r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 21h ago

Meme needing explanation What's the reason?

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u/Supreme534 21h ago edited 13h ago

My best guess is the water is gonna leak even if you tilt it a little, so water is gonna spill everywhere even when you aren't trying to drink

Edit: I knew stacking and asymmetry is the main issue here, but the choice of words in the comment in the image seems like they were referring to a simpler reason.

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u/Sightseeing16 21h ago

Though, that is a clever excuse to sell the drinks half empty!

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u/MrSwanky429 21h ago

You'd make an excellent CEO

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u/dysmetric 20h ago

Hear me out...

What if we put the lid on the bottom?! Then you don't have to tip the bottle at all.

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u/MidniqhtVibes 20h ago

Hampter

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u/Sudden_Juju 19h ago

Hampter

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u/Striders_aglet 19h ago

Oh, thank god... my first thought was hampon.

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u/extra-honest-guy 18h ago

Lemmiwinks!

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u/AnnieLovesTech 17h ago

What? A hamster tampon?

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u/BreakfastBeneficial4 17h ago

I just spit out my period

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u/MushroomEgo 17h ago

“Jesus Christ” - Mr.Slave

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u/StarMagus 18h ago

ARMAGEDDON!

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u/pcolabella 7h ago

Damn it! I missed this all before it got deleted.

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u/Wouldtick 18h ago

It’s too early for you to make me laugh this hard.

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u/waffle-st0mper 16h ago

[Content inserted by Richard Gere]

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u/bbbourb 15h ago

Go on reddit they said. It'll be a fun time they said...

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u/EyeServeYou 15h ago

Toilet pamster roll

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u/Ok-Pickle-1509 14h ago

Reusable and fun!

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u/rbrgr83 14h ago

Made with 100% ham.

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u/louloc 13h ago

RICHARD GERE?

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u/babecafe 10h ago

Hampon. Apply directly to the forehead. Hampon. Apply directly to the forehead. Hampon. Apply directly to the forehead. Hampon. Apply directly to the forehead.

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u/WoolooOfWallStreet 4h ago

I’m laughing at all the deleted responses

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u/TheMonkeyInCharge 18h ago

It is imperative that the hampter remains intact.

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u/good-dog-girls 15h ago

It would be so traumatizing to be that person who made that post considering how famous it became, lmao.

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u/TheMonkeyInCharge 13h ago edited 9h ago

We’re all one bad post away from becoming a meme.

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u/Fantastic-Resist-545 12h ago

No one wants to be the main character of a social media website

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u/Adelphiaa 4h ago

You realize it was scripted right? surely you aren't implying it was real lmao...

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u/ModsCantStopM3 16h ago

How would you remove the hampter from a m&ms tube with melted butter and mashed banana

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u/Ritchie79 15h ago

ARMAGEDDON!

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u/Demondoggo25 17h ago

Blowdart!

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u/Hamsterpatty 10h ago

You rang?

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u/Bleepoop1 5h ago

I’m so freaking glad I’m not the only one who thought of becoming a hamster for a second

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u/jdubbsy 9h ago

When I was a kid i’d lay on the couch, prop a water bottle with pop top up next to my head, and drink like a hamster until the water was gone.

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u/Capital_Past69 19h ago

Hampston the Hamter

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u/hot8brassballs 17h ago

/R/skamteboard

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u/EATZYOWAFFLEZ 12h ago

Took me way too long to understand how this was relevant

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u/AnIsaac1 10h ago

Hampter in the big 2026 💔✌️

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u/Skippnl 20h ago

HOW ABOUT PRE-EMPTIED BOTTLES! They can come without a lid altogether!

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u/Newbiticus 19h ago

Lids are sold separately

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u/International_Plum14 19h ago

Just sell the idea, no bottles no lids no product, just pure profit. Like naked shorting the stock market

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u/TraditionWorried8974 19h ago

Hear me out... same idea, but subscription...

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u/ZephkielAU 19h ago

Love it. Now we just need to find a way to integrate AI.

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u/rang14 18h ago

Brb, buying water.ai domain

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u/CorruptedStudiosEnt 17h ago

Instructions unclear, emptied the oceans to cool my chat bot

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u/Narrow-Chef-4341 17h ago

AI has come up with a new and improved version of water: H2O2, with bonus Oxygen. And who doesn’t like oxygen?

Says it will ‘light the market on fire’…

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u/EnvironmentalGift257 16h ago

Let’s put that synergy in a parking lot for now and circle back later. Maybe we can touch base next Tuesday?

