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Invisible wrote:
> packet is carefully designed so that tearing this strip does not, in
> fact, grant access to the contents of the packet.
The reason you're always disappointed is that you have such high standards.
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On 28-7-2009 13:55, Invisible wrote:
> I've just witnessed something awesome. I bought a packet of chocolate
> buttons, and it comes with a perforated tear strip. Interestingly, the
> packet is carefully designed so that tearing this strip does not, in
> fact, grant access to the contents of the packet.
>
> That's pure brilliance, right there! :-D
pictures or it didn't happen.
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andrel wrote:
> On 28-7-2009 13:55, Invisible wrote:
>> I've just witnessed something awesome. I bought a packet of chocolate
>> buttons, and it comes with a perforated tear strip. Interestingly, the
>> packet is carefully designed so that tearing this strip does not, in
>> fact, grant access to the contents of the packet.
>>
>> That's pure brilliance, right there! :-D
>
> pictures or it didn't happen.
I'd say "typical". Oh boy another face! :-D
Thunderbird has several of these you can insert from the toobar into email,
but the bar doesn't show up in its newreader.:( Something to do with
Unicode,
maybe.
David
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On 28-7-2009 21:41, David H. Burns wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> On 28-7-2009 13:55, Invisible wrote:
>>> I've just witnessed something awesome. I bought a packet of chocolate
>>> buttons, and it comes with a perforated tear strip. Interestingly,
>>> the packet is carefully designed so that tearing this strip does not,
>>> in fact, grant access to the contents of the packet.
>>>
>>> That's pure brilliance, right there! :-D
>>
>> pictures or it didn't happen.
>
> I'd say "typical". Oh boy another face! :-D
> Thunderbird has several of these you can insert from the toobar into email,
> but the bar doesn't show up in its newreader.:( Something to do with
> Unicode,
> maybe.
The ones in the bar are probably the ones it recognizes. The bar is also
there when you write a email to a newsgroup. It does not make sense when
reading, either the original writer added them or not.
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David H. Burns wrote:
> I'd say "typical". Oh boy another face! :-D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons
One person I know on IRC comes up with the most entertaining variations
on East Asian-style emoticons, I really should start keeping track of them.
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Tim Cook wrote:
> Obligatory relevance, http://www.bash.org/?105841
Thank you. *That* made me LOL.
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> I've just witnessed something awesome. I bought a packet of chocolate
> buttons, and it comes with a perforated tear strip. Interestingly, the
> packet is carefully designed so that tearing this strip does not, in fact,
> grant access to the contents of the packet.
I would hazard a guess that it is not in fact carefully designed :-) It
just makes you want to get the CEO or MD to come and show you how to open
their packets!
I don't understand why people can't get this right, it goes wrong on all
sorts of packaging and it's not that hard to get right - look at cigarette
packets for an example of how it should work (but then maybe they just have
more money to spend on Engineering the packaging?).
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scott wrote:
> I would hazard a guess that it is not in fact carefully designed :-) It
> just makes you want to get the CEO or MD to come and show you how to
> open their packets!
Milk cartons, anyone? ;-)
> I don't understand why people can't get this right, it goes wrong on all
> sorts of packaging and it's not that hard to get right.
Indeed.
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Invisible wrote:
>
> Milk cartons, anyone? ;-)
>
If the ones in the UK are anything like the ones in the US, I learned in
grade school that you have to apply pressure to the exact right spot on
the corners, or else you wind up spending your lunch period fighting
with a carton containing substandard milk.
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>> Milk cartons, anyone? ;-)
>
> If the ones in the UK are anything like the ones in the US, I learned in
> grade school that you have to apply pressure to the exact right spot on
> the corners, or else you wind up spending your lunch period fighting
> with a carton containing substandard milk.
There's a popular video clip [it's probably on YouTube] where the CEO of
some milk company came on TV to show you just how drop-dead easy it is
to open their new-fangled milk cartons.
He nearly dropped dead. :-D
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