Packaging rage

[Gassit Girl]

Some products' packaging drives ya nuts by saying it's going to make it easier for you to keep the product fresh / pour the product out nicely etc - and then totally NOT!! I have struggled with the Comfort fabric softener refill pack that says "make a spout" by pulling out the sides and poking them forward to make a triangle. More like "make a soggy cardboard mess"! You need steel fingers to pull the glued panels out, it doesn't really poke forward at all, and IF you can get it forwards, you still need to stab between the panels with the blade of some scissors to make the opening! Then clean all the fabric softener off the scissors. And clean up stuff that globbed out over the floor/bench as soon as pressure was released by the poking of the hole. This palaver, which has driven me mad for about 10 yrs, seriously falls short of the promise on the box!

[Headbanger]

are you wearing mittens?

[Mom]

Be quiet Headbanger! You know not the frustration spoken of!

My beef is the Persil Clothes wash shit in the box with the "convenient" tear round strip. Them suckers make it so it tears off every few centimetres around the box! I am sure of it, reckon they laugh like shit testing it to ensure it will never, ever tear round in one piece! Pricks!!

[Gassit Girl]

Yes MOM, you are right on both counts! I have never been able to get the Persil box strip off in one piece either. The other one is the self-seal strip at the top of the plastic refills of rice bubbles or cornflakes. There's a perforated strip saying "tear here" and I made the mistake of tearing where they said to (as opposed to cutting) and the perforated bits weren't deep enough into the plastic and instead of tearing in a line, it stretched and ripped the top of the bag so that the seal bit pulled away from the inside of the bag. Yeah, self sealing, apart from the huge hole at the top letting out all your cereal!! If they just said YOU WILL NEED SCISSORS to open anything, it'd be a lot more honest!

[pete376403]

there's a word for it - "lactomangulation" - originally applied to cardboard milk cartons.

lak'tō-man'gū-lay'shən)

1. (n.) Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk container so badly that one has to resort to the "illegal" side.

2. (n.) lak'tō-man'gū-lay'shən. When one accidently forces open the wrong side of a milk container not realizing the fact.

[martybabe]

At the risk of sounding like I actually do the washing(ok I do) I totally agree. I've got so fed up with them fiddly detergent box things and their stupid lack of co-operation, when I'm losing riding time, I just rip the whole bloomin top off, scoop up a handful and chuck it in the general direction of the machine.

I can not be arsed with things that don't do what they're supposed to. Brute force is the answer, show it who's boss GG. :bash:

[Mom]

2. (n.) lak'tō-man'gū-lay'shən. When one accidently forces open the wrong side of a milk container not realizing the fact.

I reckon they do it for a laugh...good word too!

[old git]

This is a bikers site, not for domestic goddesses !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gremlin]

kinda like the milk bottle caps and rings... new ones meant supposedly that the ring didn't fall off...

:laugh: FAIL

[Swoop]

Don't get me started on 4ltr orange juice bottle "quality and freshness" seals! :angry2: Those pathetic bits of plastic that always peel off of the seal it is supposed to be removing. Scissors or a sharp knife are needed to open those fu*kers as well.

The second gripe is the OVER packaging of products. The quantity of plastic that appears to be consumed in this process is astounding.
A product will be wrapped in plastic and then wrapped a second time (at least) for some unfathomable reason.

Why can't supermarkets go back to paper bags???:confused:

[pzkpfw]

Does the tab and slot thing on top of a weetbix box ever work?

[Crasherfromwayback]

Some products' packaging drives ya nuts by saying it's going to make it easier for you to keep the product fresh / pour the product out nicely etc - and then totally NOT!! I have struggled with the Comfort fabric softener refill pack that says "make a spout" by pulling out the sides and poking them forward to make a triangle. More like "make a soggy cardboard mess"! You need steel fingers to pull the glued panels out, it doesn't really poke forward at all, and IF you can get it forwards, you still need to stab between the panels with the blade of some scissors to make the opening! Then clean all the fabric softener off the scissors. And clean up stuff that globbed out over the floor/bench as soon as pressure was released by the poking of the hole. This palaver, which has driven me mad for about 10 yrs, seriously falls short of the promise on the box!

What I wanna know is this...why is that husband of yours not doing the washing etc!!??

[Speedracer]

Does the tab and slot thing on top of a weetbix box ever work?

Hey it works for me about 1 in 3 times!!!

I find those persil etc containers the tear strip comes off but it's so low down the box you spill laundry powder everywhere. And the crappy plastic cup that comes with them is atrocious! Mine broke when I attempted to use it properly and now it has a giant hole in the side.. more spillage woohoo!

[Blossom]

ok so its monday morning and I just finished the 3rd load of washing... forgive...