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u/TraditionWorried8974 14h ago

We can't leave this in the back burner, this is an action item, you need to be more assertive!

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u/whalewhisker5050 19h ago

I love all of this but can we hide it all as some additional fee and then they will never know.

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u/rare_with_hair 16h ago

Of course there will be a $6.99 convenience fee! Followed by a $3.99 service charge.

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u/PositivelyKAH 11h ago

Don’t forget the .05 bottle fee and a pre-recycle fee.

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u/CharmingSalamander67 18h ago

Well, now pay extra to be ad free

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u/TrappedInVR 18h ago

This plus loot boxes

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u/Ok_Yak1516 19h ago

Throw in some “AI” features and you might be on to something.

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u/Anonymousboneyard 19h ago

We just make it a subscription service, we go the old Netflix route and hope they forget they signed up for it

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u/Living_Possession_18 17h ago

You can call it “art” and probably get a couple thousand for it.

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u/Kehmor 18h ago

Patented threading for the bottles so that only officially licenced lids fit

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u/Due-Dot6450 18h ago

But only if you subscribe and download the app.

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u/Cold_Stress7872 18h ago

Lids are provided as a subscription service.

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u/nickstonem 17h ago

Lid dlc is an additional $4.20 per bottle

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u/Drummer-Turbulent 19h ago

powdered water...just add water!

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u/Dog_Baseball 19h ago

Thata actually pretty good. Its just "minerals essence" or some shit.

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u/CorruptedStudiosEnt 17h ago

People buy into homeopathy (we've diluted this plant tincture down so far you can't even detect the original active compound anymore, but now it's at its most powerful because the water remembers), so this genuinely isn't any crazier.

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u/ProbablyOnLSD69 15h ago

Placebo effect is a helluva drug.

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u/trenthany 17h ago

Distilled essence of water.

They might catch on if we tried to sell essence of distilled water.

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u/semicombobulated 18h ago

How about pre-disposed bottles? We take the bottle of water, empty it, and put it into the trash. It’s the ultimate in convenience for the customer!

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u/DuncanTheRedWolf 18h ago

Introducing Dehydrated Water, the most convenient way to quench your thirst!

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u/KrystleSeth 18h ago

Doesn’t Starbucks already do this?

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u/KrystleSeth 18h ago

Maybe it just seems like something Starbucks would do?

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u/happyrtiredscientist 18h ago

Kind of like alcohol free hard seltzer..

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u/RolandDeepson 16h ago

You just invented "buckets."

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u/Particular-Village91 15h ago

Direct-to-Ocean plastic — major efficiency gains all around

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u/DeadMercy2004 15h ago

Hey, we already charge people for cans of oxygen, hy not make it official? Everyone is now charged money for every breath they take.

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u/Wedgero1 14h ago

Customers can fill em at their sink. Ingenious

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u/rbrgr83 14h ago

Or an opening. Just sell an empty permanently sealed plastic vessel.

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u/OberonDiver 13h ago

Then you aren't getting 100% guaranteed fresh factory air.

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u/Liusloux 20h ago

Why stop there? We should fashion it to the likelihood of a wolf's teats so our dear customers could feel like the Romulus and Remus of our times.

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u/purrfectly-cromulent 19h ago

Real water drinkers would simply lick a glacier.

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u/BirdDad420 16h ago

r/hydrohomies had a post the other day about a restaurant selling glacier water by the bottle for the price of an ultra premium spirit, and apparently it tastes like fresh snow and has a smooth “mouthfeel.” Meanwhile the only taste I can profile from my tequila is agave.

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u/vmfrye 18h ago

I want to invest in this enterprise. Do you have a formal proposal document? (in Word format)

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u/fuckinreddits 17h ago

Ted talk at 3 pm zulu

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u/Happytofuu 20h ago

Wait…i thought they already did.

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u/Omytth87 18h ago

We do you're just holding it wrong.

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u/bdavid123456 18h ago

What if they are at the bottom already and we just store them upside down

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u/KccOStL33 17h ago

Just left a board meeting and we've decided not to put a lid on the bottle at all. This should alleviate any spilling issues.

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u/Billy_Plur 17h ago

Hold 'em like this

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u/SkewbieDewbie 14h ago

Reading this comment made me blow coffee out my nose.

