Friday, 4 April 2014

Less or fewer?

Having praised Starbucks recently, I now have to offer a minor brickbat:

On their napkins here in Blighty they have this massage printed:

Less napkins. More plants. More planet.

Apart from the obvious bollocks that this message contains, given that the napkins are made in Netherlands and shipped here and then trucked all around the UK, it's fewer napkins dimwits! You are not saving the planet by recycling old newspaper (which uses a vast amount of power, I know this to be a fact) and then shipping it all over the world. In fact, don't print anything on the napkins at all, that would be better!

Fewer means not so many, less means not so much!


I know that Merkins would not necessarily know this, but hells bloody teeth it makes me mad!

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