Bad design?

I've often wondered that too, jamjam, about jugs in tea shops. At home I put a tiny smear of butter under the lip. Prevents drips.

Most of the tins here now have pull rings, but they often break off so it is back to the tin opener. I have tried so many different types, with wheels, etc. but I am now back to the old fashioned type which seems to work round corners!

I cannot open those tins - I even used the special can opener hook my friend gave to me - as I have an arthritic condition I can't open a list of stuff. I've even been know to go next door to open various bottles that are welded on with plastic stripping. As for corn beef tins - forget it! I struggled for ages, neighbours were out, in the end in my fury I chucked it out. Can't open most plastic bags - the list goes on. However, a lot of people without any sort of arthritis etc find those and Spam tins just impossible. Oh and sardine tins also difficult. The design has been that way since forever, as I remember them from childhood.

I have just had the usual tussle with a tin of corned beef - why on earth can't they put them in rectangular tins that you can open with a tin opener? Of course, the key broke off after half an inch. I managed not to cut myself - I remember one poor woman who died after getting infection in a wound from a corned beef tin.

Why do so many tea shops have those little stainless steel milk jugs that dribble all over the place? You'd think that as they spend all day serving tea they would know that milk jugs and teapots that pour properly are crucial!

Yes, I have never found a stainless steel teapot that didn't dribble - I stick to putting a teabag in a mug now!

Too right, Lilygran. I must have spent a fortune on teapots that don't pour properly and eventually bought a dark blue 'Brown Betty' from a local, old fashioned ironmongers and it is brilliant.

And what about the milk jugs and teapots that won't pour properly?

The oven door of my new all singing and all dancing cooker has a double piece of glass that has to be dismantled if you need to clean it ??

Obviously designed by men Greatnan