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?

I have seen this! A special tile that's a little foot rest! Wasn't in the UK, though.

Here's a stick on version: www.amazon.co.uk/Kirmax-Bathroom-Shower-Shaving-Suction/dp/B08P76PYB2/?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Here we go. These are from Australia:

www.tilestonepaver.com.au/Ceramic-Foot-Rest-200mm-x-100mm-White

[quote PerkingFaintly]I have seen this! A special tile that's a little foot rest! Wasn't in the UK, though.

Here's a stick on version: www.amazon.co.uk/Kirmax-Bathroom-Shower-Shaving-Suction/dp/B08P76PYB2/?tag=mumsnetforu03-21[/quote]
Perking you are my hero!!! I had no idea!

I just ordered it! You made my day. 😄😄😄

Like you say – so obviously a need!

Any website that doesn't automatically exclude items that aren't in stock. It's particularly annoying when you can filter by size but then it shows you something that has no stock in that size but lots in one you don't want.

OP buy a measuring spoon set. It has a half teaspoon spoon on there which works perfectly.

My niece got a Barbie camper van set. So many fiddly ties and bits of plastic - 75% of it was packaging. I struggled home with a massive box from Argos - the actual contents would fit in a carrier bag! Why so much packaging! Oh! And the Barbie campervan set was inside another, sealed cardboard box!

The little plastic bottles of conditioner that come with l'Oreal hairdye. Neck so narrow and plastic so stiff, it's impossible to get the conditioner out beyond an initial blob. Waste of plastic and conditioner.

@BraveGoldie

Shower cubicles. I want a shin-level little platform for my foot to rest when I am shaving my legs....

I am quite sure shower cubicles must have been designed by men for men,,,, it feels so obvious to me.

Or is it only me that wants this?

Or washing my feet. Balancing precariously on one foot in the shower always makes me feel I am going to fall over at any moment.

Yes!!!!

I have laughed so very hard reading this thread, especially the garlic press "I'd find more garlic in a vampire's arsehole". Genius

My contributions are, firstly, tent bags. I can only assume manufacturers use an industrial strength vacuum device to get the tent into the bag in the first place as it sure as hell isn't ever going in ever again. When you've been at a festival and, come Monday, you just want to go home and sleep for a week, I cannot be doing with standing in the drizzle trying to wrestle a bastarding tent into a bag eeeever so slightly too small. JUST MAKE THE FUCKING BAGS BIGGER.

And secondly, absolutely yes to the PP who mentioned Tube train hanging straps. At just over 5' I can only just about reach the damn things in the first place. All it takes is the train to corner while accelerating and there I am, dangling in the breeze like a spare bollock.

Most things! Well specifically things designed for men eg phones that are huge, seat belts in cars that don't fit women's chests comfortably, reaching straps on buses and tubes

I have a right-handed kettle, and I still think that the makers ought to warn people that the things down the side telling you how much water is in it are only visible when you are filling it right-handed. You wouldn't know from the packaging nor from the illustrations on Amazon.