Anyone Else Notice that Cans, Bottles, Plastic Wraps and Drugs are now tough to Open?

[Waterglass]

So is this just me in my near Golden Years as I consider myself an expert who has used all of these items since being born. I am also quite strong to this day. 

Plastic Caps:

Seems to me that it takes more of an effort to remove a plastic cap from a plastic, bottle or jug than it was before the Covid-19 year. 

Plastic Wrap packages. 

Especially for Cheese. Then in 2nd place are the plastic pull aways on meat packages, includes bacon, sausage, etc . So all of a sudden the tear away tab either doesn't tear away or if it does the seam is so tight that it takes minutes to still get the bag open.  But, for Potato Chips and other junk food all seems well.

Aluminum Beer and Soda Tabs:

NO CHANGE

Prescription drug bottles

Those along with inhalers that seem to jump ahead in the count of actuations actually used.  Then the drug script paks that peel away the foil packets.  


So WTF is going on here? Or is it a conspracy against the elderly to give up and die?

[UltraBudgie]

yes there seems to be malicious annoyance at work, blame it on cost cutting or annoyed workers or whatever, perhaps some social engineering conspiracy to add tiny frustration upon tiny frustration to daily life in order to push society to the breaking point? ask the people who time traffic lights haha.

other things:

notches to start tearing the top off a bag of something, that when torn actually tear above the seal line, making them useless.

glue on the first sheet of paper towel and toilet paper that doesn't unstick and wastes the first few revolutions trying to get it started.

push-in perforations on cardboard boxes like macaroni that aren't actually perforated and just dent the box.

built in zip seals that don't align and pull apart again.

stacks of wet-wipes and kleenex where every fifth one or so isn't accordioned together and you have to grope and rip to get the next one to pull out.


hahahahhahaha!

[ArMaP]

Plastic Caps:

Seems to me that it takes more of an effort to remove a plastic cap from a plastic, bottle or jug than it was before the Covid-19 year. 

Some plastic caps are smaller than they were, making it harder to get a firm hold on them.
The idea, apparently, is to reduce weight in transport.

[Waterglass]

yes there seems to be malicious annoyance at work, blame it on cost cutting or annoyed workers or whatever, perhaps some social engineering conspiracy to add tiny frustration upon tiny frustration to daily life in order to push society to the breaking point? ask the people who time traffic lights haha.

other things:

notches to start tearing the top off a bag of something, that when torn actually tear above the seal line, making them useless.

glue on the first sheet of paper towel and toilet paper that doesn't unstick and wastes the first few revolutions trying to get it started.

push-in perforations on cardboard boxes like macaroni that aren't actually perforated and just dent the box.

built in zip seals that don't align and pull apart again.

stacks of wet-wipes and kleenex where every fifth one or so isn't accordioned together and you have to grope and rip to get the next one to pull out.


hahahahhahaha!

Glue on the first sheet of paper towel and toilet paper that doesn't unstick and wastes the first few revolutions trying to get it started.

Your right on and it seemed to start all at once so yes, I think someone is trying to get man to be on the edge of destruction. With respect to politcs globally, one thing I noticed is the drop of anything related to religion, God and that includes the other one. The big S.

[UltraBudgie]

it all started with ketchup bottles that wouldn't pour then you go thunk thunk thunk and plop two cups of ketchup for your burger haha! how dieabolical satin its is truely a fallen world.

[sahgwa]

Alexa , type me a forum post.  
My old knuckles can't deal with the jars anymore. I think it's a conspiracy to cause me to expire faster than my preserved goods.
They don't seal like they used to, I think it's planned putrescence.

[Waterglass]

Some plastic caps are smaller than they were, making it harder to get a firm hold on them.
The idea, apparently, is to reduce weight in transport.

I have noticed that even simple sheet is now a pain in the arse today. Like it all happened at once post Covid. We also have 100's of ,milli secong power outages. Now its to the point that the other eectronic devices, including RUKO, NO longer remember the WIFI passwords so each WIFI password has to be re entered manually, expecially RING security cameras. 

A whopping PIA

[UltraBudgie]

Alexa , type me a forum post.  
My old knuckles can't deal with the jars anymore. I think it's a conspiracy to cause me to expire faster than my preserved goods.
They don't seal like they used to, I think it's planned putrescence.

this is true of yogourt and sour cream for sure. i've learned to transfer those to tupperware as soon as opened because the lids are so loose fitting they will in a matter of two or three days otherwise.

speaking of sour cream, how about that plastic film on the top of the container, after you get the actual lid off? half the time there isn't a pull tab any more, and if there is the film rips in half anyway. and when you finally peel it off, there's still a little ring of microplastic shreds around the rim to pick off. fun stuff!

I have noticed that even simple sheet is now a pain in the arse today. Like it all happened at once post Covid. We also have 100's of ,milli secong power outages. Now its to the point that the other eectronic devices, including RUKO, NO longer remember the WIFI passwords so each WIFI password has to be re entered manually, expecially RING security cameras. 

A whopping PIA

unsolicited advice: centralize and isolate networked electronics. get a combo ups power filter for brownouts. hardwire ethernet. use poe cabling rather than wifi for security cams. abandon electronics and grow artisanal pears.

[Byrd]

So is this just me in my near Golden Years as I consider myself an expert who has used all of these items since being born. I am also quite strong to this day. 

Plastic Caps:

Seems to me that it takes more of an effort to remove a plastic cap from a plastic, bottle or jug than it was before the Covid-19 year. 

Plastic Wrap packages. 

Especially for Cheese. Then in 2nd place are the plastic pull aways on meat packages, includes bacon, sausage, etc . So all of a sudden the tear away tab either doesn't tear away or if it does the seam is so tight that it takes minutes to still get the bag open.  But, for Potato Chips and other junk food all seems well.

Aluminum Beer and Soda Tabs:

NO CHANGE

Prescription drug bottles

Those along with inhalers that seem to jump ahead in the count of actuations actually used.  Then the drug script paks that peel away the foil packets.  


So WTF is going on here? Or is it a conspracy against the elderly to give up and die?

I posted a link to something similar a while back.  What's happening is "shrinkflation."

The size of packaging is shrinking (and in the case of bottles and so forth, this also means that cap size is shrinking slightly.

Now... if you'll remember your physics (or even if you don't), if something is small, it takes more energy to make it turn than if it's large.  Here's a USA Today article about it: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati...719362007/

So, it's not you... it's manufacturing.   Keep some adjustable pliers around.

[Byrd]

it all started with ketchup bottles that wouldn't pour then you go thunk thunk thunk and plop two cups of ketchup for your burger haha! how dieabolical satin its is truely a fallen world.

Actually, that's a different kind of physics.  The "slow moving ketchup" is a property of ketchup as a fluid -- it's a "non-Newtonian" fluid. https://www.comsol.com/blogs/non-newtoni...p-quandary




(this has been your science lecture for today.  I'll scurry off now.)