Ziplock Bags & the Airing of Grievances

[timt]

Also not pipe related necessarily but for me, I'm challenged by the multitude of similar but different plastic containers used to store leftovers and such. Often I just swear and throw up my hands in frustration as I try to find a matching lid for a container. My wife finds it in seconds.

 

[hairvise]

Absolute same. I gave up trying to reason with plastic wrap a long time ago. But it frustrates the life out of me when she’s used it to cover a cake or a dish or something, and I have to remove it and try to put it back. I usually just don’t even bother trying to eat whatever’s underneath it.

Try the Press N’Seal instead. Much, much easier to work work than plastic wrap.

 

[didimauw]

I cannot do the one zip trick. I'm convinced it's a lie. I push the lines together in a row like 5 times, and then push air out, and do the zippy thing.

 

[orlandofurioso]

Same, even the big pound bags that bulk comes in. There's always these.

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Much of my underwear comes in ziplock bags like these.
They are quite sturdy.
The bags I mean.

 

[mso489]

To say the zip-up plastic bag is an imperfect design is a piece of wry humor. However, comparatively, in the industrial packaging department, it is near genius. The roach spray bottle that only pumps once the bug has disappeared; the prescription toothpaste that requires the small blade on a pen knife to remove the plastic seal; the jar of salsa that requires three sessions of being thumped by a heavy spoon and run under hot water before it opens; the mailing envelopes that have zip open pulls that zip nowhere; and the many food packaging arrangements that are guaranteed to throw the product all over the floor are merely a hint of the torments out there waiting for the customer drooping with frustration. The Marquis de Sade has hundreds more unique designs to entrap and make miserable the wretched public. I discover a new one every week.

 

[dctune]

Also not pipe related necessarily but for me, I'm challenged by the multitude of similar but different plastic containers used to store leftovers and such. Often I just swear and throw up my hands in frustration as I try to find a matching lid for a container. My wife finds it in seconds.

Bruh, 100% this.
Every time I gotta get in this cabinet, it ends spilling out everywhere, I start yelling, and just slamming the door shut.

And this only about half full. Who knows where the rest of the pieces are.

 

[dog_park_piper]

I hate it when I have a large bag of leaf and I do my best to remove the air and then the next day I see that it's refilled with air. I now believe that Ziplock bags are for Smokingpipes and B&M stores to get tobacco from their place to my place because right when I get it I put the tobacco in mason jars and all it a day.

 

[JKoD]

There is a difference between a quality sealable bag and garbage. Find one you have success with - stock up. ?

My grievance for the day…I was moving some stuff around to dig out a tin of tobacco…and off the stack goes a tin of Cringle Flake, falls to the floor and I was like… crap. I got down to pick it up and sure as shit - the SOB popped the vacuum seal. So, back up on the stool to the shelf and damnit if a second one didn’t come tumbling down at me - but I caught that one and the remainder of the stack that decided it was time to jump. Little bastards.

Anyway, I’ve never had a problem with tins and stacking with them sliding around or wanting to fall…but, these Sutliff cans of Cringle Flake are like more like stacked ice cubes. Touch one, the stack goes.

So, now I’ve got a second tin that is going to have to be smoked. I was only about halfway through the first and combining them into my 8oz jar didn’t work due to space…so, dumped the jar, added the new tin’s worth of what resembles flake and married in the old flakes that were left…and put the lose in the tin and will just smoke from that for a while. Worse things could have happened. But it was definitely one of those moments where you’re like….”well, shiiiiit.” I wasn’t planning on opening the second tin until next Christmas. So, maybe come January I’ll take the jar of what’s left and shelve it until then - but, because so many purists share so much wisdom around here - it’s just not going to be the same as an unopened tin would have been. ?‍

?

 

[dctune]

There is a difference between a quality sealable bag and garbage. Find one you have success with - stock up. ?

My grievance for the day…I was moving some stuff around to dig out a tin of tobacco…and off the stack goes a tin of Cringle Flake, falls to the floor and I was like… crap. I got down to pick it up and sure as shit - the SOB popped the vacuum seal. So, back up on the stool to the shelf and damnit if a second one didn’t come tumbling down at me - but I caught that one and the remainder of the stack that decided it was time to jump. Little bastards.