Coldpower boxes dont open any better than persil boxes.. At least the concentrate box is smaller I suppose.
But my personal fav is toys. Especially my little pony or polly pocket. We have resorted to waiting till kids are in bed... having a stiff drink.
Arming myself with scissors and a stanley knife and carefully cutting and removing the 1001 extra bits of plastic and wire and shite they wrap around every damn thing in the box. Then putting the toy back in the box.. wrapping with gift wrap and giving to grateful child for birthday/christmas etc. Otherwise the poor kids end up in tears cause they break the toy whilst trying to get it out of the box or in tears cause the box breaks the kid while they are trying to get it out.

[slimjim]

O....Dear O..Dear....what don't you ladies carry a knife.....a big bugger works best at opening quiet a few things...lol

[martybabe]

What I wanna know is this...why is that husband of yours not doing the washing etc!!??


Good point, you should be spending your time making banana cake or riding, not wasting it on products that don't wanna be used.

Have Pussy stand by with scissors and a hammer from now on, throw the useless packaging at him and go for a ride. On your return, the obstinate packaging should be suitably destroyed. :done:

What about that plastic sealed stuff, I've spent hours of my life trying to get into that stuff just to retrieve a knife so I can slash into other packets, fingers cut to buggery. I slash into everything with a craft knife now, don't care if I ruin what's inside. ATTACK! :laugh:

[Goblin]

O....Dear O..Dear....what don't you ladies carry a knife.....a big bugger works best at opening quiet a few things...lolI have a handy dandy pair of snips for these kind of jobs. But the laundry powder scoop is always buried so deep I have to dig around to find it. Then its all caked into the bottom of the scoop handle so it spills anyway.<_< :mellow:

[sunhuntin]

Does the tab and slot thing on top of a weetbix box ever work?

mine always does!

edit... blossom, i have that trouble as well. i bought some of those small tinkerbell dolls when they were cheap at farmers. i only opened a couple, and that took me about an hour! never known such an impossible to open toy. its rediculous!

[FROSTY]

The overpackaging is because of some sick ferk who getts his jollies injecting/inserting some unknown substance into our foodstuffs.

Me I ignore the "instructions" re easy release packaging etc and cut the fuckers open with my handy dandy bush knife --No problems for me -seriously

[sunhuntin]

the packaging didnt save those chinese babies from having stuff put in their food though.

[Gremlin]

Otherwise the poor kids end up in tears cause they break the toy whilst trying to get it out of the box or in tears cause the box breaks the kid while they are trying to get it out.
Good point... I broke a pair of scissors trying to get a usb flash drive out of its plastic :shit:

[Luckylegs]

...But my personal fav is toys. Especially my little pony or polly pocket. We have resorted to waiting till kids are in bed... having a stiff drink.
Arming myself with scissors and a stanley knife and carefully cutting and removing the 1001 extra bits of plastic and wire and shite they wrap around every damn thing in the box.....

...And just when youve got the nack of getting them off and your ready to pull the poor lass from the box, you realise.... THEYVE STITCHED HER HAIR TO THE BOX..... WTF is that about ?

[sunhuntin]

o yes... cabbage patch kids are fun like that!

[Gassit Girl]

What I wanna know is this...why is that husband of yours not doing the washing etc!!??

Yes CFWB, you are asking the real questions now! The packaging instructions should say "nah forget it, just take off on the bike"! Pussy, go out and buy a jumbo stanley knife, you'll be needing it to do the laundry this weekend!

Loved the story about carving open the kids' toy packets to free them of impossible plastic and shite. Have the manufacturers really imagined kids opening these things without tears and injuries?

[Blossom]

...And just when youve got the nack of getting them off and your ready to pull the poor lass from the box, you realise.... THEYVE STITCHED HER HAIR TO THE BOX..... WTF is that about ?

:2guns:Its all about looking good babe.. gotta have perfect hair. Cause 20mins after you get the damn doll out it's hair is gonna go ping and no matter how much your little angel combs it, it will now forever look like a troll.


Have the manufacturers really imagined kids opening these things without tears and injuries?

Dunno... but they sure as hell should stick warnings on the outside...

WARNING: The enclosed toy is encased in parent and child proof plastic packaging. NOT Flame retardant. Do NOT dispose of in fire. Open at your own risk. Please Recycle. (manufacturer is not responsible in the event of physical or emotional injury whilst opening packaging)
:jerry:

[Max Preload]

The worst one I've come across is the 'Chef' cat biscuit boxes pouring spout which does everything except assist pouring. If you manage to tear along the perforated edge without completely mangling it, you discover it has a locking notch to hold the spout open that corresponds with nothing to actually lock it. So you need two hands to actually release any biscuits for the starving cat - one to hold it open and the other to tip the box!

If the damned cat wasn't so fussy, I'd change brands!

