European VS US Inovation

[u/Beautiful-Fee6408]

Since so many anti-EU people have compared Tesla's PR stunt to permanently attached bottle caps, I've created a few pro-European versions of this meme here

[u/norrin83]

That would be a great post for [r/USvsEU](r/USvsEU) where all the other yank-centered posts made by yank-brained Europeans should stay as well

[u/GirthusThiccus → u/norrin83]

So you are to blame for this?!

[u/norrin83 → u/GirthusThiccus]

Another German blaming the Austrian for everything. How terribly cliché.

[u/GirthusThiccus → u/norrin83]

An Austrian lecturing a German about whom to blame. Well. Well. Well.

[u/MrArchivity → u/GirthusThiccus]

https://giphy.com/gifs/12aW6JtfvUdcdO

[u/SmokeRingEyes → u/MrArchivity]

now we just need a Japanese redditor to jump in and we'll have the whole gang back together

[u/AstorianSolaire → u/SmokeRingEyes]

Cue the victim-bully savage to get in on the action.

[u/SmokeRingEyes → u/AstorianSolaire]

Hello, new friend!

[u/Fashish → u/norrin83]

Never knew of that sub before and I see they share similar flairs on there. Is it a sister sub?

[u/norrin83 → u/Fashish]

Kind of. Rex made it when 2we4u got very regular yank-centered content and people were complaining. It's in general a very necessary containment zone for such posts, but it sometimes leaks.

[u/miragen125 → u/norrin83]

This post is approved by our king himself

[u/norrin83 → u/miragen125]

Tbf, I can see why. It's some people complaining about yank stuff (like my comment) and the rest are bottle cap discussions and inner-European jokes.

[u/dr_mens]

🗣️Stop 👏 the 👏 yank 👏 posting 👏

[u/death_by_cormorant]

Don't diss the MK1 fiesta.

Which btw is a European car design. It was built in Spain and the UK. After a while they started building them in Germany as well.

[u/TomSurman]

European innovations: Computers, electric motors, steam engines, vaccines, clocks, radio, jet engines, the industrial motherfucking revolution.

American innovations: Microwaving tea.

[u/Nozomi_Shinkansen → u/TomSurman]

Real Americans don't drink tea. They throw it into harbors.

[u/North_Paw → u/Nozomi_Shinkansen]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ggu8E0UeH7bINjvacc

[u/Lonely-Programmer123 → u/TomSurman]

I hate to do it, but I have to command the savages on this one since it pisses you off.

[u/Sfekke22 → u/TomSurman]

Serious question, I microwave the water for my tea … why is that bad? My Swedish partner dies inside when I do so but i legitimately taste no difference?

[u/Cookies891]

As much as I’m tired of all the EU-bashing on Reddit, I have to say that this is a little cringe… I mean come on…

[u/Frap_Gadz]

What a load of shit.

Anyways here's some real British innovation:

[u/death_by_cormorant → u/Frap_Gadz]

This plus the lava lamp.

No other inventions are necessary in life.

[u/Dependent_One6034 → u/death_by_cormorant]

Fun fact: Lava lamps are used to produce random numbers for security encryption in computers.

Computers aren't good at generating random numbers, because random doesn't really compute.... It either is or isn't.

Yes, you can get random generators online, but they aren't "random". Ever listen to a music playlist on random and hear the same song multiple times before you hear the whole list? Same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

[u/Overtilted → u/Dependent_One6034]

Ever listen to a music playlist on random and hear the same song multiple times before you hear the whole list?

Sounds pretty random.

[u/ArugulaMinimum6536 → u/Frap_Gadz]

😂😂

[u/adjective-nounOne234]

Forgot that the roadster isn’t even real, its a shell of a roadster

[u/Privateer_Lev_Arris]

Wow that car living rent free in your head

[u/JobWide2631]

Spanish flying car

[u/Ok_Fail_3058]

This feels more like cope then a good rebuttal. For example, on the third side the "European Flying Car" just looks like a Helicopter. And it is funny in one slide you imply the Tesla is great because it had European suppliers, and then you denigrate the same car in other slides. Also, trying to unironically praise the stuck on bottle cap is funny. Lastly, we in America invented the airplane, not you guys. I would commend it more if it was less like cope.

[u/ilpazzo12 → u/Ok_Fail_3058]

The bottle cap staying there looks terrible until you feel the pleasure of not having to make sure you don't lose the cap.

[u/Overtilted → u/ilpazzo12]

I like it. Not the first version, but the caps now: i digg it.

And yes there's less pollution because of it.

