Yes! Although I console myself with the thought that they’re obviously kid’s movies, and my kid can’t open the case herself and give the DVD to the cat to bat around when I’m in the other room.
YES! Why on earth that won out over the competing designs, I have no idea.
Actually, I have no idea why CD players weren’t designed to take the case off after you insert the whole thing into the player. Same for DVDs. Surely we have the technology that would allow such an arrangement and play us our music and movies with little or no chance of ruining the discs by taking or leaving them out of their cases until they’re safe in the machines!
Zyrteccomes in these ridiculous little single caplet blister pack which, unsatisfied with the usual torturous medical blister packs, involves tearing, peeling, and turning yourself all about. I hated having so much packaging waste for a once a day pill! (Yes, if you buy a larger quantity, you can get a bottle with pills in it, but for a starter quantity, a blister pack of the single serve blister packs was the only option.)
Commercial sized plastic wrap. Everyone just tears off the top piece of cardboard, so why bother with the perforated tabs and slots? If you carefully feed the plastic through the slot, and close the box, the plastic will eventually wind itself back inside the box, and you have to repeat the process over again. After 4 or 5 times, you just tear off the lid in frustration anyway.
I take enough medications, that I should be proficient at opening any packaging of pills. But there’s one pill I take that comes in a container that can only be opened with a screwdriver and brute force. And, as others have mentioned, the blister packs where you have to peel off the backing, then push the pill through . . . a lot of medications are taken by elderly or sick people who don’t have that kind of dexterity. And how much extra are we paying for that kind of unnecessary packaging? I usually just take a scissors and snip off the end of the opening.
This idea was used with some earlyCD-ROMdrives, but they were, IIRC, incredibly unpopular with the unwashed masses. Also, the caddies were not the actual case, rather, you would remove the CD from the case, insert it into the caddy, and then insert the caddy into the drive. However, we always left CDs permanently in labeled caddies, one caddy per CD, for safety reasons. With the incredibly low number of CD-ROMs that we actually used, it wasn’t financially prohibitive to buy the extra caddies.
WRT OP:
Anything that uses more packaging then necessary. Or anything that makes it particularly difficult to sort garbage. For example, paper labels glued to plastic containers or vice versa. My city’s waste management service is really strict about garbage separation and will not accept that plastic bottle if it has paper glued to it. They don’t even like it if there is glue still stuck to it. Anything that takes more than a minute to separate immediately gets a black mark in my book.
annoyingly with a lot of the pills we got that kind of packaging thanks to meth production. and to make it more fun they often change the layout of the pills to prevent the meth heads from building a tool to open them all in one shot.
My grandmother did this once. It turned out to be a coin in a box, but to get to the coin, I had to go through a series of nesting boxes stuffed with brown kraft paper. I got a huge kick out of it, but when I shared that with Grandmother, she failed to see the humor in it.
At least the CD case is only the case. I’ve got a Transformers toy where some bright spark decided to use the two unbraced arms of brittle clear polystyrene on the toy itself. For a transformation hinge. Which required excessive force to open or close. So now I have a Slave I toy with no canopy. Bastards.
Worst design ever: there are some DVD cases that have a ridge completely around the periphery of the disc. Including the finger slots. This makes removing the DVD pretty hard, and negates the utility of the finger slots. It’s so stupid, that I’m inclined to believe that it’s a mistake- no one caught it until the mold was made, and they just let it go. It’s too stupid a design for me to imagine that it was deliberate.
I used to think the makers of the serrated pull tabs like on half gallon boxes of ice cream were exceptionally evil. You know, pull the tab and it tears about 1/3 of the way through and you end up pulling out a knife to finish the job. Then one day I noticed on the box that it said to pull slowly. I gave it a try and damned if it didn’t go all the way across. I thought bullshit, just a fluke.
Six boxes later and still no tearing. Maybe I should take the time to read the instructions closer…naw.
I have a solution for pills where you’re supposed to tear off the paper and then push it through the foil (my personal bane is Claritin): take a nail file and trace around the pill. It’s easier than trying to cut it open.
I’ve found that a key works in a pinch.
Smart, Beautiful, Artistic, Witty, and Horse Sense- I want the key to your sardine (sea kitty) tin. RRROWRRR!!!
