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The worst thing about those attached bottle lids…

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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.

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Fuckyachickenstrips · 22/06/2025 18:34

UpsideDownChairs · 22/06/2025 16:56

It's on all bottles here - unless we go Canadian and they start selling milk in bags, there's going to be little pings of milk, little drips everywhere from the bloody lids (because even if I'm careful, my kids aren't)

Milk lids aren’t attached though. Why are they immune to this nonsense? It can’t be about recycling because they’ve recently made the lids all white (no red, green or blue anymore) to make them recyclable. And yet they’re not attached to the carton 🤷🏻

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MyLov · 22/06/2025 19:00

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.

I completely agree. So annoying, can’t drink out of them. Difficult to screw on and off. No consideration given to the elderly and disabled that might struggle with them. I pull them off everytime, partly just to make a point (to noone other than me, but it makes me feel better 😂). So annoying and pointless.

intrepidpanda · 22/06/2025 19:23

It's the leaking. They never go back on right snd I rndbup with s puddle of sprite a the bottom of my back. Gave a bottle of fanta to my boyfriend, he put it in his pocket and he looked like he had peed himself when we reached home.

UpsideDownChairs · 22/06/2025 20:59

Fuckyachickenstrips · 22/06/2025 18:34

Milk lids aren’t attached though. Why are they immune to this nonsense? It can’t be about recycling because they’ve recently made the lids all white (no red, green or blue anymore) to make them recyclable. And yet they’re not attached to the carton 🤷🏻

Yes they are here - and they always ping a little bit of milk, and the kids often don't manage to get them screwed back on.

Plus of course the bottles are thinner, so if you happen to squeeze them wrong, then an actual glug of milk bloops out

Fuckyachickenstrips · 22/06/2025 21:02

UpsideDownChairs · 22/06/2025 20:59

Yes they are here - and they always ping a little bit of milk, and the kids often don't manage to get them screwed back on.

Plus of course the bottles are thinner, so if you happen to squeeze them wrong, then an actual glug of milk bloops out

That’s infuriating. They’re not like that in Scotland for some reason they still come off completely here.

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Whatwaswrongwiththatusername · 23/06/2025 09:15

muddyford · 22/06/2025 18:05

I have two pairs, but have had them for 50 years so no idea where they might now be available.

Was it you that posted the the pic of them further up the fred? I don’t know why teeny tiny scissors appeal to me so much 😂

Whatwaswrongwiththatusername · 23/06/2025 09:29

JoshLymanSwagger · 22/06/2025 16:19

Hemline Folding Scissors - Wool Warehouse - Buy Yarn, Wool, Needles & Other Knitting Supplies Online!

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

Or use nail clippers.

Might have to get some of those! My oh has one of those heavy everything type penknives (Swiss army style I guess) on his key ring, and there is a scissor bit on there but my crappy arthritic fingers - like so many on here! - just cannot manage something like that! And I think the power bank in my bag alone seems to weigh about 16st so if I was to add one of those penknives my poor, weak body would just be slumped on the floor trying to drag my bag around behind me 😆

muddyford · 23/06/2025 14:49

Whatwaswrongwiththatusername · 23/06/2025 09:15

Was it you that posted the the pic of them further up the fred? I don’t know why teeny tiny scissors appeal to me so much 😂

Not me but found similar on Amazon. I am a technopygmy so no idea how to share a link, though I think others have.

Whatwaswrongwiththatusername · 25/06/2025 09:49

muddyford · 23/06/2025 14:49

Not me but found similar on Amazon. I am a technopygmy so no idea how to share a link, though I think others have.

Ok, Amazon challenge to find the teeniest scissors I can. Bonus points if I can put them on a key ring 😄

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