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Re: Re: Re: Re: A lesson in the naming, or not, of things...
Claiming them may be part of it, but I think mostly it's a way of creating a friendly feeling, a relationship at least in our own heart and mind with the particular beasties that interact with us, especially if they are 'regulars.'
She has been getting top grades on her papers, and I have helped edit a couple of them. Yes, I am very lucky in my kids, none of them are hellions or creeps.
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Ciel
on February 8, 2016 at 8:25 PM
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Must amend my answer. This area no longer allows plastic bags, other than to contain produce one is purchasing, which is rather self-defeating, but...it's paper bags for a fee, or bring-your-own around here now! 
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Sea_Gypsy
on February 7, 2016 at 1:07 PM
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Re: Re: Re: A lesson in the naming, or not, of things...
Well Ciel we sometimes name the birds that come to the bird table. I suppose it is psychologically trying to claim them as our own. Hope she gets a pass. You are on the way to seeing your children become famous as you once forecast. I can't think how to spell,( proffyside).
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C_C_T
on February 7, 2016 at 11:19 AM
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Re: Re: A lesson in the naming, or not, of things...
Marika just wrote a paper for her masters course in anthrozoology, about the reasons for naming, or not naming animals. She mentioned ownership and creating relationship, where we don't want to be objective.
posted by
Ciel
on February 7, 2016 at 8:48 AM
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Re: Unique and good, C C T!
Yes no one likes to rescue the unwanted Kat. Some might use them as doggy bags.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 7, 2016 at 6:34 AM
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Re:Nautikos
I don't wany to be drummed out of Bloggit's Poetry Society. Naut.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 7, 2016 at 6:32 AM
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Re: Lanetree
Well they might be an antique one day.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 7, 2016 at 6:29 AM
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Good thinking FS . One day the sea will be swimming with plastic.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 7, 2016 at 6:28 AM
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Re: A lesson in the naming, or not, of things...
I think we like to name things Ciel or give them an identity. Perhaps ownership is a small feeling of happiness.
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C_C_T
on February 7, 2016 at 4:11 AM
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Re:RPresta
Well what has happened here RP. is, the shops are now forced to charge a small sum for each bag, to discourage the eventual build up of plastic in the refuse tips. Not everyone bothered to recycle when bags were free. Now one sees shoppers with a miscellaneous
collection being used, usually for transport to cars.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 7, 2016 at 4:09 AM
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I like a fresh, clean one for each shop. I then recycle them. 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on February 6, 2016 at 4:51 PM
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A lesson in the naming, or not, of things...
posted by
Ciel
on February 6, 2016 at 3:15 PM
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I myself use the reusable kind. It's nice because I know that I am saving the environment, and they are designed to hold more than plastic bags.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on February 6, 2016 at 2:49 PM
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I save them
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Lanetay
on February 6, 2016 at 1:20 PM
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CCT
Keats has an 'Ode to a Grecian Urn' - there is no reason why you can't have an 'Ode to a Plastic Shopping Bag'...
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Nautikos
on February 6, 2016 at 1:08 PM
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Unique and good, C C T!
I wonder about the ones I sometimes see that are discarded outside and manage to blow away, only to have the freedom of their retirement poked and ensnared by a grabby tree branch; then there they breathe and sigh restlessly and I muse, probably most unhappily..
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Katray2
on February 6, 2016 at 11:01 AM
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