On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 6:04:17 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> Is this a metaphor?
>
> "We consume 500 million straws each day. The equivalent of 127 school buses
> filled with straws. Its disgusting. There should be children in those
> school buses, going to school, to learn, not straws."
>
> [Adrian Grenier to NY Mag / Anna Silman]
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> http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk

Mostly it's an example of people that have too much time on their hands and feel the need to express their outrage at something - it doesn't really matter what. Just any little thing will do. Hey wait a minute, doesn't that sound familiar?