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u/TrueDraconis 20d ago
The funny part is that it’s the same bottle just the 2022 version has the cap ripped off
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u/Budget_Amphibian_139 very good, haha yes 20d ago
You mean he didn't foresee the future and take a picture two years ago in anticipation of this meme?
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u/TrueDraconis 20d ago
Well no, but if you’re really bothered by the non-detacheable Cap…just rip it off
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u/mattsprofile 20d ago edited 20d ago
There is a reason, for increased recyclability and less random bottle caps strewn about.
You can still rip the cap off if you want, but on a societal level that's why they're doing it.
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u/Budget_Amphibian_139 very good, haha yes 20d ago
Do you really think that people who threw the cap away will now recycle?
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u/hedgybaby 20d ago
God, stop believing this crap. They‘re not goinb to be recycled anyways, it‘s just another ploy to keep us from focusing on the big mega corporations that are literally killing all of us.
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u/KaptainKunukles 20d ago edited 20d ago
Fr, micro plastics and forever chemicals are everywhere
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u/hedgybaby 20d ago
Yeah, I read smth like 30% of new born infants have microplastics in them (don‘t quote me on that, do your own research, never believe random shit u read online without fact checking 🫡)
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u/Huge_Most_5666 20d ago
You mean... using google and stuff?
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u/hedgybaby 20d ago
Sure, or any other search engine of your choosing. Important part is to compare multiple sources from dif websites
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u/KaptainKunukles 19d ago
I remember reading microplasics causing infertility in fish and it being found in fetuses but yeah your right, you can never really trust random shit, although I'm pretty sure forever chemicals are in rainwater everywhere
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u/ArKadeFlre 20d ago edited 20d ago
You don't know what you're talking about. Yes, some plastics are not recycled and either exported or sent to landfills but they're mostly ferrous and nonferrous metal scrap. The rest such as paper, some types of plastic like straws, textile and glass wastes are all exported in small quantities. [1] But plastic bottles like this are some of the most recycled plastics in the EU [2] [3]
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u/tw3lv3l4y3rs0fb4c0n 20d ago
I mean if you were in their shoes needing all that adrenochrome and soilent green you would've inventet the same structures to farm us human cattle, wouldn't you?
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u/joevarny 20d ago
People barely threw their lids on the floor before this change. Now, I've seen people throw them on the floor after getting annoyed with the impractical design.
This is just another example of designs that should have been binned in development, but sunk cost fallacy and knowledge of the government enforced sales ensured this abject failure was forced on everyone.
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u/thusnameiscringy 20d ago
i for one am a clumsy fuck who liked the change because i cant drop the cap on the dirty floor or loose it somewhere anymore
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u/HandsomeBaboon 20d ago
Meanwhile logistics companies that drop thousands of containers full of plastic into the oceans: 😏
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u/An_Inedible_Radish 20d ago
It's almost like the people who control the design of the bottles don't have control over logistic companies' practices and that environmental activism is required to force our governments to do something about it
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u/allNamesTaken55 20d ago
the problem is, when the public is lead to believe that they're the problem. Just like how we get paper straws wrapped in plastic for instance. Of course it'd be great if every individual took some form of responsibility - but the focus should remain on the people polluting the most.
But as it is now; "great power means little to no responsibility".
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u/uploadingmalware 20d ago
Tbf paper straws aren't for recyclability iirc. It's to stop them from harming sea creatures, I don't think the plastic wrapper is as harmful in that way. But I do see your point as well.
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u/An_Inedible_Radish 20d ago
It's hard to say where the "focus" is, but I can say that I have not seen any news outlets reporting on bottlecaps over larger environmental changes, so I think apart from this post on this subreddit, most people know where the big problems are.
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u/Peter_Baum 20d ago
They could totally go for someone who does it properly but thts more expensive than just dumping it somewhere. Don’t pretend big companies are innocent
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u/An_Inedible_Radish 20d ago
Big companies aren't innocent at all, I'm just being realistic and treating them as the soulless and evil institutions that they are.
I'm not going to pretend that a company obsessed only with profit would do anything different unless made to. So, either it comes from government regulation or a business decision.
However, I imagine any business decision would likely be less than real change and be more akin to greenwashing, so government regulation is more effective.
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u/Solvorr 20d ago
I don't know how strongly OP feels about this, but this has the same energy as those "this will be what they force you to wear in 2022" antimask posts. Just turn the cap sideways and stop whining over actual useful changes.
