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E-mail received from a friend:

Today I took delivery of a 'Bluetooth' wireless laser mouse for use with my laptop, and I have just managed to penetrate and demolish the carefully designed rigid plastic bubble defences and have actually opened the pack and extracted the mouse and its two AA batteries, which were also separately encased in hard plastic.

I set up the machine gun section on the left flank and put in a right-flanking attack as I was taught during my brief Army days. Which, being translated means, I used a pair of bone-cutting scissors, the tip of which I managed to insert into a tiny crack in the edge of the bubble just below the hanging loop. And it only took another eight minutes for me to cut my way in bit by bit.

Seriously, though, apart from eventually polluting the oceans for centuries to come and thereby destroying a significant proportion of marine life worldwide, what are these manufacturers playing at? How do they expect a 'normal' person, i.e. a person who does not possess either a meat cleaver or, like me, a pair of bone-cutting scissors, to penetrate their hard plastic bubble packaging?

Or is there a secret, easy way-in which I have yet to discover?

Of course, I am now too exhausted to actually put the CD into the computer and find out how to use the thing; instead I am going to make a cup of tea, after which I shall probably take a nap. The new technology can wait, probably until tomorrow!

Cheers!

len i sort of know how your feeling i can't squeeze my pearl drop toothpaste on to my toothbrush lol.

Hello Len nice to see you pop up,

that packaging is a nighmare,besides near cutting your fingers in half,it should carry a injury risk,,,,,

I have problems opening a packet of biscuits without using scissors
Liz

Len,

Thats the best laugh I have had all day, what a funny person......we could do with him/her on here!

Ann

Anyone tried opening the packet of a new pair of scissors without a pair of scissors to open it with. It's not easy.

Dianne xx

Morning all - I can, just about, still manage to get things out of their packaging. But, I cannot d**m well successfully remove the labels from some of the packaging, that I wish to re-use.
Very frustrating.
Julia in Derbyshire

you know those prepacks of corned beef, chicken etc, that have a tab on one corner
supposedly that you grip, and thus peel back the foil covering?
I quite often cant separate the the tab from the container......LOL
even by trying to poke a little blade in between........
let alone trying to grip a 1/4 inch corner with athritic fingers
Bob

Bob with co-ordinates, now join the club. I'm the same LOL
Julia in Derbyshire

Bob - you may manage better with a tin of corned beef, the key will then snap off and you can hack it open with a tin opener
Liz

I can't do those key-opening corned beef tins, either. Quite often I have spent ten minutes or more trying to get into it - usually I end up thinking, "Do I really want this in a sandwich that much?"

I just don't get why they can't put it in normal tins!

I think I need one of those gadgets !
I have trouble getting at the ring-pull on tins of soup,beans etc.
I break nails & all sorts trying.
I now get a spoon under the ring to prise it off of the can top, then ( sheer genius here !) I stick the spoon handle through the ring -pull & bend it backwards to pull the lid off.
( at this stage I must admit that by now another spoon is usually bent, & I have to wrap a cloth round the entire lid (to stop myself being lacerated) & finish pulling it off.
Result : can is open. soup (or whatever) is all over the cloth. spoon handle bent out of recognition. & this is PROGRESS ?

Tina x

Christina, believe it or not, but i DO have a keyring gadget ( from a christmas cracker) that looks like a crocodiles head........ and the jaws are intended to get under and get the ring pulls opened.......
Bob