r/AskReddit • u/danielsoft1 • 5h ago

"those little differences" Americans who visited Europe, what was surprisingly different for you?

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u/meaning_please 3h 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.

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u/Nightmare_Fart 2h ago

Oh that's funny, everyone I know hates that. They changed the law a couple years back so they had to be attached. No one here likes it

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u/NowoTone 2h ago

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.

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u/kadunkulmasolo 2h ago

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.

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u/Badgladmadwords 2h ago

That’s a big fucking boatload of judgment and aspersion to cast on someone who doesn’t like something you like, my guy. 😂😂

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u/NowoTone 2h ago

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.

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u/Badgladmadwords 1h ago

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.

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u/Nightmare_Fart 1h ago

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

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u/mixomatoso 1h ago

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.

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u/NowoTone 1h ago

But yes, I agree, it’s a tiny bit judgemental ;)

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u/Donhitmeyer 1h ago

I like it too. No more searching for the cap.

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u/i5aac92 1h ago

Commenting on something you find annoying is completely normal.