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?

Lurpack butter! The inside pot has a rim on it that fits perfectly inside the lid. So there is nowhere to grip to separate them as you always catch the inside rim and can't get the bastard it off. If DH buys this by mistake I hack the inside rim off with scissors.

Agree with Dow Edwards lids - feckers

Also sliced meat and cheese products with a flim lid where the film opens from the opposite end that the slices are served.

cello tape

Children! 😂

@toria658

Mobile phones. I use my phone as erm a phone, with text messaging ( should I need to email, browse the internet etc I have a laptop, iPad designed for that explicit use!) I have small hands, ginormous cell phones make it hard for me to use, carry and takes up too much space in my bag. I loved my iphone5, fitted in my hand etc... can we have phones that are not mini iPads oh no, they have to be ginormous and bulky. Samsung aren’t much better either ....

I'm the exact opposite. I love a big phone. What's the point of a tiny little phone that disappears to the bottom of your handbag so you can feel it vibrating but can't find it to answer it? My current phone is an IPhone 12 and I have it in a super chunky leather case so it's not too bad but I want to go even larger next time.

"Bathroom stuff that comes in glass bottles. I have foundation, perfume, serums, etc all in glass bottles"

Is that bathroom stuff though?

I think that quite a few might have that in a bedroom?

@OnlyTheLangoftheTitBerg

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.

@OnlyTheLangoftheTitBerg Don't these normally have perforated cardboard at the back? I've never come across one that doesn't!

@WankmasterBastardDeLaShithead

Sainsbury's spices/herbs have teaspoonable openings. I literally do my weekly shopping there because of this

they do, I agree

The central heating control unit we have was designed and fitted by idiots. If you use 'timed' or 'all day' you have to remember it turns itself off over the weekend. The clock never tells the right time and it can't be changed, because its supposed to update itself by radio.

DH just spent 40k on a hybrid Lexus. If it goes un driven for more than 10 days we have to get the AA out to charge it. Or we can pay for a trickle charger that will solve the problem. If it needs a £100 trickle charger to work the bloody thing should be included as standard. Our last hybrid (a Prius) didn't need it and nor does my cheap little Toyota.

A very expensive one: the Kenwood Multipro Excel Food Processor FPM910. When my old Braun died, my lovely husband decided to get me a Really Good processor for an unbirthday present. It cost the thick end of five hundred pounds, and it is indeed bloody lovely.

Apart from one design flaw.

There is a bit of the lid which has to engage fully or the machine won't spin its blades. And the metal bit that has to engage is fixed in place using two small screws into plastic. When they pull out even a little, it no longer engages and the machine doesn't work unless you stand beside it holding the lid down hard.

It's been in my life since 14/01/2018, say my records which I keep for returns. I think we have now had four new lids because the plastic simply strips under the strain of holding the metal screws, the screws come out about two millimetres, and the fit is no longer exact. They can be grateful that it has a five-year guarantee on it for parts, because otherwise I might have to go and visit them with an axe and a namic grin.

(The most recent new lid arrived last week and we are planning to take the old one to bits, replace the little plastic nuts with little metal ones glued into the right place, and see whether perhaps I can at last have a reliably working food processor.)

This hairdryer!! I bought it solely because it's purple and it is actually a really good hairdryer, but its buttons are tiny and fiddly and protrude exactly where your fingers go when you hold it so I keep turning it off/cold when I'm using it. My previous hairdryer had lovely sensible sliders but this one is a PITA.

I love this thread! It's making me laugh imaging all the packaging rage happening all over the land

@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 bought one once (Fairy) when I couldn't get my regular washing liquid. I couldn't open it at all but both of my DC could. Anyway it made everyone except DD itchy so we gave it away.

@Coyoacan

Architect-designed buildings that don't work. I can't figure out what architects actually do.

Our building was recently remodelled and the architects saw fit to put slippery tiles on the stairs.

Some of my college building was redone and they put in a glass walkway, absolutely ideal for looking up people's skirts. Thanks a lot.

@longhaulstress

Pretty much every can opener I've ever owned.

Similarly, every garlic press I've ever owned

Those little bottles of shampoo and conditioner in hotel bathrooms where the both bottles are the same size and colour and the writing so small and in a pale colour so I one can't read it and I have to get out of the shower to find my glasses and a bright light, but as you can't open the smooth cap with wet hands perhaps it doesn't matter.

Why can't you brown stuff in a slow cooker? Means you use a pan AND the sodding slow cooker

Ecover laundry detergent bottles - deliberately badly designed to make it impossible to pour half a cap full.

Large packets of rice filled right up to the top, which are impossible to open without unleashing a sudden avalanche of rice all over the kitchen. The only non-messy solution is to make a hole at the top so small that only 3 grains of rice can escape at a time....

I’m going to read this thread later when I have time to sigh fulsomely between examples. My current gripe is why board game boxes are all different sizes and look awful no matter how I stack them. But inside, the plastic moulded insert is invariable set up to hold the pieces before they are used, instead of to store them between uses.

Bottles you can’t get the dregs out of! Particularly expensive stuff like Clinique moisturiser, the flat square shape means even turning it upside down you can’t get it all out!

Yes, duvet covers. Why can't they all open on 3 sides?

My car. It's impossible to turn the radio off - why?

Rice. As soon as I open the packet it splits and I have to decant it, despite it having a 'reseal' tab.

The original design Joseph Joseph Totem Bin.

Yes, I spent £140 on a bin and for that I expected it to work. What I didn't expect was the bottom compartment, which you wheeled out to empty, would fall forwards when the rubbish box is removed because it's top heavy. This means the edge of the bin hits the tile on the floor almost every time you empty it and leaves nasty unsightly chips all along the edge.

Seems they have changed the design now. Not before they refused to replace my damaged one.

@grassisjeweled

Why can't you brown stuff in a slow cooker? Means you use a pan AND the sodding slow cooker

I can put mine on the hob to brown, but not my hob as it's induction...

One of the reasons I stopped buying those laundry capsules was because of the bastard plastic boxes I couldn’t open.

The other reason, was reading that they gunge up the washing machine with slime. It’s now just powder from a cardboard box (no plastic) and a lot less than I’d once have used, straight into the drum, and soda crystals in the drawer.