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The plastic guide bit on a hole punch?
Why not make it out of something that [b]DOESN’T ****ING BREAK[/b]?
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Just a thought Mr Rexel if you are reading this.
Those damn cleaners! Always pulling apart hole punches.
I know! The BASTIDS!
I'm sure that I'm not the only person not to have ever experienced this earth shattering problem...
WOW!!! I mean really WOW!!! how ****ing anal are you!
Is there a more rubbish [s]bit of design[/s] job than…
one where you need to punch holes in paper.......
too true Harry.
Ours broke on its second outing, 5 years ago, since then we have continued to use it, with a roll of paper jammed in the slot, cut to the right length 😉
I propose power adaptor plugs as being of poor design - its doesnt matter which way round they make them, eventually you will be unable to use it in a particular socket because the form factor is incompatible.
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I'm sure that I'm not the only person not to have ever experienced this earth shattering problem...
So perhaps they should fix it.
Right. I'm off to find some super glue.
lol
staple it back togeher?
Pedal Bins. I've yet to find one where the lid opening mechanism or hinge doesn't go south within a year.
There IS a more rubbish design than that.
It's these:
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Pedal Bins. I've yet to find one where the lid opening mechanism or hinge doesn't go south within a year.
Brabantia.
Brabantia +1
OK I was wrong, having a viewpoint on the quality of pedal bins produced by different manufacturers is more anal than putting a sign on a hole punch telling cleaners to leave it alone.
Where can one purchase that buttplug?
The Hindenburg was a good design but the Germans were denied access to large supplies of Helium so had to use Hydrogen instead.
Where can one purchase that buttplug?
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why do the cleaners keep pulling it apart? Are they empyting it for you? Why do you want to save your punched holes?
Derek, don't really see what's rubbish about those?
Flawed yes, but rubbish nah!
The label on the hole puncher dates back a few years to a particularly overzealous cleaner who would pull things apart in the line of duty. Nothing was safe. Phones, monitors, keyboards, mice and hole punches. However, the aforementioned crapness of the design of the hole punch meant that they would last about a week before they were cleaned to death.
cleaners in my office don't get near enough anything in the office to clean it, let alone break it
However, the aforementioned crapness of the design of the hole punch meant that they would last about a week before they were cleaned to death.
HtS doesn't wash his hands after pissing so the cleaners fumigate his office stuff and the punch bought it.
[b]The windows of the De Havilland Comet were a bad design[/b]
There is a new and happier regime now. No longer is the phone rendered inoperable because the keypad is full of Pledge.
Are you sure it's the cleaners?
Maybe Mr P!ssyfingers the pot-clinger has been using it as some sort of mid-piddle-balance-enhancement-unit?
HtS, this is what you need...(metal guide)
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our cleaners have incredible abilities
they can clean stuff just by tutting at it and waving their magic duster in the air
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PSA: those holes that you punch out of paper are called chads
Tsk tsk...
Thats a two hole punch if I'm not mistaken and that's a 4 ring binder you have in the background. You punchy twice? 😉
Word of advice - ditch that pile of shit and get a DECENT punch with a metal guide. If punching is so vitally important then take the guide out at night and lock it in your pedestal
The Hindenburg didn't explode because it was full of Hydrogen, it exploded because it was painted with rocket fuel.
And Brabantia are piss takers. Their bins are like £100 for not even pedal operated ones. You're 'avin a laugh!
They're along the same lines as Dualit, where they charge tons of money for an ordinary product that middle class people oo and ah over saying 'oooh, look at the quality!' when it doesn't do anything at all different to a normal one.
Broken hole punch?
Wait till you've seen what they've done to your stapler!
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In my experience molgrips:
3 pedal bins, first two died in less than 18 months, brabantia has been going strong for 5 years.
four-slice toasters - gone through 3 at £40 a go in the last 10 years. So hacked off now with the waste that Ive finally stumped up for a dualit which Im hoping will last 20 years.
coming from John lewis. That makes me super-middle-class I'll have you know 😉
PSA: those holes that you punch out of paper are called chads
as opposed to the hole strengthener stickers you can get - which are called 'teddy-bear's aerseholes'.
Every day is a school day on STW.
This is the first time I've ever seen a broken guide on a hole punch.
Must be the user.
Can we have a badger style mega photo thread of HtS breaking said hole punch?
Womens breasts?
They should be on their backs!
Less eye contact problems.
It would make cuddling less boring.
You could play with them like an old arcade style joy stick when you're bashing her bac.....
How in $diety's name do you break that whilst punching a few sheets of paper? Do you have particularly hard paper round your way? I know, did it punch back?
Yeti - turn her over. HTH.
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Shouldn't that point towards the foot?
After a bit of investigation… all of the Rexel ones in the office are broken. However, non of the Ofrex ones are as their plasticy bit is thicker and is made from a less brittle material.
In the interest of science I will see from what height I have to drop a fully laden lever arch file (2 hole) on an Ofrex one to break it.
I can testify that Dualit toasters do indeed last an age, but in a clear case of middle class angst, I find the bread from the bread maker is too tall for the slot, so you have to manually turn it over mid toast...
Oh the humanity etc etc.
Never found that I break the plastic guides, are you lot mental? Do you throw your punches around? Or are you just ham fisted and ram them back in incorrectly?
