1st world problems

[TestMangler]

- Blister Packs, such as illustrated below. I hate them. I hate wrestling with them, cutting up the skin under my nails, scratching my fingers, eventually grabbing a pair of scissors to try and cut them open only to cut straight through some vital part of the instruction booklet. I hate blister packs. In fact they are not the only kind of packaging I detest. I regularly fight with plastic drinks bottles that have completely OTT seals; a plastic foil around the whole top, a little plastic cap on top with a tear seal, then a tear seal on the screw top, then try to drink only to find there's a foil seal on the bottle itself. Or milk packs where you pull the aluminium foil from under the little plastic spout thingummy and there's ALWAYS a drop of milk that flies out; this is even worse when it's red fruit juice and you're wearing a white shirt.

Use a tin opener ! Simples !!

Or, for only £50 I could sell you my revolutionary manual rotating blade blister pack opening accessory. Or 'tin opener' for short....

[original PM]

great idea but I rarely keep a tin opener in my desk drawer at work.....

[Mich the Tester]

Use a tin opener ! Simples !!

Or, for only £50 I could sell you my revolutionary manual rotating blade blister pack opening accessory. Or 'tin opener' for short....

Yeah, a Stanley knife works too but doesn't offer much control and has in the past led to unplanned removal of finger tips.

[doodab]

Yeah, a Stanley knife works too but doesn't offer much control and has in the past led to unplanned removal of finger tips.

Or kitchen scissors.

[d000hg]

A soldering iron would work well too... or heated rope cutter for the sailors amongst us.

[Mich the Tester]

Or kitchen scissors.

Yep, but the scissors sort of slip around the blister pack and fail to cut, or they hurt my little delicate hands.

I took the trouble of googling 'i hate blister packs' and there were 193,000 links returned. It seems I am not alone in despising these inventions of Be'elzebub.

[darmstadt]

Moany, whiney 1st world people who don't know when they're well off :-)


(Actually for blister packs, I got a little gadget at a conference which is just wider than a CD had has a tiny little recessed blade and works fantastic.)

[Mich the Tester]

Moany, whiney 1st world people who don't know when they're well off :-)


(Actually for blister packs, I got a little gadget at a conference which is just wider than a CD had has a tiny little recessed blade and works fantastic.)

Come to think of it, a seat belt cutter might be ideal for blister packs.

[TestMangler]

great idea but I rarely keep a tin opener in my desk drawer at work.....

Get your blister packed items delivered to the kitchen then.

Call yourself a PM ??

[original PM]

Get your blister packed items delivered to the kitchen then.

Call yourself a PM ??

Kitchen?? you'll have to ask Jeeves about that..

call yourself a contractor tch