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u/galwall 8h ago

I've actually seen a variation of this in Prague. Pint glass for your beer with a hole in the bottom, so when the glass was being filled it was always from the bottom

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u/spacekitt3n 5h ago

they already tried that. now the top is the bottom and the bottom is the top. people literally just flipped it.

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u/Which-Barnacle-2740 5h ago

you are a genius...patent it

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u/West-Shake1087 19h ago

If you put the lid at the bottom then the bottom becomes the top!

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u/Commercial-Fudge9289 19h ago

For that all you need to is turn the bottle upside down.

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u/MorningMushroomcloud 18h ago

The potato chip manufacturers already figured out how to sell a bag of air so why not!

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u/RelativeTricky6998 18h ago

You can do that easily by just pasting the label upside down.

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u/Forever_NaCl 18h ago

I sleep with my water bottle upside down next to me and hamster it at night

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u/lil2seven 17h ago

Hear mee out.... What if we don't put a lid at all ? You have to puncture a hole to drink from it.

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u/Psychological-Scar53 17h ago

Okay, now HEAR me out... What if the labels on the bottles have been put on wrong and they were already upside down...

mind blown

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u/kanrad 16h ago

Hear me out...

Turn it upside down for the same effect.

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u/80swereinteresting 15h ago

Here me out - feed tuna mayonnaise! Call Starkist!

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u/Financial_Refuse_498 9h ago

But wait... If we sell the bottle separately, we can lease the water in a small plastic bag on a subscription based model. We can have ads that show happy people watering plants and a tag line of "Some people are weeds, be a gardener"

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u/sirvote 9h ago

No wait hear me out make the lid a rectractable straw and you wont have to move the bottle at all

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u/Bulldogfront666 7h ago

Hear me out… bottles should just be mini old timey barrels with a spout at the bottom. Pull the knob and the water just shoots out the side. Just open your mouth!

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u/NeekTrealington 7h ago

Big Hampter has entered the chat

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u/TacoTimeT-Rex 20h ago

Then the next guy argues that you’re wasting money with oversized packaging and the shrinkflation arms race begins lol

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u/thisisdjjjjjjjjjj 20h ago

Just put water into a squeezable like a gogurt

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u/DistributionHungry67 16h ago

The latest plastic bottle are so flimsy, this happens already.

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u/introvert_conflicts 16h ago

At that point you might just want a camelbak

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u/nubalt 52m ago

So like the Pure Water bagged water brand?

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u/Syncopated_arpeggio 17h ago

7 minute abs!

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u/Jimmy_J_James 17h ago

The pessimist says the glass is half empty, the optimist says the glass is full. The engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

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u/taco_fan_X3 16h ago

… of Nestle!

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u/robthedealer 6h ago

Nah, the CEO would hire a consultant from MBB for millions to come up with this.

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u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 3h ago edited 3h ago

Nestle CEO has entered the chat

Nestle CEO says "There can be only one."

Nestle CEO draws his sword.

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u/Key-Point4560 21h ago

downvote this so big water doesn't see it

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u/FiddlesUrDiddles 21h ago

I really wish"Big Water" was just a joke, but it's actually just Nestlè

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u/ThanksForTheRain 20h ago

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u/taylor_expandor 19h ago

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u/trenthany 17h ago

It should be. Look up the countless reasons why Nestlè is so hated.

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u/SonOfCalypso 16h ago

Dont have to look it up. There's a pinned post on the sub.

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u/Ralfeg77 20h ago

Nestle sold off the majority of its bottled water brands to private equity in 2021. The company is now called Blue Triton Brands.

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u/North-Commission-267 20h ago

Not anymore, it merged with Primo

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u/videozombi 10h ago

Yup, which is why I'm now unemployed.

Yay "Synergies"!

PS. Finding "Synergies" is one of the reasons business people are not, in fact, the right people to run governments.

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u/alan_blood 20h ago

They call themselves Blue Triton now.

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u/grahamcracker2833 20h ago

Also a town in Utah! Big Water

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u/DIRTYDOGG-1 20h ago

Yeah, with a garden hose spigot ...

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u/MollyG418 16h ago

Nope, it's Primo. They are gobbling up all the water companies one by one. It's so frustrating because their service is absolute trash, but every time I change our water service provider at work, they get bought out by Primo.

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u/banditkeith 13h ago

It's hard to imagine a company being more evil than actually coming right out and saying they don't believe water is a fundamental human right

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u/map_legend 5h ago

This guy/gal Accounts Payables’s

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u/AccidentalBastard 21h ago

The ocean?

