The worst thing about those attached bottle lids…

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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.

The worst thing about them that I have heard is that they make bottles thrown in waterways and the sea sink so they are more difficult to remove when people are trying to clear up rubbish from the sea

Some of them are bloody hard to get off though. I saw a brilliant video on instagram along the lines of “what the government thought we used to do with bottle lids” and it’s someone standing by a recycling bin with their empty bottle which they put in the bin and then absolutely hurl the bottle cap down the street.

What sort of person puts bottles in recycling without the lids anyway?

When plastic recycling began, we were told not to put the lids in the recycling with the bottles. So I didn't. If they now want us to recycle the lids as well, they could just say so.

(I too have spilled a drink because of the difficulty of getting the lid screwed back on. With these new lids you can't carry the opened bottle around with you.)

See my recent post. I doubt this was actually a problem before. One of those solutions to a non existent problem.

When you open the top you fold it back and it clicks into place!

They'd have been better off just doing a campaign to get people to put the lids back on bottles before recycling them.

'mild inconvenience' hmm

getting your clothes covered in smoothie/juice, is not necessarily a 'mild' inconvenience for some people.

getting drink in your eye could have serious issues

having a drink empty into your bag can be much more than a 'mild' inconvenience.

the poster who has a numb face after brain surgery and hurts h er self because she can't feel the lid... that's mild is it??

I had a stroke earlier in the year, one side of my face is numb too. I'm struggling to drink without dribbling anyway, these bottles make it much more difficult. I have one numb hand as well, they make several things more difficult in that way too.

the kids can't do them up properly so lots of spills.

Lots of elderly people having problems as well.

just because it may be a 'mild' issue for YOU doesn't mean it is for everyone!!

A campaigner to explain WHY you should put lids back on bottles before recycling would have been MUCH better!

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Oh I hadn't heard that, but it makes sense.

A very good reason to revert to proper bottle lids!!

They’re not challenging. They’re fucking stupid. My way of coping henceforth will be to snap them off and fling them into the sea. Bonus points for hitting a fish.

I am of course joking. I will continue lidilingus while grumbling about it to myself.

Pervert

Pressed too soon!

When you open you fold it back, it clicks into place, you drink no lid in your nose, then fold it forward to reseal.

They need longer attachments so you can hold the lid down when drinking and screw them back on easier.

Since my stroke I can't. I don't have the strength or dexterity in my fingers.

Yes, they are a PITA. And too often the attachment stops it screwing back on properly. I pull them off too. And then feed them to wild animals, obviously /s

Ha ha! Thank you for this post -- laughing lots. We rant on a regular basis about these. Yes yes to smoothies down my top / yanking them off and splatting myself and passers by with smoothies, smoothies in my face, on my glasses, up my nose ... I HATE THE FUCKERS

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They get right up my nostril and leak in my bag. Hate them.

I always recycled them anyway so this annoying change makes no difference to that.

lidilingus 😂

Anyway, serves yer right for buying smoothies instead of eating proper fruit & veg!

Having a stroke

plus the ones I mostly come across are only starched in one place anyway, and besides if you do manage to break them try leave a nasty sharp bit.

Eurgh! Veg! Bleargh!

This is literally what OP says is the main
problem!

I couldn’t agree more, these bottle lids irritate tf out of me!

we have people planning how to inhabit Mars but whoever invented these couldn’t come up with anything better. All it needs is a bit length to the plastic attaching the lid to the bottle so it can more easily be folded right out of the way. Like a kind of short plastic piece of string

I think it might have actually been a real issue because for many years we were told NOT to put lids on bottles when recycling them.

people started collecting the lids for recycling (at certain plants able to recycle them) through various charities.

we were also requested to squash bottles & cans etc, it's only been within the last year the council have asked us not to do this as their machinery doesn't recognise squashed milk containers etc so all have to be pulled out manually OR landfill 🫩

it's hard to break the habits of throwing the lids in the charity pot, washing & squashing the milk container! But it's for the best (now).

I still say a good campaign would be FAR BETTER !

I was tonguing one at the park and I pulled.

I really don't understand why people keep going on about this.

Open the lid, push it down and it clicks to a locked position which means it's horizontal to the bottle and can't possibly be in the way no matter how you drink from the bottle.

I do hope that you are recovering well