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  • Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:

    Common names include:

    • armadillo bug
    • boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
    • butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
    • carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
    • cheeselog (Reading, England)
    • cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
    • cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
    • chiggy pig (Devon, England)
    • chisel pig
    • chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
    • doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
    • fat pig (Ireland)
    • gramersow (Cornwall, England)
    • hog-louse
    • millipedus
    • QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
    • mochyn coed (‘tree pig’), pryf lludw (‘ash bug’), granny grey in Wales
    • pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
    • potato bug
    • roll up bug
    • roly-poly
    • slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
    • sow bug
    • woodbunter
    • wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)








  • Exactly - some are perfectly fine. The cheap ones are terrible, crossthread too easily, get up in your face, dribble, or all of the above.

    Sports style bottles solved the problem long before standard caps got in the game. They get disposed of together here either way, even if the cap gets yanked off for being stupid.

    I don’t understand how they end up separate in disposal in the first place. The whole point is that you can reseal the bottle and move/store it without leaking. If you’re not actively using the bottle, it gets resealed to move or store. When you finish the bottle, you probably have the cap still in hand or very close by.

    Tangentially, I’d love to see a Pfand type system here.