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Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [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?

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Of course! You need the hork-lube to do it right

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [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).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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.