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For hating the new bottle tops

242 replies

hopsalong · 25/08/2024 21:29

What is going on?
Why were we not told that from now on we will never drink from a bottle without the half-cocked still-attached top spraying water/ milk/ juice all over our fronts?

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bongsuhan · 25/08/2024 21:37

I wonder whether people also got so upset when canned beverages switched from pull-off tops to stay-on tops for the same reason...

Humdingerydoo · 25/08/2024 21:36

They're not too bad once you figure out the little locking mechanism thing while open! And as a mother of young children I'm very grateful that my kids can no longer drop the lids in the dirt.

cardibach · 25/08/2024 21:35

Sirzy · 25/08/2024 21:35

They are a pain. They don’t fasten properly which is a pita with a 2l bottle.

Yes they do. You just have to line them up properly and check.

cardibach · 25/08/2024 21:35

Push them right back until they click. They don’t hit you 8n the face or spray you with anything then. Plus they stay attached so you don’t accidentally drop them and find yourself unable to resell the bottle.
And yes, the reasons for them are pretty obvious. The post criticised above wasn’t really snide.

Sirzy · 25/08/2024 21:35

They are a pain. They don’t fasten properly which is a pita with a 2l bottle.

loropianalover · 25/08/2024 21:34

They’re hard to twist close again. I had a bottle of 7UP while I was sick recently, I had twisted it but it must have not tightened, and spilled all over the bed. V annoying.

SauviGone · 25/08/2024 21:34

My hatred for these is on a par with paper straws.

gamerchick · 25/08/2024 21:34

Yeah there's a reason for them. There was a whole segment on people's hatred for them in morning telly.

Can't remember the reason now though.

BrutusMcDogface · 25/08/2024 21:34

Obviously it’s for recycling reasons. I bet there are are fair amount fewer bottle tops knocking around now.

It is annoying as hell, but a necessary evil imo.

HungryLittleCrocodile · 25/08/2024 21:33

JackGrealishsCalves · 25/08/2024 21:30

Read up on it, its for a very good reason, and it's not that difficult to work out

3 posts in and already we have a snide and patronising response! 🙄

SOME people are quite capable of making sure the lids go in the recycle bin as well as the bottles!

And don't they realise that people will not just snap them off anyway?!

I do!!! And SHOCKER I manage to put the lid in the recycling bin - along with the bottle.

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GoldPlayer · 25/08/2024 21:33

Agree, they're beyond maddening and you don't get a satisfying snap as you pull it off. Terrible design

HungryLittleCrocodile · 25/08/2024 21:32

LOL I have noticed this! On mineral water bottles AND orange juice ones too.

I just snap them off. I HATE this. Makes it so awkward to drink from them!

What numpty thought of THIS?! The same tit who decided to change the Carte Noir/L'or coffee jars, from normal easy open jars with normal lids, to stupid jars with sweet-jar type lids that are almost impossible to open?!!!

NevergonnagiveHughup · 25/08/2024 21:32

I thought it was an EU thing and the UK would be free of it because of Brexit??

Is it really disrupting your life enough to post here? Really???

longdistanceclaraclara · 25/08/2024 21:32

Hate them. Snap them off they leak. Don't snap them off poke you in the nose.

ComealongMartha · 25/08/2024 21:31

You could just cut them

JackGrealishsCalves · 25/08/2024 21:30

Read up on it, its for a very good reason, and it's not that difficult to work out

ScottishScouser · 25/08/2024 21:30

100% agree