Found in my backyard in TX

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ThermionicMho@reddit

I hope OP didn't blow out their flip flop

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Pop-tab cans became popular around 1975 (I looked it up) so pull-tab cans were out of style a solid ten years before I was born, but I still immediately knew what this was. At what point does unfamiliarity with an object become less about about generation, and more about ignorance?

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H3adwound@reddit

Just what I was thinking about, push tabs

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Basic-Pair8908@reddit

Really? We still use them in uk.

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Future-Raisin3781@reddit

I was in college in the early 00s. There was a fire extinguisher box on my hall that was FULL of these pull-tabs, lol

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Ws6fiend@reddit

Counterpoint people have been cleaning up the trash left behind by others. Meaning every year it becomes less and less likely one would know what it is. I've never seen one but I'm also nerdy enough to have watched the entire How it's made/history of aluminum cans which covered these.

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overengineered@reddit

As kids, my aunt would pay us 25cent bounty for each one we found along the fences by cow pastures. People used to throw them out the car window along with cig butts. If they get wedged into hooves it can cause big issues.

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ProfessorOfLies@reddit

Also the reason we all know about it is because it was because we grew up consuming the media made during that era in reruns and syndication. And the boomers being the target for so long had their childhood repackaged to them and us for a very long time. Current kids are getting a lot of shit now from the 80's and 90's but also just don't have that same media experience with TV all but dead

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Coakis@reddit

I can only surmise that a significant amount of people frequenting the r/whatisit r/PeterExplainsTheJoke and r/idontgetit visitors live under rocks.

I don't even think I've ever seen a person use a pull tab from a soda and could figure it out due to the similarity to the pull tabs for canned vegetables or soup.

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absentlyric@reddit

It's also Reddit, aside from niche subs like this, the average Redditor is in their 20s and well...a Redditor, most live sheltered lives. Go to the political subs to see that.

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H3adwound@reddit

Remember the 2 push tabs on cans a large one to drink from and a small one to let air in as you drank?

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tacotruck@reddit

I thought that these were banned (or at least abandoned) because of how much litter they generated by people pulling off the top and throwing it on the ground. I think of that every time I’m at a park where the ground is covered in plastic water bottle tops. Why can’t we do it again?

(Also plastic straw sleeves)

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BigPoppaStrahd@reddit

And the metal beer bottle tops. I volunteered to clean up a city park and I spent hours around a baseball diamond picking up beer bottle caps.

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kalitarios@reddit

I hope they just let you use one of those inexpensive rolling magnets that look like a broom. Makes picking up beer caps, nails, and screws a snap. I got one for my house and found a shit ton of roofing nails in the grass when I first moved in. I had a dog and didn't want her stepping on nails, and I probably filled an entire maxwell house can with nails.

I use it to clean up the swimming area near my house for bottle caps a few times a year. Can't grab the aluminum tabs but it grabs anything magnetic easily.

Grabbed a random GIS picture for reference

No more having to pick up caps by hand

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kalitarios@reddit

Oof, that seems terribly inefficient. If you have to to it again, use one of those magnets!

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BigPoppaStrahd@reddit

Nope, we used trash pickers, the claw type

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absentlyric@reddit

I remember going to the Drive In as a kid, and (of course because we were that age with boomer parents) we would wander to the concession stands barefoot, you had to watch out for all the metal (well at that time, pop bottle as well) tops on the ground, along with broken glass and lit cigarette butts.

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mdsnbelle@reddit

That’s why I loved Natty Boh bottles with the pictograms on the caps. No one threw those away.

I was in a bar in Baltimore years ago. Scott Weiland was doing soundcheck for his show downstairs that night and we were doing Happy Hour karaoke upstairs. All of a sudden, this guy walked in and sat down at the bar, and one of my friends was like, “Holy shit, is that Questlove?”

Yes, yes it was. He had come in for Weiland’s show and they were gonna have dinner after soundcheck. In the meantime he’d wandered upstairs.

Now the thing about Baltimore is that if you sit down at the bar, eventually someone is gonna talk to you, but if you’re a dude just trying to have a drink and we know who you are, no one’s gonna talk to you like we KNOW who you are.

Let’s just say that Rachel Weiz would hate us here.

So he sits down and we’ve all got our pile of Boh caps and eventually either one of us asks for his opinion or he asks what we’re doing becuse next thing he’s just hanging out solving puzzles like he’s a dude off the street and not freaking Questlove.

Solid dude.

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