The solar shower for campers is nonfunctional. The bag holds water that heats in the sun. The water travels through the hose. The little head has holes so small, that water can only sweat out them allowing only a drip drip drip to occur. You can not clean up in anyway under a warm water drip.
I once bought a used copy of Icewind Dale from Gamestop. I opened it up. To my surprise, there was a Icewind Dale disk 1, and Age of Empires Disk disc 2.
:dubious:
Imagine my joy.
I returned it, somewhat curious as to why the person who’d accepted it as a trade-in hadn’t bothered to open up the case and look at what was inside?
You know what I hate? OOT medicines.
You have a headache. You take some asprin. It helps a little. It takes the edge off it, makes it so you can see clearly, but you’re still in pain.
Your stomach hurts. You take some pepto. It helps a little. Instead of feeling like a rabid rat is clawing it’s way out of your belly, it’s now just running around in circles.
You slice your finger open on a can lid. You go and get some ‘Neosporin with pain relief’ and slather it on. It helps a little. Now it isn’t throbbing quite so much.
So wtf? Where are the medicines that actually work? I’ve been to the hospital. When they give you something for pain, it’s gone. When they give you something for nausea, it’s gone. None of this barely functional shit, that pain is outta here. So how come all we can get normally is this weak ass crap, that barely works the way it’s supposed to? I’ve never understood it.
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When re-tiling our shower, I thought it might be nice to have a wall-mounted soap dish. I bought one that matches the tile, and put it on the wall. Once the thing was in place it became apparent that it is (very gently) sloped from back to front and has only a very minimal lip. Turns out wet soap is slippery–who knew? Evidently not the soap dish manufacturer.
Wall-mounted soap dish = epic fail.
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I’ve been unlucky enough to come across these before.
And what about toilet seat covers that render the toilet seat unable to stay in the up position? I come across these in an astonishing number of the houses I visit - at least 50%! Do these people not urinate standing up? I never get up the nerve to ask about it.
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I don’t want to talk about it, but “male enhancement”, my ass!
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Well, you were putting it on the wrong side.
The linked thread has a lot of great ideas, but I have to point out that my goddamn PVR remote has the weirdest irritation. It has two buttons for going up and down the channels; channel up/down, and then page up/down, for when you’re looking at the listings and want to quickly move across the options.
If you press channel up/down, it goes one channel at a time UP or DOWN. If you’re on channel 8, and press up, it goes up to Channel 9.
If you use the page button, it is exactly reversed. Page up makes you go DOWN, in channel number, and page down makes you go up.
Why would they do that?
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If you press channel up/down, it goes one channel at a time UP or DOWN. If you’re on channel 8, and press up, it goes up to Channel 9.
If you use the page button, it is exactly reversed. Page up makes you go DOWN, in channel number, and page down makes you go up.
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Well, the standard for a TV remove is that hitting up takes to you to a higher channel, and hitting down takes you to a lower channel. However, when your PVR or digital cable box is displaying lists, this is counter-intuitive, because the lower-numbered channels are displayed on the top of the list, so you’d expect that hitting up would take you to the higher numbered channels. The guys who wrote the PVR software evidently decided to preserve the behaviour for the Up and Down buttons, but to use more the intuitive behaviour for the Page Up/Page Down buttons.
I’m not saying that it was a good decision, but I can understand why they’d make it.
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A tip: roll it outside the garage before firing… 
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Nah, it’s the roof he needs to roll back: howitzers are indirect fire. 
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I just remembered my longest and most storied nemesis in this category: weed eaters.
I grew up on a grassy half acre with lots of landscaping. I have never, and I mean never used a weed eater for 30 consecutive seconds without some sort of global failure of the device. I’ve used many different brands, gas and electric. The damn things just don’t work. Even now I have grass creeping up my sidewall because my nice new electric weed eater with less than 30 minutes total time on it went hayshit the other day.
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I am glad I am not the only one. I have a John Deere weed eater that I have had for over 7 years. The main unit has always work and it takes multiple attachments. The weed eater attachments simply don’t work. I have bought a number of them the last being last weekend. I put the attachment together carefully and then I can weed eat about 5 feet and the string is gone or something else stupid. The few times I have gotten the whole contraption to stay together, the trimmer line simply breaks and breaks until it is completely gone. I try very hard not to weed eat too close to walls or other hard materials but that defeats the whole purpose.
