Somebody had to do it.I appreciate you.
whenever someone says “I appreciate you,” it triggers my delusional love and hormonal responses because the man I was in love with always responded “I appreciate you” whenever I told him "I love you. " 😭
There is so much promise of back story baked into this comment.
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That is a sweet moment. Thank you for sharing something so personal with us
And I appreciate you. You are awesome! Just in case no one told you today.
And that’s why I appreciates you
They’ll make the glue even stronger…
the secret is they should be using wax instead of glues, but that requires a warm squeeze and they are trying to save a thousandth of a penny and hope nobody notices. i email the CEOs about it.
That’ll show em
The fucking texture of that cottony shit left behind, like nails on a chalkboard trying to rip it all off.
You may be interested to know that these kinds of paper adhesives are usually intentionally designed so that the substrate (paper) tears before the adhesive does. This is meant to ensure robust packing and to give proof that the package has not been tampered with. Couple this with ever thinner and shittier substrates, and, well…
Ugh. I believe them already. It’s sealed for my protection. I get it. It says so nearly 100 times. I don’t check the seals for syringe marks first either, or the factory’s latest cleanroom maintenance logs. Just let me in, I already paid the extortionate entry fee.
Seriously though, I wouldn’t mind so much if they always were just paper I could poke a finger through at the end. Sometimes there’s another super stretchy thick plastic layer under that which resists everything but blades. I don’t want to keep a knife in my bathroom, but I’m getting to the point where I’ve thought about it.
I know what you mean. I wish more stuff could just be packed in glass jars with the little popping seal. If it’s popped, it has been opened. I don’t know if everything can handle the pressure difference… But it seems ideal. Plus then the glass jars and aluminum lids can be recycled.
This makes too much sense to ever be implemented.
Cost primarily. I’m okay with paying a little extra for glass bottles personally, I can reuse them.
I don’t want to keep a knife in my bathroom, but I’m getting to the point where I’ve thought about
Have you considered just not eating peanut butter in the bathroom?
Or open it in the kitchen first.
This was a supplement I was opening on my way to the bathroom, where I keep my medication.
Long covid memories makes ms forget everything to open first.Long covid memory problems also make me fail to double check my posts every time for bad autocorrect.Ah I guess that makes more sense than my assumption haha
The knife can double as a poop knife.
Just chew through the container. Pussy.
My condolences, buddy.
How about the ones that get fused to the opening like someone was welding fucking steel girders together on the Golden Gate Bridge?
And they have no pull off tab, and your finger nails are just a tiny bit too long and you bend one the wrong way 🤕
Or the pull off tab rips right off, leaving the seal itself perfectly intact.
That is one of the worst feelings.
The irony of that being true for my ADHD medication bottle is not at all lost on me. It’s like a tiny extra “fuck you”.
“Oh I’m sorry did you need some medication?”
Industrial SMAW welder whirring in background
Ugh, this is my migraine medication. I have to open the little blister packs in advance because they’re so hard to open that I often just can’t do it if I have a migraine…when I need the medication.
Nurtec?
Sumatriptan. Didn’t know the problem spread beyond one brand.
But that costs money and how are we gonna make even more money if we reinvest any of the earnings? 😩
Line must go up!
This and every single perforated paper/plastic that never fucking tears correctly.
Do you want good adhesive properties or to not taste the adhesive in your food?
Does the adhesive taste as good as the ones in grade school?
I would be fine with mediocre or even shitty adhesive properties here. It’s protected and pressure is maintained using a solid HDPE capped jar with perforations, which is already a tamper-evident seal. I don’t need a padlock on it either. Or even a disability-proof cap (the manufacturers prefer the name “child-proof” though). And there are multiple adhesives which don’t impart odor or flavor. Even superglue wouldn’t do it, given you need less than a tiny smear. What an odd false dichotomy you have given me.
Behold, could this be the best of both worlds? (image description: glass bottle with half-peeled seal. The separation is clean and easy and lacks flavor.)
Literally me today with a small soap container, but it was a trifecta: the lid separated from a plastic seal under it as with the picture, with the tiniest of rim you can barely get with your fingernails to pry it off to begin with, and a seal so strong you can’t just puncture it with you fingers.
As with another suggestion I just used thermite.
They need to talk to the people who make flour bags. Those paper bags glued shut with the strongest glue known to man, so that they are impossible to open without tearing a big hole in the bag, rendering it impossible to store the flour in.
You shouldn’t store flour in the paper bag it comes in anyways, flour should be stored in an airtight container.
I do move it into glass jars, but those bags drive me crazy. Always spill flour opening them.
