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.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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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.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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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.

-- 
~Mike

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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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