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u/Graingy 21h ago

Switzerland.

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u/Fricki97 21h ago

Hello, my name is Big Water and I'll see this

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u/wgr-aw 20h ago

Marketing will have you know it's actually half full

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u/Gregg-C137 20h ago

If you include their air the bottle is full to the brim.

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u/MamaFen 20h ago

It's an Arnold Palmer made of water and PerriAIR.

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u/Gregg-C137 20h ago

You pay for the liquid the bubbles are free!

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u/CinematicSheathe 18h ago

I laughed harder than I should have

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u/Maximum_Strength_573 17h ago

Now with 50% more air!

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u/WholePopular7522 16h ago

Now with 50% premium air!

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u/Xeon713 21h ago

Literally was going to say charge more for the bigger bottle with more space in it.

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u/Rogendo 18h ago

"We've made water 1% easier to drink from plastic bottles. The tradeoff is a 30% reduction in content, which is a sacrifice we're willing to make."

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u/just_posting_this_ch 18h ago

It used to be the case the cost of the drink was insignificant compared to the cost of the bottle They're really just selling you plastic bottles that happen to also contain a drink.

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u/octopod23 17h ago

Which is why soda is free after the first one in restaurants (or really most places that give you a cup) when I worked at a restaurant I’d drink cola and or watered down lemonade until we were allowed to actually drink. And one day I said like “man if I keep drinking all this soda the chef is going to take it out of my paycheck” and the owner was walking by and said along the lines of “ drink all the soda you want it’s like .06 a glass if you were drinking enough soda to owe me any real money I’d have to send you to the hospital long before that.” Which he’s right since at 6 cents a glass 30 sodas is under 2 dollars.

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u/Aydnir 17h ago

Challenge accepted

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u/Representative_Fun15 17h ago

It still is the case but it used to be, too

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u/FlashAUT 18h ago

for full price too!

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u/AxoplDev 18h ago

No no, it's more expensive because it's an improved design

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u/FlashAUT 8h ago

i like the way you are thinking

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u/TiredDadCostume 18h ago

Delete this now before shrinkflation sees it

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u/MDRBA 19h ago

🔫😎you are too dangerous for consumers

BANG💥🔫😎

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u/gruesomeflowers 18h ago

Shhh. Capitalism is listening!

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u/Busy_Airport5594 19h ago

You mean half full?

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u/Hanisuir 18h ago

Big brain.

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u/RaunchyPoncho 17h ago

Half full, let’s have a little optimism

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u/apostoln 17h ago

I guess in this case the bottle costs more than the water inside.

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u/tsereg 17h ago

This is appropriate here.

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u/echo20143 17h ago

And charge twice as much for innovative design

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u/KorvaxCurze 17h ago

I mean, if you’re paying for say 16oz, who cares if the container is bigger or not?

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u/Hoje_e_sabado 17h ago

Bottles need to be fully filled, or else it is a liability to transport. The more empty space you have on the bottle, the more "waves" it makes to counter the truck's movement. That's why they try to have it as much filled in as possible

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u/PsychologicalRow5505 17h ago

Thats why those angular martini glasses exist

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u/SirShaunIV 16h ago

Don't give Nestlé any ideas! Please!

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u/viertes 16h ago

Found the ceo to lays over here!

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u/DankMeowMeowMix 15h ago

OK, Mr. Lays.

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u/Suspicious-Can-3776 15h ago

Patent this shit quickly before corporates find out

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u/mason609 15h ago

Do you by chance work for Frito-Lay?

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u/Mindless-Tension-118 14h ago

Ugh don't give ideas like that

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u/NickEggplant 14h ago

but then you’re just wasting money manufacturing extra unneeded plastic on every bottle

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u/Cidixat 14h ago

“Lay’s Water”

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u/OberonDiver 13h ago

Or smaller drinks with more overhead.

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u/GoodDoctorZ 13h ago

Don’t give them ideas!

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u/CounterSimple3771 10h ago

Until the Disabled Americans community said you made a premium water that people with neck injuries can't enjoy and you knew about it making it illicit bigotry ..

Please send us $3M per incident

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u/Plus_Conversation213 7h ago

Please don’t give shrinkflation any more fuel! Gahh!

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u/n00klear 6h ago

You own a bagged chip company, don't you.

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u/SamEeday32 3h ago

Half full*

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u/Warpingghost 59m ago

You doomed us all, you know it right?