[MadDuck]

Ever tried to open a screw top of tile grout? I did it with a stanley knife and the chainsaw on stand by.....:Punk:

[martybabe]

Ever tried to open a screw top of tile grout? I did it with a stanley knife and the chainsaw on stand by.....:Punk:


:laugh: or a jar of roasted red pepper relish, I'd gone off the bloody sandwich by the time I got the lid off....with a large claw hammer and a screwdriver, the fuggin thing would have withstood a nuclear attack. I ate the whole thing in one go, no way was the lid going back on that b'stard! :2guns:

[kevfromcoro]

Seems like everthing you buy now...needs a swiss army knife to open....
Bit like electronic gear....got a new sterieo..and cant turn it of..just sits there with a phsco picture going round and round.....got to pull the plug out.
what happened to the days ,where just pushed a button..and it went...pushed it again..and it went of...
car sterioes........well ..another story

[Pussy]

While we're on the subject... the bastard that invented that plastic blister pack stuff thats all fused together should be STRUNG UP!
It's alright if you have a disc grinder/chainsaw/oxy acetylene set handy when it comes to opening them, but a real shit to do otherwise

[woodybee]

I feel absolutely terrified when I go to try to get into one of those tiny milk round things with the inpenetrable pully top, the f//king thing sits there are looks all innocently up at you, and lures you into a false sense of security, whilse you summon up the courage to pull its head off, then after a struggle it chucks its entire guts out everywhere, with a mere few splats going into a cup.


Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr:Punk:

[jafar]

Try opening a packet of "purina one" moggy tucker with anything less than a sharp knife, they have those packets welded shut :argh:

[Virago]

While we're on the subject... the bastard that invented that plastic blister pack stuff thats all fused together should be STRUNG UP!...

The ultimate in frustration - buying new scissors that are packaged that way...

[The Pastor]

Its threads like these that prove that woman should not have computers.

or be let on kb

[Pussy]

Mt Cook Airline used to use industrial strength glad wrap to wrap up the in flight sandwiches, too.
A few years ago I flew from Rotorua to Mt Cook on an HS748.
We were well past Mt Ruapehu before I even located the fuggin end of the glad wrap to fuggin unwrap the supplied sammies!
I was beginning to think that Mt Cook had had special "endless" glad wrap specially made. Bastards!

[Pussy]

Its threads like these that prove that woman should not have computers.

or be let on kb

Gassit Girl would give you the learn quite easily, RM.
You might end up eating humble pie when she shows up your riding deficiencies

[The Pastor]

Gassit Girl would give you the learn quite easily, RM.
You might end up eating humble pie when she shows up your riding deficiencies
mate no one can give me the learn, not even the mormon few or skidmark.

[Ocean1]

I feel absolutely terrified when I go to try to get into one of those tiny milk round things with the inpenetrable pully top


Mt Cook Airline used to use industrial strength glad wrap to wrap up the in flight sandwiches, too.

Lot of airlines have pully-top juice too. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen someone dump the contents of their orange juice in their neighbour's lap.

[boomer]

ahaha nice thread.


After my treatment my hands or rather fingertips have become hyper sensitive. I can no longer take jar lids off, open the flip lids on the ketchup bottles or open ring pulls on cans... i feel for the ladies and there endless fight with the packaging departments.

I also believe teh clear hard plastic fused together as packaging is someones idea of a joke.

[Ixion]

This is a bikers site, not for domestic goddesses !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We do have some excellent threads about lace doilies, and the correct way to brew a cup of tea.

And that reminds me, we haven't had a recipe thread for AGES. Are we meant to starve or something?

(You might wish to commune with the homonymic gentleman, he also had strong ideas upon the subject )

[Blossom]

While we're on the subject... the bastard that invented that plastic blister pack stuff thats all fused together should be STRUNG UP!
It's alright if you have a disc grinder/chainsaw/oxy acetylene set handy when it comes to opening them, but a real shit to do otherwise

ahh the tamagotchi packaging... I know it well.
The real bastard about that one is when you do finally hack into the bloody thing you can guarantee you will get a cut from the freaken sharp plastic edges.
:Oi:

[NighthawkNZ]

there's a word for it - "lactomangulation" - originally applied to cardboard milk cartons.

lak'tō-man'gū-lay'shən)

1. (n.) Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk container so badly that one has to resort to the "illegal" side.

2. (n.) lak'tō-man'gū-lay'shən. When one accidently forces open the wrong side of a milk container not realizing the fact.


which in turn makes you make a horid mess so you go and buy more... there fore creating supply and demand :bash:

[Swoop]

The ultimate in frustration - buying new scissors that are packaged that way...
Perhaps the ultimate "Catch - 22"?:pinch:

[carver]

mate no one can give me the learn, not even the mormon few or skidmark.

yes yes, how about R64life?

[The Pastor]

yes yes, how about R64life?
he was to busy checking himself out in his mirrors.

[carver]

he was to busy checking himself out in his mirrors.

i know, i did his hair before he left.
i thought he looked hot...
id do him!

[The Pastor]

i know, i did his hair before he left.
i thought he looked hot...
id do him!
i thought you already had, thats why you were so late to kopu and had that funny walk.