Useless things...

CrazyRabbit

Those plastic cups you get in water dispensers. You inevitably end up with 2 or 3 of them stuck together every time you try to take just one.

Those barriers at the entrances to business parks or buildings. Seriously, when was the last time the security guard ever actually refused to open the barrier? FFS, just leave the damn things open during business hours.

The 'Contact us' section on websites. Not only is this section buried on the most obscure page that takes 30 mins to find, but it usually has the most unhelpful contact details possible....like a phone number for some India helpdesk, even though most of the sites users are in the west.

Those 'painted islands' on roads. Does anyone ever actually drive around them?

petes

Plastic cups? Useless? Do they not hold water?

Sykk

This thread :pac:

TheZohanS

Toilet attendants in crappy niteclubs. Just leave the hand driers turned on and stop blocking us from the hand soap and we wouldn't need you.

LostGirly

Ashtrays on Motorbikes?!

drunkymonkey

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Those plastic cups you get in water dispensers. You inevitably end up with 2 or 3 of them stuck together every time you try to take just one.

Those barriers at the entrances to business parks or buildings. Seriously, when was the last time the security guard ever actually refused to open the barrier? FFS, just leave the damn things open during business hours.

The 'Contact us' section on websites. Not only is this section buried on the most obscure page that takes 30 mins to find, but it usually has the most unhelpful contact details possible....like a phone number for some India helpdesk, even though most of the sites users are in the west.

Those 'painted islands' on roads. Does anyone ever actually drive around them?

They are all actually very useful!

Plastic cups hold water, better than using the same cup all the time and washing it.

The barriers keep the riff raff and people soliciting out!

And those contact us sections contain addresses and phone numbers that you might need to 'contact' them or visit them!

Spunge

This

drunkymonkey

drunkymonkey wrote: »

They are all actually very useful!

Plastic cups hold water, better than using the same cup all the time and washing it.

The barriers keep the riff raff and people soliciting out!

And those contact us sections contain addresses and phone numbers that you might need to 'contact' them or visit them!

What

drunkymonkey

bluewolf wrote: »

What

It's easier to use a plastic cup and throw it out than to get a cup from the cupboard in work and fill it up and then wash it for someone else to use isn't it!

fakearms123

your appendix

Carroller16

Fake arms. . . . . . .

Dishwashers. So you have to rinse off the plate before you put it in. Why not just wash the whole thing. Same effort

Biggins

Our office of president.

Leiva

Carroller16 wrote: »

Fake arms. . . . . . .

Dishwashers. So you have to rinse off the plate before you put it in. Why not just wash the whole thing. Same effort

news to me

5starpool

drunkymonkey wrote: »

It's easier to use a plastic cup and throw it out than to get a cup from the cupboard in work and fill it up and then wash it for someone else to use isn't it!

I don't think the OP was complaining about the lack of usefulness of plastic cups, but rather the fact that in a lot of the dispensers you end up with 2 or 3 every tmie you try and take 1, making the dispensers the useless (as in bad at their function, not without a use) item.

Orando Broom

Those guys up in Congress. Sheesh!

And what about dem Bears. Maaaan.

Turtyturd

In before the Dettol hand pump...I think, has anyone mentioned it yet?

Redlion

Clothes...

citizen_p

the new sensor soap pumps....so you dont have to touch a germy soap pump.

1. you are using the soap you get after touching a "germy soap pump" to wash your hands, hence the problem is eliminated.

2. sensor taps would also be required, as once you wash you hands you tend to have to touch the "germy" faucet after wards....

the sensor soap pump is ****ing pointless

Simon Adebisi

Alcohol free beer
Willy O'Dea

--Kaiser--

This

TheZohanS

Turtyturd wrote: »

In before the Dettol hand pump...I think, has anyone mentioned it yet?

People keep mentioning this in threads, it has a niche use.

I have an indoor dog and he pee's on an absorbent pad that I change a couple of times a day. When I'm picking it up I wear gloves and the gloves will be in contact with some of the pad before I put it in the bin. Now I can turn on the tap with my elbows but I can't hit the top of a soap dispenser with them as it will just fall and I can't use my gloved hands as they've been in contact with pee.
So the automatic Dettol pump is handy, I can wash my gloves before I stick them back in the press and I don't have a dispenser that's manky.

Turtyturd

TheZohan wrote: »

People keep mentioning this in threads, it has a niche use.

I have an indoor dog and he pee's on an absorbent pad that I change a couple of times a day. When I'm picking it up I wear gloves and the gloves will be in contact with some of the pad before I put it in the bin. Now I can turn on the tap with my elbows but I can't hit the top of a soap dispenser with them as it will just fall and I can't use my gloved hands as they've been in contact with pee.
So the automatic Dettol pump is handy, I can wash my gloves before I stick them back in the press and I don't have a dispenser that's manky.

To be honest I don't have any problem with them, it has just become a stock AH response....like Knackers, Roma gypsies, and junkies...the usual useless stuff.

starbelgrade

TheZohan wrote: »

People keep mentioning this in threads, it has a niche use.

I have an indoor dog and he pee's on an absorbent pad that I change a couple of times a day. When I'm picking it up I wear gloves and the gloves will be in contact with some of the pad before I put it in the bin. Now I can turn on the tap with my elbows but I can't hit the top of a soap dispenser with them as it will just fall and I can't use my gloved hands as they've been in contact with pee.
So the automatic Dettol pump is handy, I can wash my gloves before I stick them back in the press and I don't have a dispenser that's manky.

Jeez - why don't you just let the poor dog go outside & have a piss?

You probably have given the poor thing a complex with all this namby pamby "absorbent piss pads", "automatic soap pump", "latex glove wearing" poncing about and shenanagins.

