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What is it with Bluetooth that it will find every other phone within an 18 kilometre radius but it won't find the one that you've actually got with you in the car!
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Indeed there are several 'packaged' items that are effectively 'sealed for life' and incapable of being opened for use without secateurs or similar heavy duty cutting implements.Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:20 amOne day I am going back to customer services with an easy open "You open that"
Got a blister pack of Varta batteries yesterday. 12 in the pack. I know that as I counted them as I picked them off the floor after I opened the pack.
Child proof? Idiot proof? Human proof!
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A good pair, of personally modified and set up, of Solingen kitchen scissors, my tool of choice.
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Circular logicA good pair, of personally modified and set up, of Solingen kitchen scissors, my tool of choice.
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I think the worst is the Philips toothbrush heads. Four pack, destroy to open.
Close second is the cardboard detergent box with its cardboard zip. You get a knife to lift the end of the zip, pull zip, it comes off, and lid stays shut.
Close second is the cardboard detergent box with its cardboard zip. You get a knife to lift the end of the zip, pull zip, it comes off, and lid stays shut.
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Gillette Mach3 replacement blades = Stanley Knife
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ITORRO10?cm_ven=localwx_pwsdash
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Gillette Mach3 replacement blades = Stanley Knife = Elastoplast
Finished it for you.
Finished it for you.
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My father's favourite was double edged razor blade and Meccano. Now that would beat knife crime.
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or stop a passing 5 year old to assist.One day I am going back to customer services with an easy open "You open that"
and whilst they're at it ..... remove all the sticky price tags. Once made an cashier do that to a 6 place ( or was it 12 ? ) dinner service, i.e. all the plates, bowls, cups, saucers etc. I wasn't popular, but I made my point.
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Which gets me onto the sticky tags on fruit. If you must have them, make them out of biodegradable paper so they don't wind up in my garden!remove all the sticky price tags
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An expert shows just how easy it is to open a pack of milkPontius Navigator wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:20 amOne day I am going back to customer services with an easy open "You open that"
Ricardian, Stronsay, Orkney UK
www.stronsaylimpet.co.uk
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https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/EGER
www.stronsaylimpet.co.uk
visitstronsay.com
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/EGER
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We have the plastic bottles with the different coloured screw tops. Brilliant. Ever since someone unscrewed a cap the bottle is sealed with an easy to remove foil seal. Lift the attached semi circle of plastic and pull. Discard plastic and get sharp knife. Puncture intact foil seal, lever up and remove half. Insert finger or knife taking care to avoid foil or blood dropping in to milk.
So we have a plastic bottle, paper label, glue, foil, glue, plastic pull, glue, screw cap. This simple improvement over the waxed paper carton, or the plastic bag and 'free' jug, has 8 components and multiple processes to bring the whole thing to your breakfast table that you each collect from the supermarket. When finished a team of people collect the empties from your door using a diesel powered truck. It is then taken to a waste transfer facility where it is sorted, stored, burnt, or shipped to China. This is hygienic and efficient.
This replaced the glass bottle filling plant (dairy) where a coloured foil cap was pressed on top and the bottle delivered to your door unseen in time for the blue tits to have first dibs. Open the foil more, pour, drink, rinse bottle, and leave on door step. The empty to disapproval unseen sometime before dawn only to be replaced, again silently, and all by unseen hand in an electric vehicle.
Progress.
So we have a plastic bottle, paper label, glue, foil, glue, plastic pull, glue, screw cap. This simple improvement over the waxed paper carton, or the plastic bag and 'free' jug, has 8 components and multiple processes to bring the whole thing to your breakfast table that you each collect from the supermarket. When finished a team of people collect the empties from your door using a diesel powered truck. It is then taken to a waste transfer facility where it is sorted, stored, burnt, or shipped to China. This is hygienic and efficient.
This replaced the glass bottle filling plant (dairy) where a coloured foil cap was pressed on top and the bottle delivered to your door unseen in time for the blue tits to have first dibs. Open the foil more, pour, drink, rinse bottle, and leave on door step. The empty to disapproval unseen sometime before dawn only to be replaced, again silently, and all by unseen hand in an electric vehicle.
Progress.
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I suppose that means that we are now depriving the blue tits of their breakfast?Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 7:45 amThe glass bottle filling plant (dairy) where a coloured foil cap was pressed on top and the bottle delivered to your door unseen in time for the blue tits to have first dibs.
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That was my major point.
I also wonder what Starlings did before telephone wires? House Martins before houses, ditto House Sparrows.
What did GoldFinches eat before bird feeders with nigjer seeds?
I also wonder what Starlings did before telephone wires? House Martins before houses, ditto House Sparrows.
What did GoldFinches eat before bird feeders with nigjer seeds?
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I like to buy the tomato sauce in glass container since I can re-use it for water during dinner. I can remove the labels easily by immersing the bottle in boiling water. But removing the last bits of glue takes a lot of effort and a lot of water.
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Try WD40.Rwy in Sight wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 6:40 pmremoving the last bits of glue takes a lot of effort and a lot of water.
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Brake cleaning fluid.
Works on absolutely everything that WD40 won't fix, says my mechanic.
Works on absolutely everything that WD40 won't fix, says my mechanic.
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Tetrachloroethylene (brake cleaner) probably 'works'.Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 7:43 pmBrake cleaning fluid.
Works on absolutely everything that WD40 won't fix, says my mechanic.
We used to use trichloroethylene - now that really would shift anything - sadly banned now.
Carbon tetrachloride (which used to be sold as Thawpit for dry cleaning) would work also.
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Carbon tetrachloride was also banned.G-CPTN wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 8:11 pmTetrachloroethylene (brake cleaner) probably 'works'.Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 7:43 pmBrake cleaning fluid.
Works on absolutely everything that WD40 won't fix, says my mechanic.
We used to use trichloroethylene - now that really would shift anything - sadly banned now.
Carbon tetrachloride (which used to be sold as Thawpit for dry cleaning) would work also.
It was used to shift the oil that spilled from oil filled transformers and oil filled capacitors, when they burst inside of Green Satin Tx/Rx.
We had to use un-leaded petrol after carbon-tet was banned. The un-leaded petrol only diluted the oil, and we were always left with traces of the oil.
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