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?
US can openers. In other countries, they cut the sides of the can not the top, so the lid has no chance of falling in while dulling the edges. It also allows them to be much smaller and easier to use.
I can’t seem to pour out of my pyrex measuring glass without the water dribbling all down the front of the spout making a mess. You think they could have shaped the spout to prevent that better and it infuriates me every time.
Water has both adhesive and cohesive properties, and this bullshit is one of the results. I hate it so much. Basically the bit of wwater in contact with the surface of the spout likes to stick to that spot; and the above that likes to stick to the water stuck to the surface and so on, making it kinda roll along angled surfaces even when it seems like gravity should be yanking it right off.
And they absolutely could shape the spout in a way that stops this - they just choose not to.
Never heard of the oil coating trick @DontRedditMyLemmy mentioned, but it makes sense - oil is hydrophobic, so that could eliminate the adhesion part of the equation; and without that moving the stream initially, its cohesion won’t be an issue either.
Or do what they do in chemistry which is to take a rod (or in the kitchen anything like a dinner knife or handle) and place it against the spout and let the liquid then run down the rod.
I have to chime in here, as it’s a subject close to my heart. The old Pyrex measuring cups don’t do this. I went out of my way to buy some on eBay. I can’t imagine why they redesigned like this, but there’s a lot of things I can’t imagine.
It’s because they moved away from borosilicate.
Lightly coat the spout with olive oil
Why does it have to be olive oil?
Motor oil tastes funny.
Front-load washers should have a brake for the drum that prevents it from rotating while digging out clothes. Last thing I want is twisted/sprained wrist while peeling towels off the walls of the drum.
How hard are you pulling out towels that there’s a risk of getting caught up in it ?
Towels (or other clothes) can stick to the drum and as you pull them out, the balance of the drum shifts and can cause it to spin. If you are grabbing something in a fuller load, your hand/wrist can become entangled and rotate with the drum.
I think mine might have that brake? It’s never spun while off even removing sheets, or several kilos of clothes.
It might not, but it doesn’t spin. Asko is the brand I have. It doesn’t understand the concept of time though. Just be ause the timer should go 17, 16, 15, 14 doesn’t mean it won’t end up going 17, 13, 29, 3, 26, off.
Yer fair enough, can’t say I’ve ever had that experience, mine moves around but like maybe a 1/4 rotation at about a snails pace
Step sister ? Are you stuck in the washer ? What ever am I to do!?
A person of culture I see
I just came over here from reddit. I’ve got some things to learn. Cut me some slack.🤣
A fellow migrator, don’t worry, things here seen to be better.
Why the hell do i have to know which way to put the batteries in at this point ?
A bridge rectifier circuit for each battery slot would solve the issue and, at the low currents of things like remote controls, would be pretty tiny and introduce inconsequential power overhead bbbuuuuuuuuu-uuuuuu-uuuuutttt it would cost money, precious pennies per device. And it would be tricky to market it, educate users, and so on. Such things are too good for this world.
Batteries have a plus and a minus, the spring is generally the flatter end which is generally negative, they’re designed that way to be stackable, although we could probably come up with a slightly more intuitive design.
Garlic crushers. All of them suck.
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:
- You don’t soak your hands in soap and rinse them off and call them clean. You gotta scrub them.
- 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
Eh, we live in an arid climate and have a whole house humidifier which gets the air from the single digits to the 30s. We have another ultrasonic for the bedroom to keep the bloody noses down. It’s not that hard to find one that is easy to clean (has a large hand sized hole in the reservoir). Also, any spray like Scrubbing bubbles makes it super easy to clean to squeaky every 2 weeks. Who the hell would use vinegar, that would smell awful!
I’ve taken to using an old cake pan, a desk fan, and a towel. Fill up the pan with water, stick one end of the towel in the water, drape and clip the other end to the fan and let it sit running for a few days. Before the towel gets gross, toss it in the laundry when it’s dry and grab another towel
It works so well I’m completely confused as to how/why there isn’t a commercialized product like that, it completely solves the cleaning/highschool biology experiments problem
That’s pretty much a swamp cooler
Lol yup, got the idea from a Technology Connections video on how one of the common humidifier designs are literally just large swamp coolers
This is how the humidifier I used in the 90s worked. Tub with water, vertical sponge and a fan blowing over the sponge. I’m sure these are still out there but the little misters they call humidifiers now don’t work well.
