Things that don't work as they should

Things that don't work as they should

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Rude-boy

22,227 posts

232 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Asterix said:
How many bottles do you have open at any given time?

I usually have just the one on the go - it's a fail-safe way of knowing which to use.
yes and when you had a bottle left over from the day before scoring a little cross on the top of the older bottle to mark which one to open next...

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

232 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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HOGEPH said:
At what stage did all these foodstuffs come with tamper proof caps?
When nut jobs started to threaten to put stuff into people's food in the supermarkets. Or at least when the media started telling everyone one that the nut jobs might have an idea to do it...

P-Jay

10,551 posts

190 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Colic remedies and teething remedies.

It's a complete bullst industry build around selling useless crap to tired and stressed parents.

prand

5,910 posts

195 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Impasse said:
Pretty much any electronic device which has the ability to talk/pair/network with another electronic device. They're all mostly rubbish at it.
I must admit I think the opposite. This is something that actually has impressed me recently.

Whenever I've had near to redundant stereo kit or a/v stuff to connect, you can generally find a cheap (a few £) widget that convert iPhone adapters to the correct type for example, or bluetooth receivers to convert old iphone docks and my car stereo into bluetooth, SD or USB card readers and mini PVRs to plug into my telly have all worked without issue and are cheap enough not to worry if they break (not that they do).

Usually you are sent a dubious looking package from China with little or no instructions, but they just seem to work for me!

Admitedly my music setup in my house is a bit Heath Robinson, but at least I know I've got myself a pretty reasonable multi-room arrangement by using all the equipment I've bought over the years and have not had to drop a big chunk of wedge on a Sonos system.

Hackney

6,811 posts

207 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Any football game ever.
Not the real thing, but the FIFAs and Pro Evolution Soccers of this world. Whether it's Playstation, XBox, Nintendo whatever, even the old arcade games.
My real bugbear is that you tend to control the player nearest the ball. But you're always moving one player towards the ball (L to R, say) then somehow another player on the left of the ball becomes nearer, so now you're moving a different player away from the ball.

All absolutely useless.

LordGrover

33,532 posts

211 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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I'm fairly happy with most inanimate objects and technology.
It's mostly people that grind my gears.

8Ace

2,681 posts

197 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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My knees. Stop hurting you bds.

FiF

43,964 posts

250 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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jmorgan said:
Hotel toasters.
LoL you read that exchange too.

FiF

43,964 posts

250 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Bags of stuff fastened with stitching, eg charcoal. You are supposed to be able to unpick one end, pull and it will unzip. But it does about once in ten bags.

southendpier

5,254 posts

228 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Rude-boy said:
yes: and when you had a bottle left over from the day before scoring a little cross on the top of the older bottle to mark which one to open next...
Fine suggestions chaps. But I am not the sole user of the milk stocks. Family pier are happy to grab the nearest and newest bottle...

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

210 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Religion. All that sitting, kneeling, praying and wailing.. since when did enlightenment include hacking, burning, slicing and dicing people? The answer to which seems to include the logic 'since my God is better than your God'.

bertie

8,545 posts

283 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Children.

Mephistofleas

1,385 posts

189 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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That scensoredt plastic packaging generally used for small IT/AV stuff like this:



It works all right to keep the fcensoredg thing you've bought completely sealed and a censored to get at rage

Asterix

24,438 posts

227 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Mephistofleas said:
That scensoredt plastic packaging generally used for small IT/AV stuff like this:



It works all right to keep the fcensoredg thing you've bought completely sealed and a censored to get at rage
It's when they use the same packaging for scissors does it become farcical.

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

260 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Rawwr said:
Stephen Hawking.
Oooh! Harsh! But you owe me a new keyboard!

roflroflrofl

DAB radio. Always get random burble in the car, and at home unless the radio is by a window, has random hissy fits.

nigelonich

1,017 posts

219 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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locks, they only slow people with the key down.

nigelonich

1,017 posts

219 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Mephistofleas said:
That scensoredt plastic packaging generally used for small IT/AV stuff like this:



It works all right to keep the fcensoredg thing you've bought completely sealed and a censored to get at rage
If you look on the life hacks thread some bright spark has suggested using a tin opener for opening these and to be fair it works a treat.


Edited by nigelonich on Wednesday 1st October 12:58

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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nigelonich said:
If you look on the life hacks thread some bright spark has suggested using a tin opener for opening these and to be fair it works a treat.


Edited by nigelonich on Wednesday 1st October 12:58
Brilliant! smile

mike-r

1,539 posts

190 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Nikolai said:
'Remove film lid before cooking'. The film lid then comes of in tiny slivers, grrrr. Tesco film-lidded products seem the worst.
Ignore the notice and heat for a few seconds in the microwave or five minutes in the oven, the glue softens and it comes off in one go.

+1 to printers, they're fking infuriating. But also computers in general.

Flying Toilet

3,621 posts

210 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Local Council.