I wouldn't know about the ones in this office, I always get the secretary to do the filing.
I wouldn't know about the ones in this office, I always get the secretary to do the filing.
I would, but under the NDA and security rules, I have to file and secure all the paperwork I'm dealing with... 😉
And Brabantia are piss takers.
They are now. Back in the day you could get a pedal bin for £25 or so from them. They also briefly sold the best car windscreen scrapers ever.
Stonor - I am a bit disappointed in you, as a self confessed fettler, I assumed you would be a bodger too - our pedal bin broke after six months - but duct tape sorted it perfectly.
there's rarely enough substantial material on el-cheapo bins to work with. You end up with something like Trigger's broom 😉
I am using the two bin inserts as recycling sorting bins though 😉
Saving the planet, one organic houmous tub at a time.
I'll tell you a worse design than that, our green wheelie bin. What ****uwit designs a wheelie made for sitting outside eating cats and other garden rubbish with a concave lid, so every time you move the sodding thing or lift the lid you get a soaking! Nuts.
Always strike a match away from the body....? 🙄
four-slice toasters - gone through 3 at £40 a go in the last 10 years.
Christ, what do you do with them? Only time I ever broke a toaster EVER in my whole 35 years of life was when I did a crumpet in a mate's toaster and a bit of sticky dough got stuck in it and caught fire, melting the wire. I got some more wire and fixed it. And those were all £10 jobs.
cheapo thermocouples go on one side of the toaster.
While we are on toasters…
Why do both slots in my toaster “energise” when I’m only using one of them eh? Crap design THAT’S WHY!
Surely the technology exists for some sort of bread sensor thus only warming up an occupied orifice.
Saving the planet on slice of Hovis Granary at a time.
Am I right in thinking Dualit toasters don't even pop up when the toast is done, just ring a bell?
Thread of the week so far.
I see what you did there 🙂This is the first time I've ever seen a broken guide on a hole punch.
Must be the user.
bit difficult to move a full bin without tipping it towards you.Always strike a match away from the body....?
Am I right in thinking Dualit toasters don't even pop up when the toast is done, just ring a bell?
The Bastards.
I find that quite a few toasters just aren't deep enough (or wide enough, if the bread is slotted in sideways) to accomodate Warburtons extra thick white toasty bread.
This is an outrage. I end up with half an inch of normal untoasted bread.
Am I right in thinking Dualit toasters don't even pop up when the toast is done, just ring a bell?Harry_the_Spider - Member
The Bastards.
the only thing to make me laugh out loud on the internet in months.
Its disgusting. At £150 a pop I expect there to be a little flame-retardent midget in there with a stopwatch and a lever.
Yes, urinals with no grab handle 😉
AHAHAHA! 😀
[i]"Is there a more rubbish bit of design than..."[/i]
...a mountain bike with only one gear.
If your's only has a severed limb you are lucky, I dropped my WH Smith one and the handle has split, duct tape and superglue have been applied but the prognosis is not hopeful.
Am I right in thinking Dualit toasters don't even pop up when the toast is done, just ring a bell?
Actually no, mine doesn't pop up, or ring a bell - it just sits there indignantly expecting you to remove the bread. It's actually a bit annoying, but it does make some lovely toast!
So you have to stand there with a stopwatch? I'd seriously expect more for 150 notes!
STW in expensive but annoying toaster shocker!!!
Toast equivalent of singlespeed.
But the toast is so much more.. REAL.. from a Dualit toaster. When you have to stand there and time it, you can really taste the effort that's gone into it.
I end up with half an inch of normal untoasted bread.
Cut half an inch off the top first, put them in sideways rather than lengthways, gives you something to munch on whilst you're waiting for the toast.
I find that quite a few toasters just aren't deep enough (or wide enough, if the bread is slotted in sideways) to accomodate Warburtons extra thick white toasty bread.This is an outrage. I end up with half an inch of normal untoasted bread.
After suffering that, we measured a slice of bread before we went toaster shopping for its replacement.
+ 1 for the Hayes bleed plugs.
Had an amazing stack coming down from Cragg Quarry when thw front one popped out and pissed out all the fluid. Which was nice.
the 1/2" of untoasted bread is a ball ache, but shopping for toasters with a ruler?* Just buy a cheap ass 2slot 4 slicer and put your bread in sideways. Oh and if you think £150 toaster makes better toast just preheat your cheap ass toaster before you put the bread in. It's heat applied to bread not rocket science or magic.After suffering that, we measured a slice of bread before we went toaster shopping for its replacement.
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*actually thats probably something I'd do just to embarrass the Mrs.
You could put the bread in normal ways but turn the toaster on its side. That may be less confusing.
Its like Mr Bean taking his fish along to buy a new pan!
the 1/2" of untoasted bread is a ball ache, but shopping for toasters with a ruler?* Just buy a cheap ass 2slot 4 slicer and put your bread in sideways.
I think we tore a bit of junk mail to the right length and took that. Then bought a cheap 2 slice toaster with slots long enough for the bread.
PSA: those holes that you punch out of paper are called chads
Aren't the holes just called holes? the circular discs of paper that collect in the bottom of the hole punch would be the chads.
Who has paper in the office anyway? Get a computer!