Poorly designed things that make using them difficult?

[Whatisthisfuckery]

Spice jars, who in hell has designed the dimensions of spice jars? What measurement of spices does one usually find in a recipe? Teaspoons. What can you not quite fit in a spice jar? A fucking teaspoon. Whose bloody bright idea was it to design a jar that makes it hard to dispense the most common measurement of the ingredient contained within?

Ahh, that’s better, I needed that rant.

Go on, rant away. What poorly designed thing makes you angry inside?

Spice jars with the little holes at the top really annoy me because I sprinkle them directly in to hot dishes and then the steam gets in to them and turns them in to a big hard lump

recently purchased smoked paprika (from apparently everyone's favourite, Sainsburys) and really irritated that there's no shaker holes

@WitchWife does the bottom not turn and the eyeliner pops up?

I hate pads in bras. If you take them out to wash the bra, they never go back in the tiny hole properly. If you leave them in when you wash the bra, they go lumpy and turn around inside so that you have to try and rearrange them.

For all the people with foundation stuck in the bottom of bottles - I worked for Boots about 20 years ago and we were told that No7 (and seventeen at the time) overfilled the bottles to take this into account. No idea if it is true.

Car parks. Given that Chelsea Tractors exist.

I’m halfway through this thread and will finish it later.
I have three offerings.

1. Food dye bottle tops. Not the lid but the top. I had one set which had a dropper on. They ran out, I bought more. There was no dropper. Which means that every time my kids want to make cupcakes and colour the icing, I have to carefully tip the bottle enough to get a few drops out, but always fail and end up with a small river of food colouring. Or I have to try and find a toothpick and stick it into the dye and try to transfer it which takes ages. Give me back the dropper in the lid.
2. My Hoover. It is bagless which means when it needs emptying I also empty clouds of dust into the kitchen. If the hose blocks, because of the ‘clever’ design which goes round a corner and is very long, it is nigh on impossible to unblock it.
3. Cake tins. They are all a similar size, 2 cm difference in width between this one and the next. When you are baking, it tells you what size tin to use so you go to your cupboard and try and work out which of the eight tins stacked in there you need. But the size is written on the piece of card that you threw away and not on the tin itself, meaning you have to get a ruler out to try and identify the correct size tin.

Things made fir right handed when you are left handed

Goblet blenders - my old one is now where the potato masher/ladle/spatula lives.
Trying to clean one is too much like bobbing for piranhas and you aren't sure if its properly clean.

Live my nutri ninja with the blades in the lid and a seal you can actually get at to clean it.

@PolkadotsAndMoonbeams

Does anybody use Smol dishwasher tablets/laundry pods? My DB was at university when they made the cardboard boxes childproof. He lived with three engineers and it still took them a whole morning to work out how to open them!

And whoever said about the Tesco Finest cold meat packets, yes, they're stupid.

Yes, I use Smol laundry pods. The new packaging is quite frankly awful. I rip the box open and decant the pods into an old plastic washing tablet tub, which I have helpfully broken the childproof tabs off.

I also buy my dried herbs and spices from an Indian supermarket. I go a few times a year and stock up on all sorts of fabulous things. The stuff there is a fraction of the cost of your average supermarket, even the ethnic foods section is overpriced compared to the Indian supermarket.

Electric toothbrushes. You only have to look at the damn things and they fall over.

The genius architect of our new build years ago, who decided to place the dishwasher behind the kitchen to dining room door so you couldn’t open the door to carry dirty dishes through when dishwasher was open without them slamming into each other. Clearly HE ( I’m sure it had to be a he🙄🤣🤣) didn’t realise dishwasher had to be opened to be loaded🤦‍♀️

Tea pots that drip- really?🙄🤦‍♀️

Showers in hotels that are only overhead rain type- I can’t wash my bits properly without a handheld..in fact can any women do that?😳

In fact loads of stuff in business type hotels- emergency kits with razor but not sanitary items, dark poorly lit mirrors, mirrors not placed near plug so can’t see to dry hair, trouser press no iron....urgh..now I’m really wound up 🤣🤣🤣🤣

LifesLittleDeciders

“Fucking garlic crushers.”

I recommend oxo good grips garlic crusher

Any website where you cannot use the eye thing to check your password. It usually results in me resetting my password every time, because of fat fingers.

Also the increasing number where they scream at you that you've input the WRONG password right up until you've pressed the last letter/character. I wouldn't object to 'password incomplete', but don't tell me that I'm wrong as I'm entering the correct password. Think about it: if you had one button on a standard keyboard that matched your password, hence one press would enable you to enter it.... it wouldn't be a very secure password, now, would it?

@lollipoprainbow, press the locking button on your key fob for double the normal time, and it should close all the windows. HTH.

I used to have an Audi and, if you weren't very careful with the fob, it would randomly open all of your windows - usually wait for just long enough for you to have gone inside before it does it. Such a useful design feature to enable you to come back the next morning to a freezing and/or soaking wet car that also assists burglars with their 'trade'....

The option to turn my dishwasher on via WiFi - if I’ve managed to load it, put a tablet in and shut the door why would I turn it on via WiFi 😡

@Coyoacan

Tea Pots - or is the routine dripping an intended functionality

I was a potter in my youth and the whole idea of designing tea pots is to make a fully functioning object that is also beautiful. Dripping from the spout is a fail.

THIS is the most beautiful. well designed and functional tea pot in the world. Only had it for a month, totally in love with it. Doesn't drip ever. They sell amazing tea as well.

@Nsky

Things made fir right handed when you are left handed

Yes yes yes...lever arch files my pet hate🙄

@FTEngineerM

My iron, it’s a sexy black colour. EXCEPT YOU CANT SEE HOW MUCH FUCKING WATER IS IN THE TANK.

Every time I use it it irritates me

My steam mop is the same, I have to wait until it sounds like it's about to explode to know it needs filling up.

Predictive text that doesn't predict properly. Why would I mean kn w instead of know?! And why do you change it to love when I mean live? Also my predictive text also uppers cases the M in male which tells me everything I need to know about the misogynistic twat of a device

And does anyone know how to stop a Lindo washing machine from beeping at the end of the cycle?

Wet wipe packets - the wipes either stick together so you have to get your hand in to retrieve the top one or you pull out the top one and seven others follow.

@Eruss,yes! And often wipes packs have a clear plastic tab so you can't see how the f&*@ to get them open. Not cool when you're in a Morrisons baby room trying to stop your 9 month old from squirming away with poo all over his arse.

Agreeing with all those struggling with the bastard click clack washing pods box.

..... Also the gap website where nothing you want is in stock

@Beetlewing

I'm left handed. Practically everything

Fellow lefty uniting👏

@HeyDemonsItsYaGirl

Urine sample test tube things. How on earth are women supposed to aim into them without getting the (paper) label wet?

Yes..I keep disposable cups purely for this...ok I have interstitial cisitis😳. What do other women do?

The VPN on my work laptop. Causes no end of issues.

My bloody oven which has a play/pause button as well as an on/off button. It switches itself off after the timer goes. The number of times I thought the bloody thing was on and it wasn’t.

The plastic tampax applicators that don’t release the tampon! I can’t be the only person this has happened to?

Gmail’s weird way of storing messages in a thread so you can’t find emails.

Resealable packaging on chocolate bars. I've bought loads but never managed to reseal one...

Those plastic tubs that have fresh soup in them that the Supermarkets sell, I have to wear thick rubber gloves to avoid cutting my fingers on the stiff plastic when opening them. One pot of tomato soup from JS sliced off the top of the glove!