Poorly designed things that make using them difficult?

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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?

Hard agree with the childproof laundry pod boxes.

You do need three hands to open them! God help those with limb differences trying to open them.

Here’s a crazy idea: put laundry pods in a normal bloody box/packet, and make it parents’ responsibility to lock it away.

@HyggeTygge @SunshineCake omg thank you! I have been meaning to see if there's such a thing as a ham storage box, as i keep open packs in sealable freezer bags but they're a pain to close all the time. Your lakeland link has prompted me to see if there are ham boxes - and there are!!

click here

I have these, they are fantastic. They also hold those packs of sliced cheese that once peeled back they never reseal. Love them.

‘Silent sweep’ clocks that aren’t really sweeping, they’re just ticking very very quickly (and audibly!)
Our Panasonic microwave timer knob that randomly flips from 5 to 15 then 2...25.... It’s like playing bingo.
Hand wash dispensers when new, I just can’t pop the thing up. I’ve been reusing the same pump for a year now, moving it from bottle to bottle.
Anti bac Wipes packets that don’t close properly once opened - I’ve had to rehydrate plenty over the last year.

@exiledfromcornwall

A very timely thread, as I have just been wrestling again with my pepper mill. How do you get the peppercorns into the ludicrously small space with the metal thing poking through it without them going all over the kitchen floor?

If the top is removable, you need to use a teaspoon or similar and put the peppercorns inside with the spindle thingy already in place, then when it is full, screw the top back on.

@HeyDemonsItsYaGirl

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

You wee into something else like a jug (don't tell anyone in the household that though!) or if you prefer an old ice cream tub or something you can put in the recycling after, then POUR a little in the tube.

Ringgo website. Used to have to use it to book employee rate car parking. It had a green box, bottom right hand side that meant "cancel everything I don't want to do that".
Unlike every other website in the western world.

Buttons instead of poppers on duvet covers. Whoever decided they were smart and a good idea has clearly never changed a duvet.

My bastarding cooker hood. All well and good until the bulbs needed changing. Both at the same time.

Looked up bulb type in manual. Trotted off to shop in search of requisite bulb. Bulbs duly purchased at significant cost. Came home to spend 20 minutes extracting old bulb to discover it uses a slightly different sized version of requisite bulb. Also cover things are glass and wedged in with tiny, tiny fittings. Second set of bulbs bought, stupid cover thing dropped and shattered (as glass). Replacement cover only available with holder thing. Ordered and fitted with much swearing and slicing of fingers.

Cost of 2 sets of bulbs and stupid cover thing in excess of £60....

Trying to pull the little inner plastic stopper off the sainsbury's soy sauce without spilling it is so hard, and it hurts!

Those stuff bags for things like sleeping bags and waterproofs get on my nerves.

Also Melissa and Doug toys which are fab come in a nice wooden tray that would be ideal for storing the toys except that they have a really crap flimsy plastic lid. Why not make the lid wooden too? Pr sell them in cardboard boxes like jigsaws.

Mobile phones that you have to spend half the day charging, meaning you can’t be mobile!

Toilets in public places: the space allocated for designing the women’s loos should be larger than the space allocated for men’s loos, not equal.

The queue for the women’s is always longer, due to feminine issues, or caregivers accompanying small children to the toilet (more likely to be mothers than fathers).

Therefore, in building designs there should be a greater amount of floor space for women’s toilets than men’s.

Opening biscuits with a strip,doesn't work

*Car parks or parking meters where you have to pay by credit card.

Jesus, by the time I’ve gone through the whole bloody process I could have gone and earned the money, come back and paid in cash!!!*

Made worse by the fact that different carparks have different systems, so even if you download an app for one to make the whole process quicker, it won't work everywhere else. Network rail carparks have one app, one local authority has one app, but the one next door can have another...

Opening a fresh sliced loaf of bread and there’s is a bastarding hole running through the whole loaf.

@Babygotblueyes

My hosepipe! Has a bit that fits on the tap, and you connect the pipe to it. they dont quite fit together so it sprays water when you turn on the hose, and eventually the pressure of water forces the hose off, so then I have to turn off the tap, reconnect etc etc. It can do it a couple of times while i am watering. Thankfully I dont do it that often.

I had this ,try a jubilee clip over the hosepipe end where it fits onto the end of the tap , tighten it up and it should hold

Oh, I’m gonna throw cash-only car parking meters in. They’re the only ones around where I live.

They don’t even take notes.

Who on Earth carries small change around these days?? If I want to drive somewhere where I’ll need to use a car park, I have to time in for going to a cash point, then breaking the note in a shop by buying a packet of mints first. Such a waste of time.

@exiledfromcornwall

A very timely thread, as I have just been wrestling again with my pepper mill. How do you get the peppercorns into the ludicrously small space with the metal thing poking through it without them going all over the kitchen floor?

Make an O shape with your thumb and finger round the rim of the open pepper grinder and use as a funnel to prevent stray peppercorns from escaping into the wild.

@exiledfromcornwall
Unscrew the button at the top and take it off. Lift the top of the pepper off by lifting upwards.
Fill with peppercorns around the spindle using teaspoon.

Power tools. I am a woman, yet I still wish to do my own DIY. It would be nice to have a range to fit my hands. They need not be pink.

Similar to what @IndecentCakes said about power tools: I would like to be able to drive to a petrol station and COMFORTABLY use a petrol pump one-handed, designed so that my 5’2 frame with proportionally small hands can manage it.

JetBlackSteed Yes, I know that's how it's supposed to be done, still end up with peppercorns everywhere but in the damned thing.

[quote LAgeDeRaisin]@PeppermintTea2021 ooooh God the GP message. I'm a hospital doctor and frequently have to call various practices to discuss patients with a GPs and there is no way for us to bypass that. Makes me murderous.[/quote]
Erm, ours now has one. I rang to book DH Covid jab and pressed 1 whilte it was still pointlessly wittering away, and it skipped to the menu.

Car parks or parking meters where you have to pay by credit card.

Especially when you also have to enter your car reg, but have a hire car that you don't know the number of and which is parked some distance from the meter.

The light in my bathroom. In fact I blame my dad for choosing and installing the bloody things, and he put the same fitting in the en-suite

It's made up of 3 glass rings, and 3 glass domes. Fixed by 4 tiny screws on each layer, each of which has two plastic washers
The biggest dome is too big for a female to hold with one hand which you have to do in order to put the teeny tiny screws back in while balancing a glass ring around your wrist
My speediest record is 16 minutes for changing it. I've showered by candlelight before because I flatly refused to do it

And whoever designed the layout of my bathroom. If you need to access the sink pipe, you have to lie with your legs in the hallway with your neck resembling the exorcist and your body at an angle that's physically impossible. Even the plumber went at that