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?

Packets such as Haribo packets, which have a big thick crinkly strip at the top, especially the ones with the hole in for hanging the packet on a display. They’re impossible to open without tearing the entire packet down the front so the contents spill out. If you don’t consume the entire contents in one session you have to put them into another bag. I open the bottom instead, which is slightly less shit.

Tea Pots - or is the routine dripping an intended functionality

I was a potter in my youth and the whole idea of designing tea pots is to make a fully functioning object that is also beautiful. Dripping from the spout is a fail.

@Inpeace

Tea Pots - or is the routine dripping an intended functionality

Yes it is. Saw a thing about it in a programme about design or something.

Not home ones but the ones you get at cafes and service stations. If they worked brilliantly people would nick them. Same goes for the cups with annoyingly small handles.

@CannotOperateOnThisFailure is it a Range Rover? #peakmumsnetmoment

I have had the same problem with mine recently - alarm blaring, car suggests "put the key in this location..."

I also relied on Bob from Kent to try and turn off the wheel pressure sensor BECAUSE THE MASSIVE FUCKING MANUAL DOESN'T TELL YOU HOW TO TURN OFF THE TYRE WARNING LIGHT

And breeeeeathe. Do not get me started on Clover lids, which appear to be made out of the most fragile plastic on earth.

Bars of lotion.

My teapot doesn’t drip. Unfortunately the hole is too small for me to get my hand inside to give it a good scrub or dry it off, and you can’t air dry it because you can’t stand it upside down. It’s a nice teapot but it’s a bugger to wash.

@CounsellorTroi

Ring pull cans of tomatoes etc are bloody agony to open. And tin openers are mostly rubbish. Except my gran's old fashioned one which worked but was an offensive weapon.

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You need one of these. They regularly stock them for about a pound in Aldi/Lidl.
No more sore fingers.

@ClaudiaWankleman

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!

I buy meat from Ali, and most of the packets now have a film on top that you peel off, and a card tray that can been recycled. Aldi have made a number of changes towards better packaging, including a reduction in the black plastic trays that our council won't or can't recycle.

Packs of Tesco finest ham - resealing flap always sticks to the tray with ham once pulled out. Pisses me of every time.

Bathroom stuff that comes in glass bottles. I have foundation, perfume, serums, etc all in glass bottles that are like timebombs. Most bathrooms have hard floors of some sort, many have ceramic tiles, which are noted for being unyielding. Most people have bare feet and slippery hands when in the bathroom. Honestly, it’s not a great leap in critical analysis, is it?

And while I am at it, when I commence my glorious rule, the first decree I shall pass is that every bathroom designer must fit every design in their own home and clean it for 6 months before going near someone else’s. Then they might start designing things that don’t have some strange ungetatable nook or cranny that fills up with cack.

Oh, and the uncleanable teapots? Fill ‘em with a solution of hot water and bio washing powder and leave them overnight. Top tip from my DM as my teapot was revolting.

@DearTeddyRobinson oh god the fricking SamSung little draining tube And that was an expensive machine !!

Stupid ring pulls on our cat food tins - the bloody things break off every time.

@Lillygolightly

Remembered another

Hand soap with the pump lids, you have to screw/wind the pump round in one direction or other to get the pump to release so you can dispense the soap. I can’t count the number of times I’ve bought these and then can’t get the pump to release!!!

If you screw off the entire lid, screw it back on again and then try to turn the pump it should work!

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.

@CouncellorTroi I hate this and I've just had a thought could you try and scoop with an ear bud or similar? I'm going to try it

Re-sealable cheese packs.
Tear the strip off the top, that's a joke - it never goes straight. So, cut it off, nice and straight and then try to pull the pack apart along the seal. Most times it won't open so end up cutting of the re-sealable strip. Finally open the pack and the cheese is blue with mould (Cathedral City every sodding time).

Not a problem for many I guess, but my new chicken coop. The roof prevents you opening the nesting boxes fully, the roof also doesn't open. I can't reach the centre of the coop, so if a bird is ill or dies in the middle I'd have to break the thing apart to get them out.

This is the new and improved model of my old one.

Any 'easy open' ring pull tins. Need a knife to lift the tab, pull the lid up and get splattered in soup, cat food, baked bean juice, whatever. If they were 'easy open' why are there gadgets to buy for opening them?

After having to individually authorise over 30 payments using a Barclays personal card reader thing, I'd say them. Why have they made the buttons such a strange size and shape? They're so awkward to press and I don't even have long nails! Or is that the problem - I need long nails?!

Re: my previous post on ring pulls

*CounsellorTroi

Ring pull cans of tomatoes etc are bloody agony to open. And tin openers are mostly rubbish. Except my gran's old fashioned one which worked but was an offensive weapon.

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You need one of these. They regularly stock them for about a pound in Aldi/Lidl.
No more sore fingers.*

Why not just use a tin opener?

The fact you have to hold down the power button on the Dyson cordless the entire time you're using it.

Also, the cutlery rack in the dishwasher that nothing seems to fit in properly!

Pain medication in foil blisters.

I take the pain medication for my joints. This means my fingers dont work so well in popping them out and I imagine many others have the same problem.

Most come in paper blisters which just easily pop out. When my medication arrives in foil I have to get DH to sit and pop it all into a bottle for me. I even have a note on my prescription to give me paper packets but I often still end up with foil I just cant open.

Hand cream that doesn't have a flip up cap. You've used the hand cream and then have to pot the lid back on with sticky hands.

The stupid Lakeland heated airer

I get the rage every time I use it

You need to be a contortionist to hang anything up because of the end posts.

Also, its 2021. WHY are we still fighting cans of corned beef with keys? WHY!!?

Also, has anyone ever successfully peeled back bacon film using the little lifted bit on the end without it breaking? I haven't.