Stupid Things
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mad driver

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280 posts

257 months

Friday 13th May 2005
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i am not putting a particular topic on this, just share your thoughts on stupid things you've seen or done, i'm leaving it up to you to decide what you put on this thread

cheers PH's

Pigeon

18,535 posts

275 months

Friday 13th May 2005
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An example of current relevance to me: Siemens dishwasher. All the works are contained within a sort of plastic tray that forms the base of the machine. The tray has a continuous surface with no gaps, so you can't get at the parts by tilting the machine sideways and looking up its bottom. You have to unbolt the washing compartment and then hoist it up to the ceiling because if you try and tip it off sideways it'll break stuff. Or you have to turn the entire machine upside down and lift the tray off, which means that all the residual water hanging about inside pisses out all over someone else's kitchen floor. And in both cases the degree of dismantling necessary precludes hooking the machine up to the power and water supplies while in an accessible state, so you can't actually test any of the bits anyway. The obvious response is to reduce the machine entirely to its component parts and then insert them one by one into the designer's anus, but I don't know who the designer is.

A much shorter example: fitting the brake master cylinder bolts in a Morris Minor with the head ends, rather than the nut ends, between the chassis rail and the torsion bar.

DanBoy

4,899 posts

272 months

Friday 13th May 2005
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I'm forever buying products in packaging, removing the packaging and then keeping it and binning the product by mistake.

>> Edited by DanBoy on Friday 13th May 20:05

mad driver

Original Poster:

280 posts

257 months

Friday 13th May 2005
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DanBoy said:
I'm forever buying products in packaging, removing the packaging and then keeping it and binning the product by mistake.

>> Edited by DanBoy on Friday 13th May 20:05



i do that too

KITT

5,345 posts

270 months

Friday 13th May 2005
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Well, I just spent half an hour cutting two edges of a kitchen draw liner to make it fit my new kitchen draws. Only when I'd finished did I realise I'd cut the wrong fing ends off! So now it doesn't fit at all

rich 36

13,739 posts

295 months

Friday 13th May 2005
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Well, I just spent half an hour cutting two edges of a kitchen draw liner to make it fit my new kitchen draws. Only when I'd finished did I realise I'd cut the wrong fing ends off! So now it doesn't fit at all



not just me then thank god,