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I would like to offer the GU10 light fitting.
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Why not use a simple screw or bayonet when you can have one of these fiddly buggers?
Although not manufacturing, this one still makes me laugh...
(Office of Government Commerce)
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Anything prefixed by 'Crank Brothers'.
Putting blurk bits on the outside.
Clear ****ing plastic ****ing melted ****ing together ****ing packaging.
Halfords Apollo bikes.
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Most of the final year projects from BEng Mech Eng Hons (design) from Huddersfield Poly?
Most of the final year projects from BEng Mech Eng Hons (design) from Huddersfield Poly?
Good one! I actually found mine a couple of months back. 132 pages of tripe. How the hell that passed I have no idea.
Most of the final year projects from BEng Mech Eng Hons (design) from Huddersfield Poly?
Rumour always was that they were working on the next OnOne frames 😆
Doors that can only be pushed with pull handles on them. Doors that can only be pulled with push plates on them. Fridge doors in newsagents and corner shops that require a sticker to show you which side of the door the handle is on because they have hidden it and removed any chance of being able to just use A DOOR! 👿
Any shimano product packaging, my fellow bike shop workers will sympathise with me on this one.
For a "supposedly" green company who produce the vast majority of the worlds cycle components to enclose the simplest of products with so much convoluted over-designed cardboard and plastic packaging really boils my piss every time i fit components to bikes, in fact i have been known to go into such a rage that i jump up and down on the aforementioned packaging whilst uttering incoherent swear words.
I've even fired off a few emails to shimano but obviously they've never experienced the sort of incoherent rant that a short arsed hairy scotsman can fire off in a matter of seconds, my balls to the wire/strava-esque kom typing speed surprises me so it's no great surprise that i have not received any reply as of yet.
I understand the above after fitting a full shimano groupset/brakes to my bike. There was what can only be discribed as a S**T load of packaging left over.
Sram XO 2x10 chain guide. Never seen anyone get more than a month out of one before the lower guide explodes.
Kitchen utensils from Joseph. Absolutely useless. The handles are much heavier than the business end of each utensil so as soon as you leave one in a pan, they flip over causing good to fly everywhere. They are simply not fit for purpose.
These.... http://www.josephjoseph.com/product/elevate-carousel-tool-set
Chernobyl ?
Much like Bravissimo, I'd nominate anything using the words 'new easy opening packaging' or similar.
Oh, and the old Cathay Pacific herringbone seating layout. Awful!
Those tins of tuna with the foil lid. Makes it far harder to squeeze out the brine.
Those packets that say 'Tear here' ,they never bloody work.
The £1billion Edinburgh tram [strike]network[/strike] half a line.
anything from the 1970's, mainly clothes and haircuts (well until punk started)
[i]Kitchen utensils from Joseph. Absolutely useless. The handles are much heavier than the business end of each utensil so as soon as you leave one in a pan, they flip over causing good to fly everywhere. They are simply not fit for purpose.[/i]
The idea is you don't need to leave them in the pan, as the weighted handle stops your bolognese covered utensil from making a mess of the worktop. However, the stupid hangy thing is infuriating as everything drops off when you look at it...
Edric 64 - Member
Chernobyl ?
User error, even though the reactor design was flawed (positive void coefficient), the explosion was 100% down to the operators.
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The plastic easy-peel lids on things which are welded on stronger than steel - the handy pull-tab is just there to fool you, pull it and nothing happens, and the only way to get in is to use a sharp knife.
Apart from occasionally, when the glue suddenly let's go and everything flies all over the kitchen.
Dyson Vacuum cleaners.
Too heavy, too much plastic, doesnt fit under furniture, still needs filters cleaned (and they take 24 hours to dry) you get to look at all the crap from your carpets, they fall over when you use the hose...I can go on...
Kitchen utensils from Joseph. Absolutely useless. The handles are much heavier than the business end of each utensil so as soon as you leave one in a pan, they flip over causing good to fly everywhere. They are simply not fit for purpose.
You have ever so slightly missed the whole point of the design then ? 😉
Much like Bravissimo, I'd nominate anything using the words 'new easy opening packaging' or similar.
er... Bravissimo stuff comes with "easy opening" on it? Bonus! 😉
Those packets of ham that say "peel here". You follow the instructions, and end up with a still-sealed pack of ham in one hand, and a complete label from the front of said pack in the other hand...
The corned beef tin: Finger amputation garaunteed upon opening.
USB cables in particular the end that plugs into the PC/charger.
Please step forwards the [b]Vauxhall Zafira handbrake lever[/b] (55 plate onwards). It resembles a clip together mystery object that tumbled out of the middle of a Kinder Egg, but is only half as sturdy.
It was a real pleasure when mine shattered into three pieces at the local tyre fitters leaving me stuck between three fairly close walls with the handbrake jammed on ten minutes before the place closed and just before a 200 mile drive to Gatwick for a much needed family holiday 😥
(apologies for long sentences & sarcasm)
GXP BB's.
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Topeak Defender front mudguard. Takes some skin off your fingertip when you remove it.
Spent months working next to this monstrosity being built - still not sure what it's meant to be...
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+1 dyson anything. Over designed and a bit silly
Crank brothers, less time should be spent on the packaging and 'design'
That oversized mini, Vauxhall adam, Nissan juke all make me s**** when I see them
Revit, if you use it you will know
I cannot believe no-one has nominated virtually every piece of UK cycling "infrastructure".
