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Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago by bpt11@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[-] scytale@lemm.ee 19 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Uhhhh what?

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My gas oven has vents like this. So when it’s actively burning gas to get it up to temp, that’s where the exhaust comes out.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

burning gas

Found another problem with your oven, get one from this turn of the century! :P

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