The Message is in the Tiny Detail

Sunday, June 21, 2009

More discussion on - in this case - plastic shopping bags.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/654243

And buried right there at the foot of the comments:

Page 1 of 21

Torontonians are up in arms about the use of, or the ban on, plastic shopping bags. Those flimsy plastic things that have been free for yonks, that get caught in tree branches in winter, and get ripped open by raccoons.

21 pages of comments?

The World Is Coming To An End!™

Assuming 2.48 million people live in Toronto ( http://www.toronto.ca/toronto_facts/diversity.htm ) This is one comment per 10,000 people, or thereabouts; all in the space of about 12 hours.

That’s a hefty proportion of the population who

(1) read the newspaper online

(2) lodge a comment online

(3) are of an age and language ability to do so

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