[u/Alexius_Psellos → u/Ok_Fail_3058]

It is my greatest pleasure to remove the cap from the bottle

[u/AlphaMassDeBeta]

American healthcare innovation: Circumcision device.

[u/Elk_Lemon → u/AlphaMassDeBeta]

Not innovation when you just repurpose European inventions.

https://giphy.com/gifs/gIqusaeYxgSiY

[u/MayorAg]

That don’t lose the cap thing is so real. I was in Switzerland recently and dropped the cap a couple of times because of muscle memory of not needing to hold on to it anymore.

[u/BrandNewtoSteam]

Cope

[u/OscarMMG]

So, posting on Reddit, using the internet, powered by satellite networks, from a country in NATO, using a dialect of English, and the Americans don’t have any quality innovations? See the above list!

[u/death_by_cormorant → u/[deleted]]

It was annoying when they first came out and would just poke into your face no matter how you oriented it, but pretty much everybody has refined the design so that it folds back properly. I don't see what the issue is anymore.

[u/Sensitive_Ad4942 → u/[deleted]]

You just have to cut it down if you don't want it. For the ones who like it (like me) it's just as it is. Where is the fk problem unless in your brains?

[u/cr2pns → u/Sensitive_Ad4942]

Honestly it is also annoying to drink from many bottles for me. Would be nice to have products with and without instead of enforcing it. Most of us recycle anyway and there are more important things to worry about.

[u/Sensitive_Ad4942 → u/cr2pns]

Where is the issue with cutting the cap's link? Unless with the "poppin" ones...

[u/cr2pns → u/Sensitive_Ad4942]

Takes time and for some bottles is quite thick if I dont have scissors. Why create a problem when there is none? If only for the PR, it has been a horrible enforcement

[u/Sensitive_Ad4942 → u/cr2pns]

For me it solves a problem... I never loose the cap 🤷

[u/BarBryzze → u/cr2pns]

Or you could grow another braincell and figure it out. It's been years.

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT1R9Qoh6N8O6b1sK4

[u/cr2pns → u/BarBryzze]

Let's enforce bullshit when we have other problems to worry about. Grow a brain cell yourself mate

[u/BarBryzze → u/cr2pns]

What "other" problems, Pedro? You sleep through half of them.

[u/Beautiful-Fee6408 → u/[deleted]]

I'd say it depends on the design of the bottle cap.

[u/honeybooboobro → u/[deleted]]

Bottles really are fine, I draw the line at juiceboxes. Trying to pour out of one without ripping the cap off is asking to have the juice all over the table when the cap inadvertently flips over right into the flow.

[u/SignAllStrength → u/[deleted]]

I used to be able to open a new bottle with one hand while driving, drink from it, close it and put it away without spilling a drop. Nowadays it’s not possible anymore without spilling on myself and my car. The EU has taken that superpower away from me.

[u/BarBryzze → u/SignAllStrength]

How? How did you lose that ability? I never had the issue of not being able to drink without spilling because of a bottlecap. You people worry and fascinate me.

[u/SignAllStrength → u/BarBryzze]

With one hand only, without using your other hand at any moment? Try it, it’s more difficult than it sounds.

[u/Entgegnerz → u/[deleted]]

there is no difference in drinking from the bottle.

You're not supposed to dump the whole bottleneck inclusive the cap into your maw, you're supposed to use your pursed lips.

[u/BarBryzze → u/[deleted]]

Sir, the bottlecaps are not to blame for that.

[u/gsurfer04]

The Ford Fiesta is a European creation, you eejit.

[u/SEA_griffondeur]

"hasn't flown manned" lol where would you even put a person inside to man it

[u/Reaver_XIX]

Is the idiot test on the bottle caps that people kept losing their cap before? I never had that problem thankfully

[u/LUXI-PL]

r/EUvsUS

[u/Material-Spell-1201]

We have done that for centuries, realised is not worth it, maximising siesta now. Thanks for the innovations savages. 

[u/BusinessDuck132]

I cannot believe yall are really dying on the bottle cap hill. Those things are ass

[u/Chestbreaker]

I hate the fucking cap thing. Always taking them off. Also hate how small they are, almost no surface to grab them. Total bullshit where some bureaucrats earned money.

[u/ballimi → u/Chestbreaker]

Skill issue

[u/Sensitive_Ad4942 → u/ballimi]

Or brain issue

[u/Edexote → u/Chestbreaker]

Idiot test, just like the image said. It's really hard to rotate the cap to the side, is it?

[u/boomerintown → u/Chestbreaker]

Are you kidding?

They are unironically extremely usefull.

[u/Brisbanoch30k]

That Tesla presentation was the epitome of cringe. Complete gadget.