Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly?
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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?
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.
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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.
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 ping hello-kitty-dress, I'd do so.
Why do you give a crap about how some store genders something? Pick what you prefer from wherever?
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My oven’s vents point directly up my face. So when you stand in front of the stovetop while baking something, you’re directly exposed to the fumes of burning gas.
burning gas
Found another problem with your oven, get one from this turn of the century!
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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.
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Overtime, our kitchen knives. Knives need to be thin, as thinner knives cut through ingredients more easily. Today's knives are designed instead to be marketed. Something incredibly thick, and sturdy, to make it feel "premium", when all its doing is tiring you out, since using a heavy knife gets exhausting, especially when its so thick it wedges in ingredients.
Vintage European knives are slim, and almost petite, because they knew how to make a good knife, in the same manner japanese knives are ground extremely thin, sometimes thinner than a postcard.
Yeah it's a difference when it's a cleaver, something meant to apply raw force, and hence needs a certain weight to be usable.
But a knife?!
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Why does it have to be olive oil?
Motor oil tastes funny.
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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.
I'm sorry to say this, but I don't need the extra space for H-cups my ex needed.
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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.
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Condoms should roll on either direction.
Protip: Buy the XXXXXL size, throw it over your junk, then shrink-wrap it with a heat gun.
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Condoms should roll on either direction.
I'm curious about how you propose this would be done...
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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.
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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?
Keyboards are the obvious one.
The standard keyboard layout is designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast lead to the arms of a typewriter hitting each other.
And why is one of the most accessible large keys fucking Capslock?
And why is there empty space around the cursor keys, so you have to use WASD as a workaround in games?
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Reusable bags that have handles longer than the bag itself, literally worse than the plastic bag version which can be handled properly
This is so you can put them up on your sholder. Well some that arnt jank.
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Space consideration is a bit more obvious with the seat though
Thanks for those! Clear as day.
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Keyboards are the obvious one.
The standard keyboard layout is designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast lead to the arms of a typewriter hitting each other.
And why is one of the most accessible large keys fucking Capslock?
And why is there empty space around the cursor keys, so you have to use WASD as a workaround in games?
I'm not even talking about the menu key, Windows key and Copilot key.The keyboard I'm currently using has an F-key that's tied to a lock screen. I accidentally hit it several times a day, and end up having to put in the passcode to unlock the computer every time.
I wish I could disable that stupid key. I'm tempted to pop it right out. But I use a shared computer, so I'm limited in options here.
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Space consideration is a bit more obvious with the seat though
I knew about different bowl / seat shapes, but I never thought about the issues for folks who have a penis.
Very enlightening. Thank you for bringing it up! It's very interesting.
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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 ?
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If they're anything like the pegs I got, vinegar won't help, they basically crumbled to dust!
Stainless steel ones are the way to go
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I stick mine to the side of the fridge with old hard drive magnets when not in use.
Don't they fit in a draw?
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NOT FUCKING ACCEPTABLE WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS.
Thankfully, there are some designs that improve on this! Here’s what’s in my kitchen:
The brand is OXO.
