For hating the new bottle tops

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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?

100% agree

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

You could just cut them

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

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???

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?!!!

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

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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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

They are a PITA to screw back on. I try and snap them off.

I cut the tethers off, easy to do, then just use the screw cap as normal

Millions of them are not being recycled and end up dumped, often in the sea. I think it's a small price to pay for any reduction in environmental damage and threats to sea creatures.

Someone compared them to Nearly Headless Nick from Harry Potter and it's all I can think about when I open a bottle now. (And I don't even like Harry Potter all that much).

Putting the lid in the recycling bin won’t help. It needs to be attached to the bottle, otherwise it will fall through the sorting grid and go to general waste. So while they are a pain, there’s a good reason and people shouldn’t snap them off.

You’re doing it wrong. Pass the lid over the top of the bottle to the other side and it doesn’t flap in your face.

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They’re very irritating, my husband now can’t actually use bottled, and in some cases cartoned liquids unless he has someone there to undo and do up the lid.