Originally posted by Wirebender
PET bottles? Are those the ones you put kittens in?
no no no... you're thinking of doggie bags. But once you put kittens inside and throw it away, it becomes kitty litter. Which sorta makes sense coz if the bag's big enough you can put a whole litter of kitties into it.
and now for something completely different:
PET stands for... poly-blahblah-ethyl-somethingorother-tee-blahblahblah. There. You got it? it's the bottles that hold your sodas and drinkling water that you buy at the store. They come in big 1.5L and 2L sizes (maybe bigger) and smaller bottles in the 500ml sizes too... and a whole lot of other sizes as well.
And they have screw on caps too. Though the bottles are ususally transparent, the caps have been known to come in several different colours. And I have discovered that the caps from different bottles are often interchangeable. Some brands of water come with spouts... you know the kind that you can pull with your teeth and then suck out of like you were a cyclist on the Tour de France.
Oh, and the bottles seem to be molded in different shapes too. Coke for instance has theirs molded in the curvaceous and very familiar coke bottle shape. Pepsi doesn't seem to have done much to theirs. Evian though has a whole mountain range running right around theirs.
And the labels on the bottles can vary as well. Most of them seem to be printed and the shrink wrapped onto the bottle. Others are just sticky plastic labels that tell you how much natural goodness your supposed to be getting and if you're not, then you're obviously too smart for them. I remove all the labels on my bottles. Especially the sticky ones.
Partly it's for the esthetics.... but partly it's for practical reasons; I think that if you slice a bottle through a sticky lable, you could leave streaks on the blade of you knife! That would be terrible and you'd have to start a new thread just to figure how to get it removed.
anyway... just to show that I'm not hijacking this 'can' thread and diverting it to 'plastic bottle land'... er... cans are made of metal... they're handy but I've never tried slicing one. I've stabbed many... and crushed even more. But, no... I've never sliced one. I cut some in half with some shears once but that was for a good cause.
Thank you very much and have a nice day.
