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?

@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

No children here, once I've wrestled the lid off I throw it away.

@mommybunny

Re:spices - ones I use regularly are often cheaper in the bulk “ethnic” section of my local Sainsbury’s so I buy them there and decant into washed out jam jars.

I hate bacon packaging. I make bacon once-twice per week and never use up a whole pack in one go, but the packs don’t reseal and the bacon dries out and sticks together between uses.

I have a special box

www.potterscookshop.co.uk/products/lock-lock-bacon-box-with-freshness-tray-1-litre?currency=GBP&variant=12400960667745&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhdrKuI-m7wIVgtayCh0tsAICEAQYBCABEgJmPvD_BwE

Box rooms, sold as "bedrooms".

It's not even difficult, it's a blatant lie in most cases. I can't count the number of threads and posts I have seen of people unable to fit a toddler bed in a so-called bedroom.

It should be illegal to call a bedroom any room that cannot fit a double bed, a bedside table and a wardrobe or chest of drawers.

If the soy sauce bottle in use has two spout holes ( one is slow one is fast flow ) in the lid put your thumb over the one you don’t want to use to impede the air intake - thus controlling the outflow.

The K-Mix mixer! Everything about it is rather good except the bloody spashguard. It barely clips on and a stiff breath knocks the stupid thing off again. It drives me mad.

New plastic boxes of washing pods. Impossible to open. Duvet covers.

Those roast chickens that come in the roasting bag ready to bung in the oven.
The instructions are on the bottom. Why? Why not put them on the top so you can read them as you go. If it was as simple as just cooking at a certain temp for a certain amount of time it would be fine, but you need to cook, remove the film, baste, cook again, leave to stand etc etc.

I take a photo which also solves the tiny writing problem

@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

So glad you said that, I thought dementia was setting in as I just couldn't open one. I've gone back to powder in a cardboard box.

Fucking garlic crushers.

Mushes the clove into the bottom of the ‘mincer’ and I’d find more garlic in a vampire’s arsehole than what comes out of them. Pisses me right off.

@Bloodypunkrockers

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.

And it wobbles if you dare to reach across it. And it threatens to snap the clips that hold it together.

@Northernsoullover

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“

this! And the lids are so bloody flimsy anyway that I can lift the corner and get my adult sized hand in to grab one out rather than spending a decent amount of my time opening them.

Childproof anything is particularly "challenging" if you're unlucky enough to have arthritis in your hands.

@LifesLittleDeciders

Fucking garlic crushers.

Mushes the clove into the bottom of the ‘mincer’ and I’d find more garlic in a vampire’s arsehole than what comes out of them. Pisses me right off.

this has changed my garlic life

My washing machine has a timer. Except it totally makes up the time. It can go one hour, 20 mins, 40 mins, 25 mins, half an hour then suddenly down to 9 mins, back up to 15 and then down to 5. I was so annoyed I looked it up in the manual. It said that all times are estimates and can vary.

@BrownEyedGirl80

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

The foil ones on the filtered milk (Tesco) are dangerous as you have to remove them with a stabby knife.

Microscopic recycling symbols on plastics. Why make it harder to recycle? I had to buy a magnifying glass to see the details Also use it to check no meat by-products involved, sometimes even the calorie table!

Those crappy wee sachets of conditioner in home hair dye kits. They never have a starting tear, so I end up using my teeth to open them and get a mouthful of conditioner. No scissors around as I'm in the shower and not particularly forward thinking as a rule.

Ditto, the crappy wee tomato ketchup sachets in Burger King or wherever. Your hands are already coated with the grease from the burger and then you're expected to open impenetrable sachets of sauce.

And while I'm on the subject, teeny tiny pots of uht milk that have their lids spot welded on. Grrrr ...

@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 use a serrated kitchen knife on these and cut the tabs off.

We don't have kids and neither me nor DH can undo the bastarding things.

[quote TweeterandtheMonkeyman]@DearTeddyRobinson oh god the fricking SamSung little draining tube And that was an expensive machine !![/quote]
I have found my people

Taps in public toilets/washrooms where you have to permanently hold down the tap with one hand whilst washing the other one underneath the flow of water. No possibility to actually rub your hands together or wash them properly. It's the equivalent of designing a bicycle with only one pedal. If I were any kind of environmental health/safety/hygiene officer, I would instantly rule as unfit for human use anywhere that has taps like that and order the places shut down, with the providers heavily fined!

On the other hand, the ones that give you 20 seconds of water with one push are genius - avoid waste and fully functional.

@Pinkflipflop85, I have little makeup spatulas to get the last bits out.

With some of them, you can't open them and you know there's stuff left in there, and because the jar is weighty you don't realise it's 'empty' until no more comes out. You have moisturiser but it's trapped in the jar.

You end up slapping on any old cream so you can get on with your day.

Sticky tape seals on sliced bread. they don't unpeel so I end up smashing through the plastic. I say bring back those neat little do-dahs with a hole in the middle that we had in the 80s.

Fluckle alas no.
Although my other car (also not a Land Rover) also has the tyre pressure sensors going off every 15 minutes. Mainly, it would appear, because there are no tyre pressure sensors. So every 15 mins the computer does a check on tyre pressure and because the non-existent tyre pressure monitors do not respond, it goes "shit there's no tyre pressure, sound the alarm" Once, it even failed the MOT for having an active alarm on the dashboard. I said, but it's got no tyre pressure monitors, that's why. They said "we don't know you're not just saying that" and I said "you serviced it 6 months ago and you told me it had no tyre pressure monitors and at 4 x £60 each plus labour you told me it would be easier if I just ignored the alarm" and we compromised with them cancelling the alarm and passing the MOT.

I have also smashed many Clover packets on the kitchen floor and admire the way the shards immediately themselves into the marg, only to surprise you at later date.

Bottles of bleach grrrrrr. I know you're meant to just pinch your thumb and finger to turn the lid but it never works for me. Always end up using brute force !

Certain bike lights. I struggle to turn them off, need very strong fingers on almost non-existent buttons. Actually aggravate my RSI turning them off.

On that note, Lezyne battery caps. Damn things are easy to lose & expensive or impossible to replace.