I declare me the winner, although the nomination of the op was a good effort.
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There must be millions of these ****ers in service and every last one of them dribbles tea all over the table. I mean, why??
I mean, why??
Do you perhaps mean, "Why do I go to places that use these things?"
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The hard plastic packaging surrounding memory sticks and stuff.. supposed to be in store theif proof but needs industrial strength machinery to open without looking pints of blood after slicing fingers open.
I usually fail to get my purchases after attacks with scissors, knives etc etc
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The hard plastic packaging surrounding memory sticks and stuff.. supposed to be in store theif proof but needs industrial strength machinery to open without lo
Agreed, but did you know you can use a can opener to open them?
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john drummer - that's minging. What is it?
Banner advertising fail:
On my screen it currently, picture-wise, goes teapot, olympic logo, ugly car, Shimano groupset (@CRC)
WTF is that? Pontiac?
Please step forwards the Vauxhall Zafira handbrake lever (55 plate onwards). It resembles a clip together mystery object that tumbled out of the middle of a Kinder Egg, but is only half as sturdy.
Or the the handbrake in a toyota avensis - replaced with a button. Where shall we put the button? Under the dash, out of site somewhere half way down the driver's shin.
The flippin Microsoft Office ribbon!
The BT Vision remote control. Nothing is where it should be. The TV guide scroll function is laughable. And don't get me started on the nightmare that is the On Demand menu.
And +1 for the Range Rover Evoque. Gopping.
I think the cars are a ssangyong rhodius followed by a Pontiac Aztec.
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But for my money, and despite in every other sense it being a masterclass in doing design the right way, the FD Mazda RX7 has a fuel filler hole positioned in such a way that if you have a full tank and park facing uphill at an angle of more than 5°, the fuel tank empties itself via the filler hole.
My poxy iPhone.
The new met line trains.
That bloody shimano brake effort that also changed gears.
disc brakes with that crappy bit of metal wire in the middle
The re-design of the M40 and A43 junction would get my vote.
indeed a SsangYong Rodious. Often spelled "Odious".
of course, the Fiat Multipla also deserves a mention
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Cumbernauld.....................jeeez
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looking a lot worse for wear these days, been empty for about 5 years and now starting to show it. steel anti-vandal panels on all of the windows...
this is pretty grim these days too:
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LH side headlight bulb replacement in old Honda Civics. 👿
Coventry.
mind you we did have this:
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they knocked it down about 10 years ago & replaced it with this:
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Suzuki indicator/washer stalks. Had mine 2 years and still wash the windscreen everytime I try to flash the headlights.
I forgot some cycle lanes...(not my images)
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The small things are the worst - they would be so easy to fix:
The "auto" windscreen wiper function on BMWs resets when you turn the ignition off - therefore requiring you to turn-on the "auto" setting whenever it starts raining.... defeating the point?
Added to that, the tiny light indicating that the auto setting is on (located on the stalk) is perfectly obscured by the steering wheel - requiring you to press your face up against the side window/ceiling/windscreen in order to see it.
Women.
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Get that 5 off this thread please.
I would like to nominiate the Citroen C4 Picasso. Gearstick too far away, and the heating controls are not in the middle of the car but by the driver's right knee. This means that a) you have to take your eyes a long way off the road to operate them, but worse b) the passenger can't reach them at all.
Samsung's Smart TV user interface, particularly the web bits.
Virgin media's TiVo remote.
Any cheapo kids bike.
But for my money, and despite in every other sense it being a masterclass in doing design the right way, the FD Mazda RX7 has a fuel filler hole positioned in such a way that if you have a full tank and park facing uphill at an angle of more than 5°, the fuel tank empties itself via the filler hole.
In theory.
In practice no RX7 has ever had enough fuel in it for this to occur. 😆
If my friend attempted to use the grill on his old oven the heat would melt the knobs.
The replacement cured this by having an attachable heat shield to put in place, which meant you then had to leave the oven door open as you had a red hot bit of sheet metal poking out.
The spelling mistakes on the oven where a notable clue as to its quality.
Am also liking 'easy-open' Bravissimo products very much!
ISIS bottom brackets. Some of the newer PF30 and such may be up there as well.
eddiebaby - MemberWomen.
Generally, I think that they got the packaging layout, design, and materials about right. 🙂
Its the software and/or programming that is faulty! 😉
The new Fox Dual control lockout, currently 2 weeks is par for the course, re threading the cable is not easy either.
Trek bikes, had the misfortune of doing a full service on a couple recently
Why can no-one design a bike light that doesn't switch in in your bag?
molgrips - Member
Why can no-one design a bike light that doesn't switch in in your bag?
Ay-Up Battery mounted on lid with the light (still lighter than most)
Why woujld that not turn on in your bag?
Post colonial africa/middle east
is this worst or best, still not sure?
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There must be millions of these ****ers in service and every last one of them dribbles tea all over the table. I mean, why??
Ben Elton discussed this in detail in his "Ministry of Crap Design" Sketch. quite funny 🙂
Pandas...
Not the car
The stupid, big, hairy, black and white ones.
Why woujld that not turn on in your bag?
Because they don't have a switch, you have to plug the battery into the light.
That plastic packaging they insist on using for bags of pasta etc. It's so brittle it just splits all the way down when opened.