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?

Current devices to open bottle lids do not work on the new attached style lids to open them, never mind grip a small lid, move that lid 180°, put it perfectly on the bottle top and then close it.

@ttcat37 · Today 09:36

Maybe ask your occupational therapist? The mechanism of popping the lid back doesn’t require much force, perhaps they can show you how to do it.

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Tell me you know fuck all about struggling with a painful physical condition, without telling me you know fuck all about struggling with a painful physical condition...

I know right, another day of people implying people with disabilities are the stupid ones, the irony.

Ok, so perhaps your OT is still the best person to speak to here

Thanks for your valuable input.

You are despite having being told missing the fact that some people have disabilities or other issues with their hands. Why can't you understand that , to quote your own words to understand not everyone has full use of their hands "is really not difficult ".

My grandmother had severe arthritis from her 30s and had to use all manner of aids to help. I get it is very challenging. But I bet everyone complaining about this doesn't have a painful physical condition. They are just being arses and haven't taken a few seconds to work it out.

The flip top lids they have in France would be better for most people with dexterity issues as they require much less power and manual dexterity to open, you simply push up a flip lid up. I think it would be good if we adopted those.

I squeeze all the air out of a bottle and put the lid back on to stop the bottle expanding. It saves room in my recycling. I thought everyone did this.
I dont think I've ever lost a bottle lid, or recycled one without it firmly screwed onto the bottle.

Does anyone really believe that screw caps on the bottle are the answer to fixing the issues with the environment? It’s not even the tip of the tip of the iceberg but it’s another thing that makes life harder for those with disabilities without having any real impact on anything.

I’m not implying that anybody is stupid. You complained that you aren’t able to hold the lid back. You shouldn’t be having to do this, the lid fixes back, and I was pointing this out. You can obviously get to the point where you can’t hold the lid back, or you wouldn’t know that you can’t hold it back.

You clearly are. Read my previous post. People are trying to help you and you are being rude in return.

No I didn’t, I pointed out that they’re not accessible to people with arthrogrypsos. You then ignored essentially everything I wrote and decided you knew better than anyone else.

If you had used your reading comprehension skills you would be aware that someone with arthrogryposis wouldn’t be able to open the bottle, because aids do not work on the new lid types.

You’re being really rude, I’ve tried to help and you’ve tried to throw insults veiled as concern. I’m out. Very unpleasant for you to try and use a ‘learning difficulty’ as an insult.

I don’t think you realise that your post came across as at best patronising and at worst quite ablist.

And thank you for yours. Your posts really are the highlights of this thread.

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I haven’t used it as an insult, its very common for people with a learning difficulty to find reading comprehension a challenge, have you not heard of dyslexia? The fact you ignored what I wrote, and at times invented things suggested you were likely having difficultly correctly processing what had been written, rather than choosing to purposely ignore what I wrote, ignore my replies and invent random things.

100% this. ^

Bullshit. You know what you were doing.

Yet you seemingly didn’t know what you were doing when you repeatedly ignored what you believed to be a disabled person wrote, while suggesting both you and others would know better than the person experiencing the problem.

If everyone put the tops in a recycling bin then these tops wouldn’t exist….but people don’t put them in bins, they end up in oceans & on beaches.
But aren't you great recycling yours!
I didn’t vote for the shit that’s brexit but I have to put up with it.

I hate them.
My elderly mother (87) finds them incredibly difficult to manage as she has arthritis in her hands.
It’s sheer nonsense.

After one bottle didn't close properly and leaked all over the fridge, I now cut them off. But then I've never lost a top.

Not true apparently, even if they go in the recycling bin they fall through the sorting machine (🤷🏻‍♀️) and end up in general waste. Hence need to be attached to something bigger (the bottle).