NEWS: Drink Your Milk Kids...We'll Make It Easy For You

CULTURE: Drink Your Milk Kids...We'll Make It Easy For You

Remember those damned milk cartons you'd get during lunch in elementary school? Remember what a bitch they were to open? It seems that kids these days are going to be spared the frustration.

The wussification of school children continues.

Not only wussification, but also spoiling...

Those things were hard to open?

I never had a problem with them.

an entire generation of complete sissies.

what the shit is wrong with kids these days?
i mean, really, what the shit?

well, just remember kids, if something is hard to do, then just give up and someone will make it easier for you...

I live in west texas. We haven't had the cardboard milk cartons in our public schools in over 10 years. Instead we've had plastic pouches. That's right, square shaped plastic pouches, sealed air tight. How do you drink out of them you might ask? You stab it with a straw and suck. It looks like this wussifacation is about 10 years too late.

wussies

It's a good idea. Those square mini-cartons are a bitch to set out. The moisture from condensation makes them stick to the cardboard box, then when you peel them off, half the time they rip. They also can open slightly, and then spoil. About every 100th one was a "surprise" spoiled one.

It's not about the containers, it's about selling more milk. The carton angle is just the PR spin.

"It's about the kids, man! The fuckin' kids! We love those fuckin' kids!"

You guys are making a big deal out of milk cartons. Is opening a cardboard box really building that much character that it deserves a stink?

i used to help my friends open theirs...

first they get rid of dodge-ball, now this...its just one more thing.....

Has anyone ever seen the infomercial where they are selling a spout thing that you stab into the side of the drink carton?
The dopes they get to open the milk/OJ cartons can never get it right - they always either give up or tear the whole carton in half down the side.

If you seriously can't open a cardboard drink container at all after fussing with it for a while then you should be declared mentally handicapped on the spot and sent to the other 'special' cafeteria.

This lady, whose surname rhymes with Milk Snatcher, took the milk away from English kids.



[Edited on Dec 30, 2004 by MetaTag]

Around the same time Reagan said that ketchup fulfilled a vegetable requirement. No wonder he and Thatcher got along so well.

I think schools should not only keep the classic "carton", but should make them a test. How much are we going to be able to teach a kid who can't operate a damn milk carton? If they can't open the carton, just explain that they are failures, but lift their spirits by showing them something they are, hopefully, capable of; pushing a broom. Start 'em early, damn whipper-snappers.

"The lesson is, never try."

/Homer

i think you mean "trying is the first step tward failure"
-homer simpson

but yeah kids suck or whateaver we've decided.



[Edited on Dec 30, 2004 by katiebarthedoor]

I think that was one of the nicer things that the old wench did during her time.

"And I was THANKFUL!"

You forgot that part.

[Edited on Dec 29, 2004 by SYH]