h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Traveller in Time trying to keep his nest free of littering bags
"I have never managed to get a refund of any kind for using my own bag. It is even so most shops do not like it if you use bags with another logo printed on them. And you have to repeat several times you have your own bag, even showing your bag does not persuade them.

I also would like to introduce the plastic compostable bag! Three times the cost of the thick bags, water proof, and my own tests prove it does turn into compost.

Another 'new' bag is the isolation bag, the tough thick bag with an inner lining of metalised foil. This one keeps your deepfrost products cold enough to get home in an hour.

Somewhere on the edge of 'plastic bags' we see plastic bags with the size of so called 'Big Shopper' bags. These have rectangular cardboard/plastic bottom inlay, and are meant to be used some hundred times. By that time the woven plastic material is wearing off. I have not seen these as give away with purchase, but they are cheap."

When I've been to sainsburys and had my own bag, the cashier has usually noticed me making a fuss over getting my own plastic bag out. once the cashier has put all the food through, they will usually ask me how many bags i've used and knock off a couple of pence off the bill.

I'm not sure about other stores bags though

I think i've seen the deepfrost bags in morrisons too, but for hot food, like cooked chicken thats going round on the rotisserie thingmejiggymebob

Traveller in Time on is head
"I guess this Sainsburys is some kind of food store, according to < A1003997 >. The policy used there come close to my experience however.

Hey, I like the topic, I can read it in one go, it is a good entry. I have seen the entry emerge in sp<./>info</.>il in December but I never manage to visit the peer pool.

And indeed the deepfrost bag can be used to carry hot items home. I guess those will not have snowflakes printed on the outside."

no snowflakes, nope!

Thanks, I just got an email today saying that it had been approved

Traveller in Time on his head
"That is where I found the link today.

On general I either read entries before they are send to peer review, or after they have left the queueings.

One other silly question: what is a penny? "

Well, sometimes a penny is a pee, which can be green in whichever case the pee is thought to be, other times a penny can be a copper, and a copper is either a penny or a bloke with a truncheon, other times a penny is a person who goes by that name and most times i don't make much sense





a penny is a 1 pence coin

Traveller in Time on his head
"I prefer the first.
It seems like fun not to pay
'a bloke with a truncheon'.

Would a small amount of money cover the real thing? As like in ?"

I think would cover it

On the day of decimalisation in 1971 the GB pound was exactly $2.40. As the old GB pound had 240 pennies in it that was the last day that 1 cent = 1 penny.

Just a little lower and to the right.

oh

The other one was minotaur poo.