Things that are not fit for purpose

[TortugaRumCakeQueen]

I am finding this increasingly of late, and it's driving me nuts. Is there no product testing any more?

I ordered Tippex with my weekly shop, and they sent me an alternative that looks like a pen. You're meant to squeeze the pen for the tippex to come out. Husbands grip is strong and it works for him. No matter how hard I squeeze, I'm unable to get any liquid to come out. So who is that made for? Just men?

Packets of ham/bacon, where it says "Peel here". Nope, the plastic just rips randomly, so you have to cut the whole thing off.

Milk cartons when you pour, the milk goes everywhere because the spout doesn't work.

Writing on things that is the same colour as the item, so you can't read it. See also, best before dates on eggs - can't read as it's always smeared.

Shredders that get paper jams within minutes.

Public loos - often the bolt doesn't align with the "bolt holder" (?) so you can't lock the door.

Train loos - no water in the taps.

Dog harnesses that dogs can back out of.

Aargh..........

The tax free childcare website. Gives me so much rage every time I have to use it.

The CMS!

ExH managed to convince them he earned £34,000, when he actually earned £134,000. I told them the truth. Wouldn't believe me as I had no proof. Then, he didn't provide proof of earnings one year and they got his salary direct from HMRC. Which showed I was right. So, I got a recalculation for that one year. Not any subsequent years though, where he maintained the lie. They believed him, even knowing that he lied before. I took it to the Ombudsman. They ruled in his favour. WTF!

Everything designed on the assumption everyone is right handed.

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Some of the Covid testing kits - the ones with liquid in the plastic phial, and you pull off the foil cover. It won't come off!

Agree totally about corned beef.

Biros often stop working.

Printers....just go to snappy snaps.

Lots of hand-held steamers I have had have stopped working, after one use.

Innocent smoothies which have vitamins in them go watery and get a horrible aftertaste.

Tea cakes. The toasting kind. You get:

Raw
Raw
Raw
Raw

Incinerated

The film on ready meals. The very outside edge peels off in a perfect square leaving the rest covering the food completely intact.

Local Government Ombudsman, completely toothless anyway but don't appear to understand Local Government statutory duty when establishing whether or not Local Government have met their statutory duty is their role. That they can churn out any old rubbish that you can't challenge unless through very expensive Judicial Review is another matter.

The NHS and our education system.

The UK government and the Scottish government

The film on ready meals. The very outside edge peels off in a perfect square leaving the rest covering the food completely intact

Yes, another one of my pet hates! Does no one test these?

@MyNameIsAngelicaSchuyler

The current government

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Toilets with unscrubbable, grimy cormers on the inside.

The Home Secretary

Top fix toilet seats. Never had one yet that stays fixed.

Searbelts in cars. Even on the lowest setting they end up cutting across my neck. I'm 5ft 4, so not particularly short.

A Shark hoover I bought a few years ago ... literally spat everything out again when you turned it off, had to go behind it with a dustpan and brush every time. Gave it 3 months (and lots of complaining to Shark) then freecycled it and bought a Henry.

Superglue tubes or bottles. They superglue themselves to death after the first use.

Gates - big ones, I mean. The sort of gates on fields. They're usually stuck, and need to be wrestled open. I'm living in a place with a lot of gates at the moment, and I'm sick of the damn things.

Plug chains, the sort on baths and basins. They snap in half, or the plugs fall off the ends - or both.

... oh god - and those drying racks with bits of useless plastic on the top, which are supposed to hold them together, but don't.

The female body.....
Why in earth do we have a hole in our pelvic floor that our internal organs try to escape through? (I may be a bit bitter as I had a prolapse repair which has failed so I have to go under the knife again.)

Why on

Sooo many websites, especially when you need to fill in forms or register. And too many still seem to assume that you’re using a great big desktop monitor when most people will probably use a phone or laptop!

Lots of things seem to have an essential small component made of thin plastic, it breaks quickly rendering the whole thing useless. Examples include Thule bike carriers (old style), expensive food mixer (locking catch), juicer, and a long time ago a portable in car DVD player (fixed that one with elastic band).

Metal dish drainers that go rusty with the water from the dishes - what genius thought of rustable metal for something that is exposed to water by definition?

I just thought of another one. Those huge round loo roll holders in public loos, or pub/restaurant loos - where the loo roll itself is so jammed in to the holder that it doesn't roll, and when you try to get some paper you end up with a piece the size of a stamp.

90% of young 'Girls' school shoes that are flimsy ballerina flats which are no good for kids who walk to school, experience rain, cold weather etc

Dinosaurs who run the local parish council and veto every sensible, progressive proposal to uplift my deprived, disadvantaged community from grassroots up. I have so many examples...

@TerraNovaTwo I hear you! I've worked as a trustee for a couple of charities that seem to think their job is to hold on the to the monies raised by that charity's supporters as though they're saving for their retirement.

Lots of... 'Well. we've always done it like that' - really frustrating!

Online recipes. Eighteen billion paragraphs about their nan, a holiday they once had, their pet squirrel, a meander off into something about bicycles...just give me the bloody recipe.

If there's no 'jump to recipe' button I just close the damn thing.