I was someone who was annoyed by the switch to tethered caps. While good from a recycling perspective, they annoyed me nevertheless.
Now I’ve just been in a country for vacation where they don’t have them – and I was so annoyed to always have to carry around and think about the bottle caps 🙃
These are a good change – also from a usability perspective! Wouldn’t want to go back!
I’m still annoyed by the disintegrating cardboard straws though …
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Posted by MarinatedPickachu
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It is just a matter of habits. I honestly feel that the new version is annoying but I manage to accept it because what else can I objectively do?
I never had issues with tethered caps. When someone complains about it I always wondered how they’re drinking.
I fully agree – it’s so much nicer not to have to place your bottle cap somewhere when drinking (especially when in the car) – personally i never understood anyway why people get so annoyed by something so little (they must have pretty miserable lives 🤣)
Why even use paper straws? McDonald’s much to my surprise changed to Cup caps with holes in it like others do it with coffee.. I don’t really eat there but it was a pleasent surprise when I saw it.
No, they are still just as insufferable. If I drink from a bottle, I don’t want the cap coming to itch me on my face. I pay taxes, I am mature enough to look after my caps without being babied into it.
Somehow a big portion of people doesnt know that they stay back if you turn them enough
Give em a twist or two and they‘ll come right off
Yes I love when my smoothie drips all over my face because there is a rest left in the cap, which is attached. 🤗❤️
I usually just rip it off right after opening the bottle. I make sure to dispose of the bottle with the lid screwed on tightly, of course.
It depends on the caps, or the tethered cap technology. If it never annoyed you then you never drank stuff from bottlers that didn’t pay the licenses or whatever for the good caps, or if they all make their own some made crappy caps. Then they refined it so it’s not merely tethered but also out of the way as much as possible. But that’s just a theory. A tethered cap theory.
I’ve been enough in EU countries to get intimately acquainted with the first generation of tethered caps. Those all SUCKED SO BAD, but times did change for the better. I still prefer a regular removable cap over most of the tethered ones in most situations (except for specific situations like driving a car), but some of the newer versions of tethered caps are getting decent.
(The key takeaway here for those less familiar with tethered caps is that there isn’t just one kind of them. Some are much better than others. Some still suck, others are pretty good.)
Went from USB-C caps to USB-A. Takes some getting used to. If you are distracted, drink on your clothes.
I fucking hate paper straws! 1 Minute in the drink and sou have paper straw soup
Switzerland is somewhere in between. We have them tethered but you can easily break them. Can’t do that with EU bottles, though.
Is this ragebait?
i hate them
My problem is with smoothies for example where you shake the bottle, open in, push the cap behind, then drink and have the residual liquid of the smoothie drip on my nose while I’m drinking from the bottle
While you’re driving and want to drink, you can open the bottle with one hand and the cap is by the bottle.
I still clip them every time and use it like I always have. I drink it and throw the cap away /s
They are not good for:
– People with mental disabilities, who I have seen struggling with the cap touching their faces while trying to drink
– Kids (and adults) who screw the cap on skewed, because the tether pulls them into a crooked position, and the drink leaks when the bottle is not kept upright
I am also personally really annoyed by them but have gotten somewhat used to them…
I am so used to them, whenever I drink something from the bottle in Switzerland, I always let the caps fall down.
It is not, it’s a response to irresponsible morons us normal folks have to deal with. Useless invention that makes something that worked perfectly fine cumbersome. Most caps I use, the ring is too loosened to stay in place and will always drift downwards, no matter if you’re pouring or drinking directly.
Tethering is mandatory but obviously no standard was defined for it. It’s a non problem in the grand scheme of things and I’d like to see statistics in the future where more bottle caps are recycled than before.
Never lost a bottle cap in life and have to deal with this shit now. Press the PET and screw it to keep underpressure.
Thank you from the bottom of my butt to everyone who didn’t give a f*ck about bottle caps in the past. This is on you.
Kinda saddens me that our society in general has to make laws, amendments, endless meetings and discussion, invest in the reengineering of bottle caps, just because people can’t keep just do such a simple task.
I agree 100%
The first time I encountered them I was annoyed (old person shakes fist at clouds) but now I’m basically apoplectic every time I realize I’ve ended up with a bottle that’s lacking the tethered cap!
After having a long discussion with a self avowed libertarian, one of whose bugaboos was these tethered caps, I think there is a (big?) contingent of people out there that is just ideologically opposed.
I just rip the tether off, when I open the bottle.
Not sure what the point of these tethers is anyway, i maybe lost one or two caps in a decade (back when they were not tethered).
i feel like, people that got upsetz about this are legit absolut morons.
Its not a hassle to drink out of them. Gotta be a special kind of retard to not be able to drink out of them proberly.
Beat use is when driving