Items that are just shit design

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Lever arch files. I’ve never known one last longer than 3 months before all the prongs misalign and the clip things due.

Why are they so shit and yet keep selling and selling?

Never bought a jar since it came in a squeeze bottle !

Cartons of soup such as from Covent Garden. The carnage I create when I finally manage to open.

The 'New Bus for London', which did not have opening windows upstairs to begin with, and because of three doors, very few seats downstairs, almost half of which face backwards.

Agrees in Scottish

That sounds like a rubbish crossword clue for 'Aye'

Yet here in Edinburgh they've fitted all the new busses with loud as fuck freezing air con that runs all winter long. I don't take the bus anymore!

@Bythehairywartsonmywitchychin , ditto to plastic laundry capsule boxes. Could never open the bloody things without a lot of cursing. Just good old powder and soda crystals now - no wretched plastic!

So ideally you’d like to poop out your mouth and have a baby sized gaping vagina?

bagless vacuum cleaners.
when dmpying it you always dnd up in a cloud of dust.

A long handled washing up brush is your friend for this.

Is it possible to get integrated appliances with bespoke doors that match your units? Seen a few like this.

My old detergent/conditioner drawer used to come out for cleaning the mould off.
This one doesn’t, but I get round that by now using powder only - straight into the drum - and soda crystals in the detergent drawer. No mould or gunge any more, plus a cleaner washing machine and no plastic boxes or bottles to clutter up the recycling.

@AgnestaVipers - it is a fixed blade but it’s brilliant for peeling potatoes. V sharp blade and just the right size. I have to keep buying them as they get accidentally thrown away.

honey spoons.
the wooden ones with the grooves.

I agree with unless honey spoons , instead dip your spoon in hot water or hold over it over a low gas flame ( cooker lighter will do too ) and the honey pours off much easier.

To be fair I could achieve that with a bag too

Baby wipes that either don't come out and break off in bits (Huggies) or all stick together and don't separate (Amazon).
Not fun when you're elbow deep in poop.

Glad to hear the stupid, new pedestrian crossings where precisely one person can see the signal, have come up several times. They must surely be less safe than the old style, as well as bloody annoying

That's reminded me - baby wipe packs that had the clip lid were so much better than the sticky flap we get these days.

The little round tins of Vaseline lip therapy. The lid always seems to be stuck fast. You try to twist it off but it just turns round and round, so you have to try to lift up one side of the lid with your nails, only to push the opposite side even further down.

My Brita water filter. The inset part got stuck in the wrong position and now it will not come out, however I try (bashing or coaxing).

Oh I hate those

I always lose them before they finish can never find it when I want it. When I do find it it's at the bottom of the handbag and the rim has sand and dust in it so you open it

Can't open it

Oxo salad spinner

cleaning it is impossible

I don’t mind the self scan machines in supermarkets even though they can be annoying with their bagging area complaints

but I always use them because one thing I cannot stand is when cashiers will lick their fingers to open bags for you. Hopefully that wouldn’t happen now as less people buy bags and covid etc. Still they might chew their nails or whatever and then pick up each of your food items after

no thanks!

Jars with a lid too big to get a proper grip on if you're female with hands proportionate to your size (hellmans, hang your head). Bottles with metal lids (asda salad dressing, I'm looking at you) that are on so fecking tightly that it would take a welders helmet and blowtorch to loosen the damn thing.