The bad part is that my wife is convinced that I am stupid and incompetent when this happen and goes apeshit when I come inside to say it broke again. It has literally caused serious marital strain and conflict. Why can’t someone invent a better one?
Back to printers, I got a Brother Hl2040 which worked flawlessly until about one week after the 1 year warranty ran out. Like it had a timer. :eek: And now it’s dead as Gen. Franco.
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Sometimes persistence pays off. Not always, but sometimes.
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A product failing me miserably right now is Skype, the software for free phone calls over the internet. Or maybe it’s me (using that phrase colloquially) failing miserably to properly set up and use Skype. I reserve the right to change my mind pending the end result of this titanic struggle (what isn’t a titanic struggle where a computer is involved?), but right now I have to say Skype falls into this category for me. I’m hoping persistence pays off though.
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I am glad I am not the only one. I have a John Deere weed eater that I have had for over 7 years. The main unit has always work and it takes multiple attachments. The weed eater attachments simply don’t work. I have bought a number of them the last being last weekend. I put the attachment together carefully and then I can weed eat about 5 feet and the string is gone or something else stupid. The few times I have gotten the whole contraption to stay together, the trimmer line simply breaks and breaks until it is completely gone. I try very hard not to weed eat too close to walls or other hard materials but that defeats the whole purpose.
The bad part is that my wife is convinced that I am stupid and incompetent when this happen and goes apeshit when I come inside to say it broke again. It has literally caused serious marital strain and conflict. Why can’t someone invent a better one?
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You sure it’s not the way you folks are winding the line? Mine used to run out every few minutes too until I found out that the line needs to be one continuous piece, and not two separately wound pieces?
Just sayin’.
I see this thing advertised that will increase my gas mileage by 25%!, so I add the special splitfire spark plus (another 10%), and the water injection (another 15%), then the “ram air” airfilter (+10%). I should be getting over 70 MPG!
This person doesn’t.
Staplers. The finicky prima donnas of the desk tools.
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Y’know those little digital picture frames with LCD screens that let you load a bunch of photos from your PC onto them and they do a little slideshow of the pictures?
Well, when I was looking for Christmas presents, I found some miniature versions of those with 1.5" screens that fit on a key ring. They were perfect presents for my limited budget, so I bought over $100 worth of them at $15 a pop from a Chinese company on eBay and gave them out to friends and family. After a while, I noticed nobody was using them, so I asked some people if they hadn’t liked them. Turns out nobody could figure out how to get the damn things to work!
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This might be a good thing. I heard an interview with someone on NPR a couple of weeks ago who mentioned that some brand of these things had a secret toy surprise programmed into them…
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You sure it’s not the way you folks are winding the line? Mine used to run out every few minutes too until I found out that the line needs to be one continuous piece, and not two separately wound pieces?
Just sayin’.
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Yeah, something’s wrong, because there’ve been weeks where I’ve used a weed eater* for forty hours a week, stopping only to refuel and replace the spool. Gotta keep the explosives bunkers clear of fire hazards.
*Yes, I know Weed Eater is a brand name. I don’t care.
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I have never, and I mean never used a weed eater for 30 consecutive seconds without some sort of global failure of the device. I’ve used many different brands, gas and electric. The damn things just don’t work. Even now I have grass creeping up my sidewall because my nice new electric weed eater with less than 30 minutes total time on it went hayshit the other day.
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Seconded. Every string trimmer I’ve owned, every other variant on a weed whacker I’ve owned or used … none of them work without me having to stop every couple minutes and pull off the reel to make adjustments, replace broken plastic blades, or whatever. NONE of them work. NONE, no matter how perfectly I wind the line or otherwise follow the instructions. PERIOD.
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I don’t want to talk about it, but “male enhancement”, my ass!
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No, no. You’re confused. You want the anal bleach. It’s over on aisle four.
[QUOTE=Leaffan]
You sure it’s not the way you folks are winding the line? Mine used to run out every few minutes too until I found out that the line needs to be one continuous piece, and not two separately wound pieces?
Just sayin’.
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No, my current one has 2 spools - one for each line. I even bought a pre-wound spool and it went nuts faster than usual. I installed it exactly how the instructions said to, double checked it, triple checked it, and then fired it up. Several feet of string immediately whizzed out of the ends, got tangled up with itself, and bloodied the hell out of my legs.
Cat litter box liners.
Thin plastic and sharp claws.
As if!