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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/19/08

In reply to Call for Ridiculous Packaging Photos for Hall of Shame
I don't mind getting something in a slightly oversized box since I usually end up re-using the box later. I do find it annoying to get fragile things with little or no packing around them. Then the non-fragile items arrive cocooned in layers of bubble-wrap, surrounded by packing peanuts, encased in small to large boxes like a Matryoshka doll...
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josh.hofer
11/19/08

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I really don't understand how you can cut yourself opening that plastic wrap. Well, I mean... I guess I can, assuming you are of less than average intelligence.

All you need is a knife to slice it open around the sides and you're done! Dang; that's pretty difficult, NOT!
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Rabid Penguin
11/19/08

@josh.hofer: But what if you're all alone, lost in a forest? All you have on you is a spoon, some chicken wire, a book of matches, a plastic tube you and bike pump, and a paper sack. Inside the paper sack is the only food you have, but it's vacuum sealed in hard plastic wrap. You haven't eaten in days and you're running out of ideas. You have one chance left to get the food out... how do you open it?
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Rabid Penguin
11/19/08

@Rabid Penguin: that should say "...a plastic tube and bike pump..."
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spawnofbill
11/20/08

@Rabid Penguin: Easy, build a fire that you've light with the matches, then use the chicken wire to make an apparatus to hold the spoon over the fire while you heat it. Use the red-hot spoon to slice neatly through the vacuum plastic, and enjoy your meal.

As for the tube and the bike pump? Make a penis pump just to amuse yourself and befuddle anyone who stumbles across your skeleton.
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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
11/20/08

@spawnofbill: Don't forget you have to write a book, "Forest-Made Penis Enlarger Pumps and Me: (This Sort of Thing Is My Bag, Baby)"
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XuanDawkins
11/19/08

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How retarded do you have to be to cut yourself opening a package? 80? 50? 40 IQ?
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qbrad
11/19/08

@XuanDawkins: I can't wait until you absentmindedly walk in front of a bus. In a friendly sort of way though.
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AmishJohn
11/19/08

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...And my wife can't understand why I reach for the cordless Dremel when I get home from Fry's...
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LiquidGravity
11/19/08

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My favorite are the scissors or knife packs that ironically need a scissors or knife to open them.

[www.goodexperience.com]
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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
11/19/08

@LiquidGravity: Damn, beat me to it!
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ripfire
11/19/08

@LiquidGravity: The trick is to make the scissor or knife come out on its own.
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Rabid Penguin
11/19/08

@ripfire: That's actually not that difficult if you know magic.

Or, for those of you who don't know magic, you can always throw the package into your fireplace until the packaging melts, then put out the fire, wait for the knife/scissors to cool down (you can use water or something to speed up the process), and viola. It's a little harder than using magic, but not nearly as messy.
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ripfire
11/19/08

@Rabid Penguin: Cool! It's like having it straight from the forge.
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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
11/19/08

@ripfire: Do not try to un-package the scissors, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. There is no packaging. Then you will see that it's not the packaging that opens, but only yourself.
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NatefromOgden
11/19/08

@Rabid Penguin: What? You've only got 1 knife?
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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
11/19/08

@ripfire: Hold out your hand Ripfire, it's quite cool. What can you see? Can you see anything?

"Nothing. There's nothing…Wait. There are markings. It's some form of Elvish. I can't read it."

There are few who can. The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. In the common tongue it says, 'One Scissor to rule them all, One Scissor to find them. One Scissor to bring them all and in the darkness, bind them.'
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Rabid Penguin
11/19/08

@NatefromOgden: I have two now, but opening the first one was a bitch.
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ripfire
11/19/08

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First pic on top doubles the suck: oversized package containing 2 blister packs.
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Thud
11/19/08

@LiquidGravity: How 'bout something specifically designed to open impenetrable clamshell packs that is itself packaged in a clamshell pack?

[www.amazon.com]

Oddly, once I had it freed, it has come it quite useful.
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Thud
11/19/08

@Thud: Hmm... this was supposed to be attached to the thread below. Whups. Not intended to be one of those zippy-the-pinhead-esque totally out of context things.
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ripfire
11/19/08

@Thud: It's ok. For a moment, I thought I was feeling special.
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Rabid Penguin
11/19/08

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I thought we were past this.

/facepalm

Of course the impossible to get into plastic packaging does piss me off.
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Killtodie
11/19/08

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[img][www.rushimprint.com]]
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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
11/19/08

@Killtodie: For help on how to add images, etc: [lifehacker.com]
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