bX: Given the title, I'm stunned that Pensive hasn't posted anything in here yet.
Milk in bags just seems weird to me. But then those little square cartons freaked me out for awhile. I'd be worried about something sharp piercing the bag and it dribbling all over the place. So in the picture she's holding a pitcher. Is the idea, that you buy the bag and get it home and then cut it open and pour it into one of those, or do you keep it in the fridge in the bag? Keep it in the bag in the pitcher? Anyway, Canadians are weird.
Yes we are. I hope I passed on some of my weirdness to you when I was in SJ back in 2008.
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quote:*shrug* As the article points out the technology originated in Europe, the UK is switching, and its already in use in China and India.
We are are we? News to me mate. Since this is for some reason a point for discussion, over here we just have the bog standard cartons and the 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6 litre screw-top plastic bottles. I think the milkmen still use the old returnable 1pt glass bottles with the foil caps. We had those when I was just a lad, but the local dairy got a little unreliable and a lot more expensive so we switched to the supermarket variety.
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All I've seen here in the UK is the same as Rev, 90% plastic screwtop bottles and a few of those cartons. Bag of milk is just plain weird, it's like they're deliberately looking for a transport method that is entirely unsuited to the task. Not that I drink milk anyway. Cow secretions? Bleugh!
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quote:Originally posted by bX: Given the title, I'm stunned that Pensive hasn't posted anything in here yet.
there's a word... for this.. uh... straws...
like trying to pleasure your GF, not with your tongue but a straw.... a 4 mile long straw... that's like the intraweb in the middle of some big sea... my computer hooked up to a 4 mile long straw....
what was the subject matter again? clearly it's not about fun bags :/
quote:Originally posted by Reverend: We are are we?
*shrug* It's in the article. Maybe they screwed up their research?
quote: The U.K. is in the midst of a painful switch to bags, driven by complaints that Britons refuse to recycle jugs. When they first appeared a couple of years ago, the Daily Mail sounded the alarm: “End of the milk bottle? Supermarket begins selling milk in a BAG.”
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Don't believe everything you read, especially if it cites the Daily Mail.
As for refusing to recycle. We really don't have much of a choice. I think in some areas local councils have started fining people if they don't put out their recycling bins. If I recall some were even supposed have tracking devices. It's all getting a bit Orwellian down here.
I have half a mind to move up to Scotland. You're still governed by a parliament full of Scots, but I gather that particular lot of jocks actually have half a clue what they're doing.
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I'm not sure what to make of the last two lines of the article. First, what is a "ketchup chip"? How can you make a chip out of a liquid? And second, what do they think Americans would find weird about pickle chips?
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