Really really irritating little things

[StealthPolarBear]

(anyone who asks if I don't have anything more important to worry about - you have a point)
Houmous. Comes out of its cardboard sleeve - fine.
Then you have to undo that plastic collar thing. The perforated section breaks off under the lid and then you have t sort of yank at it, leaving a loop around the tub.
Anyone else? Just me? Feel free to add your first World irritations.

It can't just be me! Is everyone else in a lockdown zen?

In a similar vein - sacks of animal feed where you are supposed to pull along a stitched line, whereupon the thread comes undone and the top opens smoothly. Never ever happens and I always have to take a knife to the bloody things, which then split and rip and spill half the contents on the feed room floor.

Bastards.

God yes to both of those!

Ready meals with the film sealing over a plastic carton. I always, always manage to tear off the film edge only leaving the food still firmly covered with film.

Ring-pull cans when the ring-pull comes off in your hand.

And the fact that I can take my hoover apart to unbung it or empty in about ten seconds, but it takes about twenty minutes to get it back together again so there is suction.

Packets of cooked meat with the 'open here' corner that NEVER opens when you pull it.

The film on the top of milk bottles. The tab always comes off. It hurts my hand to actually get the thing off and then it sticks to my hand.
I have been known to delay having a cup of tea in the hope that dh will have to open the milk rather than me.

Yes yes to the sealed ready meals and packs of ham!
Also those bags of grated cheese (please take any cutted up pear comments to another thread) which claim to be re sealable. Re sealable my arse!

Yes and those little ring pull things on tetrapacks. I have been known to stretch them for miles while they stubbornly cling on.

Amazon packing tape!! You know the stuff that's got the diamond string integrated? It hurts so much to remove!!! I've been know to to rip the cardboard to open parcels rather than deal with that.

Cereal bags. You open them carefully then the little arseholes tear too far down so when you pour the Krispies out they end up in the box

Ye si know exactly the tape you mean

Weetabix. Every time I get a couple out of the box, crumbs go everywhere.

@Zaphodsotherhead - I struggled with those too until someone told me the following..

Make sure the line of neat horizontal stitching is facing you with the excess thread on the right hand side. Check if the end of the thread is in the loop, if it is then just poke it back through, a little fiddly but doable, then pull the end. 9/10 now I can open them easily and I mentally thank that person every time

Ohh, found a vid

Open sewn bag

@DarkPassenger - THANK YOU!

Now, can you help with the hoover?

Foil type protective covers on larger sized yogurt cartons that you have to release when first opening them - always tear across the top no matter how carefully I try to ease them back.

@DarkPassenger Oh wow, now I am going to try it.

hmm, just opened chicken food bag that lasts for 3 months, will I still remember it in 3 months time.....

I also hate those annoying thin ribbons loops on tops that always poke out onto your shoulders/chest. I can see they have a practical application because they can stop tops falling off hangers but they’re on tops that don’t fall off hangers anyway and they’re evil and I hate them

Only yesterday was I pondering the desperate unfairness of some ham or cheese packs having the corner tab at the top and some at the bottom so it's not always immediately obvious which end I need to unwrap the cling film from on a later reopening. Bastards.

CatsOfSummer cut them off!

When you buy things like meal replacements, protein powders, formula milk or milkshake powder which have a scoop and the scoop comes buried within the powder and you have to hunt for it and and up with powder stuck under your fingernails.

Corned beef tins with the little keys. I have never successfully used one. I just use a knife or a normal tin opener and do my best.

Laundry liquid lids. Lots of different designs that are supposed to stop the stuff running down the container after you've poured. They don't work.

Resealable cheese, you cut along the dotted line then can't undo the resealable bit, so cut a bit further down, and then the resealable bit doesn't reseal

Bags of pasta you open to reseal (I'm seeing a theme here) that rip down the side and the pasta goes everywhere