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Down on the beach with a few friends and a few bottles of
beer. But no bottle opener.
Lots of demonstrations of ways “you’ve heard” a beer
bottle (or any other crown-capped bottle) can be opened
without a bottle opener. Mostly involving much frustration,
spilled beer, broken glass, and the occasional
chipped
tooth.
But with a bottle-opening-bottle, the glass at the base of
the bottle is formed into a built-in bottle opener. Glass
isn’t a particularly good thing to make implements out of,
so it needs some additional thickness at the base.
Not much good if you only have one bottle. So buy two.
British army style tin opener
https://www.google....f13ATIQMygDegQIARB6
Can also be used as a bottle opener [Skewed, Nov 10 2019]
How not to open a bottle with a fence post
https://www.youtube...watch?v=s7_Pmot_tBo
[Skewed, Nov 10 2019]
How to open a bottle with a fence post
https://m.wikihow.c...out-a-Bottle-Opener
No. 5 the countertop method, but with a fencepost. [Skewed, Nov 10 2019]
Or if you've gone upmarket..
https://www.youtube...watch?v=8EZZVIyVeQI
How to open a bottle of wine with your shoe [Skewed, Nov 10 2019]
& finally
https://www.youtube...watch?v=TNfu8baKkrI
How to open a bottle of beer with your shoe [Skewed, Nov 10 2019]
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Thankfully, with the prevalence of screwtops on wine bottles, the requirement for integral glass corkscrews can be consigned to history. |
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Thank you [8th], much appreciated! |
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//So buy two.// There's the makings of an idea in there, you
know. Something like "Two bottles of..." - no, no it's just
insane. Forget I said anything. |
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I've seen/used twist-top bottles with a molded-into-the-glass twist-top opener in the bottom. |
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Or you could just go twist off. I have seen that on soda and it stays bubbly. |
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What? take away one of humanities fountains of innovation and intellectual stretching. I think not. |
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Could something similar be developed for those plastic blister
packs? I recently bought a pair of scissors whose package
could only be opened using a pair of scissors. |
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That's an easy problem to solve. Open the package from the inside. |
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Back in the 80's I was in the TA, the 24 hour ration packs
always had a handy little tool in them, a flat piece of metal
less
than two inches
long
with a notch one one side you could lever under a bottle
cap &
little triangle with a sharpened edge hinged to its side that
together with that notch let you use it as a can opener, has
a hole on the other end so it can be slipped on a key
ring. |
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It's a handy little doodad, you should get one, I still have
one on my keychain & a couple of spare in
a
draw somewhere. |
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But even without something like that to hand surely you
could
have found a fence post somewhere near the beach? |
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Found some [links] for you, for next time. |
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If unnecessary when the countertop method on any handy
wooden fencepost or similar surface really is impossible to get
wrong. |
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But it still makes for a good sales ploy to get them to buy that
extra bottle. |
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The obvious sales ploy is only to retail the product in a minimum quantity of two bottles, shirley ? |
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No, you sell them singly. |
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"Buy one, get a bottle opener free!" |
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With a small markup for the bottle opener .. then wait for the
repeat sales when they realise they can't open it without a
second one. |
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If you were really smart you would make the opener as part of an intact capped bottle. So you use the second bottle to open the first, but once the first is opened it no longer works as an opener, so you have to buy a third. &ce. |
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//If you were really smart// |
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Oh now that's good, I like it. |
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//If you were really smart// |
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just remembering max and 8th. |
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