Packaging rage

[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.

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!

[Goblin]

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

I 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.

[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:Me]

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

[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 ?

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)

[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.....

[martybabe]

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

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!

[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