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?

There has been a subtle change in dynamic with my new washing machine. With the old one, I felt that it was there to wash my clothes and generally do my bidding. If it had finish it would give me a friendly beep to remind me to take the clothes out. If I didn't, it might try again but then just give up.

But the new one, when it's done it beeps, not just once or twice but again and again, in a judgmental kind of way. So insistent that the whole family are involved in doing its bidding now. It is certainly the boss of us all and it knows it.

[quote Niconacotaco]@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.[/quote]
That’s what I assumed but no! Turns out the internet is full of furious people who thought the same. And UD sells a bloody expensive pencil sharpener

My fridge beeps too. It's really annoying as you are literally just standing there having a little browse and it starts yelling at you.

Everything in my house was put there by a tall man. I can't reach the cupboards and I can (genuinely) only see from my eyes up in the bathroom mirror.

@LakieLady

My oven. The drop-down doors slope away from you when fully opened, so you can't rest things on the open door.

You shouldn't rest things on an open oven door anyway, it's not built to withstand that. I moved into this house in August and in mid-December the glass in the oven door shattered. The guy who came to replace it said that the previous owner had probably put things on it when taking them out of the oven.

@Sandsnake

Metanium nappy cream. It’s a small fiddly screw top, as opposed to a far more sensible flip cap (like Bepenthen). As you tend to need it when you’re changing a nappy, it’s supremely unhelpful. I’d change brand, but it’s amazing!

We used the yellow Metanium, the only thing that worked on nappy rash. The screw lid was SO fiddly and annoying that I'd decant the whole tube into a small plastic pot as soon as it was opened and use from there

@SachaStark

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.

I keep an old coin purse in the car filled with silver coins especially for parking meters.

Hand soap - can never work out how to turn and depress the pump thing without breaking it

Hair mousse - shake and press down to get the mousse out and the ruddy nozzle breaks - what a waste!

Pre-moulded paper cake tin liners for 1 and 2lb loaf tins - are always too small! (Serves me right for not lining them myself.)

Laundry tab boxes. Cannot open them as per instructions and often hurt myself trying to open them.

Many of the squirty sauce bottle designs are very poor,, leading to a lot of waste.

Some brands of olive oil are nigh on impossible to open, I have to resort to stabbing a corkscrew through the lid or using a bottle cap remover to pierce the cap.

"Child-proof" medication bottles. I have arthritis in my hands, and always have my neighbor's 7-year-old son come open bottles for the first time. To be fair, you can reverse the lids to be non-child-proof, but I have to have a CHILD open them for me the first time!

I've got a set of measuring spoons that fit into ANY spice jars 😁

Haven't RTFT but... in packs of sliced meat - chicken, ham, salami, whatever - the peel-back opening is always at the bottom, BUT the slices are always arranged so that you have to peel it all the way back to get to the top one. Or you have to turn the whole thing over and scrabble around to get the bottom slice. Gives me the rage, and would be so simple to put right in the manufacturing process. Anyone else found this?

@Bettina500

Another one; my fridge has a door alarm. Biggest PITA ever and would never buy another fridge with one. It doesn't work if the door is only slightly ajar, which is when it would be most useful. No, it works when the door is wide open, which in most cases is because you want it open. Like when you're putting shopping away or cleaning it.

I have a fridge freezer and the fridge alarm goes off if you leave it open, but the freezer door doesn't!! Ffs, I need to know if the freezer is left open, not the fridge! Fecking annoying.

My washing machine is an arrogant little fucker too. I paid for the bloody thing; you'd think I'd be allowed to decide whether I want things to be washed for 30 minutes or 3 hours, but apparently that's beyond my pay grade.
And another thing. Dutifully booked myself in for a Covid jab a 30-mile round trip away, rather than clog up the small local one. Fine, but I don't know where it is. Google will tell me, so I'm not arsing about getting lost. Well, Google was very helpful with all the streets I know, what with me bloody living here, took me to the road to the city, already knew that, but fine, but when it got to the mystery bit, all I got was 'drive from A road to vaccination centre'. Well, thanks a ruddy bunch.

I use an icing bag to refill pepper mill. Or a plastic bag with corner cut off if not at home.

