Comment on Tethered Bottle Caps

L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• amotio@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apparently this very advanced technique is too complicated for some people.

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  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just like not throwing the cap at some helpless plant when going to the supermarket recycling the bottle

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• ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had quite some beef with the tethered caps in the beginning when they didn’t latch properly, but have since gotten used to them. That said:

  • Cap on top -> Funny hat for nose!
  • Cap on bottom -> Beard gets to take a moist nap.
  • Cap on sides -> Mustache also gets to take a sip!

  Obviously not much of a problem. I’d need to clean my facial hair either way if eating ice cream or other messy foods, but cap rotation might not be effective if your “face” sticks out 1-2cm from your mouth.

  One could also attempt to rotate the cap in a way to achieve quantum tunneling, but I don’t feel that I’ve achieved that level of “tethered cap proficiency” yet.

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• redisdead@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just rip them off. It’s a straight up pointless thing designed solely to annoy people while providing no benefit whatsoever.

  People who defend that kind of shit probably believe that plastic straws were going to be the downfall of humanity.

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• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can rotate the bottle before taking a sip to position it such that the cap doesn’t hit your face.

  And gravity will make the cap spin around, hit your face, get in the way of the liquid, and make it splash everywhere but your mouth.

  You can also pour liquid out of the bottle without having it run into the cap using the same rotation technique before pouring.

  Same issue. As soon as you tip the bottle the cap will spin (apparently whatever genius designed this useless annoyance didn’t realise that bottle necks are cylindrical), get in the way of the liquid, and make it spill everywhere but the container you’re trying to pour it into.

  They’re like a Pythagorean cup without the temperance lesson and well thought out design.

  The only way to use these without wasting 99% of the liquid and making a mess is to either awkwardly try to hold them up as you pour, or to violently rip them out before pouring in an entirely justified fit of righteous rage.

  What an utterly infuriating waste of plastic, time, and money.

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  • breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does america have terrible bottle designs or something? Not one single bottle with tethered cap has ever freely spun, you can move it and it stays in that position

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    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Luckily I’m not American, but I’ve never seen one of these contraptions that didn’t spin freely (and most of the ones I’ve seen spin freely and dangle all over the place, since the cap is attached to the ring with a flexible strip of plastic).

      It’s a weight attached to a ring placed around a cylinder, after all. It’s bound to spin freely, it’s inherent to the design.

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      • breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The ones I am talking about don’t move under their own weight and gravity. If you held it with the cap upwards, it doesn’t rotate downwards unless you do it yourself

        hence why getting hit in the face and struggling with a little cap is so puzzling to me

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  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Y’know how you hold the bottle with your hand to lift it? Believe it or not, you can hold it by the neck, and even slightly touching the little plastic ring the cap is tethered to will keep it from spinning.

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    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Y’know that physics principle called the lever principle, or principle of moment…?

      Thing is, if you grab a bottle by the neck and try to tilt it, you have to deal with the whole momentum / mass of the bottle, which is a significant amount of torque on your wrist, especially if you’re awkwardly trying to hold a cap that’s clearly not designed to be held this way at the same time.

      If you instead violently rip the cap out in an entirely justified fit of righteous rage and grab the bottle by it’s center of mass, as normal people do and have done since bottles have existed (well, except for the cap bit; that shit is rather new), you can effortlessly spin it to whatever angle you want, with perfect control all the way.

      Of course you can always hold it with two hands, which might be what you meant, but that’s a rather stupid waste of a free hand when most bottles are designed to be holdable with one single hand.

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      • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you can’t hold a small plastic bottle by the neck, you’ve got bigger problems than tethered caps.

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