I began to notice recently that I could not get the caps off bottles of drinks, which remained tethered to the bottle, until I cut them with strong scissors, or tore them free by main force. Otherwise it was nigh impossible to pour the drink because the tethered cap got in the way - and even unscrewing a tethered cap is mechanically self-defeating.
After this became more and more common, I belatedly discovered that this was due to a new EU law - and (of course) the UK has never left the EU.
This business is a perfect microcosm of here-and-now. Tethered caps are supposed to "encourage" recycling of the drinks caps, and recycling is always and invariably A Good Thing. And the more plastic crap we manufacture, the more we can recycle it - Yay!
It's all an oh-so-serious issue - but conveniently serves the stepwise agenda of universal and detailed surveillance and control; by which permissible screw-on bottle top design has been brought under globalist totalitarian control.
So, yet again; a dysfunctional and utterly futile law in service of an evil-motivated, anti-life agenda (CO2 Climate-excused totalitarianism) has been oh-so-laboriously discussed and decided-upon, and imposed internationally by vast bureaucratic-regulatory efforts.
One of the stupidest and wrongest of traditional sayings, an inversion of truth - is: Look after the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
(Especially stupid since it arose when there were 240 pennies in a pound sterling!)
Yet this is modern Green "environmentalism" in a nutshell. In service to fake knowledge about a fake-and-evil theory concerning "climate change" - we have governments imposing energy-consuming and CO2 producing laws in pursuit of changes that - even if all predictive climate-change models were accurate (which they certainly are not, never having been validated), would have undetectably trivial benefits. Meanwhile engaging in mandatory and colossal environmental destruction - for example by gratuitous and mega-polluting wars.
As another instance; thus we have (in the UK) truly draconian criminal laws protecting certain species such as bats against humans - we are not even allowed to touch these creatures. On the other hand, bats are being slaughtered by the ever-increasing numbers of "environmentally friendly" (but functionally counter-productive) wind-turbines at an admitted rate of thousands-to-millions per year!
Nobody sincere, rational and well-motivated could possibly behave this way - hence we know for sure that those ruling The West are overall dishonest, irrational and evil-motivated.
This is possible only by the docile, stupid, and preeningly self-satisfied mind-set of the Western managerial-intellectual class; a group who personally profit from laboriously and expensively implementing an agenda of pointlessly symbolic pseudo-reform in context of a strategy that is ultimately aimed-at purposive political, social, and personal destruction.
The ruling demons are laughing themselves sick - pay attention, and you can "hear" them!
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Yes I have been noticing the very rapid and universal arrival of these tops… it is quite a challenge to rip them off without spilling the content down one’s front or to drink from the bottle with them left on without dipping ones nose into the cap. And the implicit assumption that I am not capable of choosing to ‘recycle’ the cap without such ‘help’.
@Colin - The main point of this kind of thing is precisely to inflict inconvenience and waste our time - so that we can feel virtuous. Our sacrifice to the materialist god of "caring" totalitarianism.
I truly feel for you in the UK on hearing of that advance forward, but I was immediately put in mind of this classic scene by Colin's comment. Laugh or cry, right?
https://youtu.be/V-kuOu_PSME?t=70
We got a double whammy over here in Hungary. These stupid caps AND a deposit on all beverage containers.
Getting the deposit back involves using brand-spanking new and sophisticated deposit refund machines that often out-of-order or refuse to recognize the containers you attempt to feed into them. On top of that, you have to wait in line behind the dozen or so people all holding garbage bags full of empty bottles and cans. And you don't actually get your money back. You get a receipt that you can spend in a store OR you can have the machine transfer the 'funds' to your bank account.
But none of this matters. I'm just happy to do my part for the environment.
Typical modern solution: avoid the actual problem (toxic plastics, sloppy citizens who throw stuff on the ground instead of the trash) and focus on feel-good solutions that let us go back to sleep despite achieving nothing (tethered caps). Reminds me of the "band-aid" scene in Apocalypse Now.
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