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?

Glass bottle of ethical shampoo with pump top. Dropped that in the shower and it was so dangerous. Glass mixed with shampoo and bare feet. So organic!

I hate how meat, especially chicken, is packaged so that you have to stab through the plastic with something to get them out. It's such a waste of something else that has to be washed up after a millisecond of use. Just make them openable by hand!

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. RIP garlic salt.

Your post has just made me realise that I could open the top and use a fucking teaspoon to get it out and keep my spices lump free. Thank you!!

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

New scissors where you need a pair of scissors to open the bloody packaging. That's the whole point of why I'm buying it and don't want to accidently severe a finger by using a knife to try and get in.

Basically anything 'resealable'. It never is.

Re spices, I have a teaspoon measure that does fit in those jars. But tend to buy big bags cheap from local grocers/corner shops and decant into my own, sensibly larger, jars.

@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?

THANK YOU! This has drive me up the wall for years!

Whhhhyyyyyy?

All skincare in opaque jars and bottles where you can’t tell how much you have left.

Yes to the washing machine draining hose thing being too short to put in a basin! Samsung one is actually longer than the one in the Bosch machine we had.

Alexa/Echo. I find it rather clunky technology. It can't even understand that you want to play track 5 on a album, frequently tells me I haven't got music which I have or plays something which I didn't ask for. On the Show (the one with the screen) it has Sounds but not iPlayer, which makes no sense. I can access it via the Firefox browser but it's all rather clunky. I bought Shows for my daughters and we can't connect them all up, it only works apparently if you have, say, a Dot and a Show.

Also just Amazon generally. Some things they do brilliantly, so much better and ahead of anyone else, but little things annoy me. It's so much easier to play music from Spotify to the Echo devices than it is from Amazon Music. The Household/family sharing stuff is clunky. There is still no colour Paperwhite Kindle. OK there is the tablet version but it's not the same.

It all reminds me of smartphones in the early 2010s, when the technology was there but there were loads of bugs in it. I just want things to work!

@Whatisthisfuckery

Sainsbury’s spice jars, got it. I would actually change where I shop because of it.

Morrison's own-brand jars of spice have tops you can get a teaspoon in when you unscrew the whole top, if they are closer to you than Sainsbury's is.

I have kettle which has a metal rod going down inside it which I think is the sensor to make it switch off when it is boiling. It goes all the way down, very close to the edge of the inside wall. And it has a small black Something caught between it and the wall near the bottom. Since I can't get my hand in at the top, how am I ever meant to clean that black stuff (cloth, perhaps?) out of it? I have tried a bottle brush, no use, an old toothbrush which broke, a pipecleaner held in a pair of pliers, no use. Argh! Do the people who design things never stop and think how they would clean them?

@moonlight1705

New scissors where you need a pair of scissors to open the bloody packaging. That's the whole point of why I'm buying it and don't want to accidently severe a finger by using a knife to try and get in.

Oh my god this!! Gave me the rage the other day

A lot of things like this are due to the world being designed by and for men - the dimensions of things like smart phones are based on the size of the "average male" hand; supermarket shelves positioned based on "average male" height, etc.

Read "Invisible Women" By Caroline Criado Perez, it will blow your mind!

invisiblewomenbook.co.uk/

Dowe Egbert coffee is irritating. I use a spoon handle to lever off the lid!

My Kenwood stick blender. This is the lid of the mini food-processor attachment. It comes into direct contact with food. It gets splashed with food. If you open up the goblet to add ingredients, bits often get stuck inside the socket for the blade. Fair enough, so you wash it.

Only it's not washable. Not even by hand. This part of the food-processor, with all its little crevices and food-traps, cannot be immersed in water. Arggggggggggh

I got so irritated just thinking about it, that I forgot the photo.

Packaging on batteries - any, but specially the small disc ones for scales etc. You peel the card backing off, but only the top layer ever comes off, and the plastic containing the battery doesn't peel off the card, and you can't push the battery out of the remaining card Agghh! I end up hacking at the packaging with a pair of scissors in a dangerous manner whilst swearing. Drives me nuts.

Mitchum stick deodorant, something has happened to the thingy on the bottom that you turn to make the stuff come out. It wont turn properly unless you get something grippy.

I'm not the only one to have this problem and to of been chucked money off vouchers but it is still happening

@BrownEyedGirl80

Those fucking white film things that are under plastic milk bottle lids.They never come off in one piece.

Ditto the foil lids of cream cheese tubs and yogurt pots.

Hair conditioner bottles that don’t actually decant the conditioner because it’s too thick. The only way to get it out is to piss about trying to unscrew the top with wet hands, and the the opening is too big so you end up getting too much.

I’ve actually stopped using my very good Tigi hair conditioner because of this, it’s such a bloody faff.

Shampoo and conditioner bottles which has no grip if your hands are wet

Spray bottles where you cannot use the last inch of product - if you have to tilt it at all for use. AND YOU CANNOT UNSCREW THE TOP!!

Squeeze mayo. You can never get the last 1/5 of it. Sticks to the bloody sides, and you need a knife to retrieve it.

Anything aerosol where the nozzle instantly breaks.

And finally ( breathe!)

Bra straps! Why are they made of such slippery material? They seem literally designed to fall off your shoulder.

And...relax. That felt good

Toothbrushes that are packaged in those hard plastic bubble-style packs that literally have no edge or way in to them other than stabbing and slashing at them with a fucking carving knife or similar. I won’t have enough fingers left to hold the toothbrush to my mouth by the time I’ve got into it.

Yes!!! Film lid on big yogurt tubs which have the use by date on so you can't just throw it away and be done with it ... instead there's just this residuey flappy bit you've got to contend with every time you use the yogurt!!

And stickers on fruit!!

I've collected vitamin bottles over the years. They fit a teaspoon.

The screen on our boiler is stupidly hard to read from any angle other than right in front of it. Since it is, not unexpectedly, inconveniently located, this is a bloody nuisance.