Wasabi Pringles you say. WHERE? Just finishing a tin of wasabi-coated peanuts. Bloody great for curing the common cold and getting rid of unwanted guests. May just give the coffe-coated ones a miss though.

Pfft. Where do you start...brown sauce sachets that are impossible to open. Ditto tiny plastic cartons of plastic milk. Modern ring-pull cans that only fit the finger of a small child.

pointless cardboard sleeves on C.D's and D.V.D's and hard plastic wrappings that you need a Stanley knife to open.Grrrrrr.

Excitement, anticipation, frustration, anger, tears, bloodshed, resignation, despair all in one go

of the apocryphal suggestion that the way to stop the last biscuit in the pack from breaking would be to put one less in ...

Why do we need a separate power adaptor charger thing for every single electric/electronic applicance? You just end up with hundreds of them in drawers around the house and it's always impossible to find the one you need at the moment you need it.

Anyone who answers that there's some technical reason for it is going to get a clip round the ear. I won't stand for it! There must be a way to standardise these things!

The way supermarkets rather helpfully put reseal sticky tags on packets of pasta, etc; but design the bags in such a way that, to initially open the packet, I have to massacre the plastic to get inside. Therefore, I end up cack-handedly tearing the top of the packet to such ribbons that I'd need far more sticky strip than they offer to seal it all back together again - thus rendering the sticky reseal tool somewhat redundant.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but the vast majority of spell-checking applications on UK-launched websites are clearly of American origin, so the corrections they throw up are incorrect outside of the USA; slowly transforming the Anglo-English language into the oft feared homogeneous, Americanized version.

At this rate the next generation, by virtue of the extent to which they live and communicate online will all be working with American English as standard.

The knack of obtaining the last few Pringles without covering yourself in crispy bits is to hold the tube horzontally and sort of shake it up and down, slightly in the direction of the open end, so that the crisps move along, until such a time as they are within reaching distance.

then drink them out of the tube.

is made from Tesco's Daisy all purpose cleaner: fact. It is nought more than a culinary headbutt.

I must get some of them. This Blog is important for many things and updates regarding spicy snacking materials have be one of them.

Once opened, Pringles must be eaten in one session, so rip the lid off and get them in a bowl....and no, they,re not made for sharing!

When you book a ticket anywhere you enter the departure date, which may be months ahead, and the return date always then defaults to today, regardless of departure date, as if you you have the options to come back months before leaving. Doh.

One of the most frustrating developments in food packaging must be the gradual replacement of the old corned beef tin key with ring-pulls.
Not only do you need the strength of Adonis to get the bloody can open, you then run a very high risk of slicing your digits off.

surely in the 21st century they can invent yogurts that dont spit their contents at you when you break open the seal, like some sort of fruity based punk gobbing at ya cos you've mis-aligned his chakras!

oh, and peanut packets that bloody well say tear here and when you try to its like wrestling with a feisty cat rhat been put into a sack and you have to brave spilling the contents by tearing at it all savage-like with your teeth.... i do get out now and again by the way, my life doesnt just consist of banging on the window at passing scrotes!

Mrs Phil has been known to walk away as I've worked my way along the shelf carefully inverting the tubes to check for tell-tale signs of clatter. An orderly whoosh followed by a sedate thunk denotes a tube with contents intact. Conversely, discordant chatter will inevitably mean the contents are shot and likely to result in much lap brushing later.

As for Tetra-Paks - they are the work of the devil. Push back flap and open spout - Bollocks! Push, pull, prod, insert finger, splill contents, get sharp knife, empty carton into jug, create more washing-up. Ugh!

On the flip side of this, screw top wine bottles are far better than the "broken off cork, wht the hell do I do now, push it in or try and get the half cork out" scenario...

You put it in the right way up, which is invariably the wrong way up. So you flip it the "right" way up, only to find it's still the wrong way up. So you flip it back to its original position, and it goes in. Baffling.

Dont get me started. I upgraded my IPOD at xmas to a 64gb IPOD Touch. The Bose sound dock that happily charged my previous IPOD Classic doesnt like the IPOD Touch and refuses to have anything to do with it. It plays but it doesnt charge. Result in addition to buying touch I spent £250 on a Sony sound dock/digital radio/cd player.
These electronic conglomerates certainly know how to fleece the consumer.

I go to give Nicktf's excellent USB post an Up arrow and it says 'Karma Error Timeout'.

WTF?

Tilt the tube to about 20 degrees or so and then twist it. The crisps will slowly slide down the tube until they can be easily reached. Works like a charm for me. Do I win £5?