How many more or less everyday things do the young ‘uns not understand how to use? Guess this explains (based on lawsuits) why instructions on things like umbrellas (which really shouldn’t need instructions anyway) require things like ‘don’t eat.’
Dining halls issue reusable thermoses
In an attempt to cut back on the use of disposable containers, Stanford Dining is distributing reusable thermoses this week to all students with meal plans.
“Our objective is to have students use the thermoses instead of non-reusable cups,” said Karen Andrews, associate director of Stanford Dining, in a press release. “That will help us reduce our purchases of disposables, and thereby decrease our waste.”
Each 20 ounce thermos comes with its own carrying case and bears the slogan, “Be cool, stay hot, live green.” The thermoses can preserve the temperature of both hot and cold liquids.
According to Gaines, some students are having trouble with properly using the thermoses, leading to messy spills.
“Maybe we should attach directions or something,” Gaines said. “You’re not supposed to drink directly from the thermos; you’re supposed to pour liquid from the thermos into something else, like the cap, which is shaped like a small cup.”
Palomar Jack, why bother replying to idiots… arguing with fools is a foolishness in itself.
Don’t say anything, don’t teach’em anything, just stay aside and watch morons doing idiotic stuff and thinking they are smart/cool/green etc etc.
Thats what (usually) I do, and suggest you try it
Hey, PJ. No, that’s the whole point. I never scalded myself, or anything else, while drinking directly from the thermos. Explain to me again (Maybe you could use Thermodynamics! Make sure to include proper ratios of surface area to volume, and an acceptable range of heat transfer coefficients for the thermos and its cap.) the magic properties of this thermos lid that instantly cool the contents to a drinkable temperature.
While you’re at it, please also explain why the contents of said thermos are required to be kept at scalding temperatures. Couldn’t one also have cold drinks in a thermos? Wait. That, too, is most likely inexplicably idiotic. Who would put cold drinks in a thermos? And if one did, it would be beyond idiotic to drink them directly from the thermos. One must use the provided cup! Aye comrade, pay attention!
I just felt that the irony of you being demonstrably ignorant/stupid/careless/idiotic with your post, while marring others with a similar epithet, was a little too much to pass up. Sorry, my moist robot programming prevents it.
This crap wouldn’t happen at M.I.T.
…Or any other university where the students were accepted purely on their intelligence and not $ or who you know. (By the way, all the Physics and Chemistry or ‘Thermodynamics’ you requested…could be answered by any freshmen who has done their Phys 101 and Chem 101 requirement).