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We need a word for the specific anxiety you feel when peeling back the lid, hoping you dont get flicked with fishy oil
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We need a word for the specific anxiety you feel when peeling back the lid, hoping you dont get flicked with fishy oil


We need a word for the specific anxiety you feel when peeling back the lid, hoping you dont get flicked with fishy oil

by pippersstdigs

28 Comments

  1. TonyBird126

    Turn the opening side away from you when you peel. Saved me some embarrassment

  2. FujiKilledTheDSLR

    Sard-unease

    ‘deenxiety

    Tin tension

    SSSS (Sprat spray stress syndrome)

  4. I-love-seahorses

    I just remember what my grandma used to say: Thumb placement is key fam.

  5. cuentalternativa

    Stand opposite the side, can also cover with paper towel with your free hand

  6. vanthee-anthee

    Im more concern about cutting myself accidentally but yes

  8. cruisingforapubing

    So one time I was at a renegade speaker party in the woods and I had won a can of sardines on a dice bet and I was really hungry at like 7 in the morning and I then I remembered that I had that tin of sardines in my back pocket so I triumphantly pull the sardines out, cheered, ripped them open and sprayed my friend with sardine juice and I was laughing so hard I couldn’t even apologize for like two minutes his girlfriend was just standing there wide eyed and then she’s like “we were going to go fuck! You ruined it!!!” And it was really cute they’re also getting married this year everyone say congratulationssss

  11. TulsisTavern

    I personally have anxiety opening it thinking im going to cut my finger every time lol

  12. SuspiciousChicken

    Here is the secret: Open it until just the last side is hanging on, then just gently wiggle the top a little bit. It will separate nice and gently, no flicking.

  13. bonsai60

    It allways reminds me of a movie where a girl cuts the jugular of her friend with the lid of a can of olives i think it was, idk i saw it more than 10 years ago but that scene is engraved on my mind every time i open a tin.

  15. hicbaucufrb4

    No worries, us Germans have a specific word for it:Konservenffnungsfurcht

  20. maarsland

    That’s not why I get anxiety over it. My mom was opening one of these when I was a kid, and I don’t know how, but it sliced the fuck out of her hand and she started bleeding into the can🤢

  22. VerbalGuinea

    I can never ever ever remember which way it flicks.

  23. VerbalGuinea

    I’ve learned when you get to the end, twist side to side so it doesn’t pop the last seam all at once.

  25. No_Weakness_2135

    I feel like the Germans must have some compound word for that