I hate packaging
Posted by: Spock on 26 November 2003
I’ve just purchased an interactive story telling bear for one of my kids for Xmas. To save the hassle on Xmas day I thought I’d open it, stick the batteries in the bear and the handset and then shove it back in the box, job done.
However some sadist git at the manufacturing plant has decided they would secure the bear to the box with about eight twisted wire things. These wire things are twisted over and over until they cannot be twisted any further and then just in case they come undone they tape over the wire so you cant get to the ends to undo them.
What should have been a relatively straight forward exercise turns into a 15 minute "blue air" affair which resulted in me venting my anger on Mrs Spock and hoofing the stupid bear the length of the kitchen.
What the hell is wrong with these packaging people ?
Spock
However some sadist git at the manufacturing plant has decided they would secure the bear to the box with about eight twisted wire things. These wire things are twisted over and over until they cannot be twisted any further and then just in case they come undone they tape over the wire so you cant get to the ends to undo them.
What should have been a relatively straight forward exercise turns into a 15 minute "blue air" affair which resulted in me venting my anger on Mrs Spock and hoofing the stupid bear the length of the kitchen.
What the hell is wrong with these packaging people ?
Spock
...there's a simple answer to the first couple of posts - don't have kids! 
Or buy them Lego so you can play with it too...
Those individual catering sachets are evil - ANY of them are nightmares to get into. What about microwave meals - "remove covering, stir, recover" - OK, so we try to do that and the bloody lid rips so then it ends up falling into the food on the second cooking cycle - lovely...
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Make your choice, adventurous Stranger;
Strike the bell and bide the danger
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had.
Or buy them Lego so you can play with it too...Those individual catering sachets are evil - ANY of them are nightmares to get into. What about microwave meals - "remove covering, stir, recover" - OK, so we try to do that and the bloody lid rips so then it ends up falling into the food on the second cooking cycle - lovely...
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Make your choice, adventurous Stranger;
Strike the bell and bide the danger
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had.
I bought a cheap uplighter lamp from Argos today.
The bloody packaging -- it created a god-awful mess across the entire floor, there was so many bits of plastic, tape, polystyrene and cardboard. As usual, they had gone ridiculously over the top with tape, and of course as your tore the tape away it shredded hundreds of tiny bits of polystyrene everywhere. It was all totally unnecessary, since the box was a good tight fit. Some polystyrene and the cardboard was all that is necessary.
And what about CD/DVD shrink wrap? Sometimes those are damn evil!
But the absolute worst is those vacuum-formed, fully heat sealed tough plastic packaging that you get with things like battery rechargers, remote controls, etc. Not only are they a complete bitch to cut open, but once you've done so the plastic edges are lethally sharp!
John.
The bloody packaging -- it created a god-awful mess across the entire floor, there was so many bits of plastic, tape, polystyrene and cardboard. As usual, they had gone ridiculously over the top with tape, and of course as your tore the tape away it shredded hundreds of tiny bits of polystyrene everywhere. It was all totally unnecessary, since the box was a good tight fit. Some polystyrene and the cardboard was all that is necessary.
And what about CD/DVD shrink wrap? Sometimes those are damn evil!
But the absolute worst is those vacuum-formed, fully heat sealed tough plastic packaging that you get with things like battery rechargers, remote controls, etc. Not only are they a complete bitch to cut open, but once you've done so the plastic edges are lethally sharp!
John.