I never used to go around with a water bottle, let alone, grab a cup of coffee

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every time I went out.
what is it with people having to be constantly Slurping!

the world cannot cope with all the rubbish this causes.

Its on a par with wearing sun glasses

So we're not allowed to wear sunglasses either now?? God I envy people who have so little to worry about in life that they can actually be bothered to be pissed off about someone else not wanting the sun in their eyes.

By the same token when I was growing up in the 60s no one ever wore sunblock - does that mean we shouldn’t wear it now?

My brother was regularly caned at school - does that mean it’s ok for 21st century teachers to assault children for doing badly in a spelling test?

My mum smoked throughout her pregnancy as her GP said it would calm her nerves ( thank god she turned down his offer of thalidomide for morning sickness) - should all modern mums to be start smoking?

Just because something is a new trend doesn’t mean it’s worse than the old ways

It does if it pollutes our planet Loon

It seems that most of the 20 something’s who I interview at work come in with a coffee cup attachment! I just don’t get it.

My DD is very eco conscious and carries a reusable coffee cup. Although most places are happy to fill it , some places won’t rinse it out after a previous use (snotty Ivan in Pret on The Strand, I mean you) meaning she can only use it once a day.

I only drink decaf and prefer fat free milk - most independents don’t offer those choices so I stick to the big chains.

Is she unable to wash up herself then????

If she’s walking around from place to place where would she wash up?

I presume she uses a toilet. They have sinks in them. How many takeaway coffees is she drinking in a day?

🤣 lovely

Laughing at the idea.that molly coddle never has two mins to spare to rinse out a coffee cup in a country where every public toilet has a sink, and is.clearly going from London office to London office which will all have kitchens. And free coffee...

the sunscreen usage is due to the ozone layer.
the coffee usage, meh, because people Like it supposedly

people ridiculing the status symbol thing aren’t getting it. It’s not the coffee itself that is a status symbol (after all, as others have pointed out, you can get it from a petrol station; it’s usually more expensive to sit down in an independent place for a decent coffee in a proper cup; the coffee is NICER in a proper cup rather than the paper plastic ones which taint the flavour of the coffee)

So, clearly seeing someone drink a Costa on the go does not scream that that person has money (although someone I know does do this nearly every time she goes out then complains she is skint). It’s the people who we know for a fact rush around with a takeaway coffee for effect, to try and signal to people how busy they Are. Peoplewe actually know in real life whose lives are not actually at all busy compared to say, a nurse on A and E who has children and elderly parents to see to after work. No cleaner.

So, the ones who turn up in gym gear clutching a coffee on the school run and then complain later they’ve had such a busy day. Usually in immaculate makeup and with perfect hair. No actual job to go to, one kid at school, other dropped at morning pre-school, person concerned has been ever so busy at an hour’s gym class, then a supermarket shop and a quick trip to the park with the dog and that’s it for the whole day.

If it were people who were genuinely really busy the whole day I can understand it, but it does seem to be the people who aren’t who try and protest the most about it.

People have enough imagination to know that a lot of people ARE busy and a takeaway coffee is a necessity. Life shouldn’t be like that. But people who aren’t as busy as others shouldn’t have to feel they need to LOOK busy and rushed either. It must be lovely to have the time to sit in a coffee shop with a friend for half an hour after the school run. Or even a decent coffee in someone’s house. Why just not enjoy the fact you can do that instead of pretending you don’t have the time?

Most people don’t spend their lives worrying what insecure busy bodies think of them

Ew. I would not be washing my cup on public toilets. I can barely bear to use them for the intended purposes tbh.

Caprisun: this is a chat forum. By your way of thinking we are ALL busybodies.

What I don't quite understand is all the sudden angst about single use coffee cups/plastic in general. I obviously don't know much about the lifestyle of people on this thread, but in my social circle I find it amusing that it seems to be that the ones carrying a reusable cup are most likely to be the ones who use disposable nappies, change their car every couple of years, fly long haul regularly etc. Coffee drinking is small beer compared to the environmental impact of all these things.

It's really not unreasonable to ask a coffee shop to rinse your cup. They have that press down hot water machine, literally takes 3 seconds.

Makes much for the coffee shop to do rather than someone going to the loo do it. And the loos in coffee shops often have queues.

It makes sense from a goodwill and customer service perspective too.

People saying other things are environmentally damaging are totally missing the point. It's about making changes one thing at a time. Using re-usable bottles and cups are an easy win. Why not do it?

Because of this growing consciousness, companies are investing in new ways to package food (I.e. In recyclable carton rather than plastic).

But companies will only do this is they see that consumers want to see change.

The people clinging to their daily single use plastic bottles and coffee cups are helping nobody in that regard.

My mum can't understand this 'silly modern need to drink water all the time' and survives on a glass of juice in the morning, a couple of cups of coffee and a glass of something alcoholic in the evening.

Yet she has spent years complaining about constant headaches, cystitis and constipation.

I have always drunk plenty of fluids and funnily enough don't suffer from any of those.

Anitgon You can't do that for every customer though. They fill those machines then use them to clean a load of cups. Also really bad form to publicly name a person and where her works. If that's the company policy , that is really not nice Loon

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Of course they can, it's just hot water. Why can't they?

Really? Just hot water multiplied by how many customers, how many stores, how many gallons?

Well they do save that 3 pence on a cup so it's no difference. Just put bit of hot water in to rinse.

I offered a very elderly lady in my care a glass of water, Water is for the poor she said, she wanted squash