The Christmas Grinch thread

[Scooby_Brew]

I just almost cut my finger off trying to open up a package from a $5 toy. ARE YOU fookcing kidding me? This $5 toy is more secure then my 401K!!! Why do you need to spend 25 minutes to open a box for a $5 Thomas the Engine toy???
Just asking.

 

[Nurmey]

I heard a bit of trivia the other day. More emergency room visits are from packaging accidents like you describe than from football and hockey.

I hate that damn vacuumed plastic wrapping. Sorry about the finger.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

You can thank would-be shoplifters for your experience. I HATE theft-proof, child-proof, adult-proof, Yuri-proof packaging!!!

 

[greeneyed]

It is bad enough when it is vacuum packed. But how many damn twist ties are really need to deter a thief?

 

[Recusit8m]

I opened the Devastator Transformer for my son today and it took twice as long to get the damn thing out of the package as it did to set up my kegerator. What a PITA...Damn twist ties everywhere..."Honey, pour me a pint of the strong stuff, this ones gonna take awhile...Yeah the Barleywine...Oh and get me a trashbag and 2 Tylenol..."

 

[TeufelBrew]

MAPP gas and fire extinguisher.

Ain't kiddin when I say "Ferment or be Fried!"

 

[david_42]

The twist-ties are there to keep everything in place, as no one will buy a perfectly-okay toy when the parts are jumbled a little.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Don't forget those freakish strips that are sewn onto the hair of barbies and My Little Ponies so that in the event of a nuclear holocost, not one hair will be out of place.

 

[bigdug]

You can thank would-be shoplifters for your experience. I HATE theft-proof, child-proof, adult-proof, Yuri-proof packaging!!!

I think whoever invented this type of packaging should have every meal he eats come wraped this way until he takes it back or starves.

 

[BBKing]

Lol, glad to know I'm the only one who got frustrated after hours of untwisting wires and putting everything together.

Since my boy is the only grandson in the family, I also have an hour or two worth of this crap today. We still have presents under the tree, they've just been unwrapped.

Sheeessh

 

[Scooby_Brew]

I think whoever invented this type of packaging should have every meal he eats come wraped this way until he takes it back or starves.

I second that motion!

Can you believe that one of the toys required not only untying about 50 of those twistie thingies but also I needed to use a little Philips screwdriver to unscrew it from a tiny peace of plastic just to free the toy out of the damn box!

 

[brewmonk]

The book of Frustrayshum: Verse 47, subsection 83 of the penal code:

And the sleep deprived male santa impersonator did retreat to his subterranean cave-lair, near the magic dragon-breath heater of the cave. There he did grunt, and search, and slam drawers.

Wearily, the mighty elf-defacto did emerge, with the small pair of electrical dykes entrusted to Him by Uther (Ass-draggin) Whammo-Pemblety-Thorpe of Tyco-upon-Mattel.

And, yeay-verrily, he was victorius. Until the magic speaking book of Barbie required the holy electron storage Arks of the Current.

 

[uglygoat]

you need a razor knife, and a pair of cross cutters/wire snips, and you can melt through the packaging like butter.