Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly?
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Had an old Isuzu truck that to start, I sat in the drivers seat with the passengers seat up exposing the engine. Had a long steel rod that I would feed down thru the motor and bang on the starter motor why cranking the keys.
Sometimes it started straight away, sometimes it took 5 minutes of banging to get the pig to fire. Good Times.
Woke one morning to start work, went to hop in and saw someone smashed the drivers quarter window. Reckon they tried to start it but must have assumed it had a kill switch.
Pity they didn't steal it, as the insurance payout would have been way more bucks that it was worth.
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I can't find anything that matches your description of US can openers on DDG, do you happen to have a pic? Can't picture it
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The parabolic bottom causes fridge water to shoot up and out causing a mess.
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Leave the one tong hanging out. Ie. Straddle the side. Assuming youre not one that cares about aesthetics.
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Thats a standard can opener, they are describing a Magican, aka the "Limerick machete", those edges are lethal :
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Thats seems similar to what I'm talking about. Like the second one in the video on the page I linked.
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Second one in the video on the page I linked in my comment.
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is it a good idea to microwave that plastic container, though?
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I should get used to that with my grater. I either press with huge amounts or just do the old smash and rapid micro slice.
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I think the actual code re: that is those big metal handle rail bars that have to be attached to studs (ADA compliance maybe?).
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Drywall anchors are basically useless.
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It really kind of depends on the type of anchor and the intended use
The most common little plastic ones that you're probably picturing are pretty bad in most cases, but some of the heavier duty ones are pretty damn strong if used properly
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yeah, but it is nice if the towel rack is screwed into studs so it can be used as one in a pinch.
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Yeah, but how long do you have to dampen your crack in order to feel the equivalent clean of two dry wipes?
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Why stop there?
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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.
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I have this drive if you look at the image you can see that the rear panel has a little semi circular nib of plastic at the bottom. It serves no purpose, but what it does do is make it nearly impossible to plug the DC connector in. You can't quite tell from the image but it's perfectly places so that you can't fit the requisite number of fingers needed to securely hold the plug and push it in to the cavity where the inputs of the panel are located. It actively encourages the otherwise pretty unlikely scenario of making only partial or near contact with connector and not quite properly plugging it in a dangerous idea from a safety perspective but also a great way to lose a bunch of data by having it lose power or short out during operation. It's one of the most exquisitely designed inconveniences hell's engineering department could have possibly developed.
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I never really considered it was because the toilet might be rounder and less oval but I have definitely noticed those toilets because for some reason they're ALL like that in every workplace and commercial building in this one suburb of my city. I have no idea why just that suburb decided they really enjoyed the idea of everyone having their penis touch the toilet bowl. I work freelance and because of agglomeration, most companies in my industry all set up shop in that particular suburb so I got to experience a wide gamut of different buildings who all made this same bizarre and infuriating choice.
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Zwillings Henkel? I was debating a Henkel, wusthof, or Japanese of some sort.
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Maybe, all I know is that I haven't had a lot of luck with it.