Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly?
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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.