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Hello! I'm TJ and this is my blog. The picture is a joke, get it? Because I'm INSIDE the INTERNET?I'm 30 years old and I live in Arizona with my husband and our two big dogs. I've been married for just over a year, and we have a 7 month old daughter named Penelope. You can do the math. It's okay. We don't mind.
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By Delicia on May 19, 2010
I can only conclude that the soda companies assume that we have all used so many anti-bacterial wipes that we have in fact wiped our fingerprints off, and therefore need UBER GROOVES on the lids to provide enough grippy for us to open them. I can’t imagine any other reason to make caps that literally draw blood when you’re trying to open them.
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Jason Reply:
May 19th, 2010 at 11:06 am
Except that those “uber grooves” actually provide /less/ grip (hence we need gorilla hands). They have significantly less surface area to grab onto meaning that to open them requires much more force to compensate for the lack of surface area.
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By sister on May 19, 2010
solution four.
DRINK WAY LESS SODA. OH MY GOD.
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By lak on May 19, 2010
Wait … what?
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By Ale on May 19, 2010
It has also spread to bottles of water. And before the use tap water people pipe up, imagine if you will a quick trip somewhere where you would not expect to need to take some sort of prepared beverage and you have 2 kids with you. Suddenly at the location, your children are dying of thirst as though stranded in a freaking desert and there is neigh a drinking fountain in sight and you really want to shut them up so you can get your quick errand done. You buy a bottle of water and and cannot get the damn cap off because they have made them shorter and thinner, ultimately, more difficult to remove. You can actually see the threads on the bottle pushing through the cap. The only solution at that point is to wack the kids on the heads to shut them up, do your errand, drag the kids back to the car and pretend you don’t know what happened. So for our kids sake, fix the caps, please.
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TJ Reply:
May 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
The water bottle caps are even WORSE. Once they’ve been opened, it’s fine, but breaking the seal is IMPOSSIBLE.
Especially since the bottles themselves are now made with thinner plastic, so you basically twist and crunch the whole bottle into a crumbled ball just trying to get the damn lid off!
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By Melissa on May 19, 2010
ARRGGHHH – HATE! THOSE!
I actually had to have a co-worker open a bottle of Diet Dew for me once. Hello?
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TJ Reply:
May 19th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Pliers. Seriously. It’s the only way.
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By Natalie on May 19, 2010
Coke did this first and it saved them untold millions. Just that little bit less plastic. I can’t say I’ve had a problem, but I drink very little bottled soda (not trying to be snobby, but my office is awesome and we have a soda fountain!).
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TJ Reply:
May 19th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
I definitely prefer fountain soda to bottled. We make the trip to Circle K for $.79 sodas at least 2 or 3 times per week.
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Fyr Reply:
May 20th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
OK now that’s one of those WHAT!? things…
Fountain soda is sweeter and has an inconsistent mix-water ration.
Cans, or bottles if you prefer, are far superior!
We can have a flame war if you like ;-P
Also you should probably get one of those bottle top spanners… kind of like a beer opener but with a grip for a bottle top. You pop it on then twist the around the bottle. That should be much easier to use than pliers that either slip or crush the cap.
Of course the BEST answer is just take the beer bottle opener, and then use it to open a beer instead :)
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By DrJ on May 19, 2010
I’d be interested in seeing experiments into growing Gorilla hands…. :-)
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By Skraps on May 19, 2010
I hate to be the liberal hippy from California. but these caps use something like 1/3rd the plastic, and also use a more recyclable plastic, and are cheaper to make to boot.
All these benefits, I think are worth the slightly smaller cap.
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TJ Reply:
May 19th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
I understand all of those benefits (except cost, of course, which was not passed on to the customer), but the product needs to remain FUNCTIONAL to make those benefits make sense. This cap is a definite fail, even if it brought unicorns back to life.
I should not need to break out PLIERS (not even KIDDING) to bust the seal on a bottle of soda.
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Skraps Reply:
May 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Then I would like to see a stab at the gorilla hand option. Think it would be quite humorous during the upcoming nuptials.
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By RabidCoqui on May 19, 2010
I’ve actually found that the new caps open up easier than the old style…
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TJ Reply:
May 20th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Me, too, now that I use pliers.
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By Dinsdale on May 19, 2010
I don’t think those have made it here yet. For once, living in a place no one knows anything about pays off!
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By geeksugar on May 19, 2010
*cheer* we should picket. like…with signs. in a line. *rally*
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By Rhonda on May 19, 2010
It’s a recipe for disaster really. I sprained my wrist once trying the get a bottle open – the cap was kind of stuck, but it’s the same thing. It comes down to a health and safety issue. You should take this to the top. More money will be spent on people hurting themselve than was saved, mark my words.
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By Tristan on May 20, 2010
Buy cans?
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By lak on May 20, 2010
I’m still trying to understand how people have trouble opening … bottles of soda? Really?
Who knew!
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TJ Reply:
May 20th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Yes. The new caps are much more difficult to open.
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