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For example, I'm incredibly confused about how you're supposedly to measure liquid laundry detergent with the cap. At least the kind that I have sits on it's side, so if you measure it with the cap it just leaks everywhere and makes a mess.

Or at my parents house they have a bag of captain crunch berries that has a new design, where instead of zipping along the top of the bag like normal, it has a zipper in the front slightly beneath the top. That way when you poor it you can't see what you're doing cuz the bag is in the way. Like what the heck who's idea was that?

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[โ€“] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Any time there's a ready meal from the supermarket and for some reason the adhesive is way stronger than the plastic film. You end up with loads of bits of film just sort of stuck to the rim of it. Super annoying.

I've dropped brands for that shit

Got a local one that puffs up to like 3x height in the microwave though and that pulls off a lot of the adhesive.

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[โ€“] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

When I was a kid cereal didn't have no zippas! We rolled up the one end of the bag and watched it partially unfurl when we let go, and we were satisfied with that.

[โ€“] dx1@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Roll the bag. Flip the box upside down. Put it in going up. Hold it in place and flip the box back over. Gravity holds the bag closed. This is a bad idea if anyone else accesses the box and isn't on the same page as you.

[โ€“] somedev@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just fold it up and use a clothes peg ha ha

[โ€“] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Y'know, I bought a bag of bag clips from Ikea years ago and I'm only now realising that they're less suited to the job than a clothes peg. Smart.

[โ€“] flubba86@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How do you hold closed the bag that holds the bag clips?

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[โ€“] morgan_423@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I'm going to go with that horrendous, non-absorbent, 1/8th ply toilet paper that gets stocked in public and office bathrooms.

I'm on Team Bidet now, so it doesn't bother me as much as it once did... but the stuff should not exist.

I'm guessing that one day, the people who buy the stuff will figure out that it they're not winning if it costs one-third the price of normal TP when everyone has to use ten times more of it, but who knows when that day will happen. Because it hasn't happened yet.

[โ€“] menemen@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Even with a bidet that paper sucks. Drying off you ass with it leaves so much paper crumble everywhere that you'll need the bidet again...

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[โ€“] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Any mug that has a really hemispherical, smooth handle. You put a hot beverage in there, and the weight is enough to make your fingers slide down the handle, and then you burn yourself on the main body of the mug unless you really squeeze.

Any faucet that just barely sticks out over the sink, so you have to touch the back of the sink to wash your hands (british sinks are even worse, though).

[โ€“] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Humidifiers.

It's just a pool of water with a little nebulizer and a fan to blow the mist out a chimney.

Trouble is, they're all made by the fucking plague demon Nurgle with the sole purpose of aerosolizing mold and bacteria by having the tiniest nooks and crannies than cannot be reached to be physically cleaned.

And before I get the "you gotta clean it with vinegar every week" comment, two points:

  1. You don't soak your hands in soap and rinse them off and call them clean. You gotta scrub them.
  2. Am I supposed to fill a 5 gallon bucket with vinegar to soak the whole water tank every week? Because the chimney goes right through that bitch.

You better start showing Plague Daddy, Prince of Decay, God of Chaos Nurgle some goddamn respect

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[โ€“] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Yeah, why do people blow their noses into PAPER when you can just go to the bathroom sink and hork in your hands, and then wash up afterwards??? Why would people walk around with dried boogies on they face when they can wash?? Why? Why, Mister Anderson, why, why?

[โ€“] morgan_423@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just tell me that you turn the water on pre-hork instead of touching the fixtures with hork hands, and I'm totally fine with your suggestion.

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[โ€“] monovergent@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

It's probably habit, but it just feels somehow wrong to blow my nose without a piece of paper snugly against my nostrils. Like trying to poop without being seated on a toilet bowl.

[โ€“] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Or just going outside and ejecting that puppy without touching anything except the other side of your nose. Farmer blow FTW.

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For example, I'm incredibly confused about how you're supposedly to measure liquid laundry detergent with the cap. At least the kind that I have sits on it's side, so if you measure it with the cap it just leaks everywhere and makes a mess.

After pouring the detergent into the appropriate receptacle, toss the cap in with your laundry to be washed like everything else. No mess.

[โ€“] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Toilets seem to be getting smaller and Iโ€™m having trouble sitting on it without my penis touching the front.

[โ€“] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago

Hey everyone get a load of this guy with his massive hog

[โ€“] Wahots@pawb.social 14 points 1 day ago

Rounded toilets are the worst for this. Elongated is the way to go.

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[โ€“] hbar@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wine bottles. After thousands of years of drinking you would think humans would develop a bottle design that doesn't dribble down the side after pouring.

[โ€“] rmuk@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

If this is a regular issue for you I'd recommend a decanter or at least a large carafe. It solves your problem, helps the wine to 'breathe' and looks fancypants as balls.

[โ€“] Skanky@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's why you should just drink it straight from the bottle.

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[โ€“] ubergeek@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We did.

Boxed wine.

However, bottle design is pretty refined, and they are quite reusuable.

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[โ€“] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 80 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

Some toilets have a perfectly round bowl so they don't stick out as far and take up less bathroom floor space - and they work fine, but only in bathrooms that anticipate the vast majority of its occupants to be equipped with a vagina. For those of us rocking a penis, those fucking toilets are horrible - sitting on that damn thing requires you to contort your junk around like some sausage-Houdini as you're sitting, so that you can guide it through the remaining 2 square inches of open space not occupied by your legs or ass. Then when you're actually seated, you still have to sit there and awkwardly hold the thing so it stays pointed straight down.

Fuck up any part of that, and the tip of your dick hits the seat or the inside of the bowl.

...and they must be like $3 cheaper than an oval toilet or something, cuz 99% of US apartments seem to be equipped with the round, vagina-only toilets.

Oval bowls are the way. No matter what's in your pants, it gets the job done without the significantly increased biohazard risk.

I guess in fairness, the problem isn't with their design, it's with the people who purchase the toilets treating them as sex-neutral when no the fuck they aren't!

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[โ€“] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I just replaced my windshield wipers last night and it was a nightmare. The wipers I got are supposed to be universal, which means the little plastic bit that connects to the wiper arms has a bunch of little sub parts that you're supposed to remove based on what wiper arm connection your car uses. Well, considering I'm not well versed in modern wiper arm connection standards, and I'm also stubborn and don't think you should need to dig out your car manual just to change your fucking wipers, coupled with the fact that the instructions that came with the wipers are just 6 wordless diagrams vaguely showing you what bits to remove based on which esoteric wiper style your car uses, I struggled with those sons of bitches for like 20 minutes in below freezing weather.

[โ€“] brisk@aussie.zone 12 points 1 day ago

Wordless instructions make the world a more equitable place by making everyone equally frustrated

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[โ€“] RBWells@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Countertops should be just a couple of inches higher, they are calibrated for a 1930s housewife but most of us aren't 5'2" and it's easier to stand on a stool if it's too high than to stoop because it's too low.

OP I hate those low ziploc bag openings too, they are so stupid.

[โ€“] Janovich@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Or you could be my house, previously owned by a maniac, with counters in the kitchen at 3 different heights. I wish I could say that was the stupidest thing the previous owner did.

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