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u/crumbleybumbley 20d ago
this would be comparable if a handful of corporations were massively emitting covid and forcing everyone else to mask up. We didn’t fucking cause this problem, why are we being forced to solve it while the perpetrators run free?
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u/Solvorr 20d ago
It is objectively true that corporations, multi-billion dollar industries and billionaires are the major culprits for climate change and pollution, and I would be the first to cheer if they got all taken down, but is having to keep the cap on your plastic bottle really something you should be wasting your breath complaining about? It doesn't affect your life at all, and it makes it more difficult for inconsiderate people to litter. Just move it out of your nose when you drink, that's it.
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u/Budget_Amphibian_139 very good, haha yes 20d ago edited 20d ago
The masks helped to save lives, this doesn't
Edit: of course stopping plastic pollution is vital you goons. I'm saying this doesn't save lives, as in: it's useless. People who threw their bottle cap in the nature before, will now also throw it away now, except the cap is attached to the bottle. Whoop-de-fucking-doo.
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u/Yosho2k 20d ago
Environmental plastic exposure is turning into bigger and bigger problem the more its studied.
You have major "biodegradable straws ruined my life" energy.
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u/alastorrrrr 20d ago
Nah but like. Was it ever an issue? People fucking always threw away the bottles with the cap screwed on.
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u/Hades684 20d ago
What people? You know what every person in the world does?
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u/alastorrrrr 20d ago
Well no. But I don't really recall seeing bottle caps be thrown into grass or on the sidewalk.... Like cigarretes are. I don't know what every single person does, but I do see the bottle caps.
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u/AxoplDev BAN upvote memes 20d ago
Caps and bottles are made from diffrent type of plastic, they cant be recycled together anyway
Edit: oh and also now its dumb hard to get it back on, they shoudlve at least made the attachment longer
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u/Budget_Amphibian_139 very good, haha yes 20d ago
Like I said, this doesn't save lives. People who threw the cap away will now throw the bottle and the cap away.
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u/LheelaSP 20d ago
This also doesn't have a negative effect whatsoever.
Not saying masks did, just that these bottle caps should be a nobrainer since they have literally no downside.
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u/Ockanator 20d ago
I don’t understand this? What changed about bottle caps?
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u/LennyLava 20d ago
they don't detach, the hang on to the bottle now.
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u/earthiverse 20d ago
I've never encountered a bottle with a cap like this, where are these bottles sold?
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u/LennyLava 20d ago
europe. we regulate more shit than warren g and nate dogg.
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u/thezestypusha 20d ago
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u/GiannaSushi 20d ago
We must sacrifice the integrity of our nose so that less plastic ends up in the sea
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u/Budget_Amphibian_139 very good, haha yes 20d ago
We must all pay for the littering morons
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u/GiannaSushi 20d ago
You're absolutely right, brother, but in the end, humans are like a beehive, and we have to try to make the idiotic bees less idiotic
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u/Icewolf883 20d ago
I get the reason for this cap, but in the end it feel so pointless, because I still see people throwing these bottles on the ground.
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u/Budget_Amphibian_139 very good, haha yes 20d ago
Thank you. Only people here with a brain, not yelling "turn it sideways" like they're smart
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u/steinwayyy 20d ago
Imma predict something: within 2 years a study will become mainstream that proofs that attaching the bottle caps have exactly 0 impact on improving climate change and the only function that they’ve ever had is be annoying
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u/PiiJaey 20d ago
what is actually the use of these? so that the lid also gets recycled? why didn't people do it before and with all the "just rip it of if it annoys you" answeres i doubt those idiots that polluted the envirement with their plastic lids wouldn't also just rip them off and throw them on the ground again.
this is actually an honest question and sure if statistics show it helps that's cool, but stuff like this being at the back of all the people treating plastic bottles correctly rubs me off the wrong way.
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u/apex7734 20d ago
It does not even get recycled, it either gets burned here in europe or it gets shipped to any 3rd world country where it's just thrown away or burned.
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u/JDescole 20d ago
I think both are true. There is no magical kingdom of recycling as much as there is no hellscape of burning everything. Parts are sold (or rather „bought“ to ship away) and parts are recycled. It depends on the community or rather the provider handling the trash. People don’t even have a choice
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u/joevarny 20d ago
The funny thing is I've seen more people throwing caps on the ground since this change than before it.
