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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Well thankfully my fingers aren't made of paper mache.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Pry it up slightly and get an actual finger under it before pulling. Put your thumb in the centre of the lid for leverage.

What are your fingers made of, mashed potato?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

How did you know about my mashed potato fingers?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I don't have a problem with ring pulls on cans. I have problems with those shitty plastic ones found on Asian sauce bottles.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I use my teeth.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I must have weird anatomy or something because I have never found these even slightly difficult to open. Surely the real problem is wet/oily hands trying to grip smooth metal twist caps welded onto smooth glass jars.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I keep my fingernails short, so if I can’t lift the tab within a few seconds, it’s spoon time, baby!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's got a pull tab, made for human fingers. How do you even use a spoon for this?? Do you jam the spoon in? I feel like I'm cack-handed enough to impale myself with the spoon if it requires jamming honestly 😂

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I use my fingers like a normal person. The only problem I have with these is the occasional time when the tab shears off completely as you flip it up and you're left contemplating whether to stab something into the groove or dig out the can opener...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

100% sherd fingers and bend nails backwards

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Get that funny white crease back where flesh meets nail, mmm yer boi that's what I'm about

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I have a harder time dealing with pictures in my head then I do with gross stuff irl or things in movies.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yer that's rough buddy, I'm in the aphantasia bracket so no issues for me, gross it up lol

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Heard of it but never looked into it. Wikipedia has story about a guy who sees the words, not the images (I think). Do you see words, symbols?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Na, no visual imagery at all,

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Me too. I always thought people were being dramatic and colourful. Took decades to realize brains work differently. And apparently some people have problems with ring pulls as well. Human diversity is amazing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Diversity for the win, I'd imagine a trophy if i could haha. Where do you land, partial or full?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yer how good is it haha

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You can get the ring part to lift slightly by pushing down on the opposite side

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I bought a couple of the same cans to test this out with later. Saw the same advice in the other thread.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Fingers of steel

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Usually a can opener, after the tabs on the woolies brand cans fall off. Thanks, duopoly!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I end up using a can opener, axe and angle grinder

BECAUSE THE STUPID PULL TAB COMES OFF!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

upside down spoon

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I use a pen knife my good man.

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