So many of my current customers have sent me their things packaged in styrofoam peanuts. Now, MY HOUSE HAS BEEN OVER RUN WITH THE DAMN THINGS! They are evreywhere. Like sand at the beach. I hope I don't find them in my ass crack later

Be Kind, use bubble wrap, news papper, packing paper, anything but DAMN PEANUTS!

Just a friendly rant to lighten the mood


(When will the twitching ssssstooppp?)

Hey, send me your peanuts!!!

Hehehe.

Get your mind out of the gutter!! (oops...maybe that's my mind?)

Hey Lyressa, here is a teaser.


Look at my nuts!

Did you know that some packing peanuts are made of corn starch? They are usally the cylindrical ones that are mostly air. They are edible. So you actually have a new food source in your home. I have impressed (?) my coworkers before by eating packing peanuts. They already knew I was crazy though.

Edit - don't eat any of the ones in your picture, you might die.

They taste like shit. I have tried them.

My apologies Mike. I think the store that packaged my dash used peanuts after they wrapped everything in bubblewrap.

I do hope that my dash wasn't the one that put you over the top!

BTW - I won't be able to get the metal door tops to you until next week. Sorry.

Those things are evil. I curse everytime I get a package with them. They will mulitple. Soon they will be in your yard/driveway.

QUOTE (jkeyzer @ May 18 2005, 03:53 PM)

Did you know that some packing peanuts are made of corn starch? They are usally the cylindrical ones that are mostly air. They are edible. So you actually have a new food source in your home. I have impressed (?) my coworkers before by eating packing peanuts. They already knew I was crazy though. Edit - don't eat any of the ones in your picture, you might die.

I put a bunch of them in my composter last summer.




Turns out they were the "not cornstarch" kind. Now I have little styrofoam peanuts floating up from my gardens every time it rains.

ROFL!!! I can see this thread going to the dogs REAL quick...

Mack, no prob. Totally toung in cheek. Just wanted to give people somethng to laugh at.

But, if they are from your package then that means in the picture I am holding YOUR nuts!

I must go wash my hand now.....and look at nekkid women.

Oh ferchrisakes! When you said shipping and "handling" I had no idea.

HA!

Oh, so those aren't your nuts, their Michael's nuts...

And who says this board ain't friendly?

QUOTE

Oh, so those aren't your nuts, their Michael's nuts...

Ya, mine are less fluffy

Thanks for the good laugh guys

QUOTE (Lyressa Roberts @ May 18 2005, 01:09 PM)

ROFL!!! I can see this thread going to the dogs REAL quick...

Close! My parents have a cat that will eat those "edible" ones. Edible may be the wrong word.. I think "biodegradable" is more what they were going for. I always thought they were cellulose. It's fun to lick them and stick them to things.

As for getting rid of the polystyrene kind, get yourself a bowl half full of acetone. Work the bowl to the bottom of a box full of the suckers (without spilling it or you'll have a gooey mess), and watch them go the way of the wicked witch of the west (or is it east?).

QUOTE (bondo @ May 18 2005, 01:02 PM)

[/QUOTE] It's fun to lick them and stick them to things.

There is a joke in there somewhere

QUOTE (jkeyzer @ May 18 2005, 11:53 AM)

Did you know that some packing peanuts are made of corn starch? They are usally the cylindrical ones that are mostly air. They are edible. So you actually have a new food source in your home. I have impressed (?) my coworkers before by eating packing peanuts. They already knew I was crazy though. Edit - don't eat any of the ones in your picture, you might die.

Or worse - you might do a floater.

Some packing/shipping stores will take them and recycle them.

(serious answer)

QUOTE (bondo @ May 18 2005, 01:02 PM)

................... and watch them go the way of the wicked witch of the west (or is it east?).

I think it's west. My ex lives in California.


Andrew

You can also use them for insulation.

I save those and the packing foam from boxes (yes I know I'm cheap) to insulate the crawl space at one of the other houses.

And no thanks for the offers to send me any you have.....

The "friendly" packing 'nuts are considered biodegradeable, not edible, though I've heard that some typically high humidity areas, like Hawaii, can have some issues with the packing material shrinking during shipping, reducing the protection before the delivery is complete.

Food (or not) for thought (unlikely)

Eric

Just hope the Santa Ana winds don't start blowin nuts go every where

Then get back to work on the car....

I've eaten a few and I feel just fine.

QUOTE (Dr Evil @ May 18 2005, 01:29 PM)

QUOTE Oh, so those aren't your nuts, their Michael's nuts...   Ya, mine are less fluffy

Mmmm? Can ya bounce a quarter off of em?

Lisa

The trans that MBE packed for Redbeard and shipped to me was full of those freakin' things....when the UPS monkey dropped it on my doorstep there was a ding in the box and that stuff was leaking out.

Of course we had "Sundowner" wind conditions that day and there was a trail all the way down the freakin' street. I come driving up the hill on the way home and it's blowing snow.....WTF....followed the trail all the way to my house.

Got the battery powered DeWalt shop vac out and started hitting the street.....got enuff of them up before anyone noticed where it started from.

Next day...even more pissed...found that the ding in the box also cracked the ear off of the trans. It's been six months and I still see some of those damn kernels blowing around.

Dr.- those were the only nuts I could get in the box, the others were to big and hard to part with.
Mack

QUOTE (Dr Evil @ May 18 2005, 11:41 AM)

Like sand at the beach. I hope I don't find them in my ass crack later

Dude you just brought a memory back I would rather forget! Once when I was a kid my dad took me the exploratorium in SF. This one display you had to climb inside and feel your way through and you ended up in a huge bowl of bird seed. My dad grabbed me by the back of the pants and filled up my ass crack with the stuff! I had frickin bird seed in my crack the whole day! Thanks for the flashback.

QUOTE ("Z" @ May 18 2005, 07:22 PM)

Got the battery powered DeWalt shop vac out and started hitting the street.....got enuff of them up before anyone noticed where it started from.

Good man. Speaking as someone who lives at the downwind end of my street I thank you. I get to pick my neighbours windblown garbage out of my rhododendrons on a daily basis. I have thrown out so many cigarette pack wrappers that my wife has accused me of smoking.

(FYI we have cardboard cigarette packs in Canada, wrapped in cellophane, not the soft packs like in the USA)

Bubble wrap is more funner

virtual bubble wrap