Anyway, I’ve never had a problem with tins and stacking with them sliding around or wanting to fall…but, these Sutliff cans of Cringle Flake are like more like stacked ice cubes. Touch one, the stack goes.

So, now I’ve got a second tin that is going to have to be smoked. I was only about halfway through the first and combining them into my 8oz jar didn’t work due to space…so, dumped the jar, added the new tin’s worth of what resembles flake and married in the old flakes that were left…and put the lose in the tin and will just smoke from that for a while. Worse things could have happened. But it was definitely one of those moments where you’re like….”well, shiiiiit.” I wasn’t planning on opening the second tin until next Christmas. So, maybe come January I’ll take the jar of what’s left and shelve it until then - but, because so many purists share so much wisdom around here - it’s just not going to be the same as an unopened tin would have been. ?‍

?

It’s because of the angle of the earth. After December 21, things should start tilting back, and those tins won’t fall.

Disclaimer: I don’t have a physics degree. And when I was finishing college, my (now PhD) wife actually had to write up all the assignments for my science classes, or I never would’ve graduated. But what I wrote above sounds pretty good to me, so I’m going with it.

 

[georged]

You guys always make such a big thing out of simple problems.

Get a couple of these and be done with Ziplock hassles forever:

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[Jaylotw]

Just here to say that this thread is wonderful.

I learned how to properly ziplock as a child. It was one of my favorite things. It really was. Mom didn't buy them often because they were expensive, but man, when she did she'd let me zip every one.

What I have trouble with are those little foil seals they put over the condiment jars, the ones you have to pick off.

 

[georged]

It’s because of the angle of the earth. After December 21, things should start tilting back, and those tins won’t fall.

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You obviously understand nothing.

When small objects fall off shelves there is only one answer:

Invisible, intra/extra-dimensional alien cats hopped up there and decided to play with your shit.

https://c.tenor.com/OysCXur_cSsAAAAC/fuck-this-fuck-that.gif

 

[Ahi Ka]

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You obviously understand nothing.

When small objects fall off shelves there is only one answer:

Invisible, intra/extra-dimensional alien cats hopped up there and decided to play with your shit.

https://c.tenor.com/OysCXur_cSsAAAAC/fuck-this-fuck-that.gif

I’m ashamed to admit that I could spend an afternoon watching that cat over and over

 

[JKoD]

It’s because of the angle of the earth. After December 21, things should start tilting back, and those tins won’t fall.

Disclaimer: I don’t have a physics degree. And when I was finishing college, my (now PhD) wife actually had to write up all the assignments for my science classes, or I never would’ve graduated. But what I wrote above sounds pretty good to me, so I’m going with it.

Pretty sure it’s crappy packaging. But, all answers are acceptable. Science is only science until science disproves it. Then, it’s more science. I only took “soft science” when it mattered. Science has too many rules.

I’ve had enough science. I’m glad there are people who like to analyze why everything. I prefer to just enjoy life as long or short as it may be. Maybe I’m saying that wrong. Science is really important in daily life - but, knowing gravity doesn’t mean I have to talk about it all day…just knowing it keeps me safe. Oh man…Friday night digressions.

 

[dctune]

Just here to say that this thread is wonderful.

I learned how to properly ziplock as a child. It was one of my favorite things. It really was. Mom didn't buy them often because they were expensive, but man, when she did she'd let me zip every one.

What I have trouble with are those little foil seals they put over the condiment jars, the ones you have to pick off.

When I have to take those off, like on a jar of peanut butter, I absolutely cannot leave little pieces of the seal on the rim. I’m not an unkempt wild animal. I’ll stand at the counter for 20 minutes peeling off every last sliver.

 

[Servant King]

I can't wait until 12/23. Let's get to the feats of strength!

 

[augiebd]

Mom didn't buy them often because they were expensive, but man, when she did she'd let me zip every one.

What I have trouble with are those little foil seals they put over the condiment jars, the ones you have to pick off.

We only had wax paper as kids and had to fold it up and bring it home to reuse. It’s surprising I am semi-competent with Ziplock and Saran Wrap.

Foil seals…now those are worthy of the word “nemesis”.