Goddamn it their soda bottles and disposable water bottles and other beverage containers leave a little plastic piece so you don’t have to hold the cap with your hands, it just stays there. Beautiful.
Then you get back and you just sigh because you have to hold the damn cap.
I hated it at first but then I had an old bottle where the lid wasn’t attached and I felt absolutely lost with the cap taking up the entire utility of my hand.
I like it. Many people I know do and most don’t care one way or another.
If you get het up about something so trivial, then something else in your life has gone spectacularly wrong. Most people simply don’t care about minute issues like this one if their life is otherwise fulfilled.
It works well with very fluid liquids like sodas etc. But with thicker liquids, like protein shakes or smoothies, it often creates a mess since some of the stuff gets stuck in the cap and then further spills on to your shirt when you try to drink from it.
Sorry, that wasn’t targeted specifically at you. And it’s not about liking or not liking it. Some people profess to hate it. And those people who seem to muster up so much hate and constantly moan about something so irrelevant do seem to have much bigger issues.
I don’t hate it, but I do find it to be a small annoyance and I think it’s an example of the pointless and costly gesture politics that the EU engages in while the deeper problems of the continent continue to get worse.
Even then, I don’t spend a particularly large portion of my life thinking about it.
Okay hate was a big word. Obviously I don't care this much about something this unimportant. But it does annoy me. And that's not even taking into consideration the whole politics part of it
That's part of the European frustration as exemplified by those stupid bottle caps: we do have much bigger issues and politicians seem to spend an innapropiate amount of time and resources on trivial things like that instead of tackling the real problems.
They don't have to be attached, if you want you can rip the fucker off if it disturbs you that much. Just trying to keep little bits of plastic out of nature.
I love them because I have coordination issues and I was going insane with how often I've dropped bottle lids, glad they've been introduced here a few years ago.
I had to use one without the attachment teh other day and I was baffled. Like why am i using both my hands to drink from a bottle? Then I realized I preferred them attached. Especially when you're out and about, which is basically the only time I get a bottle drink, a cap being attached is super helpful. I got used to pulling it out a bit so it screws back on easy.
I do not understand why we don't do that here. It's the easiest, simplest innovation that would have a huge impact on convenience and possibly cutting back on litter.
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u/meaning_please 7h ago
Goddamn it their soda bottles and disposable water bottles and other beverage containers leave a little plastic piece so you don’t have to hold the cap with your hands, it just stays there. Beautiful.
Then you get back and you just sigh because you have to hold the damn cap.