It's not normal, you know.

citizen_p

TheZohan wrote: »

People keep mentioning this in threads, it has a niche use.

I have an indoor dog and he pee's on an absorbent pad that I change a couple of times a day. When I'm picking it up I wear gloves and the gloves will be in contact with some of the pad before I put it in the bin. Now I can turn on the tap with my elbows but I can't hit the top of a soap dispenser with them as it will just fall and I can't use my gloved hands as they've been in contact with pee.
So the automatic Dettol pump is handy, I can wash my gloves before I stick them back in the press and I don't have a dispenser that's manky.

what?!?!?
I have an indoor dog, but it goes to the door if it wants to go out to pee...

also it wouldnt matter if you touched the pump with pee gloves...anytime you will be using it you will be washing your hands....

TheZohanS

starbelgrade wrote: »

Jeez - why don't you just let the poor dog go outside & have a piss?

You probably have given the poor thing a complex with all this namby pamby "absorbent piss pads", "automatic soap pump", "latex glove wearing" poncing about and shenanagins.

It's not normal, you know.

Because if I let him out and he's not on a lead he'd kill small children, he's done it before.

He's killed an entire family before, I won't even tell you about the time I brought him to Portugal a few years ago...

sbsquarepants

Eh, surely there's no such thing as an indoor dog?
You have a dog, indoors?:D

TheZohanS

Mousey- wrote: »

also it wouldnt matter if you touched the pump with pee gloves...anytime you will be using it you will be washing your hands....

So you'd actually have a manky pee infected hand-soap dispenser in your home? I certainly wouldn't.

CrazyRabbit

Sykk wrote: »

This thread :pac:

Spunge wrote: »

This

Was waiting for this response. But who would have guessed that I'd get two.

I guess the 2nd one was....well, useless.

sbsquarepants

My bank card is pretty much useless at the moment!

starbelgrade

Nipples on men.

Totally useless.

Run_to_da_hills

Nuns are pretty much as useless as it gets.

Mark Hamill

TheZohan wrote: »

So you'd actually have a manky pee infected hand-soap dispenser in your home? I certainly wouldn't.

Couldn't you stick it under the tap and give it a rinse?
Also, why cant you use the side of your hand to push the plunger down on a soap dispenser? Surely your hands dont get covered in dog piss?

TheZohanS

Mark Hamill wrote: »

Couldn't you stick it under the tap and give it a rinse?

That's twice the work then.

Also, why cant you use the side of your hand to push the plunger down on a soap dispenser? Surely your hands dont get covered in dog piss?

Because it would fall.

Mark Hamill

TheZohan wrote: »

That's twice the work then.

not really, just pick the thing up after you have dispensed soap, rub the soap all over your hands and the plunger, rinse and put back.

TheZohan wrote: »

Because it would fall.

How? Soap dispensers arent top heavy, just pushing down on the plunger with the side of your palm shouldn't knock it over unless you are trembling or something.

TheZohanS

Mark Hamill wrote: »

not really, just pick the thing up after you have dispensed soap, rub the soap all over your hands and the plunger, rinse and put back.

So wash the gloves first, put them away, knock the soap over and then wash the soap dispenser? That's twice the work.

How? Soap dispensers arent top heavy, just pushing down on the plunger with the side of your palm shouldn't knock it over unless you are trembling or something.

That's the problem, they're too light and when they're on a shiny surface they fall over.

Mark Hamill

TheZohan wrote: »

So wash the gloves first, put them away, knock the soap over and then wash the soap dispenser? That's twice the work.

No, you put take the gloves off after cleaning the soap dispenser (when I said "rub the soap all over your hands" I meant while still wearing gloves - you wash the gloves and dispenser at the same time).

TheZohan wrote: »

That's the problem, they're too light and when they're on a shiny surface they fall over.

You seem to have a very...singular problem. As long they are on something fairly level, they have never fallen over for me.

TheZohanS

Mark Hamill wrote: »

No, you put take the gloves off after cleaning the soap dispenser (when I said "rub the soap all over your hands" I meant while still wearing gloves - you wash the gloves and dispenser at the same time).


You seem to have a very...singular problem. As long they are on something fairly level, they have never fallen over for me.

Ah jesus you need to read my post again.

pragmatic1

Our drug laws.

Saila

politicians

your vote

chocolate fireguards

CrazyRabbit

starbelgrade wrote: »

Nipples on men.

Totally useless.

Not so. Men would look stupid without them. So they have an aesthetic purpose.

And I can pick up radio stations on my left nipple.

Patri

Spunge wrote: »

This

Hahaha Brilliant! The quotes are good too..

every once in a while mankind makes a product that anwsers all of life's difficult questions like; "what would it be like if we wore our bathrobes backwards around the house" and to anwser it we made snuggies. when we asked "what would happen if we were to warp a plastic band into vaugely recognizable shapes"; we anwsered with
silly bandz. now the the question of "how can we rewind our DVD's on the go if we took them elsewhere" has been anwsered with DVD REWINDER!!! that's right now you don't ever have to worry about rewinding your DVD in your DVD player again!
*sniff* this product really changed my freakin' life!! *sniff*

Perfect for your mentally challenged loved ones!

Bruthal

The fire resistant fire lighters i got in lidl last week.

nosey rosie

Living in the UK... the 2001 census... you get a big fat package with all the instructions / AND a form. However if you want to fill in the details online, all you need is the number they send you. Millions of people like me will fill in the form online as its quicker. How many homes ( everyone in Britain ) were sent a thick envelope... and it was thick... full of crap they don't need. Must have cost the UK a fortune to send out so much...

What a bliddy waste! :mad: