The Ranting Room

Actually there's an anti-nudity policy!

I know that's not what you meant...

It's own by a certain Rupert Murdoch and well... he's not exactly a nice guy (illegidly).

My rant for today is about packaging. Manufacturers must have a computer program that works out how to get products packed into the smallest possible space, especially toys. Then us mere mortals unpack them and then WE CAN'T GET THEM BACK INTO THE BLOODY BOX!
Talking of toys, why do they have those flaming bits of wire round everything as well?

OK, that's it. I'm off to lie down now.

Edited by chopper - May 21 2006 at 13:54

Women who lose things.

Example of this:

My mother has misplaced her mobile 'phone and she cannot find it anywhere and she wants me to 'phone it, which my brother has already tried and it goes through to the answer machine.

My argument is, put it in the same place every time, then you won't lose it!  I always put my 'phone in the same place, so I never lose it.

The other gripe is when I put something somewhere, say on the floor, for example and my mother then moves it to somewhere else, doesn't tell me where she put or that she moved it in the first place and then expects me to find her.  When I quiz her about it, she says she put it in such and such a place, yet it's never where she says it is!

Frustration!

The wrapping on CDs is a pain also!  I've found a quick way of opening them (well, relatively so, anyhow), so it's not so much of an issue now.

How about chippings in your new stereo box?  Very important to avoid damage and suchlike, but they are annoying!

But packaging is a big problem, when will they ever learn?

I know exactly what you mean!  Porcupine Tree's Deadwing was a prime example of that for me.

One of my Moody Blues stickers was cool though, it was stuck in a silly place, so I moved it without a problem.

I've had some that are stuck so much, they tear, so you cannot even keep the sticker if you wanted to.  They then either leave a big white bit, or they leave a sticky bit on the case.

Another problem are bands that use a different colour dual case.  I've got a Fleetwood Mac CD (early era by the way, not the terrible latter years) in a kind of greeny metallic dual case and I managed to drop the CD (or it fell off the pile) and it's now broken.  This means it's nigh on impossible to get a replacement.

King of Loss wrote: [Definitely worth it. You can't buy a player as good as Henry anywhere in Europe [IMG]height=17 alt=Wink src="http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley2.gif" width=17 align=absMiddle>

oh blimey, proof that I really am losing my mind......... reading this post, for some reason I thought we were discussing vacuum cleaners........I was about to rant as my "Henry" kept breaking down until I replaced it with a dyson........ now I long for my HENRY back!

anway, we were talking footie, not hoovers!!!

Yeah, I agree......... he's a star in a gooner shirt!
     

NaturalScience wrote: Blacksword wrote: The sort of packaging I hate, Alan, is the sort that encases a new cable for your stereo or computer. A 2 metre long cable will be sealed in a moulded plastic case, which requires the sharpest knife in the drawer to get into. Normally the procedure takes about ten minutes, results in deadly sharp plastic edges and a volumous pile of waste plastic. Right, thats me done for now. Yes, this is incredibly annoying!    Who are they trying to keep out of there?

They could probably reduce the price by 50% if they didn't clad it so much rigid plastic.
    

Blacksword wrote: Give me simple cheap plastic cases any day!

I agree with that to an extent, but is it really beyond the wit of mankind to invent a CD insert that lasts longer than the time it takes to open the CD case for the first time? How many times have you bought a brand new CD, opened it & had those little tags which are supposed to hold the disc in place fall out (followed closely by the disc itself if you're not quick enough)?

No - the kind of packaging which irritates me is the special edition box sets such as Genesis' "Archives"; great album, great to listen to & full of marvellous photos & interviews etc... but where am I supposed to store it? It's way too big for any of my CD racks & even though it looks like a book, it's too tall for any of my bookcases!

And what about import CDs which for some obscure reason have an immoveable sticker right across the top sealing the case completely? Half an hour of careful peeling results in several broken nails and one broken CD outer case... then the inner tags fall out, & because you're so busy stemming the blood from ripped cuticles, you don't see where the CD itself fell!

Aaaaaanyway - my main rant for this morning (which I think will only ring bells with our UK members) concerns a gentleman who regularly appears on the idiot box in the corner of our lounge... Barry Scott.

Never heard of him?

Sure?

Mr Shouty?

No...?

Barry Scott is the guy who fronts the TV advertising campaign for the cleaning product Cillit Bang; constantly shouting, dipping pennies into his special goo to clean them, shouting, tipping it down sinks, shouting, tipping it down loos, shouting, pouring it over work surfaces and SHOUTING.

Shutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutup!!!

You just want to walk calmly up to him (and his simpering advertisement co-star "you like that one, don't you Barry?"), raise a Ruger .44 to his temple and paraphrase his advertising slogan:

"BANG! and the is gone"


But the really irritating thing about Cillit Bang commercials? They're right - it actually works...

Any 14 year old should be able to get out of bed on their own and early too.  You should be "ill" one day and see how they cope without you.  I bet they won't go to school.

Nobody likes school, hence their reluctance to actually make an effort.

"Oh, Mum's not up yet, cool, I'll just lay-in some more... hopefully she won't wake up for ages yet, when she does, I'll just blame it on her, because I'm not getting up, just to go to crappy school.  Mum can wake me like she always does!".

You need to tell them to start getting up on their own, they don't need to be reliant on you.  If they're at secondary school, it's not an issue, they should be able to get up!  I guess they do need a lift though... so they'll need to wake you up.  Which isn't likely to happen, to be honest.

Well I'm 25 and I know a lot of youngsters and it was only 10 to 11 years ago for me, so it's still clear in my mind!

Indeed, a cup of tea always helps.

And don't you dare bring up socks again!

Always happy to help.