[Closed] Is there a more rubbish bit of design than…

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?

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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.

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... 😉