Which to be fair that is pretty much never used nowadays, especially in the context of school arts and crafts and general purpose glues we normally interact with. It’s almost all synthetic now, not really because of animal rights or any ethical issue mind you, purely because synthetic is cheaper and can be tailored to have better properties.
I mean it’s a pretty apt analogy for what we do with animals. Stick a hen in a cage for 5 years forcing it to lay eggs, and once she’s too old just toss her in the grinder. It even happens to working dogs sometimes where they’ll get put down as soon as they’re no longer useful, despite mainstream human society genuinely considering them our friends and allies and not “merely livestock.”
It’s pretty easy to refill glue sticks if you buy the right glue. Either as pre-made inserts or buying the glue in bulk, melting it over hot water, and pouring it into empty glue sticks.
It’s very uncommon though since glue sticks are so cheap and it’s just easier to throw them out when they’re empty and buy new ones. Obviously not a good situation sustainability wise but we live in a throwaway society so it’s par for the course. As such it also tends to be more expensive than just buying a new glue stick unless you’re doing it on a sufficiently large scale.
You say, “Oh, how terrible! I guess we will just have to send him to the hospital to be refilled.” Then you put Steve on your desk and when all the kids go home, you chuck Steve in the garage and set a brand new Steve out for tomorrow.
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No he just gets replaced, like that goldfish you had when you were a kid.
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With all the horses that retired from racing.
Close. Derek was a race horse!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_glue
Which to be fair that is pretty much never used nowadays, especially in the context of school arts and crafts and general purpose glues we normally interact with. It’s almost all synthetic now, not really because of animal rights or any ethical issue mind you, purely because synthetic is cheaper and can be tailored to have better properties.
Teaching opportunity about death! And even old age when he doesn’t work as well!
“In today’s society, we use up our friends until they’re an empty husk, then throw away the carcass! Now get your crayons out.”
I mean it’s a pretty apt analogy for what we do with animals. Stick a hen in a cage for 5 years forcing it to lay eggs, and once she’s too old just toss her in the grinder. It even happens to working dogs sometimes where they’ll get put down as soon as they’re no longer useful, despite mainstream human society genuinely considering them our friends and allies and not “merely livestock.”
Hold a small ceremony to celebrate its life as you lower Derek into the proper disposal bin.
As you can see children, Derek is no longer able to provide any benefit so we throw him in the trash. Remember this.
Kids need to learn the horrors of capitalism early
You mean the “retirement home”, it’s more suitable than calling it the waste basket
Do they have refillable glue sticks?
It’s pretty easy to refill glue sticks if you buy the right glue. Either as pre-made inserts or buying the glue in bulk, melting it over hot water, and pouring it into empty glue sticks.
It’s very uncommon though since glue sticks are so cheap and it’s just easier to throw them out when they’re empty and buy new ones. Obviously not a good situation sustainability wise but we live in a throwaway society so it’s par for the course. As such it also tends to be more expensive than just buying a new glue stick unless you’re doing it on a sufficiently large scale.
You say, “Oh, how terrible! I guess we will just have to send him to the hospital to be refilled.” Then you put Steve on your desk and when all the kids go home, you chuck Steve in the garage and set a brand new Steve out for tomorrow.
Derek. Derek was the glue stick. Steve was the tortured pencil.
I’m starting to think you don’t really care. Are you even human ? Hmmm ?
emergency glue transplant from an anonymous, new-from-the-store donor without a name