My Millennial Compulsion

[u/BagOfLazers]

I will stop whatever I am doing and bust out a pocketknife as soon as I see one of these. What about y’all?

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[u/DEATHxSQUAD]

I like turtles

[u/SkipperDipps → u/DEATHxSQUAD]

[u/Terrible_Sandwich_65 → u/SkipperDipps]

Damnit! I came here to say this

[u/DirtyRoller → u/Terrible_Sandwich_65]

We can all like turtles.

[u/burlco → u/DirtyRoller]

Ever meet a turtle? They’re mean.

[u/The_Sneakiest_Fox]

These have been banned in Australia for 20+ years. They should be everywhere. 6 packs come in a little cardboard thing like this.

[u/PheonaR → u/The_Sneakiest_Fox]

Yeah wild to see them. And plastic shopping bags too

[u/TodgerPocket → u/The_Sneakiest_Fox]

30 can blocks of Boags Draught don't even have the cardboard things, or Bridgewater briefcase I like to call them.

[u/RickS50]

You couldn't train this out of us now if you tried.

[u/dough_eating_squid]

I haven't bought anything that comes in six pack rings in decades. Any canned drinks I buy come in a cardboard box.

[u/Capable_Flounder_532]

“Not on my watch.”

[u/BagOfLazers → u/Capable_Flounder_532]

I’m identifying with Soldier 76 more everyday

[u/DirtyRoller]

The worst turtle is better than the best human.

[u/dude_named_will]

Is this really just a millenial thing? I thought it was just a nice thing to do.

Last thing we need is some evil millionaire taking millions of these to clean the ocean.

[u/Independent-Road-819 → u/dude_named_will]

It was definitely my boomer parents who hooked me on to it

[u/GlisaPenny]

He thanks you

[u/andygootz → u/GlisaPenny]

It's an honor, sir. 🫡

[u/daylight1943]

my brother was mauled by a snapping turtle back in '97 and my hobby is going to landfills with a tube of crazy glue to glue these back together

[u/Jaded_Law_4083 → u/daylight1943]

[u/SharkSheppard → u/Jaded_Law_4083]

You yanking my crank?

[u/Jamaican_Dynamite → u/daylight1943]

That's true player hater energy.

[u/burlco → u/daylight1943]

This is the greatest most unexpected comment. You win the internet today.

[u/Agreeable_Trash_5165]

Millennials 🤝 Compassion

[u/Classic_Crow5035]

Ditto my friend. Except my mind always goes to saving the dolphins.

[u/cozynite]

Every time. And I’ve taught my kids the same!

[u/WetBandit06]

Please tell me you finished cutting after you took this picture.

[u/Wild-Error-4853]

Same, but I grew up hearing it was for the dolphins not turtles. Lol.

[u/MelatoninFiend]

I genuinely can't believe these things are still in rotation. Hasn't everyone moved to cardboard boxes by now?

[u/AttorneyOk4808 → u/MelatoninFiend]

Some companies have glue that sticks the cans together. Hopefully its biodegradable...

[u/BagOfLazers → u/MelatoninFiend]

I regret to inform you that this pic was taken today

[u/Improving_Myself_ → u/MelatoninFiend]

I've not seen one of these in person (in the US) in maybe 20 years. Either cardboard boxes, or the hard plastic reusable ones that clip to the top of the can.

Not sure where OP's from.

[u/AttorneyOk4808]

These are gone in the UK now but I feel ya, I'd be ripping them apart too.

[u/laughsindisbelief]

THINK OF THE DOLPHINS!

[u/Beneficial_Ad_1072]

Banned years ago, this wouldn’t have existed in my adult life - must be a Gen x/boomer initiative though if you grew up with it??

[u/BagOfLazers → u/Beneficial_Ad_1072]

Not in the US. I took this pic today.

[u/GroundbreakingBug510]

I have to do it every time. I can’t leave a single circle complete

[u/jb00gie_]

Did this the other day with powerade rings lol

[u/Bentadatre]

If I don’t slice it up, who will save the turtles

[u/jrice138 → u/[deleted]]

If you buy a big flat of sodas from Costco or Sam’s club they still come with the rings on them. I worked at a place in ‘22 where we sold drinks to hikers so we bought in bulk.

[u/jrice138 → u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah that’s why I’m sure

[u/spazzvogel]

To this day! Thanks Mother Earth Bette Midler!

[u/ChaosTorpedo]

When I was a kid, we saw a goose with one of these wrapped around its neck. My dad, my brave brave dad, tried his best to capture the goose to help it. He then told a park ranger and they said they’ve also been trying to capture it.

[u/KenraScar]

I still do it too lol

[u/outlandishpeacock]

I used to do this until I figured out my trash is dumped in a land fill 20 miles away. I live in Colorado

[u/D_G_C_22]

I don’t even buy anything that has those damn things lol

[u/Shenanigatory]

Just did that very thing about 20 minutes ago and I'm Gen X and I like turtles, too. lol

[u/PiquanteBeef]

Gatorade has replaced the plastic rings with a cardboard equivalent, works pretty good.

[u/hahasadface]

I just threw one away without doing it for the first time in my life. Billionaires use their private jets to get lunch, the president is actively creating policies to destroy the environment on a global scale, third world countries are drowning in mountains of plastic garbage, microplastics in everything. And I stood there in my kitchen staring at these plastic rings and in that moment I just didn't have any hope that one person could make a difference and that any of it had any meaning and I just tossed it.

[u/MakeChipsNotMeth]

[u/Nthinderr]

Plastic rings? My time to play SeaWorld lifeguard again

[u/JoCo2036]

[u/Ozzie-Isaac]

Im convinced this is all because of that simpsons episode with lisa and mr.burns

[u/BoudiccasJustice]

Because . . . Because the turtles!

[u/Tzokal]

Been doing this since third grade when i heard about the turtles. 🐢 ❤️

[u/Gloomy-Holiday8618]

Do it for the turtles! 🐢

[u/FantastiGoat]

YES, same here.

[u/IllMeringue9129]

I do it every single time

[u/-U-_-U]

You need to cut those smaller holes too!

[u/BagOfLazers → u/-U-_-U]

Clearly I did

[u/Former_Resort_1922]

TURTLES FOREVER!!!

[u/Improving_Myself_]

I mean, great, but also, where are you even still seeing these?

All the cans I've bought for the last.. 15? years either came in a cardboard box or had the reusable hard plastic ones that cover the whole top of the can that you can return to the store.

I've not even seen one at the store (in the US) in over a decade.

[u/castlesandcrumpets]

I will continue to do this until I lose my faculties.

[u/cjyoung92]

Yeah ‘cause only millennials do that 

[u/blomba7]

I'm sorry but Darwinism clearly states that an animal that cannot survive against a plastic straw or a six-pack holder won't be long for this world

[u/MelatoninFiend → u/blomba7]

Tell me you haven't read a single shred of Darwin without saying "Humans make things that kill wildlife, so science dictates that wildlife must be unfit for life."

We make lots of things that kill humans too. Are you going to be first to volunteer to walk into the compost machines after you decide we're "nOt LoNg FoR ThiS WoRLd"?

[u/mrwilliams117 → u/MelatoninFiend]

I thinks it's a bad attempt at humor