What is YOUR pet peeve? Let's have a laugh.
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Lou F Quincy
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The price of windshield wipers and how they now market complete unit replacements instead of just the rubber refills.
YY1
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You can actually get just the rubber inserts but they are a royal PITA to work with.
Not sure what brilliant engineer decided that changing from a replaceable sub-assembly made of a blade and a metal retainer, to a three piece assembly where the person doing the work has to keep two 1/16" x18" (or longer) metal strips inside their 1/32" deep channels while inserting that tenuously held together assembly into the blade holder frame....without the aid of a clip that slides into an area of the frame designed to accept it, which was also removed from the design.
...and of course you can't use old refills in new blades or vice versa (I have old cars that have the opposite problem) because the overall width was changed- one way simply won't fit, the other is loose and falls out.
THANKS SAE, or whatever bureaucracy of idiots approved that standard!
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YY1
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Boxes that don't actually open when you open the tab flap-
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Not sure when this started, but my favorite Nature Valley peanut butter wafers were an early adopter.
This forces you to either tear the cardboard leaving the glued in flap glued in, or run your finger through the glue hoping to dislodge it, which to me, is akin to running my nail on a chalkboard.
The box before this one also had so much glue on the tab flap that I couldn't separate it without ripping the cardboard in a couple of places, rendering the tab almost worthless to re-close.
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Not sure when this started, but my favorite Nature Valley peanut butter wafers were an early adopter.
This forces you to either tear the cardboard leaving the glued in flap glued in, or run your finger through the glue hoping to dislodge it, which to me, is akin to running my nail on a chalkboard.
The box before this one also had so much glue on the tab flap that I couldn't separate it without ripping the cardboard in a couple of places, rendering the tab almost worthless to re-close.
Also plastic bags inside cardboard boxes (like a cereal):
It used to be that you could pull the seam apart just fine. Now when pulling, it is released all at once and you often end up with contents on the floor from the sudden jarring. Why they went from heat sealing to chemically bonding the plastic seam together? Tampering? The cardboard box would reveal that.
Scissors are useful here, but still.
It used to be that you could pull the seam apart just fine. Now when pulling, it is released all at once and you often end up with contents on the floor from the sudden jarring. Why they went from heat sealing to chemically bonding the plastic seam together? Tampering? The cardboard box would reveal that.
Scissors are useful here, but still.
Lucius Mojo
Super Member
Yeah it makes a real mess!
Bill Ferris
Lunatic Member
With the sole use of one hand, scissors is often the only option if nobody is around to assist, with the usual exception of most chip bags, in which the welded side seam near the top is grasped with my teeth, and I "very carefully" pull the top of the bag away from me pulling the top apart.
The bag usually cooperates..
I found out that it`s best to dump the chips after opening into a Tupperware container afterwards, as "dancing" with chip clips is very frustrating trying to keep the top folded with one hand while clamping using my teeth to squeeze the chip clip open !
Interesting/desperate/bazaar techniques, I`ve had to come up with over the yrs. to side step my physical limitations !
Lucius Mojo
Super Member
What happened?
Bill Ferris
Lunatic Member
Are you addressing me, Lucius ?
Lucius Mojo
Super Member
Yes
Bill Ferris
Lunatic Member
Ok if you`re really interested please go to the A/K retiree thread, and do a search within that thread, using my full Name, and you will find a rather detailed first post in that thread by me and somewhat long winded explanation of the course of events that ended up allowing me to become partially paralyzed (left side hemi paresis) starting in Nov. 19 1981 and my initial undesired "forced retirement" at the ripe old age of 26 !
I`m typing with one hand and one finger, so repeating what is already well documented by me there would be physically laborious and redundant..
Thank you, Lucius Mojo, for your understanding concerning this, Sir.
WillVT
Super Member
I have a theory about chip bags. Like corn chips or potato chips or the like. You used to be able to pull on the sides, and the seam would smoothly open up, making it easy to fold and reseal. Now the seam doesn't open, but instead there's the little cut in the end of the seam to tear. This usually makes a giant uncontrolable tear down the entire bag. The result is you can't easily close the bag up. Which if you ran the numbers, over millions of bags, would probably bump sales up since it causes either more stale chips, or eating more. Either way, making you buy more. Capitalism at it's finest!
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NH-MAN
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I wouldn't argue the plausibility, nobody really says marketing is nice.
stereofanboy
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Cheese that comes in a Ziploc style resealable pouch. The zip part is missing or entirely inoperable on about one in five of these I've bought over the last several years.
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