Scissors?
No, it’s rolled up in a way that prevents it being opened neatly. I do use scissors on the Red Hot Blues tortilla chips, those have a similar problem but the shape of the bag allows it to be cut cleanly.
You need a container written flour on it. Ideally one with a cover that barely holds, dont ask me why it’s like that.
I remember the days before most things had seals over the opening.
ah yes, the before the-tylenol-debacle times
Back when we could still have nice things
Like sweet paint chips! Now they just taste like paint…
Tylenol debacle?
That’s exactly what I was thinking of when typing that out
Other than slight annoyance when things are hard to open, it’s better. You can be sure no one stuck their dick in it, smeared a booger, or put anything harmful or anything else on or in it. Stuff also keeps longer, as long as you don’t break the seal most stuff stays good for a long time.
I totally agree. I just remember…
Other than slight annoyance when things are hard to open, it’s better.
Sure, if you are not experiencing the symptoms of medical conditions. Especially the conditions that led you to be opening the bottle in the first place, that’s when it’s especially insulting on top of the additional pain/fatigue the situation generates.
It’s not even that I don’t like seals. I love the caps and covers on the tins and bottles and jars of food in my kitchen. I even love recyclable ziplock bags, and there are flimsy takeaway containers out there that are literally watertight. I just don’t like seals that are poorly made. There are products with usable seals out there, I know this first-hand. I’ve used them. I use them everyday.
Even then, not everything we consume has to be Fort Knox just because someone tainted a product intentionally or accidentally in the past. There are product recalls for various problems everyday and yet I’ve avoided getting ill from my groceries my entire life. I’m fine with buying my bread in a paper bag, I don’t need them to start using hermetically sealed boxes with padlocks.
And honestly, there are so many points in the production lines of most things where someone has the opportunity to stick their dick in something, that I just can’t dedicate the energy to entertaining that possibility on a daily basis. I also can no more verify that the last burger I ate was made by someone who washed their hands, any more than I can verify that the tomatoes I’m buying to make ketchup for homemade burgers weren’t grown using human faeces and picked by slaves. And I say this as someone who has some immunity issues: There are just too many vectors for various kinds of contamination than you can imagine, let alone reasonably safeguard against - you have to pick and choose to battle the most likely to occur or kill you. I do not battle the possibility of penis in my products. I just don’t have that kind of time.
We have the technology. This situation literally doesn’t need to exist for anyone ever. And yet it’s clearly common as fuck.
Drill through the bottom!
am I looking at glue that didn’t come off, or something that spoiled because the glue didn’t hold?
The bond between the seal and the jar is stronger than the bond between the layers of the seal. So peeling it separates the layers and leaves behind the thin papery final seal layers instead of removing the whole seal.
Admittedly this is better than the seal on one of my medications. It removes in one pull… if you can find and pull the tiniest sliver of edge of the seal, because they leave zero overhang.
The glue around the rim of the cup is too sticky, so it left behind a layer of cottony paper when the label was ripped off
Also, this usually only happens when people are in a hurry and pull from the top instead of the bottom where it’s curled around.Never mind, my fat ass thought it was a weird angle on a can of Pringles or something food related.
You can just see the two shredded sections on the edge where I was deliberately and carefully trying to include all layers and they just tore off instead. I don’t know if this is a technique thing, but if it is, I would love to know what I am doing wrong, because it happens to me all the damn time.
It’s not you, it’s the design. The only means of getting a clean top that I’ve found is to split the seal at the middle with a knife and rip outward.
Before dinner I thought it was food, boy do I feel silly.
Lol, no worries. Food ones always seem to work better too, but as soon as it’s medications or supplements, they use the shitty ones or the over-secure ones. We should get the peanut butter and Pringle’s manufacturers in the room with the pharmaceutical industry and make them talk.
the worst are the pills in blister packages where the foil is stronger than the pill itself, so you just end up crushing the pill inside. like I get blister packages are supposed to make it harder to get a ton of pills out at once, but if it forces me to grab scissors anyways that kinda defeats the purpose
Huh, I’ve never experienced that. And I take a lot of pills. They might have really bad binders or compression at the factory where they’re making yours? But that does sound very irritating, I’m annoyed enough when I cut pills in half and it breaks into not-halves.
I have, however, cut myself on the foil a few times. And that stuff is sharp. Not sharp enough to get through the shitty seal in my first pic, but enough to really slice fingers if you’re not looking.
I haven’t tried to open this way forever. Puncture the top and pull to the outside.
SEALEDforYOUR P R O T E C T I O N
I hated the design of that too, so very much.