Lindo washing machine alarm : power on, then press the P button and the thermometer button for three ( mississippi ) seconds it will double beep means its off. You can check by setting drain and spin and turn off spin should say 2 mins. Check its off, when no alarm sounds enjoy your new Zen life Ta - Da !

A couple of weeks ago I couldn't get the sticker off an apple after ten minutes of clawing at it! Ended up just eating the stubborn twat.

[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]
We have the GP message from hell, firstly s-l-o-w-l-y in Welsh then repeated in English.
All I want to do is actually speak to a live person.
Actual rage inducing.

@MerylStropp

Haven't RTFT but... in packs of sliced meat - chicken, ham, salami, whatever - the peel-back opening is always at the bottom, BUT the slices are always arranged so that you have to peel it all the way back to get to the top one. Or you have to turn the whole thing over and scrabble around to get the bottom slice. Gives me the rage, and would be so simple to put right in the manufacturing process. Anyone else found this?

Yes! Yes, this! Whyyyyyyyy!

Though it has been less of an issue since my DC turned into teenagers and became fridge hoovers. They just rip open the pack and finish it, they're not bothered in the slightest that it's stacked the wrong way.

@longhaulstress Yes!!! I thought there was something wrong with me...!!

*SachaStark

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.*

I hate the ones that dont give change which seems to be most of them near where I live and has a sign saying "overpayment accepted."
Well thanks for that!!
And the amounts are always ones where you will need a combo of different coins (not £1, or 1.50 etc but 70p, £1.30, £2.70 etc) so reality is (quelle surprise) that most people will end up over paying.

The external temperature on my car. Loud beeping when it hits 4 deg C to warn of black ice. However it doesn't warn of a lower temperature, so you can be driving along, having got in the car at below 4 deg, then it decides to 'warn' you that it's now got to 4 deg and could be a danger.
Makes me jump and pisses me off every time

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

The whole Internet Of Things baffles me as to why anybody could ever want or need it. Toasters, for example: you have to put the bread in before and then take it out to butter it (and eat it!) afterwards, but somebody genuinely thought that it would help to be able to tell the internet to push the button down in the middle stage.

It's the same with cars that have fancy start buttons to press, which can be hacked into by criminals wanting to steal them and just drive away - just to save you from enduring the extreme tribulation of sticking a key in and turning it.

@Frozenintime

Try this:
If that's not your model, search YT for the actual model number and 'beep'.

We had the same with our Bosch washing machine, which is otherwise brilliant, apart from its insistence that emptying it after the cycle has finished is the single most urgent thing you have to do in your life. One beep would be fine, but once every couple of minutes is horrendously irritating. Imagine specifically designing a useless feature for your product that is so infuriating for so many people - and not even having a clear way to disable it - that people have to work out the solution (pressing three random buttons in a random order or whatever) and then make YT videos to save your customers' sanity.

@SplendidSuns1000

I've become that twat that has giant jars and bottles in my laundry room containing pods, powder and other washing products because my twig fingers can't open any of the child-proof tubs!

I can't tell whether I love or loathe the soy sauce bottles that don't let it out drop by drop. The spout bottles are great for measuring high quantities but I end up getting half a cup poured on my sushi??

I have a coffee bean grinder that is entirely not safe to be washed. It's designed for coffee, herbs and other small things to be ground so it's not just reserved for coffee. Even when wiping it out (around the non-detachable blades) there's always a hint of basil in my cappuccino.

Liquid foundation that you can never scrape everything out of (even with cosmetic spatulas) and the useless lids on loose powder that let 0 product out.

Someone probably already mentioned this, but I'm not reading all eighteen pages before bed… if it's the soy sauce lid with two spouts, then putting your finger over the hole of one of the spouts will allow you to shake drops out of the other one.

Haven't read all 18 pages but I really hate those liquid concealer/ lipstick things that you turn with a click and supposedly the liquid comes up and fills the plastic brush applicator.
So clever. Not.
I've had to throw away a few from sheer frustration, who has the time to sit there clicking away and patiently watching for when the applicator thing is ready? Or you click and then too much oozes out. Complete waste of time.

I refill the pepper mill by making an origami-type paper funnel out of a piece of kitchen roll and sticking the narrow end down beside the central spindle.