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[–] [email protected] 148 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

whenever someone says "I appreciate you," it triggers my delusional love and hormonal responses because the man I was in love with always responded "I appreciate you" whenever I told him "I love you. " 😭

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is so much promise of back story baked into this comment.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I appreciate you. You are awesome! Just in case no one told you today.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the secret is they should be using wax instead of glues, but that requires a warm squeeze and they are trying to save a thousandth of a penny and hope nobody notices. i email the CEOs about it.

[–] wander1236 21 points 1 year ago

That'll show em

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

The fucking texture of that cottony shit left behind, like nails on a chalkboard trying to rip it all off.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

The glues work fine, it's the paper/cardboard that failed because the glue was stronger.

It's the worst when it happens to boxes because instead of collapsing a box proper you have to tear it to fucking pieces, THANKS OBAMA.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)

the worst is how my migraine medication comes in the most hard to open package

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How about the ones that get fused to the opening like someone was welding fucking steel girders together on the Golden Gate Bridge?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And they have no pull off tab, and your finger nails are just a tiny bit too long and you bend one the wrong way 🤕

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Or the pull off tab rips right off, leaving the seal itself perfectly intact.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That is one of the worst feelings.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The irony of that being true for my ADHD medication bottle is not at all lost on me. It's like a tiny extra "fuck you".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

“Oh I’m sorry did you need some medication?”

Industrial SMAW welder whirring in background

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You may be interested to know that these kinds of paper adhesives are usually intentionally designed so that the substrate (paper) tears before the adhesive does. This is meant to ensure robust packing and to give proof that the package has not been tampered with. Couple this with ever thinner and shittier substrates, and, well...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ugh. I believe them already. It's sealed for my protection. I get it. It says so nearly 100 times. I don't check the seals for syringe marks first either, or the factory's latest cleanroom maintenance logs. Just let me in, I already paid the extortionate entry fee.

Seriously though, I wouldn't mind so much if they always were just paper I could poke a finger through at the end. Sometimes there's another super stretchy thick plastic layer under that which resists everything but blades. I don't want to keep a knife in my bathroom, but I'm getting to the point where I've thought about it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know what you mean. I wish more stuff could just be packed in glass jars with the little popping seal. If it's popped, it has been opened. I don't know if everything can handle the pressure difference... But it seems ideal. Plus then the glass jars and aluminum lids can be recycled.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This makes too much sense to ever be implemented.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't want to keep a knife in my bathroom, but I'm getting to the point where I've thought about

Have you considered just not eating peanut butter in the bathroom?

Or open it in the kitchen first.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It needs to be the opposite of improved. If they improved it, you'd never get it open.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Only if you define "improve" as "make stronger."

If you define "improve" as making it more user-friendly, then they definitely need to be improved.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you want good adhesive properties or to not taste the adhesive in your food?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

This and every single perforated paper/plastic that never fucking tears correctly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But that costs money and how are we gonna make even more money if we reinvest any of the earnings? 😩

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Line must go up!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They need to talk to the people who make flour bags. Those paper bags glued shut with the strongest glue known to man, so that they are impossible to open without tearing a big hole in the bag, rendering it impossible to store the flour in.

[–] zalgotext 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You shouldn't store flour in the paper bag it comes in anyways, flour should be stored in an airtight container.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They keep a record of complaints as part of their CAPA. Any food related issues should always be reported, helps quality dept.s push for more funding.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And then the quality department uses those complaint printouts to level their wobbly tables in the cafeteria.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

So what exactly is their phone number and address to direct complaints and feedback to?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Literally me today with a small soap container, but it was a trifecta: the lid separated from a plastic seal under it as with the picture, with the tiniest of rim you can barely get with your fingernails to pry it off to begin with, and a seal so strong you can't just puncture it with you fingers.

As with another suggestion I just used thermite.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I remember the days before most things had seals over the opening.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

ah yes, the before the-tylenol-debacle times

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

am I looking at glue that didn't come off, or something that spoiled because the glue didn't hold?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The bond between the seal and the jar is stronger than the bond between the layers of the seal. So peeling it separates the layers and leaves behind the thin papery final seal layers instead of removing the whole seal.

Admittedly this is better than the seal on one of my medications. It removes in one pull... if you can find and pull the tiniest sliver of edge of the seal, because they leave zero overhang.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The glue around the rim of the cup is too sticky, so it left behind a layer of cottony paper when the label was ripped off

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I haven't tried to open this way forever. Puncture the top and pull to the outside.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

SEALEDforYOUR P R O T E C T I O N

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

SEALEDforYOUR
P R O T E C T I O N

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They mispelled

GOfuck

Y O U R S E L F

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