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Re: Rice and pasta packaging rant
[Re: barnacle]
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30/10/2014 22:17
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Jim_Clennell
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The idea with spaghetti is that you grip the packet loosely and bang it down, end first, onto... Yes, spaghetti. Try that with farfoli. There is no reason to make packaging from plastic that tears in random directions. Force these people to use their packaging as drinking vessels and condoms. Then we'll see some common sense!
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Re: Rice and pasta packaging rant
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30/10/2014 23:57
30/10/2014 23:57
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Memory from my younger days working in BBC Leeds - watching voxpop of some young lasses from, um, Sheffield I think, saying how careful they were during sex, using crisp packets as condoms... :eek: It was cling film and rubber bands at Magna Carta School, Egham during the late 1970s and early 1980s according to my mother who taught there.
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Re: Rice and pasta packaging rant
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31/10/2014 01:52
31/10/2014 01:52
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using crisp packets as condoms... :eek: That's a foil to conceive... It was cling film and rubber bands at Magna Carta School, Egham during the late 1970s and early 1980s according to my mother who taught there.
I'm trying to imagine how you got on to that topic of conversation with your esteemed mater, Pete. Easy solution = always cut the top of the packet with scissors. Forget the non-stick sticky tab, use an elastic band. QED.
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Re: Rice and pasta packaging rant
[Re: Gripped]
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31/10/2014 07:44
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Big_Muzzie
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I believe it was the teat from a baby's milk bottle around here.... Not that I ever quite understood the mechanics.
On food packaging - I appreciate the easy open cans but why is it the more likely the contents are to stain (red tomato based contents) the more likely that as you draw the lid back you get a difficult bit followed by a release of tension and the contents sprayed in all directions?
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Re: Rice and pasta packaging rant
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31/10/2014 07:47
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Jim_Clennell
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On food packaging - I appreciate the easy open cans but why is it the more likely the contents are to stain (red tomato based contents) the more likely that as you draw the lid back you get a difficult bit followed by a release of tension and the contents sprayed in all directions?
That only applies if you're grumpy. Or can-twang-kerous.
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Re: Rice and pasta packaging rant
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31/10/2014 09:42
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Hopefully I'm not the only one but
I sometimes have trouble opening packs of bacon, they have that little pull back section on the corner of the packaging but it always snaps and I always end up cutting a straight slice down the side with a knife.
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Re: Rice and pasta packaging rant
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31/10/2014 10:17
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Yep, same here with the bacon.
With regards to the rice, go to Sainsbury and get some Thai style rice. It comes in different packets that are made of cardboard and you can re-seal them, no joke!
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Re: Rice and pasta packaging rant
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31/10/2014 12:10
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how do they do that - wizardry? Nah, unstable dimensional transcendentalism.
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Re: Rice and pasta packaging rant
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31/10/2014 12:13
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Corned beef tins. Always need a pair of pliers handy for when the key tab breaks off...
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Re: Rice and pasta packaging rant
[Re: Gripped]
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31/10/2014 15:36
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I'm with you all on the rice and pasta. We have loads of dried fruits too and even those little plastic clips to reseal bags are pointless if the bag is ripped. Packets of cooked meats also annoy me. The little tab which you peel back is in one corner. However, the sliced meat inside is actually stacked in an oftset little pile so that the top one is nearest to the other corner. This means you have to peel open the pack further to get that one, or try to manouvre the bottom one out somehow.
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Re: Rice and pasta packaging rant
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31/10/2014 17:56
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Much like the things that look like zips on cardboard packaging. Do they ever work?
And tax discs (now defunct of course) but the perforations were never good enough to prevent me ripping the disc, so I used to resort to scissors.
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Re: Rice and pasta packaging rant
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31/10/2014 18:50
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Slightly off subject, but i had 2 bonnet struts and a grab handle delivered today. They were wrapped in plastic first, then covered in layers of masking tape and then covered in reams of selotape ! Took me ages to get into it, even with scissors . Never will i moan about " listerine " again !
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Re: Rice and pasta packaging rant
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31/10/2014 19:14
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Jim_Clennell
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Slightly off subject, but i had 2 bonnet struts and a grab handle delivered today. They were wrapped in plastic first, then covered in layers of masking tape and then covered in reams of selotape ! Took me ages to get into it, even with scissors . Never will i moan about " listerine " again ! Fair comment. These are all rather first world problems!
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