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Comments about cupsThere are 39 comments about "cups"
Helen Salmon: I'm on holiday next week and I'm planning on visiting Irlam and Cadishead whilst I'm off to do a bit of Ancestry hunting (trailing St John's Church Graveyard!) I'm going to take my camera with...... TiffT: Ha Ha! Oh so true...if you hear some of the local myths about Tim's you'll hear everything from tobacco in the paper lining of the cup to vanilla in the grounds to bolster addiction. I...... Sirhcbre: Coffee places should offer a discount to people who bring their own cups. I see empty coffee cups all over the place all the time!... EvilGentleman: Or perhaps it is the vile habit of coffee-drinking that is to blame. As you can see in these (unfortunately fuzzy due to my imperfect camera) pictures, there are at least two coffee cups each...... ENVIRO-mental shoes: Our company has just designed a shoe that we help solve this problem. This Canadian based company "ENVIRO-mental shoes" are releasing a entry line of shoes made from used disposable coffee cups and other recycled...... Cocosins: Anyway, Is people did put the cups in the garbage there would still be a lot of garbage in the landfill sites! So if Tims made the cups recyclable there won't be as much of...... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Times Square always makes me feel like on on 20 cups of coffee. Sensory overload.... chiamattt: there is a phone vending machine at work! I have only ever seen a couple of them. I think they must have been popular in the days when delivery drivers didn't have handphones to call...... Marc: look at that guy in the first picture, calmly looking at the street, oblivious to the evils of the empty paper coffee cups rolling around behind him.... Chris Erb: I think I've probably drank a total of 3 cups of coffee in my life. Never at Tims.... Chris Erb: The ultimate solution would be for everyone to carry a reuable coffee mug with a cover on it. There would be no litter, garbage or complicated recycling processes. It would also save a...... EvilGentleman: Hmmm, I suspect that the cups **could** become recyclable if they were processed in a way that heated them up to melt off the wax coating first. There may be a new industry here, just...... Chris Erb: I agree, the vast majority of us are slobs. I don't understand it, it's not hard to hold onto a cup for a few minutes until you get to a garbage can, or, if...... EvilGentleman: Firstly, I see someone has already "Rrrrrrolled up the rrrrrrrim" on the pictured cup.
Secondly, I must admit I miss New Brunswick. I have not seen it since 1989, and have not lived there since 1980....... Chris Erb: Every Canadian knows this sight well! Tim Horton cups are everywhere! I remember when I was a kid, I was walking downtown from School (in Sussex, not Fredericton) and along the way I...... zag: cornstarch works really well instead of flour - it's completely clear and sticks reeaaall well (especially if you follow fray's suggestion and add some sugar when you're cooking it all up). i usually start out...... EvilGentleman: As far as I can recall from my weather observer training, ACSL (altocumulus staing lenticular) are the result of high winds aloft, and can be formed by wind passing over mountains, but they can be...... E. Lagasse: 2 ducks
2 whole oranges
1 c. orange marmalade
1/2 c. vinegar
3 tbsp. cornstarch
2 c. duck bouillon
Remove all fat from duck including small glands at base of neck. Wash inside and out. Place neck, gizzard and heart in...... EvilGentleman: Hmmm, I stand corrected. I just did a wiki search on Woolworth's, and was surprised to learn that Woolco Canada was bought out by Wal-Mart in 1994. I had thought it was earlier. I guess...... cynic: Fined for smoking outside is a bit bent, even if it is TTC property. People smoke, inside or outside, because there are addicts: an addiction, like gambling, that the gov't has encouraged one way...... Tyfoid Kid: Yeah it's got wheels but they're made to roll over nice kitchen tile, not sand and rough asphalt. I figured out that it's one of those things that holds those plastic trays full of cups...... Cameo: It was a pop-can in the water, near the plastic bag, next to that strange thing coiled with rope. Half of the nest was made up of pieces of newspaper, Tim Hortons coffee cups,...... S: Better check that cup. It might be a winner!. I actually won a free coffee this morning for the first time (after buying at least 30 coffees). Has anybody been following the...... jeeff: today during the 10 minute walk home from the grocery store i counted tim hortons cups that i saw on the ground. i saw 13. there is no tim hortons in the neighbourhood....... jeeff: ##"A study done in Nova Scotia in 1998 showed that Tim Hortons disposable coffee cups made up more than 20 per cent of the province's litter."##
[[http://www.cbc.ca/ns/story/ns-hortons-trash20050302.html]]... jack: i like this catherine, i must have drank at least three cups of java per dien per 7 days per week per 12 months per annum per two decades. thats 21,900 cups of coffee,...... GB: I beg pardon from kroko, the queen sits on her arse all day. I don't think that is quite true. Although her preorgative powers have been eroded over a few centuries, the queen in fact...... show respect - trash has its place : Timmy's has to add a surcharge onto each coffee to help pay for clean-up of all the cups littering the roadside.
Their drive thrus don't work well for cyclists as well... the new guy: I just moved to Toronto this past fall. I have lived in Vancouver, a small college town in the U.S. midwest (Iowa City, IA) and most recently, Edmonton. Having only ever visited Toronto...... Sabbath: Was'nt this a hamburger pattie. Its not like its tim horton cups. Let the animals have a snack also. Remember feeding the birds at Macdonalds, we...... ALEX T.O.: I agree wholeheartedly with Leah's response. ALthough she claims her response was instinctual it was the correct response at the time. The fact that it was documented serves to expose the cowardly behaviour of...... Thornhill Mom: I can not beleive what I have Read. This has really gone to far. The Driver was wrong...how many points is it for throwing food out your window? Why on earth would anyone throw coffee...... Greg: In the Toronto Star on the next page after the pictures and article of this incident is an article about global warming and the warnings of scientists around the world about the catastrophes that will...... innercitykittie: very dramatic action. couple comments.
1. I keep reading he threw coffee, but don't see coffee or cups in the photos as he is coming around the back of his van. Is this true? Where are...... Jonesitis: Clearly this is not a case of motorist vs. cyclist. It is a prime example of urban vs. suburban lifestyle. In suburbia, it is OK to disrespect the envinronment, and people you don't...... Keep it clean: Way to Go Leah
If more people did what you did the streets would be much cleaner.
Look how many assholes toss Timmies cups out the window at off ramp lights.
That guy's a coward either way...... JJ speaks of these realities: Peace is a dirty word
It used to be a painted bird
War is a whore, don't you know we love her more and more.
Killers
The paper's merciless in reminding us
who shares the planet with our avengegeness.
They frighten...... BZZZP: it's also a mixture of bare bulbs and bulbs-in-flimsy-cups... with tinsel
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detail from another pic... Laura : Haha- this one too. I love the little paper triangle cups that the water comes in. They then put them in little metal cup holders. It's great. The prices aren't vintage, though :( ...
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