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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsStyrofoam To Spend Next 500 Years Reflecting On How Well It Protected Blender In Transport
https://local.theonion.com/styrofoam-to-spend-next-500-years-reflecting-on-how-wel-1820040759NEW YORKHaving put in 46 hours of hard work as sturdy packing material, a local block of Styrofoam is about to spend the next 500 years reflecting on how well it protected a blender in transport, sources said Wednesday. Hey, you know what, I did a pretty good job shielding that Vitamix during that three-day trip, said the polystyrene shell that will sit for five centuries in a landfill until fully decomposed, a span of time it will reportedly spend looking back on how it prevented a kitchen appliance from getting too banged up in a UPS truck during a single shipment. I got it from the warehouse to a residence two states away without a scratch, and now I think Im entitled to just kicking back and savoring my accomplishment until the year 2500 at least. The Styrofoam went on to say it was grateful to have so much time to swap stories about the shipment with the plastic sheet the blender had been wrapped in.
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Styrofoam To Spend Next 500 Years Reflecting On How Well It Protected Blender In Transport (Original Post)
geardaddy
Dec 2017
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hunter
(38,321 posts)1. The blender's useful life will be similarly short.
Nobody builds kitchen appliances to last 20 years any more, let alone 500.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,480 posts)2. dump, nutin and kim junk huh...
...are collaborating on ensuring no one will be around in 10 years.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)3. Sure they do.
You just need to buy the right brands.