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Mick Dempsey

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2 hours ago, peds said:

Who's ready for a really unpopular opinion? 

 

Those caps that stay on bottles when you open them...

Huge improvement. Colossal. Immense. We've been living in the dark ages until now, and all of you complaining that the cap hits you in the nose when you take a drink because you're too f*cking retarded to rotate the bottle 30° can go cope and cry.

 

Fight me.

Maybe not a huge improvement, at worst an incredibly minor inconvenience. 

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I was driving from Belfast to Sligo on Sunday evening, in the dark... 2hr 30m, if the wind is behind you and there aren't thousands of people driving 45 in a 60... after wrestling Birmingham airport. I was a thirsty fella. Two bottles of fizzy water and a vit hit for me, 30 litres for the car, and off we go again. 

 

As I unscrewed the lid on my first drink, intermittent and unnecessary brake lights of the car in front of me doing nothing for my stress levels, I realised, quite suddenly, that I don't have to pay attention to what I do with this bottle cap. It can't escape. I can slake my thirst while still giving my undivided attention to the prick in front of me, then when I'm done I can simply flip it back, screw it down, and carry on. 

 

The whole operation has become infinitely simpler, safer, quicker, and overall, a less stressful experience. This is what progress looks like.

This is life in the future.

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11 minutes ago, woodlover2 said:

I like the removable metal ones from glass bottles...better for the planet , no micro plastics to digest ...and if we do the old school money back on the empties then less litter.

I was surprised when I first came across one but supposed it was to do with litter. I was similarly surprised when I first came across a ringpull that didn't come off in my hand, by then I had got used to not carrying a can opener to make two triangular holes in the beer can.

 

Recently in an attempt to embarrass me into cooking my share of the evening meals my house sharer has taken to buying readymeals again. Tonight's was interesting as it was a lasagne packed in a one piece glued punnet, much nicer than a plastic tray, it burned well too, after the dog had cleaned it.

 

 

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I bought a few packs of cheap fizzy water from Bookers yesterday. These caps have a little bit of plastic reinforcement on the hinge, which acts like an overcentre latch. Push it past that and it's out the way and rigidly stays out the way.

 

I hope whoever invented that gets rich. This is what should have been mandated, not a little bit of sharp plastic that lets the lid flop around all over the place.

 

I think people (myself included) are only pissed off with it because it was badly implemented with little standardisation. If all the bottles were like the Bookers fizzy water there would be barely any complaints. 'Sports drinks' have had similar caps for years, and nobody complains about them because they're well designed.

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As above, Peds wants us to disagree and fight with him, another EU incentive that we are forced to follow (being the smaller market), a good idea but EU.... what did they ever do for us.... (same as all small device charges in EU will be USB C to reduce waste... means frustratingly I'll only need 1 charging cable in the house and not 17 different ones)

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2 minutes ago, nepia said:

So it's an anti-litter move. If it works that's a good thing despite it being EU driven 👍

Thanks those who have enlightened me

On the same theme; when one is out on a walk and decides to eat a cereal or protein bar why does a corner pull of, leaving a small piece of plastic wrapper separate from the main piece.

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