Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat The Luddite

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:54:51 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:12:35 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

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There is a /reason/ we replaced glass with plastic, at least in some
cases.

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The primary reason is shipping weight.

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But they were accepted because they were clearly safer.
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And, as others have pointed out, the glass ones had smaller volumes
than the larger plastic ones.
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And involved paying/recovering deposits. Booze did to, back when I was
so young that picking up others' bottles, draining them and washing
the barf off them, and turning them in was a way to get pocket change.
But that was long ago.
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But not milk. Those were delivered/recovered by a delivery driver on a
daily (or near-daily) basis.

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And milk delivery worked well for centuries.  It may be somewhat less convenient
(unless delivery returns) than disposable single-use plastic
jugs, but c'est la vie.

And milkmen/milk floats (vehicles) figured in many movies (/The 39
Steps/, /Kiss Me, Stupid/, /The Living Daylights/, maybe /The Longest
Day/, and at least one Steed/Peel Avengers episode. Among, no doubt,
many, many others.
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