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?

I’ve got duvets with zips on them from Muji, who do really nice, high quality basic bedding.

Sausages.
I wish they were flatter - rectangular or square but definitely not tubular / circular.
So difficult to cook evenly under the grill or in a George Foreman grill.

Sellotape- and their ends

@LadyEloise

Sausages. I wish they were flatter - rectangular or square but definitely not tubular / circular. So difficult to cook evenly under the grill or in a George Foreman grill.

Have you tried Loren sausage?

Lorne sausage. Back in the 70's you could get Smedley's sausages in tins. They came out square, and were sooo easy to fry!

Square sausage sadly does not equal 'sausage that is square' though. And why not I wonder? I like sausages but not square sausage.

@CannotOperateOnThisFailure change the battery. It'll work again, should cost you a few quid to buy a packet of 10 batteries. YouTube how to take the fob apart to change it.

I'm not in the UK Bloodypunkrockers and I've not seen Lorne sausages for sale here in Ireland.

Autocorrect

I did mean LORNE sausage

I much prefer them to bangers

Red bedding. I've been trying to replace our red jacquard bedding for 10 years and get curtains to match. Red is out of fashion and has been for a decade.

@BouleBaker

Red bedding. I've been trying to replace our red jacquard bedding for 10 years and get curtains to match. Red is out of fashion and has been for a decade.

Amazon have some.

@BouleBaker

Red bedding. I've been trying to replace our red jacquard bedding for 10 years and get curtains to match. Red is out of fashion and has been for a decade.

Wayfair have some.

Dishwashers.

I'm so fed up with the bloody thing. I have cleaned the cylinder filter and taken the arms off and prodded and rinsed.

What more do you want, machine? WHY are my cups STILL gritty?!

Hand dryers in toilets. Why are they at adult shoulder height? You raise your wet hands and water rolls up your arms.
They should be at hand height i.e. 1 metre or so from the floor.

Also the noise they make really hurt children's ears. Being older I can't hear the worst high-pitched noises coming out of them.

Ooh, I've got a niche but life-buggering one.

I've yet to be able to find a powerchair with an ignition key. If you want an ignition key, you have to buy a mobility scooter with a tiller in front, meaning the wheelbase is half as long again and it's a fecking nightmare to manoeuvre on buses and tight little shops.

I can see no reason for this other than an attempt to enforce some sort of disability coding solely for the benefit of passers by:
scooter = could walk but can't be arsed;
powerchair = can't stand at all.

If like me you can stand up and walk a few metres, you're stuffed. I want to be able to take the bus into town to my optician's, which is in an older building with steps in front and pokey rooms. I want to be able to leave my conveyance secured outside, go up two steps, walk ten paces and sit down.

If I use a scooter, it's hell on the bus (10 point turns amid the shopping bags and impatient passengers); if I use a powerchair which can turn on a sixpence, any passing scally can ride off in it while it's abandoned outside. (Yes, this does happen, see MN passim. )

I have now managed to find a powerchair that still doesn't have an ignition key but can be programmed to be locked by some complicated sequence of joystick movements and on/off button presses. It takes me 3 or 4 attempts to work a phone correctly once I'm tired: there's no way I'm going to be able to operate that. Just USE AN IGNITION KEY.

There's a reason vehicle ignition keys were invented decades ago, and that reason hasn't hasn't changed.

And breathe...

Did this last week, sloshed the bottle to loosen the product and it slashed into my eyes. Dropped the bottle as I scrambled to rinse the pain away, and when I could see again noticed the bottle now empty and a very slippery bathtub.

^tried to quote the "get the last bit of shampoo out of the bottle" hack. Seems I am poorly designed to do this.

@PerkingFaintly is there nowhere on the powerchair that you could put a bike lock through?

Yes, I’ve fiddled with bike lock (in reality, long cable + padlock). But it only works if there's something near enough to chain it to – it's not like when you’re a cyclist and can easily walk some distance after chaining up.

The less secure version of that is a bike lock through a wheel – if the chair has any spoked wheels with large enough holes. But crouching down to it, or rather getting up from the crouch, is a job in itself for me...

There was a suggestion on another thread to bodge up a clamshell to lock over the control unit, and I think that might be a goer. If it can just be flipped over and locked with a key (no juggling padlocks with my dodgy paws), while comfortably seated, that's better than nothing.

But whyyyyyy don’t they just manufacture chairs with removable keys? Scooters have them, so it’s clearly not a technical issue.

Come to think of, a suitably modified cash box might make a passable, though clunky, clamshell.

[quote Cushionsnotpillows]@Blursula there's loads of nail clippers with catch trays! Two seconds on Amazon brought up heaps of options. [/quote]
Thank you for this, had no idea you could get them (but to be fair, I never looked). Just about to order some for DH’s birthday.

I wrap bacon in some foil If I don't use the whole packet,,it keeps quite well in the fridge for a while, it goes off quickly in any tupperware type containers.

Cookie scoops with the lever that don't break and are left handed.

@Northernsoullover

Childproof washing pods containers. I can't open them. You need 3 hands! One per corner to depress the tab and one for the middle. Now my older teen and I open them together and I decant them. Bloody nightmare design

I cut the the tabs off (once opened) with scissors, which defeats the point of having it child proof I know, but then I run about with the scissors anyway - just because I can.

Cheap umbrellas which flip inside out at the slightest puff of wind.
Shampoo/shower gel bottles that don’t stand upside down on their lid so you can’t use the very last bit, or you have to wait an age for it to dribble down (I deliberately get Herbal Essences for this reason).