You literally just use a sponge and some bleach spray and like a minute of your time. If you replenish it daily your normal water chlorine should keep most of the bad shit at bay.
Don’t use a mist humidifier. They suck. Use an evaporative one and add bacteriostat to the water.
Mine is a tub of water with a wick in it. It has a fan that blows air across the wick. That’s it.
i have a venta lw45. same principle, but instead of a wick, it has these rotating disks that the water sticks to (with a little soap in the water). Works incredibly well, still uses next to no energy (<8W) and the disks are super easy to clean. It’s a beast, goes through 9 liters of water in a bit over a day. All the parts are easily accessible for maintenance and there’s replacement parts if anything ever were to break (though i havent needed those yet).
the disks are especially nice when you have hard water, the calcium can be a pain to remove from a wick, but you can put the venta plastic disks (and lower housing, if you can fit it) in the dishwasher to get them good as new. And calcium does not stick to them weld, so a quick rinse under a strong showerhead is usually enough to clean the disks. Definitely one of the best appliance purchases i ever made.
The cap is a scam, it used to be the size of a soda bottles; now it’s a literal cup.
you don’t need to measure laundry liquid anyway,
just put the absolute minimum amount you can pour from the bottle directly in the machine and do 2 or 3 loads.
Or if you must use the cap, just drop the cap with the detergent in with the laundry. It will clean itself.
Most clothes, oddly gendered and sexist and it’s fucking weird having different clothes for people who identify differently, like clothes are clothes. Make them for everyone. It’s fucking wild.
Yeah women’s socks don’t make sense to me. They’re socks. Why are they gendered?
Women tend to have narrower feet.
We would all be better off if we just included foot width in shoe sizes though.
Wide foot owner here - can confirm shoe and sock should come in multiple widths not just lengths
Shoe sizes need to go too. Just measure it in centimeters. List all the measurements - length, width at forefoot, midfoot, rearfoot. Let people go online and look up a list of shoes that actually fit perfectly. Instead we have three or four different variants of shoe size numbers, gendered, that don’t even work with width, and half the time are too big or too small.
I’ve bought women’s socks for a long time if they were cheaper never had any issues with the fit
no pockets
Oh wow, those really exist
That should be called a socket.
Men and women have wildly different body shapes. Thus, gendered clothes.
I guess people who are non-binary don’t exist according to that. Or intersex people, or people who was born with differently shaped bodies.
Totally not the point, and it was obvious, but hey, if you want to be offended instead of engaging with the thread, that’s your perogative.
Why exactly do you even care?
I own women clothes (as a male), my wife owns many men clothes. We dress however we like, we don’t care for labels or what gender is put on there. If I’d feel like wearing a pink hello-kitty-dress, I’d do so. And we’re genX and gender-boring. I would even care less if I’d identify as something else than my pants contents tell me.
Why do you give a crap about how some store genders something? Pick what you prefer from wherever? Seriously asking, not mocking or anything.
The vast majority of people don’t fall into that and manufacturers will focus on the majority of customers.
Freesewing.org tries to do that, but just ends up awkwardly referring to “people with/without breasts” instead.
I’m sorry to say this, but I don’t need the extra space for H-cups my ex needed. 😅 All depends on your specific body, but there are good reasons for all kinds of specific clothing shapes existing from extremely slim-fitting muscular shorts and super-spindly trousers all the way to saggy super-long shirts most people use for sleeping, Y-shaped t-shirts for big cup sizes and plus-sizes on suits.
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People have different body shapes, you know? And sure, you could say “Buy why isn’t every design available in every shape then?!”, to which I’d say that I guess in an ideal world it would be but as a company you got to draw a line somewhere because manufacturing, logistics and storage costs are a thing. But if you look at say redbubble, they’ll sell you virtually any design on 50-80 different articles of clothing independent of which one it is.
There’s some… weird things though, granted. Like how you can tell “made for women”-trousers because a) the button is on the left and b) the pockets are ridiculously tiny.
Yeah I hate having button downs that tuck only one inch into my waist (I’m a man)
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.
