Tin can pull tabs: Do you shred your fingers to open them or do you use a spoon like a sensible person?

[diddlydee@feddit.uk]

Can't say I've ever had a problem, but I don't have useless sausage fingers like you apparently do. Makes me think of the Idles lyrics from Never Fight a Man with a Perm:

'Me, oh me, oh my, Roy
You look like a walking thyroid
You're not a man, you're a gland
You're one big neck with sausage hands'

Great band, apart from the last album which was dire.

[maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone]

Thanks for compliment.

[kat_angstrom@lemmy.world]

Wait, is the spoon and the shredding before or after the can is opened?

[diddlydee@feddit.uk]

Keep rocking those stumpy digits.

[albbi@lemmy.ca]

I play the banjo and not the guitar, so I finger pick these open instead of shred.

[iwakeupeveryday@lemm.ee]

Can opener every time. It sounds strange but it doesn’t leave a lip for things to get caught on when you empty the can

[maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone]

The finger shredding would happen as an result of opening the can and remain shredded after until healed so during and after. Dunno about the spoon.

[skaverat@discuss.tchncs.de]

So far, even my nailbiting-fingernails always were more than enough to get these open

[graphy@lemmy.world]

The hell are you doing that shreds your fingers

[fin@sh.itjust.works]

I will use my fingers to prepare for the situation where you cannot use spoons

[peasley@lemmy.world]

One attempt with fingers, then butter knife.

spoon seems too wide

[maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone]

Seems like it's been a while since pull tabs in Australia didn't want to rip off your fingernails when you try to use them to open a can.

[egrets@lemmy.world]

Six songs later in the album is a tune specifically about the evils of making people self-conscious about their body. Be more kind.

[lokoschade@feddit.org]

I have rather long and nimble fingers, but also my fingernails are really thin and soft so I keep them short (otherwise they will break at every opportunity) which is not a good combination to get a hold of can tabs.

[tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de]

Fingernails? When young, I sliced my finger with the lid itself and have the scar to prove it.

[flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I often shape and paint my nails and these things chip polish like nothing, so I'll use the teaspoon I have lying out from the last time I made tea, probably.

[devanismyname@lemmy.ca]

I'm not a total pussy so I jam my buck teeth in there and pry it open with that.

[jet@hackertalks.com]

I use these all the time, no issues.

You pry the tab up to a 45 degree angle. Then insert a finger. While firmly holding the can with one hand, pull back with the other hand on the tab, the can should open smoothly. At the very end there is a chance the lid will spring off the can, so you should use less pressure when the lid is almost totally detached.

If you have trouble getting under the tab (like you just cut your fingernails), use any flat thing to give you leverage, a spoon, toothpick, screwdriver, etc

[mercano@lemmy.world]

I most frequently encounter these when feeding the cat, so in that case I have a spoon out already.

[thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Wish more people here understood people's bodies are different including hands, I have trouble with these things too. Fucking hate them. I don't use a spoon though, just whatever that works. Like wtf do they have to have them so tight and no room to actually get under them and when you do open then they have extremely sharp edges to slice you up. Make it more accessible ffs