Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly?
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Wordless instructions make the world a more equitable place by making everyone equally frustrated
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For the topic of the thread I'll throw in "toilets that are so bad at flushing that you need to keep a plunger next to them"
The only time I've owned a plunger was in a house with a broken clay sewer pipe that was about to kick the bucket.
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Nah, they have the texture of fruit leather and completely dissolve in water. A few brands make them like Seventh Generation, Earth Breeze and Ecos
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Do you have a multi use one? Some can invert the flanges into itself to become sink plungers.
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I just measured my usual toilet and while the hole is more squarish than the round one in the picture, the 16.5 length is about right. I don't have any problem. I've got average sized junk, and have maybe a slender to medium build.
Maybe weight, whether one is a 'shower' vs a 'grower', or some particular anatomical proportion play into it, I don't know. Maybe how far back one sits is key. Maybe people vary in their butthole to junk measurement. But I don't think this is as universal a problem as OP thinks. But, hey I'm all in favor of a longer toilet standard for those for whom it is.
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Don't use a mist humidifier. They suck. Use an evaporative one and add bacteriostat to the water.
Mine is a tub of water with a wick in it. It has a fan that blows air across the wick. That's it.
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I use the Phillips Hue bulbs and spots and I’m yet to have one die on me. Some of the bulbs has been in use for more than 10 years. However, I see my fair share of other LED spots that dies too soon.
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Don’t know what you’re using but the tests of the ones available to me all shows very weak washing performance, some on par with washing only with water.
Explanation is, in short, that there is not enough washing detergent in the sheets.
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Doesn't work for my tonic i have with gin, as I don't want to be drinking gin the majority of the time. Well, I do want to, I just can't.
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Why would it be crusty? Just close the lid, and a wide and short jar is much better than a tube.
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Wow, did not know about that!
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Recumbent bicycles are better in almost every way
No thanks. Might be nice for some long trips but for my daily use, I need something a little bit more compact and easy to load up with stuff and a kid.
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I'm going to go with that horrendous, non-absorbent, 1/8th ply toilet paper that gets stocked in public and office bathrooms.
I'm on Team Bidet now, so it doesn't bother me as much as it once did... but the stuff should not exist.
I'm guessing that one day, the people who buy the stuff will figure out that it they're not winning if it costs one-third the price of normal TP when everyone has to use ten times more of it, but who knows when that day will happen. Because it hasn't happened yet.
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I've taken to using an old cake pan, a desk fan, and a towel. Fill up the pan with water, stick one end of the towel in the water, drape and clip the other end to the fan and let it sit running for a few days. Before the towel gets gross, toss it in the laundry when it's dry and grab another towel
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Stove vent hoods that don’t actually vent outside are fucking stupid
Some places you can’t (for whatever reason) install a proper ventilator. Then these with carbon filter will remove some things. But yes, they are far inferior to the full blow vents.
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Okay Team Bidet, how are they actually supposed work?
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My gas oven has vents like this. So when it’s actively burning to get it up to temp, that’s where the exhaust comes out.
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I prefer wooden pegs with a stainless spring, but plastic has to be pretty much the worst choice.
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As a Roman Legionary. I have multiple plumbata, but one plumbus gives me troubles. I i feel like I can relate
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- Spray bum
- Pat dry with TP
The tricky part with phase 1 is managing water pressure. Too little is ineffective. Too much blasts shit everywhere.
Do a test squirt into the bowl so you know what you've got to work with. Start with low pressure to get most of it, adjust angle of necessary, then hit it with everything.
