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?

Yes! Those coffee jar lids. I don’t even drink it but we have them at work. What an absolute pain 😂

No, you knew what you were doing and it was very transparent. You also didn’t acknowledge parts of my responses but I didn’t try to use ‘learning difficulties’ as an insult against you. I have tried to help but you’ve been very insulting and I’m out.

Yes my elderly parents can’t manage them at all. I was out for drinks with them and a load of older relatives and scenes of confusion all round. I guess they don’t test them on the over 80s or indeed on those who aren’t that dexterous for any reason

I acknowledged all of your responses and explained what wouldn’t be possible, you chose to ignore the content of my responses. A learning difficulty isn’t a bad thing, therefore unless you think it is a bad thing it can’t be an insult.

Ignoring a persons responses isn’t helping them at all, its just showing you think you know best.

Mum to an ASD 6 yr old who won't drink from them at all. It's different so it's not right in her mind.

“just need common sense “

and hands that aren’t riddled with arthritis!

the patronising comments towards disabled people on this thread are maddening 😡

Yes they really are much harder to open and I think you're right, it's because the bottle cap is much more shallow. I have neurological disease and I really struggle with them now,

No, you didn’t acknowledge all the content of my responses. Just like you, I’m not obliged to acknowledge every single point you write. And don’t try and flip this onto me. I’m offended that you used ‘learning difficulties’ as an insult, not that it was directed towards me. Nice try though. You’re not fooling anyone, it’s clear what you were trying to do.

They don't poke you on the nose if you put the lid to the side of your mouth and use our index finger to keep the lid pressed down.

Same. Drives me insane

Me to! I will also add the awful cardboard knife and fork I got in McDonalds when I was in holiday and ordered the pancakes and syrup breakfast meal, it was comical at first trying to saw through them and then it just got really annoying!

I recently came back to the UK after being in NZ for years and years, and assumed every bottled drink with those lids were faulty! Only after a few days did I realise they weren’t. Interesting as where I am in NZ you can’t recycle the lids, they have to be binned. In fact, if you put bottle caps in the recycling bin they can refuse to take your whole bin! (They do visual inspections now and again where they will quite literally pour out the whole recycling bin on the footpath, and go through it. I’ve known many people to not have their recycling emptied because of not following the rules)

It’s great the caps can be recycled in the UK though!

A little inconvenience to help the planet isn't a big ask.

I remove the lids by pulling or snipping off. It's a stupid idea to attach the lid.

WTF has Brexit got to do with it?

ANOTHER ONE who doesn't get that some people find them difficult to use. Some people have disabilities and conditions that mean they really struggle with them. Have some compassion and understanding FGS!

Very annoying but just snap them off

Not everyone saying this has disabilities. As I’m sure you are aware.

But even if they don’t it still doesn’t mean they don’t have a right to dislike the change and how it makes it harder for them.

just because you don’t mind it doesn’t mean everyone has to agree!

It does though.

cyprus-mail.com/2023/04/17/bottle-caps-make-up-most-of-the-beach-rubbish-eu-sponsored-study-shows/

"Eighty-six per cent of the garbage is plastic, with plastic bottle caps making up the majority of that litter, Loizidou said."

Discarded bottle tops are clearly an issues in some places, beaches in particular, so it does make an impact.

I recently poured half a bottle of very cold water into my lap on a plane because of these bloody lids! I was trying to fill up DS's water bottle with one of those ridiculously flimsy bottles they sell on the plane, so only had one hand for each bottle. Every time I tried to pour, the lid and plastic ring bit would spin round and send water everywhere!

@HungryLittleCrocodile

ANOTHER ONE who doesn't get that some people find them difficult to use. Some people have disabilities and conditions that mean they really struggle with them. Have some compassion and understanding FGS!
Who can use the small plastic screw top bottles but can't use these ones?

A small thimble to protect the nose?! Carry a pair of scissors around to free the lid from the bottle?

OP here. I'm on holiday in Greece at the moment and the sea is full of plastic bottles. More than I've ever seen before. Couldn't work out why until I saw a group of teenagers walking along and two girls chucking a bottle in. Before I think they would have thrown the lids in and then sipped the rest. Now the bottle is so unpleasant to handle that the whole thing goes in the sea, skipping recycling entirely.

I'm old enough to remember ring pulls being replaced by the current generation of cans. Didn't feel the same way about that because the new cans weren't so horrible to drink from. But appreciate from this thread that a lot of people don't agree, which is interesting.

My kids had just learned to pour their own juice in the morning from a 1.75 litre bottle, but that's now a thing of the past....

Resell?

Poured what felt like half a bottle of coke over myself the other day. I was like have I lost all physical coordination? Nope, stupid attached bottle top thingy. Whoever invented it is laughing lots right now.