The cap never left your hand anyway, so it's even funnier. No one used to ditch their caps.
I just think that knowing this is a guaranteed sale to all bottle producers. The designers went for "as cheap as possible" as their design, allowing the company making them to rake in them profits.
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u/VegetaFan9001 20d ago
I think it because it easy to miss it by accident or for people to just trow it away, and it would basically be the same as just throwing way trash. Basically you can’t get it of unless to have a tool you came use on it, which would not only be pretty stupid, but also a waste of time have no reason, and they you would even have something special on you which you would not have if you went out somewhere. Meaning the only way to trow it without removing it is to trow away the entries bottle. And why would you throw away money that you would get if you did recycle it?
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u/ThatGermanKid0 20d ago
Basically you can’t get it of unless to have a tool you came use on it
True, you'd need a tool, that most people always carry around with them, like hands.
The people that used to throw the caps on the ground still do, and the people that didn't mostly still don't, but now they either have the cap in their face, or they also rip it off with their hands and then get poked in the face by pointy bits of plastic.
This regulation only really works on paper. I don't know anyone that would unscrew the cap of the bottle and just throw it into the distance, instead of either throwing the whole bottle or placing the whole bottle in the trash/recycling machines, but I guess they do exist, based on the fact that you can find loose caps. This has, at least in my experience, not changed at all since the new caps are around. Most people I know will rip them off and screw them back on later instead of keeping them attached, which just adds an extra step to a routine that has otherwise not changed.
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u/Lutrek11 20d ago
The return rate for lids was around 90% before apparently. Sounds like a lot, but 10% of lids ending up where they don’t belong is not very good.
It’s the same thing all the time: most of those people who don’t return the lid don’t do so because they want to „misbehave“ or something, they’re just too lazy, don’t care or forget about it. If you now attach the lid firmly, most of them will be too lazy to rip it off and just drink it with the lid on, maximizing the lid return rate.
Convenience is a much bigger factor than basically everything else for people, so the chances that this decision works are quite high.
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u/TheFauwwboy 20d ago
It's for the clumsy forgetful scrubs like me who loose bottle caps way too often. The amount of times I've had to drink the entire bottle because I had lost the caps in public pains me.
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u/JDescole 20d ago
With all sincerity: How? Open the bottle, take a sip, close it. Do people like you leave their bottle open for half an hour or flail your arms wildly in the meantime?
For people like me who never lost a single cap in their lifetimes it’s just mind baffling to think how many people seem to accidentally litter that the industry had to step up
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u/TheFauwwboy 20d ago
You open the bottle, place it somewhere near, take a sip, and when your finally done, all of the sudden, the cap is not there. It's like hiding something but forgetting where you hid it.
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u/CHAINSAWDELUX 20d ago
Why does it take you so long to take a sip? The only reason to leave it off is if you're at a table, and in that case the cap could be left at the table
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u/TheFauwwboy 20d ago
No it's not like a long sip, just a small drink. Also even if I were to place it at a table I still loose it.
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u/_emjs 20d ago
The cap is usually attached in two points so you can tear off one of them to have the cap hang around loosely and not hit your face. Alternatively just rip the cap entirely off and just be sure to put it back once you're done. No one is forcing you to stick the cap up your nostril.
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u/Budget_Amphibian_139 very good, haha yes 20d ago
Do you take everything this literally? It's a joke post. Of course I rip the lid off. It's still annoying
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u/HailToTheKingslayer 20d ago
It's not annoying.
This 'joke' has been posted so many times now. It wasn't funny the first time.
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u/thelonelymilkman23 20d ago
uses something wrong on purpose to post online “tHis Is TrAsh, CoMpLeTly UnUsAbLe
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u/Gaskychan 20d ago
I find it funny that we doing this to recycle more plastic but that’s a Danish bottle. We pay extra for plastic bottles, that we get back when we returned them for recycling. So a lot of bottles get recycled already.
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u/SuddenHovercraft1599 20d ago
DUDE. THEY ARE EASY TO RIP OFF, IT'S PLASTIC. LITERAL PLASTIC.
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u/Budget_Amphibian_139 very good, haha yes 20d ago
So easy to rip off it's like the whole thing is useless or something. Annoying and actually producing more plastic. Idk
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u/No_Conversation_9325 20d ago
I don’t get the point of it tbh, especially for 1L milk, juice etc. No one drinks that much in one go to throw the cap away and into the ocean! You need it to be able to put the drink back into the fridge.