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.
The gravity-assisted bag roll is a staple for me. Cereal, bread, veggies, anything too big for a bag clip.
I just fold it up and use a clothes peg ha ha
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.
How do you hold closed the bag that holds the bag clips?
I had some plastic clothes-pins that became severely degraded from uv sunlight.
Soak them in vinegar for 15 minutes
If they’re anything like the pegs I got, vinegar won’t help, they basically crumbled to dust!
Microplastics dust
Stainless steel ones are the way to go
I prefer wooden pegs with a stainless spring, but plastic has to be pretty much the worst choice.
I found the wooden one degrade after a while and break, yer 100% agree plastic is rubbish
Wait until you hear about PEX piping.
UV light breaks the polymer bonds. You now have monomer dust.
I always run into the common problems with my plumbus, no further explanations needed i think.
As a Roman Legionary. I have multiple plumbata, but one plumbus gives me troubles. I i feel like I can relate
In general, I wish more things would have a common design that manufacturers get to reuse and incrementally improve upon. Take, for example, plastic chairs and office chairs. There’s probably a million variations in existence and someone had to model, prototype, and make tooling for each and every one of them. Sure, there’s varying price points, design languages, and use cases. But even for the same price point there’s at least several thousand chairs with the same overall look and feel. All of that duplicated work and effort, only to make several thousand variations, none of which have a distinct advantage, and each with their own completely solvable problems. Why don’t they just pool their efforts and design one example with as few flaws as possible for that overall design and price?
I agree with you, but I’m not sure how great it would actually be.
I don’t know much about it and I suspect others will be along to correct me in a moment, but wasn’t this a feature of soviet era communism?
As in, capitalists all compete in a free market to produce the best chair for the lowest price. Communism is more efficient because we just direct a factory to make 2 types of chair, standard and deluxe.
Capitalists compete to make the most money by convincing customers to pay as much as possible for a product that’s as cheap as possible to make. The competition argument works in areas that are white-hot with innovation but can anyone honestly say the office chair of 2025 shows thirty years of innovation over the ones from 1995?
Office chairs, no, but massage chairs have.
I was going to bring up the Herman miller Arron, but that released in 1994!
I’m not going to engage in a silly argument about the merits of communism as opposed to capitalism.
Then why bring it up and say someone will correct you if you’re wrong?
Old mate didn’t provide any fascinating insights into the manufacturing practices of soviet era communism, they just trotted out some meme-level anti-capitalist vibe-based hyperbole.
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?
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.
Of course! You need the hork-lube to do it right
Or just going outside and ejecting that puppy without touching anything except the other side of your nose. Farmer blow FTW.
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).
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.
OMG I thought I might be the only one!
I do this too and it drives everyone nuts but it’s so much better!
Only thing is sometimes I miss a snot rocket that goes astray.
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.
The glue gets weaker when it’s heated. They use the same film for oven meals as well. It comes off fine when you finished heating, but it’s a pain in the arse when cold.
is it a good idea to microwave that plastic container, though?
The new caps they’re putting on plastic bottles are awful. Make it very hard to put back on properly and we’ve have a few incidents with them looking on but they actually cross threaded and leaked. I just rip them off now.
Also, why is the glue on cereal boxes so damn strong now? I end up tearing the box more often than not these days and that never used to be the case.
I feel like plastic packaging in general has become much harder to rip open at the seam.
Anyone else notice this, or am I just much weaker now?Some of them are outright ridiculous. Like one of the protein cookie brands I like, 80% of the time I have to hulk out and end up ripping the packaging to shreds. We also see it on chip packages and cereal bags at times too. It’s crazy.
Twist them round half a turn (after loosening) one of the two plastic straps will break off and you have more maneuvering space to screw the cap back on. Twist and tear again to get the entire cap off and fasten the old fashioned way (more hassle).
My expierence is that most (european) bottles this helps.
The glue on boxes is almost certainly that strong so that anyone trying to open the box to tamper with it will also rip it, making their attempt obvious. It drives me nuts too, but aparently that’s the sort of world we live in now.
There were a lot of very public cases of people trying to or threatening to add poison to cereals, after all. Something like 30+ years ago of course, but it might have influenced this.
