Impossible packaging

[Fragony]

Just used an 200 year old African ceremonial axe to open a can of corned beef. Don't these guys realise that I buy that stuff because I want to eat it. That I buy a mouse to use it. That I buy a toothbrush because I want to brush my teeth. Why not put it into something I can open.

[InsaneApache]

Yeah it's the same with those little lock bags you get your weed in. You have to rip the top off the buggers to get at the goodys. In my day it was sold in a bit of twisted newspaper. I blame the parents.

[caravel]

Try a tin opener.

[InsaneApache]

Try a tin opener.

Not with corned beef. He probably lost the key.

Now where did I put that bag?

[Cute Wolf]

meh, true men opened corned beef with battle axe, that's fine....

[miotas]

Just use your teeth.

[Monk]

Try a tin opener.

Sounds like he did. :laugh4:

[A Nerd]

I opened a can of tuna from the bottom once when I was intoxicated. Difficult to do, but I was proud of myself when I sobered up and ate the sandwich!

[Rhyfelwyr]

Reminds me of those tins with the tabs you have to pull, I always ended up with the contents spraying all over the kitchen wall...

[Vladimir]

Yeah it's the same with those little lock bags you get your weed in. You have to rip the top off the buggers to get at the goodys. In my day it was sold in a bit of twisted newspaper. I blame the parents.

A wonderful Backroom tie-in.

[Hax]

Oh Fragony, my young heart has been fluttered by your display of machoism manliness. Hold me now. <3

[pevergreen]

There was something on the news a while back (possibly a year +) where a group of companies formed an alliance against bad packaging.

[naut]

meh, true men opened corned beef with battle axe, that's fine....
True men flex it open. :wink2:

[Peasant Phill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgYotWVGfMs

All real men need are there teeth.

[Ibrahim]

Just used an 200 year old African ceremonial axe to open a can of corned beef. Don't these guys realise that I buy that stuff because I want to eat it. That I buy a mouse to use it. That I buy a toothbrush because I want to brush my teeth. Why not put it into something I can open.

ooh-thank God the family's Hitler Youth Knife (a war souvenir-my Uncle on Mom's side owns it atm), didn't end up with you.

Lord knows what you'd use this for. :clown:

[LittleGrizzly]

Yeah it's the same with those little lock bags you get your weed in. You have to rip the top off the buggers to get at the goodys. In my day it was sold in a bit of twisted newspaper. I blame the parents.

That can drive me wild, especially with the smaller bags you have about a centimetre of bag to try and grab. My friend showed me an easy solution though, rather than try and pull it apart at the opening on the top.

Put your thumb and index finger sideways onto the bag, specifically on either side of that thicker plastic bit where it actually sticks then just push your finger down your thumb and the thing will open.

Packaging does annoy the crap out of me, I find quite a few of those boxes which you are supposed to be able to re-seal are rubbish. By the time I manage to get the box open all the carefully made tabs and the openings they go into are useless!

[Motep]

Reminds me...I broke a steak knife opening a clam shell package the other day. It was harder to open than a 20 pound catfish. : (

_ I posted because I thought I had more to say, but.....I dont.

[Fragony]

ooh-thank God the family's Hitler Youth Knife (a war souvenir-my Uncle on Mom's side owns it atm), didn't end up with you.

These are worth quite a bit, would love to get my hands on one

[Hosakawa Tito]

Yeah it's the same with those little lock bags you get your weed in. You have to rip the top off the buggers to get at the goodys. In my day it was sold in a bit of twisted newspaper. I blame the parents.

Just light the newspaper and you got a spliff, mon. You gonna Bogart that or you gonna pass it?

Back during the dark ages, around 1985, there was this new music media known as the cassette tape. It was much smaller than the 8-Track and could easily fit in one's pocket. To combat shoplifting some genius came up with this flexible plastic sleeve, about 18" long, that encase the cassette. When you bought that "must have" cassette of your favorite artist's new album you had to hack that stupid plastic sleeve off to play it.

On the way home from work one day I stopped to buy such a tape, and wanting my instant gratification yesterday, I tried cutting that sleeve off with my pocket-knife while driving down the road. Bad move. The knife slipped and I cut my left thumb to the bone. So instead of going home I end up driving to the emergency room for stitches, but at least I got to play my music on the way...

[A Nerd]

Back during the dark ages, around 1985

but at least I got to play my music on the way...

Please tell me it wasn't Wham's 'Wake me up before you go-go' or Men Without Hats 'Safety Dance' (I liked them at the time!). Howard Jones would have been better!