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#2896902 4-Apr-2022 18:00
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Geektastic:

 

Buying milk and finding the tear off seals are not actually sealed at all.

 

See also milk tear off seals that are excessively sealed and will not remove without the use of a kitchen knife...!

 

 

If only someone could figure out how to make the Goldilocks milk seal for you!


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  #2896920 4-Apr-2022 19:26
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neb:
rb99:

 

Or just nearly giving myself a hernia trying to unscrew one of those glass sauce jars with the popup lids.

 

You're welcome.

 

Heh, that page is a classic case of cr*ppy product photography in the aliexpress way. That annoys me no end.

 

 

 

The first two photographs are from the same distance but at a slightly different angle. The distance and resolution seem perfectly chosen to stop me evaluating the surface finish and infer anything about product quality. 

 

The third photo is to help us imagine what a jar opener is used for. We must make the mental leap ourselves but to help us out, right next to the opener are some, yepp, unopened jars.

 

 





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  #2896926 4-Apr-2022 19:49
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I was briefly looking at a jacket once, on an AliExpress-style site. There were only two photos, one of the front and one of the back... and they were different jackets. Needless to say, I didn't buy it!


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  #2897064 5-Apr-2022 08:47
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rb99:

 

I prefer to try to lever the lid up a bit to let the air in (when that eventually occurs to me of course...)

 

 

 

 

If you have someone in the house with compromised hand/wrist strength (arthritis etc), I suggest this:

 

AVANTI Jar Opener and Ring Pull Can Opener - 2pc Set

 

The jar opener ("Jarkey") is more commonly available by itself but they're both worth having.





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  #2897074 5-Apr-2022 09:23
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bazzer:

Geektastic:


Buying milk and finding the tear off seals are not actually sealed at all.


See also milk tear off seals that are excessively sealed and will not remove without the use of a kitchen knife...!



If only someone could figure out how to make the Goldilocks milk seal for you!



Well why not just use caps that seal it? Like Keri juice or even wine bottles.





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  #2897082 5-Apr-2022 09:49
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DonH:

 

rb99:

 

I prefer to try to lever the lid up a bit to let the air in (when that eventually occurs to me of course...)

 

 

If you have someone in the house with compromised hand/wrist strength (arthritis etc), I suggest this:

 

AVANTI Jar Opener and Ring Pull Can Opener - 2pc Set

 

The jar opener ("Jarkey") is more commonly available by itself but they're both worth having.

 

 

I bought a jar opener that looks just like the AVANTI Jar Opener in your link from our local $2 shop. Works a treat!


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  #2897086 5-Apr-2022 09:55
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elpenguino:

 

The first two photographs are from the same distance but at a slightly different angle. The distance and resolution seem perfectly chosen to stop me evaluating the surface finish and infer anything about product quality. 

 

 

All OXO Good Grips products are particularly well-made IMO. We have several in the kitchen and they're great. However for opening dome-top jar lids we use the $2 plastic Jarkey mentioned above - simple and easy.





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  #2897088 5-Apr-2022 10:08
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Am tempted to buy a jar opener - thanks for the links. I feel compelled to point out, however, that despite being somewhat, erm, limp wristed, I'm generally the one who gets asked by others under this roof to open stuff when they can't. Maybe I should buy one and pretend its for the rest of the gang...





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  #2897089 5-Apr-2022 10:10
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Avanti? Oxo? These bike and stock cube manufacturers are certainly branching out these days!


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  #2897092 5-Apr-2022 10:17
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eracode:

 

elpenguino:

 

The first two photographs are from the same distance but at a slightly different angle. The distance and resolution seem perfectly chosen to stop me evaluating the surface finish and infer anything about product quality. 

 

 

All OXO Good Grips products are particularly well-made IMO. We have several in the kitchen and they're great. However for opening dome-top jar lids we use the $2 plastic Jarkey mentioned above - simple and easy.

 

 

I'd agree in general the oxo stuff is good, but we bought their jar opener and it just flat out doesn't work at all. 

 

I'd love to know if it's faulty. It just scratches the lids and doesn't turn them. 

 

 


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Privacy when it becomes obviously stupid and a PITA.

 

 

 

As part of due diligence on a house purchase we are looking at two EQC claims. When houses are sold, any claims should be assigned as part of the transaction so that the next owner has the benefit of them. It seems that the two claims (old ones) were not assigned to the current owner, so legally they cannot assign them to us.

 

They approached EQC to find out who EQC had recorded as the beneficiary of record for the claims. EQC refused to answer on 'privacy' grounds. However property transactions are a matter of public record. We know ALL the past owners names already simply by looking at the transaction records - the names are not private and neither is the fact that they owned the house at some point....!






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  #2897195 5-Apr-2022 13:50
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In the past, I have used a door to grip/open jars. Hold the jar horizontally in the gap between door and frame on the hinges side of the door. Open/close the door so that the gap decreases and the jar is gripped. Put a bit more pressure on the door to put a lot more pressure on the lid, and generally you can twist the jar and remove it from the lid. Put too much pressure on and you'll leave concave marks in the door and frame (which are nevertheless useful for opening the next jar).

 

 


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  #2897198 5-Apr-2022 13:56
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AT Park App - You have an active ticket in zone xxx. Makes my heart race every time. 

 

In actual fact I have an active parking session. 

 

I understand tickets to be fines for overparking or breaching another rule. 

 

 


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  #2897269 5-Apr-2022 18:04
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DonH:

AVANTI Jar Opener and Ring Pull Can Opener - 2pc Set

 

 

That pull-tab opener is essential to deal with the ever-increasing number of tinned food items that some cretin has decided to fit with a tab, designed for a narrow thin strip of metal that tears easily, onto a very wide strip of metal where the resistance to tearing of the metal is significantly higher than the strength with which said tab is attached to the metal. The bigger the tin, the more impossible it is to get open with a pull tab. Short of pathological designs you literally cannot come up with a worse situation in which to use a pull tab... so they're appearing on more and more tins all the time.

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  #2897270 5-Apr-2022 18:07
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Behodar:

Avanti? Oxo? These bike and stock cube manufacturers are certainly branching out these days!

 

 

Oxo made a few products to help out people with arthritis, then made the astounding discovery that lots of people who didn't have arthritis really liked products targeting ergonomics rather than simplification of 1930s manufacturing processes. They've got a huge range of stuff, admittedly some of it a bit gimmicky once they'd got all the low-hanging fruit and needed more ideas, but all good-quality and very much "why didn't anyone do this before" once you start using it.

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