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==Composting==

Are you supposed to compost or throw away tea bags? They have the little metal staple in them, so I thought they were throwaways, but there is not consensus on this issue.

I believe you can compost them.

It's debatable.  If you're really concerned, just tear the staple off and compost the rest of the bag. See Link: [http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/01/revolution_torg.php#comment-16034]

==Hats==
''moved from mainpage and linked''--[[User:05jl|Jonathan]] 17:07, 12 December 2006 (EST)

# Take off your hat indoors.
# Especially in class.
# Find a way not to be offended by those JERKS who would dare wear HATS indoors.  How dare they though, right?  Outrageous.
# Find somebody who genuinely doesn't understand WHY wearing a hat indoors is considered offensive, and explain it to them in a polite and, above all, well-reasoned manner.  Because, seriously, I don't get it.
#*It's not necessarily ''offensive,'' but it is ''courteous'' to remove hats.  It's something I picked up from military customs and courtesies (and before that, teachers; and before that, parents).  Two reasons: First, you can see a person's whole face/head better without a hat, and so personal interactions are more open and expressive without it.  Second, leaving a hat and/or jacket on indoors gives the impression that the person is about to leave the building and, presumably, the people in the building with whom they are interacting.  When I have a coat/hat on indoors and am talking to my parents, for instance, I'm liable to hear the expression, "hey, take off your coat and stay a while!"
#* Don't begrudge people who leave hats and jackets on indoors given Williamtown's near arctic climate.
#** Hey, presumably it's not subzero ''indoors.''  (Well, in most [some?] buildings.)  And baseball caps do very little to keep people warm.  Regardless, even the military makes exceptions to this courtesy for temperature, religion, etc.
#* How about receding hairlines? Do those warrant keeping the hat on? Or what about just a bad hairday? Nasty scar? Pimple? Scalped by natives?
#** The day you are scalped by natives, you will be forgiven for wearing a hat indoors or anywhere really.
#*** Anyone who is scalped is unlikely to want to wear a hat for some time...
# Especially if you are at an event at Chapin Hall, Brooks Rogers, Images, the theater, etc. I can't see the play/concert/speaker/movie through your giant ushanka or that baseball hat jauntily propped so that it adds an additional five inches to your head.