I feel like I was just constantly going “where did I put that lid?” “Have you seen my lid?”
Can’t even tell you how many times I had to snort disapprovingly at someone asking “uhh can I borrow your lid for a sec.”
A whole cultural phenomenon that just vanished overnight.
Gen Alpha will grow up not understanding most of our lid-based humour in those old sitcom episodes.
Plus the “can you hold this for me?” followed by “I can’t, I have both hands occupied at the moment” excuse, as you shrug helplessly with a lid in one hand and a bottle in the other
We truly are living in the future
I remember being annoyed by these captive lids when they were introduced. Now it just feels wrong when lids aren’t whenever I travel outside Europe.
So you left the EU for nothing???
We should have patented our formidable Lid tech to stop those greedy EU bureaucrats from profiteering off our genius or something
Doesn’t the Britush lid float on water on a cushion of air? TEKNAHLOGEE.
I went to Wales recently and they didn’t have them! My car still stinks of Dr Pepper from all the spills
Definitely caused way more problems than it solved.
Have found several carbonated drinks flat in our fridge as these caps are harder to put on straight.
Spoke to someone who’d leaked drink all over their backpack and liquid damaged their MacBook by a cap like this not screwing on properly.
Never had that problem myself
Is everyone in this thread roleplaying or something (genuine)
The captive lid is to keep the small thing attached to the big thing because the small thing is one of the big contributors to ocean plastic pollution
People are super sensitive about their lids or straws for some reason. Maybe i don’t drink enough out of plastic bottles, but i have a hard time caring about these.
The attached lids make sense, we did the same with aluminum cans where the lids previously were ripped off.
Nobody gave a shit and it lowered pollution. Now people lose their shit over it
Straws are a simoñar story, just don’t fucking use them at all, you don’t need them
One or two comments are indeed raising eyebrows…
I’m not entirely buying the plastic pollution argument, even if it is the official stance, mostly because I see it more as a ploy to get us to chug two bottles of Evian doublehanded, than to just buy one.
Plus it’s a sex symbol thing. You know what they say about a guy who never delids his bottle 😏
(Or maybe to do with EU litter regulation, I dont know I’m not a scientist)
why didn’t they just put a second, fake, bottle top next to the real one, sans lid.
So when you take the lid off, you screw it onto the other top. Move it back to close.
This is some of the most nanny state shit I’ve ever see.
Oh shit, the government made a rule so that we all together pollute less, NANNY!
Japan has been separating their bottle caps for decades without government intervention.
If you think a bottle cap that doesn’t do anything for the customer but helps the manufacturer observer a compliance, isn’t nanny bs, then you are in fact brainwashed by the state.
Slow children need nannies.