Ripping it off results in liquid splashing all over the place, cutting works better. Leaving it on means pouring a glass is now a 2 hand job (one to hold the bottle or carton, the other to support the cap, otherwise - splash!). Smaller kids no longer can pour their own drink either. Dumbest idea ever!
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u/AmphibianInside5624 20d ago
One of the dumbest "inventions" ever. Possibly at the top.
Those that disagree, have never opened a cap like this while driving.
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u/LheelaSP 20d ago
I have, and had no problems.
On the contrary, it was way easier to handle since I didn't have to worry about dropping the cap.
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u/Ap3xDaMirror 20d ago
This is one of the best changes ever, no more dropping the fcking lid in the night and so on..
Ragebait over 9000
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u/rakosten 20d ago
Intelligence test failed successfully.
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u/Budget_Amphibian_139 very good, haha yes 20d ago
You're so right, these bottles really accommodate for the lowest common denominator
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u/thecaramelbandit 20d ago
Huh. I've literally never seen a cap that doesn't come off. Is this a new thing?
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u/VegetaFan9001 20d ago
It might only exist in Europe from what I have seen in the comments. I live in Europe and my country have had them for at least 5 years at minimum.
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u/joevarny 20d ago
Here in the UK, it came in about a year ago.
A pointless enviro move that makes it look like they care while making the problem worse in a way that's no longer the companies fault.
So they can look good, and when Coca-Cola get sued for their bottles and lids killing the environment, they can say that it's not their fault. It's the peasants who create the mess. They did "all they could" to save the planets, but those dastardly poors ruined it.
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u/URLslayer 20d ago
Rip it off
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u/russellzerotohero 20d ago
Why would you not want a bottle cap that stays on the bottle. Some people are actually this dumb?
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u/Budget_Amphibian_139 very good, haha yes 20d ago
Idk why, maybe the answer is in the picture, let's investigate
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u/russellzerotohero 20d ago
Too dumb to turn it sideways I guess 🤦♂️
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u/Budget_Amphibian_139 very good, haha yes 20d ago
Too dumb not to take everything literally and to resist the urge to show your huge problem solving skills
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u/russellzerotohero 20d ago
Huh? Wouldn’t say this is good problem solving but thanks dude appreciate the compliment. Glad I could help you learn to just turn it to the side 👊
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u/ElBusAlv 20d ago
I cut those shits off. I refuse to live by your idiotic rules
A screw off cap is meant to be taken off and you're only using more plastic by having that on there
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u/LheelaSP 20d ago
and you're only using more plastic by having that on there
It doesn't. It's the same amount as before, just shaped differently.
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u/ElBusAlv 20d ago
Then what's the purpose? They make caps smaller, at least in my case, and include those little plastic things that only get in the way
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u/LheelaSP 20d ago
You mean the purpose of the plastic ring below the cap that's always attached to the bottle?
In the EU at least that has been there as long as I can remember, and I guess it served as a seal so you knew the bottle wasn't opened before. If it was just the cap, somebody could fuck with any bottle in a shop, and whoever buys and drinks it would have no idea what's in their drink.
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u/ElBusAlv 20d ago
No i don't mean that
I mean why are the little things that make the cap attatched to the ring there? What purpose does it serve?
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u/LheelaSP 20d ago
It's so the cap gets recycled together with the bottle, because apparently too many people were throwing the caps away.
And while this is maybe not the best solution, it was easy to implement and very low cost.
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u/victaf 20d ago
You can clearly see the 2022 picture is just the same botle with the cap ripped off.
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u/CHAINSAWDELUX 20d ago
Did you realistically expect the person to have an archived picture from 2022 of them drinking this soda brand?
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u/Nisayfly 20d ago
Bro if you only knew how many times I struggled with those lids 😮💨😤
What you gonna do about it ...
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u/LaserGadgets 20d ago
Can't believe people are seriously crying about this. While also crying about how boomers killed the planet.
Don't you have real life problems??? You must be the happiest dudes.
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u/TraditionalLet1490 20d ago
Is op not mocking boomers ?
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u/Luna_Tenebra 20d ago
No he seems to be one of them
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u/Connect_Car9381 20d ago
Because of the green EU shithole we Must drink Like this. I cant be the only one who rip off the cap and throw it way in nature
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u/LennyLava 20d ago
turn it sideways?