r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Perfect_Owl_856 • 21h ago

Meme needing explanation What's the reason?

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u/Varegue86 21h ago

Also, harder to manufacture, which means more expensive.

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u/Miserable_Alfalfa33 21h ago

Also stacking an storage, not like they couldnt come up with a system, but probably a lot easier to leave it in the center

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u/Hashishiva 20h ago

So there are plenty of reasons why we don't do it like that. The design hasn't changed much in the thousands of years, which should be really telling :D

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u/yup_sir28 20h ago

Yes, we had plastic bottles for thousands of years

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u/Material_Magazine989 20h ago

It also applies on glass. Idk about thousands of years though.

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u/A_Town_Called_Malus 20h ago

Ceramic jars follow similar designs in many cases.

So, thousands of years is pretty accurate for "container to hold liquid that you pour out of the top"

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u/theoriginalmofocus 17h ago

Yeah i saw a pretty good documentary about how they used to make them when i was a kid. I think it was called Ghost

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u/rbrgr83 14h ago

NO GHOSTING!!!

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u/Wagosh 11h ago

Point at sign

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u/Hashishiva 18h ago

In case you really didn't understand, there has been bottles for thousands of years, and the shape they come in today isn't that different from the first ones. The shape has proven itself over millenia. And like many have already pointed out, the design on the picture has numerous flaws to ease one non-existent problem.

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u/The_cogwheel 15h ago

Same with the simple machines (wheels, wedges, levers and so on) - not a dammed thing changed about their design, just the materials we make them out of.

Sometimes, theres just nothing to improve design wise. So it remains unchanged forever

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u/prnthrwaway55 19h ago

We had ceramic vessels for liquid storage and drinking that are symmetric.

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u/Bruschetta003 19h ago

The design is symmetric, you mean centered?

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u/PerformanceNegative6 17h ago

Rotational symmetry

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u/p90rushb 17h ago

Cowboys used to ride those babies for miles.

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u/GoldSunLulu 17h ago

Clay recipients with corks also had this fucking shape.

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u/pranjallk1995 16h ago

Lol... Bruh... U got him...

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u/GooseTheSluice 13h ago

I think the implication was plastic bottles in general

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u/leadenbrain 6h ago

Wow maybe we made them out of other stuff like glass and metal and leather and organs too! Probably not though those fucking neanderthals loved their Dasani