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.

They click and hold themselves flat though at a 90°angle to the bottle and far enough away to never be in the way or have anything spilled in them. There isn't a problem with them as long as you push them flat until.thry click.

It’s full of smoothie which I have to lick out like a dirty smoothie slurper!!! Today I caught someone’s eye mid-tonguing when they walked past my parked car. We maintained eye-contact throughout the tonguing.

This cannot be allowed!

Your tongue action must be superior to mine

Just snip through the tether.

What the fuck about not squashing things?! I’ve never heard this. I squash the lot!

If bins are only being collected every 3 weeks how can you get by not squashing them?

honestly this sort of thing makes me want to give up. I’m going to fling all my bottles straight in the sea from now on.

I disagree.

My son struggles to do them up well enough and hence I've had several spills in the car.

I hate drinking out of them in the flat position and do find they are in the way, maybe because I wear glasses, maybe not.

I agree with using them, I would just like a longer attachment so I can hold it down while I drink.

With what? I’m not performing a banjo-stringectomy on my bottles with my teeth. I already look like a total animal licking the lids out!

I'll know our government are taking litter and the environment seriously when they start coming down hard on cigarette litter.

For every dropped bottle or lid I'll pick up 100 pieces of cigarette litter. Make a campaign about them and we might get somewhere. And effing cable ties dropped by events teams and scaffolders.

How do you know that the whole of the eu population copes OK?

The latest kind of littering that really fucks me off- those little stickers from disposable vapes. Stuck all over bins. What the fuck are they sticking them all over the bins for instead of putting them in the bin? People are disgusting.

Be thankful you’re not in Ireland! As well as those tops we have to pay a deposit for any drink in a plastic bottle, hold on to the bottle and then bring it back to a shop to get the deposit refunded! These are bottles we used to just put in our green recycling bin. Now you have people emptying the contents of public bins all over town to get the bottles to get the deposit back.. So instead of reducing rubbish they are now creating more unsightly messes all over the footpaths. But I have a condition that causes bone pain especially in in fingers and toes and I find it painful to open anything with those new tops now.

Our plumber told us that apparently our recycling depot doesn’t recycle plastic bottles anymore as the lids/tethers aren’t recyclable.

I’m not convinced I believe him but it sounds like the sort of thing that could actually be true.

So depressing to think that not one person responsible for making the change considered that these narrower profile lids are damn near impossible for anybody with arthritis in their hands to open.

Bring back the laugh emoji! 🤣

This thread is making me giggle. But I have this wonderful invention called "scissors". I have a tiny folding pair, about an inch square, ideal for a tether-snipping session away from base. But I still lick out the smoothie from the top...

Bloody things! You have to sort of pull them up a bit to get it back over the lip for it to go back on and be done up properly. Too easy to spill. I would pull it off like other pps are saying but I just know that if I were to do that then the whole contents will just end up over me instead of inside me!
I suppose I can sort of see why they’re like that now - as at least my (and presumably every other?) local council tells you to recycle with the lid on. I was abroad somewhere last year and that was the first time I saw them, then we get back to the uk and suddenly they were on everything. I think tetrapak with attached lids are more annoying to me than the bottle though, because if you try and drink out of those (not that I’d ever do that myself, of course, because that would be hugely grotty 🫣) then that really is asking for messy trouble.

Now I want to see your tiny scissors! An inch square including the finger holes?? Teeny tiny little scissors! These have now captured my brain!

these narrower profile lids are damn near impossible for anybody with arthritis in their hands to open.

Not just people with arthritis. I had to use a damp face flannel the other day to get enough grip to twist the lid off. I was at home then and could do that. It's a nightmare when you're out and haven't got anything helpful to hand.

They fold so the finger holes cover the blades. They are about two inches long, unfolded.

So difficult to undo and do up with arthritic fingers. Cutting them off leaves sharp bits. I hate the things.

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There are others, but these come with a little loop so you put a keyring thru them.

Or use nail clippers.

Little splatters of milk all around the fridge, half the time the lid isn't on, and I quickly got sick of getting little drips of whatever it was on me/the worktop/the floor so I snap them off - it's easier to snap them off without drips than it is to drink/pour from a bottle with it attached.

And I always fucking recycled the lids. Although I'm in Ireland, so I also have to collect all the bottles, not crush them or lose labels so I can post them one by one into a machine surrounded by wasps to get my 15p a bottle/can back. I RECYCLED ALREADY but now it's much more hassle, and takes up more space.

I can't say that I saw an epidemic of bottle-less lids before they started attaching them TBH either

Simple solution, ditch the smoothies, or make them yourself

The 'whole of the EU' dislike this detail as much as anyone else. And it's not only in Britain that plastic bottles are sold like this.

I agree OP the system is flawed.

Incidentally, I noticed (not just in Britain), some water bottles are made of thinner, more flexible plastic. This makes the problem even worse. Pot luck if you can unseal the lid without getting splashed or if you can put the lid on property to avoid spills.