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> Certain common stereotypes of older people – as creatures bewildered by technology and outfoxed by ordinary packaging – have at their root this resistance to
by MockObject 4y ago
> Certain common stereotypes of older people – as creatures bewildered by technology and outfoxed by ordinary packaging – have at their root this resistance to pointless change. I have decades of experience in getting the lids off things, all of it rendered useless by these new lids they have now.
Packaging gets more infernal every year, and I don't understand why. Fine, put the safety seal on the Tylenol, but I'm routinely forced to commit violence with a box cutter to win prizes that aren't ingestible at all.
- D-Coder 4y agoFor a while, I was taking an anti-coagulant whose packaging could only be opened with a very sharp blade. <sigh> I suppose a small explosive charge might have worked too but never tried it...