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don't like these always-attached bottle caps. when i pour, the cap slides down and the liquid starts to pour into the cap instead of where i am aiming; when i drink, the cap gets me in the chin or in the nose. and as a final fuck you, it takes a lot longer to find the right position to screw it back on than one that you had in your hand in the correct orientation while you were drinking or pouring

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in reply to wayfinder

but look around you, no stray bottle caps in the gutters, in the park, in the water! only in your face!
(never mind it wasn't a problem to begin with. remember those parks littered with bottle caps? yeah, me neither.)
in reply to dojoe

This is the same kind of bullshit symbol/placebo politics as the plastic straw ban
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in reply to wayfinder

If it discourages people from buying drinks in non-reusable bottles, that’s great!
in reply to zopsicle

i don't think that's what's happening though - the cheapest water in reusable bottles is about 8 times as expensive as these bottles
in reply to wayfinder

the ones I've used always lock in place if you open them fully to the side. They usually have a locking "lip" thingy, so I never had those issues you mention. But maybe bottles here are different?
in reply to Abílio Costa

interesting! the ones i have encountered sometimes lock into the open position, but not the orientation of the ring. most of them actually tear off on one side the first time they're opened, so the locking doesn't work.
in reply to wayfinder

they are mostly like this, and hold very well both from the cap to the lip but also around the bottle (it does not rotate freely when locked). And these are the cheapest ones from a supermarket white label brand, not some fancy ones 😅
in reply to Abílio Costa

the ones i was fighting with when I wrote the post were these:

with this type, most commonly, one or both of the connections will break the first time you tilt the cap into its "open" position.

and even if they don't break, they'll be flimsy enough and deformed enough that the ring slides around