Amazon turns on the genius and introduces Frustration-Free Packaging:
Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging, a multi-year initiative designed to alleviate "wrap rage," features recyclable boxes that are easy to open and free of excess materials such as hard plastic clamshell cases, plastic bindings, and wire ties. The product itself is exactly the same—we’ve just streamlined the packaging.
This is so awesome. When it comes to new products, there is nothing worse that the plastic clamshell - except maybe the annoying non-removable security sticker some companies put across the top of CD jewel cases - you simply can't open a clamshell without a knife or a sturdy pair of scissors. Maybe they make sense in a physical store where they keep people from stealing small items, but for mail-order items, it's a waste of plastic, and a waste of my energy.
Children’s toys are the worst – they are usually full of wire ties that end up pricking your fingers. It’s a form of cruelty – I buy my daughter a Barbie and she has to wait 15 minutes for me to get the f*cking thing unwrapped! Grrr.
and no small measure of risk. The plastic on a clamshell is so strong, you have to apply a lot of force to get your knife to slice through it. I always have visions of the blade slipping and slicing through my hand.
Cut away from your body….
OT – This feels like some sort of mix between Christmas Eve and Bizarro-World Christmas Eve. On the one hand I can’t wait for tomorrow evening to come cause it looks like BOSHAMO-XX is going to win and then force all of us to convert to Muslimomarxism, OTOH McCain could and put us squarely on the path to President Bible Spice.
Cut away from your body…
definitely. though i’ve cut myself many times on the clamshell itself.
force all of us to convert to Muslimomarxism
i’ve already picked out my turban!
Bible Spice! ha ha ha. Classic.
Sadly, I would bang her like a drum.
Sadly, I would bang her like a drum.
Yeah, but you’d never respect yourself in the morning.
Actually, you’d probably never respect yourself that same night.
I have to admit that I stole Bible Spice from the whiskeyfire blog.
(and i suspect it’s a TBogg original)
I have to admit that I stole Bible Spice from the whiskeyfire blog.
Whatever. It’s hilarious.
of course to get President Bible Spice, you have to get rid of President Old Spice.
(also stolen)
careful with those fireworks…
got the neighbors to come out and say “who’s settin off fireworks?!”
then they saw it was me.