Anyone remember how complicated life was before we developed Lid Technology?
a month ago by tetris11 to c/casualuk
Yeah I'm so used to not having to deal with the lid after opening it, so when a bottle isn't like this it's kinda like that feeling of not knowing what to do with your arms haha. What a first world problem to have.
I do prefer these captive lids though, it just seems to make sense to me, it's already going to go back on the bottle after you've taken your sip anyway.
I feel like I was just constantly going "where did I put that lid?" "Have you seen my lid?"
Can't even tell you how many times I had to snort disapprovingly at someone asking "uhh can I borrow your lid for a sec."
A whole cultural phenomenon that just vanished overnight.
Gen Alpha will grow up not understanding most of our lid-based humour in those old sitcom episodes.
Plus the "can you hold this for me?" followed by "I can't, I have both hands occupied at the moment" excuse, as you shrug helplessly with a lid in one hand and a bottle in the other
We truly are living in the future
Doesn't the Britush lid float on water on a cushion of air? TEKNAHLOGEE.
This post just made me realise I haven't been to the UK since these were introduced.
Recycling practice changes from country to country (and regions within countries) so much. You're not a true "citizen of the world" unless you know which places you remove the lid, the lid and the plastic ring, or leave both on.
Definitely caused way more problems than it solved.
Have found several carbonated drinks flat in our fridge as these caps are harder to put on straight.
Spoke to someone who’d leaked drink all over their backpack and liquid damaged their MacBook by a cap like this not screwing on properly.
Never had that problem myself
It’s not really a me problem as I was describing other people having the issues not myself. Or not realising they’ve had an issue more accurately.
I have witnessed the cap try to go on slanted more frequently but I’ve noticed and re-done it, so not a huge deal for me personally.
The confusing thing to me is I thought differently coloured plastics were meant to be recycled separately, I used to take the caps off when putting things in the recycling.
Well, then those issues still appear to be limited to where you live, mysteriously enough. Misalignment of free caps is easier to achieve if anything. It is in both cases a matter of technique if you really insist on storing opened bottles horizontally, which always has the risks of spills. Blame physics.
Removing caps in recycling shouldn't be a big problem, probably make it even easier as the small caps can be collected more reliably. What is much harder to do is sorting sand and caps at the beach and get the caps out of the forest.
Well, 8 people upvoted what I wrote and 9 people downvoted, so that’s not nobody else agreeing. That’s some people agreeing and some not.
The obvious answer is simply that there are different cap designs for the new caps, and some are better than others with how close/tightly they hold the cap to the bottle.
This is some of the most nanny state shit I've ever see.
Slow children need nannies.
You can live in your freedom country filled to the brim with hard to clean non-degradable waste. I am happy living in a place where one of the main waste types polluting the environment has been drastically reduced, at practically zero cost. Anyone panicking about his or her freedom can easily tear those caps off btw.
Japan has been separating their bottle caps for decades without government intervention.
If you think a bottle cap that doesn't do anything for the customer but helps the manufacturer observer a compliance, isn't nanny bs, then you are in fact brainwashed by the state.
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I remember being annoyed by these captive lids when they were introduced. Now it just feels wrong when lids aren't whenever I travel outside Europe.
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