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

submitted 2 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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[-] morgan_423@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Okay Team Bidet, how are they actually supposed work?

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

I get that's the principle, but how long are you supposed to spray for? How much pressure? Is there a trick to it? In my own limited experience, it doesn't actually do much more than dampen the poo.

[-] Skanky@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

You know you're supposed to use the bidet after you're done pooping, right?

[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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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