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[Technology] Bottle lids that don’t come off bottles



Giraffe

Giraffe

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Now I’m all for advances in technology but these lids that remain on the bottle are doing my head in.

I’ve had two incidents:

1) a coke bottle half drunk, I thought I’d done the lid up but I hadn’t leading to mass spillage in someone else’s van.

2) I’m sat in a meeting trying to sound intelligent, whilst opening a bottle of water. Stupid thing got mangled and led to me literally wetting myself. Credibility gone.

What is the rule going to be at the AMEX? Do we need to cut the buggers off to be allowed entry? Barbs?
 






Cotton Socks

Cotton Socks

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Feb 20, 2017
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They've (not) been at the Amex for ages. The lids still get taken off it just takes longer for the staff to do it. There's a knack to taking them off completely.
They've been around for ages, how can you have only just come across them? 😂 They are bloody annoying though & I've had that 'cap not lined up properly' spillage as well. Cap on nose was a thing for me until I realised it's on some sort of hinge that prevents that!
 


Easy 10

Easy 10

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Jul 5, 2003
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I find them INTENSELY irritating.

I usually have a 2 litre carton of orange juice in the fridge, laying in its side, which now hosts a screw-top lid that stays attached. I always have the nozzle pointing UP when I replace it, but despite this, on two occasions when I've opened a new carton and poured myself a glass, then screwed the lid back on and put it back on the shelf, it has LEAKED all over the shop. So I open the door to a horrendous sticky mess where its spent half the day drip-dripping down onto all my SCOFF.

This means removing pretty much everything out of the fridge, wiping it down, and washing down all the shelves. An enormously tedious, time-consuming task. If I ever come across the latte-sucking, ponytailed, red-framed glasses wearing vegan GOON who 'workshopped' this piece of shit, I will forcibly drag him into the street by his hair and beat him to death with his own shoes, in front of his family.
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
54,652
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Asda lactose free milk. It's cheap; it has a long shelf life....but the f***ing screw top is welded on.

I ripped one out the other week, in my frenzy to moisturize my tea, leaving the carton unusable, like a ruptured anal prolapse.
 




StonehamPark

StonehamPark

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Oct 30, 2010
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Giraffe said:
What is the rule going to be at the AMEX? Do we need to cut the buggers off to be allowed entry? Barbs?
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METALMICKY

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Jan 30, 2004
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Easy 10 said:
I find them INTENSELY irritating.

I usually have a 2 litre carton of orange juice in the fridge, laying in its side, which now hosts a screw-top lid that stays attached. I always have the nozzle pointing UP when I replace it, but despite this, on two occasions when I've opened a new carton and poured myself a glass, then screwed the lid back on and put it back on the shelf, it has LEAKED all over the shop. So I open the door to a horrendous sticky mess where its spent half the day drip-dripping down onto all my SCOFF.

This means removing pretty much everything out of the fridge, wiping it down, and washing down all the shelves. An enormously tedious, time-consuming task. If I ever come across the latte-sucking, ponytailed, red-framed glasses wearing vegan GOON who 'workshopped' this piece of shit, I will forcibly drag him into the street by his hair and beat him to death with his own shoes, in front of his family.
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www.newstalk.com

New bottle caps will stop plastic 'killing wildlife slowly and painfully'

The hope is the new measure will boost the recycling rates of harmful plastic waste among EU member states.
www.newstalk.com www.newstalk.com

But think of how you've ammtpgd to saving the planet :)
 


Easy 10

Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
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METALMICKY said:
www.newstalk.com

New bottle caps will stop plastic 'killing wildlife slowly and painfully'

The hope is the new measure will boost the recycling rates of harmful plastic waste among EU member states.
www.newstalk.com www.newstalk.com

But think of how you've ammtpgd to saving the planet :)
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I'll have you know, I have a gold star on my recycling bin from the council inspectors.

We can put a remote controlled landing craft on MARS that can discover water 20km below the crust, but we can't INVENT AN ATTACHED LID THAT SCREWS ON OR OFF PROPERLY.
 






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dsr-burnley

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Aug 15, 2014
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METALMICKY said:
www.newstalk.com

New bottle caps will stop plastic 'killing wildlife slowly and painfully'

The hope is the new measure will boost the recycling rates of harmful plastic waste among EU member states.
www.newstalk.com www.newstalk.com

But think of how you've ammtpgd to saving the planet :)
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With detachable caps, the ring stayed on the bottle. With non-detachable caps, when they are detached, the ring gets lost in the bin. Do we gain much?

And isn't it normal to put the cap back on the bottle every time we finish drinking, even if the bottle is empty?
 


mile oak

mile oak

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May 21, 2023
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Try walking into the Amex and explaining to the Steward the top wont come off! Personally I dislike them as you can only pour from them in certain direction or it ends up in a mess and yeah they don't seem to screw on brilliantly.
 












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Crispy Ambulance

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May 27, 2010
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Burgess Hill
Easy 10 said:
I find them INTENSELY irritating.

I usually have a 2 litre carton of orange juice in the fridge, laying in its side, which now hosts a screw-top lid that stays attached. I always have the nozzle pointing UP when I replace it, but despite this, on two occasions when I've opened a new carton and poured myself a glass, then screwed the lid back on and put it back on the shelf, it has LEAKED all over the shop. So I open the door to a horrendous sticky mess where its spent half the day drip-dripping down onto all my SCOFF.

This means removing pretty much everything out of the fridge, wiping it down, and washing down all the shelves. An enormously tedious, time-consuming task. If I ever come across the latte-sucking, ponytailed, red-framed glasses wearing vegan GOON who 'workshopped' this piece of shit, I will forcibly drag him into the street by his hair and beat him to death with his own shoes, in front of his family.
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Open toed sandals, Shirley?
 


Westdene Seagull

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Oct 27, 2003
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Easy 10 said:
And while I'm on...bacon packaging, with that "peelable corner" - f*ck off. Thats about as peelable as the hull of the Ark Royal. NOBODY is opening that packet without hacking it to bits with a serrated kitchen knife.

We are doomed, as a species.
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But wierdly they have cracked it for cheese slices 🤷‍♂️

And don't get me started on 'resealable' pasta packets !
 


Guinness Boy

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Amusing that after the OP’s Farage rant, this is the latest thing that seems to be annoying the gammon bots on X.

It’s an EU regulation and no company is going to set up two different production lines just because 52% of an electoral turn out didn’t know what they were voting for.
 


Westdene Seagull

Westdene Seagull

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NSC Patron
Oct 27, 2003
21,397
The arse end of Hangleton
Guinness Boy said:
Amusing that after the OP’s Farage rant, this is the latest thing that seems to be annoying the gammon bots on X.

It’s an EU regulation and no company is going to set up two different production lines just because 52% of an electoral turn out didn’t know what they were voting for.
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Still doesn't mean it's not a fvcking stupid annoying idea.
 




Tom Hark Preston Park

Tom Hark Preston Park

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Jul 6, 2003
71,878
In other packaging-related news... an old lady in front of me in offie the other day was angrily demanding a refund for her husband's 4 pack of lager. Claimed they were superglued together. It was one of these new-fangled jobbies that does away with the plastic ring that normally keeps the cans together. Environmental something something. There's definitely an art to seperating the new packs. Her husband didn't have that art. He'd messily poured the first can while it was still attached to the other three. Then sent his missus along to demand a refund on the three unopened cans still attached to the empty can :lolol:
 




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