General Chat

Does it drive you mad? Anything from a packet of sandwiches to a bubble pack. I need a pair of sissors wealded to my hip. It's always when I'm in a hurry that I can't get the dam thing undone, end up doing an injury to myself and having to deal with that as well. It's so frustrating, or is it just me? Jo.

Baz, do you think they are just having a laugh with us then?

They have a secret agenda to kill off the old and frail by starving them to death. How DO you get the clingfilm off a sandwich without a Machete?

Hi Joanne The absolute worst has got to be Barbie dolls. The hair is sewn into the plastic packaging and it takes me a good 20 mins to open one, so God help a bairn trying to do it. Christine

Childrens toys sound the worst. Thank goodness I don't have to deal with them as well. I feel sorry for old people who just can't manage at all, also the pill pots, even I struggle with those. Packets of washing powder, bottles of bleach....it's a nightmare.

I reckon they should get the people who design vacuum packed products to build prisons. No-one would escape. 8m8

Even the biscuit packets that now say open here - open where? I can never see a way in:)) and the child proof medicine bottles, my mother used to ask my daughter when she was about 6 to open them for her as she couldn't do it :)))) Chrissie

Cheese slices............i can never find the" easy to open flap"

video and dvd wrappers are pants!! if you want to record something in a hurry, you can be sure that the wrapping's still on. I think it's some kind of copyright protection.

You talking about the special delivery??

Re-sealable ham packets, can never get them to seal!.. Corned beef tins with that key, there must be an art here?.. nearly always get cut! :(

Oh ha! You must have been watching me trying to get into a shrink-wrapped pack of rewritable CDs just now. Nails, teeth, scissors, small pointy knife didnt work, in the end I got the bread knife and sliced into them like a loaf of bread. Needless to say I smashed two of the flimsy plastic cases they come in. As for sandwiches, we have one remaining shop which does fresh sandwiches to order - I go there now, they come in a paper bag which even I can open and they arent stone cold either.

Jim is right ,can you imagine the senario,survivor down in a stormy sea ,frozen fingers trying to open a survivor pack,no way ,it takes half an hour to get into a packet of crackers ,the poor begger would be dead before he could eat anything.Fred.ptfg.