Items that are just shit design

[ArseInTheCoOpWindow]

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?

@Stichintimesavesstapling Alexa understand my 3 year old! Lol

I don't know why corned beef tins are made like that. Either the key breaks halfway round or your left with a razor sharp edge tin and a ribbon of the same dangerous metal. Not to mention having to prise out the meat with a knife.😀

Those cardboard milk cartons, they never open properly at the spout.

So much this. Every car park I use asks for a different app, it’s the devil of a job to change the registration details if you change your car, they don’t let you pay twice e.g. once for my car and again for my friend’s. Most frustratingly, we have on a number if occasions gone to a car park which needs an app we don’t have and which we can’t download because there’s no phone signal 🙄. The Lake District is particularly bad for this.

I agree with the new pedestrian crossings. One near me you end up looking behind you too watch for the green man. I want to look the way I am going.

Agree with you about uncleanable appliances and also the low down crossing green man. They have a beep but what if your hearing is compromised? So dangerous.

Self service tills in the supermarket that keep telling you to seek assistance. Give me the murderous rage! Employ more staff, you tight, shitty supermarket employers!!!!

The bright blue light attached to the calpol plug-ins that definitely doesn't help my baby sleep when they're feeling poorly!

Baby stair gates
Cheese toasty makers
95% of plastic bottles with a straw in

I was just going to post about them too, the new ones in M&S are awful, there’s absolutely no where to put your shopping too 😡

My kitchen taps, which I didn’t choose. They are designed so badly they are impossible to clean as they have nooks and crannies that shouldn’t exist on taps. Ditto radiators where you can’t get into the grill to dust. Pill bottles which a child can’t open, neither can I.

LED lights on everything, does my head in. They fit them on everything now as a ‘handy night light’. Some of them flash (ie chargers). Anything battery operated or plug in seems to have them. My bedroom was like a nightclub at night until I purged them all out!

Just thought of another. The lids on washing tablets, the amount of times I’ve cut my bloody fingers trying to open the bastard I’ve stopped buying them

Those toast machines you get on holiday that do not toast your bread at all. I need to put it in twice and then it comes out all burnt and takes ages. And there's always a big queue of people waiting behind me impatiently

Nail varnish. I know why the brush doesn't reach the bottom when it's in use but I've chucked so much away over the years, I can't believe this still hasn't been sorted. because then we wouldn't have to buy so much of course

I'm surprised nobody has said knees yet.

Do any kind of physical activity / sport, fucked by the time you're 30.

My baby's car seat needs two hands to press two levers in order to move the handle out of the way to put the baby in. Extremely annoying when you need at least one hand to hold the baby.

I also wish someone would invent a baby bouncer on wheels, so I could move DS around the flat in it.

Packs of bacon that day 'peel here'.
Has anyone ever, peeled there? No, no they haven't because they're shit.

Bags inside cereal boxes that can't be easily and neatly ripped open like a bag of crisps.

'Women's' umbrellas. Never one bit of bother after I gave up on them and bought a men's folding one. Try it, it's almost as if it was designed to be weather-resistant.

Greetings cards- usually hideously bland, garish colours and way over priced, someone is paid to design them and yet they all manage to look like the intern did them. Card Factory & M&S I’m looking at you! Also Gift boxes. All I want is a simple PLAIN no fucking frills box in a normal shape in maybe a neutral colour or festive colour for Christmas. Oh no Neverenddust, we can’t do that, instead how about a bright blue box with green stripes in a rectangle shape or how about a beautiful red box, perfect shape and size but let’s ruin it with Ho Ho Ho or some other god awful comment plastered all over them. You want ribbon? Oh no, here have this fucking curling cassette tape instead. 🤬

Mayo/Ketchup plastic squeezey bottles where half the product sticks at the top no matter how hard you shake them. Surely a thick bag would work better so you can get the stuff out without twirling a knife around getting product all over your hands? Heinz/ Hellmans take note!

The Zara returns experience, sure I’ll trek all the way to the god damn top floor past multiple cash desks with no queues to join the refund queue with one staff member on the till no air con and twenty people who all seemingly bought half the fucking store only to refund it a few days later 🤷🏻‍♀️ WHY?! Honestly it drives me NUTS

Domestos large toilet bleach bottles. Where is the friggin pouring spout? Threw a quids worth of bleach down the loo when the whole thing came gushing out on my first go. Talk about a false economy.

@Briandouglas

'I recently ordered a set of school exercise books because normal notebooks with the ring binder thingy hurt my hand (I’m left handed) and so I’m currently hating on the fact I can’t use my nice flowery notebook and have to stick with this plain blue one.'

I'm not left-hander but could you not turn the binder through 180 degrees and write on the left-hand page with the cover to the right?

As for the desk problem you may just need a big hammer and a short temper.

My “eco” washing machine that barely uses any water and just rotates around feebly sprinkling a thimbleful as it goes. I have to do a pre wash every time to get stuff actually wet and can’t wait for the fucker to break so I can buy a proper water guzzling bastard. Eco shmeco, not worth it.

Toasters that don't fit a whole piece of bread in...or bread that doesn't fit in a toaster. 🤔

Buses need an additional signal to distinguish between 'pulling away from stationary but staying in the same lane' and 'changing lane' - rather than just an indicator which could mean either.

Agree- and also, can hazard lights be separate from indicators so that if there’s a car or van pulled in up ahead and you can only see the side of it beside the road, you can still tell whether it’s parked with hazards on or indicating to pull out.

Ditto radiators where you can’t get into the grill to dust

I get round this by blasting the dust out with a hairdryer.