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The worst thing about those attached bottle lids…

109 replies

Fuckyachickenstrips · 22/06/2025 13:27

It’s not that they’re usually a pain in the hole to screw back on, it’s not that they squash your nose when you’re trying to drink…

It’s that when it’s something like a smoothie, you have to lick them out like a fucking pervert. I’m always tonguing these lids in public like a dirty bastard, but if I don’t then I get smoothie spilled on me from where it’s collected in the lid.

Sick of tongue flicking lids in public like a total deviant.

OP posts:
neverbeenskiing · 22/06/2025 13:43

HelenCurlyBrown · 22/06/2025 13:40

I yank them off, doesn’t everyone?

But then doesn't the smoothie that's collected in the lid go everywhere?

unsync · 22/06/2025 13:43

You only have to break one side. The whole of the EU population seems to cope alright with these bottle tops, what's so special about the Britsh that they find these tops challenging?

Tollington · 22/06/2025 13:41

I snap them off and then tongue the lid when nobody is looking

FlightCommanderPRJohnson · 22/06/2025 13:41

It's easy to think you've put the lid on properly, when actually you haven't, and you only realise when your hip suddenly feels damp from your soaking wet bag bumping against it.

HelenCurlyBrown · 22/06/2025 13:40

I yank them off, doesn’t everyone?

DeSoleil · 22/06/2025 13:39

I snip every single one off and don’t know anyone who doesn’t snip or pull them off.

Abaomutely stupid idea that I won’t be part of.

babasaclover · 22/06/2025 13:31

This is too funny and you are not wrong 😂😂😂

worst invention in the history of mankind

Sthoremouse · 22/06/2025 13:29

I stopped drinking Innocent Smoothies because I was worried about the looks I'd get.

Pulled a lid too far back last week and it flicked back up hitting me in the nose and sending Lucozade into my eyeball. Now I pull the lids off completely, a few twists and it snaps off.

Gepl · 22/06/2025 13:29

The main problem is that unless you’re very careful, the drink that is on the inside of the lid ends up down your top. However, broadly speaking they don’t bother me, and one strong pull and they detach anyway.

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