Reference:- This really is the last straw .

Reference :-  Sky News regulars Rita Panahi and Rowan Dean were horrified to discover that plastic straws are being banned for environmental reasons . 

Dear Rita and Rowan  , 

                                        What regulations will be inflicted upon us next  ?  I was fascinated to hear from you that Australian drinking straws are not the main source of the plastic that currently chokes the life out of various creatures down on the lower branches of the tree of life .  I reckon if some phyla flopping about in the briny deep can't tell the difference between plastic and their vittles they deserve to become extinct . 

Many thanks for conveying this essential information , the other news services are always wasting our time reporting on the economy and other irrelevancies .  Although , I must admit that I used to quite enjoy the old fashioned paper straws with the barber pole pattern ... something about the texture was more appealing than plastic . 

Anyway , must fly .  I have to dispose of the dirty oil from servicing the ute .   These days they insist that I don't pour it down the drain , which is ridiculous  . Everybody knows that almost all of the oil fouling  the oceans doesn't come from the sump of my 1968 Holden ute , so why all the fuss? 

 Your comrade , Ken