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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€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Laptops with no intake dust filters.

Actually, no, any computer with fans that doesn't have a dust filter is a terrible design.

[โ€“] spicytuna62 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

My laptop doesn't have dust filters, but the fan almost never runs anyway. Like the heatsink is way overbuilt for the CPU it's attached to. It's actually quite nice. I've never seen it hit 70 degrees. I've cleaned it maybe three times since 2016. It really only spins the fan up when I'm watching 60 fps YouTube videos or playing games. And even then, it kicks hard for a very short time and shuts off again.

And again, I bought this thing nine years ago. It's just a little Acer. And it's not even a nice one. I paid like 500 bucks for this thing.

Now, my wife's MacBook that she games on....yeah, I need to figure out how to get the back off so it can get a proper dusting. Fuck you, Apple. Let me work on my stuff, dammit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

A twelve year old computer in 2013 would have been utterly useless. Doesn't matter how good is was in 2001 it would die under even a modest 2013 workload. But a decent computer from 2013 is still useful today. Not for triple-A gaming, VR, or 8K video editing, but still a decent productivity and media machine. I just bought my first handheld gaming PC and I made sure it had eGPU support since that's the likely bottleneck in the future (i7 and 32GB RAM, so that should be good for a long while) and I fully intend to get a decade out of it. There's no real appetite to upgrade your machine regularly any more, and the manufacturers hate that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 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€“] [email protected] 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€“] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours 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 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

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€“] morgan_423 28 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€“] [email protected] 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 44 points 1 day 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€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 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€“] ikidd 1 points 19 hours ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 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€“] morgan_423 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€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Because it is not always possible... Also, take your time to clean the sink afterwards or you might get in trouble with you SO (I am speaking out of experience).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (7 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.
[โ€“] sneekee_snek_17 8 points 1 day ago

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

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€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 day 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€“] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

We did.

Boxed wine.

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

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[โ€“] Skanky 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 day 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€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I don't believe in anything supernatural, but I'm pretty sure wiper blade attachment designs were somehow still born in the deepest fires of hell.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

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

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