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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:
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.

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.

babasaclover · 22/06/2025 13:31

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

worst invention in the history of mankind

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.

HelenCurlyBrown · 22/06/2025 13:40

I yank them off, doesn’t everyone?

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.

Tollington · 22/06/2025 13:41

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

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?

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?

Starburst24 · 22/06/2025 13:47

I bloody hate them

i had brain surgery in March and it has left the one side of my face numb. I have enough issues with drinking anything as it is at the moment without trying to a navigate a sodding lid which means i miss my mouth as I can’t feel where the lid is

I remove every single one of them

TinyTempest · 22/06/2025 13:48

HelenCurlyBrown · 22/06/2025 13:40

I yank them off, doesn’t everyone?

We have the OP tonguing them out like a pervert, and you yanking them off! 😲

I think they need to rename the Innocent Smoothie!

Oodlesof · 22/06/2025 13:49

HelenCurlyBrown · 22/06/2025 13:40

I yank them off, doesn’t everyone?

Yep.
First thing I do.

Christ0nABike · 22/06/2025 13:52

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?

We prefer to just throw them in hedges to make little water bowls for the wildlife, and that is our imperial right,

CeaselesslyIntoThePast · 22/06/2025 14:11

lol this made me laugh

Togetheragain45 · 22/06/2025 14:13

There should be a special place in hell for who invented these.

IrritatableandHot · 22/06/2025 14:13

You just put the lid to the side. Perfectly easy not to hit your nose! But I agree that the lids don't screw back on very securely.

Scorchio84 · 22/06/2025 14:17

😂😂It never looks dainty

Ilovegermany · 22/06/2025 14:20

So you got Brexit but you still got the stupid bottle tops that were an EU ruling and the companies make everything the same for the markets.

shellyleppard · 22/06/2025 14:23

@TinyTempest I'm dying with laughing 🤣🤣 innocent smoothie......not ao innocent after all 🤣🤣

Ahsheeit · 22/06/2025 14:25

Undo cap, give it a twist and one bit snaps, so the cap no longer tries to climb up your nostrils. Learned the hard way.

x2boys · 22/06/2025 14:25

Christ0nABike · 22/06/2025 13:52

We prefer to just throw them in hedges to make little water bowls for the wildlife, and that is our imperial right,

🤣🤣🤣

DappledThings · 22/06/2025 14:26

I have always shamelessly licked the lid of a smoothie. Why wouldn't you want to get it all?

Not being able to easily detach the lid has made no impact on my life whatsoever.

x2boys · 22/06/2025 14:26

IrritatableandHot · 22/06/2025 14:13

You just put the lid to the side. Perfectly easy not to hit your nose! But I agree that the lids don't screw back on very securely.

Tell me about i lost a bottle of coke yesterday thinking I had screwed the lid back on.properly

EilonwyWithRedGoldHair · 22/06/2025 14:38

I'm another who just pulls the lid off, unless I'm going to drink the whole lot in one go.

What sort of person puts bottles in recycling without the lids anyway? That's why this was introduced, but I've always put the lid back on the bottle.

ChiliFiend · 22/06/2025 14:40

So depressing to read that people are yanking these off to avoid a mild inconvenience when they've been changed so they're more likely to get recycled.

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