Annoyingly difficult "easy" jobs

[Andy_W]

Anything involving expanding foam, the stickiest substance on the planet.

 

[ForssAwakens]

For the toilet seats, you want to be binning the seats you are using and get a quick release one, you literally just push a button and lift it up, skip to the end.

People wasting their money on this crap?

 

[sadgit]

Trying to quote a reply on here using a mobile phone.

 

[Steve8778]

Cleaning the gas plug on a GPMG.

 

[chickenrunner]

Cleaning the gas plug on a GPMG.

Just soak it in Coke.

 

[Steve8778]

Just soak it in Coke.

 

[Cuthbert]

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My nomination: Changing headlight bulbs on any modern vehicle.
Mine are retained by a wire spring clip, however, actually gaining access to the clip requires the hands of a 5 year old and the strength of Garth to unclip it.

So true!

 

[Cuthbert]

I recently bought a front mudguard for my mountain bike. When it arrived, on the box it claimed: "Fits in seconds, no need to remove the front wheel". Having tried for a while to fit it without removing the wheel I finally gave up and took the wheel off. Still some time later I eventually got the wretched thing in place... after 50 minutes in total!! Later when I grumbled to a mate about the "Fits in seconds" claim, he pointed out that technically it did... just 3000 of them!

 

[bumface]

I was thinking more about actual jobs when I saw the thread title. I was a bookseller once when I was a student. Everyone used to tell me that working in an bookshop must be great and a piece of p*ss. It wasn't. Because the public are idiots. And lecturers are @rseholes who seem to think that they can give you a reading list for their course the day before it starts and that you can just magic all of those obscure books up out of nowhere immediately rather than having to source them from overseas suppliers, if they're still in print at all. And the assistant manager hated me because I had a penis. She thought that all men were lazy and didn't do any more than the bare minimum required to keep their job. Told me that on my fist day and that if it were up to her they wouldn't have hired me. What a charming thing to say to a new employee who you're supposed to be training. I loved the books but I hated the job and most of the staff and the customers too. Never work in retail. It's bloody awful.

 

[redcarbob]

wihch way are you supposed to turn the key

It snaps whichever way I turn it

 

[Andy_W]

Cleaning the gas plug on a GPMG.

Cleaning any weapon is ****, although saying that with my experience of having to clean only one type, and not as complex as a GPMG!

The thing is, when it matters (not on a course) you do a damn good job of it, as if you need it, you really want to make sure it's going to work

 

[Andy_W]

Fitting a back wheel to a road bike, I don't know why, but every time I do it I just think "there's got to be an easier way than this, what am I doing wrong?", especially when I see others do it in seconds. Just don't have the nack!

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

People wasting their money on this crap?

There is hardly any price difference. We have them on all our toilets and you can clean them in about 30 seconds instead of messing around with bolts. Or I guess you can just have the old fashioned ones and have **** accumulate between the plastic and the toilet. When buying a toilet seat these days, absolutely no reason to not get one that isn't soft close and quick release as both things just make life simpler.

 

[Andy_W]

wihch way are you supposed to turn the key

The way so you're screwing away from the seam.

 

[Andy_W]

There is hardly any price difference. We have them on all our toilets and you can clean them in about 30 seconds instead of messing around with bolts. Or I guess you can just have the old fashioned ones and have **** accumulate between the plastic and the toilet. When buying a toilet seat these days, absolutely no reason to not get one that isn't soft close and quick release as both things just make life simpler.

They're good for removing and refitting the same one, but the plugs aren't all the same size. So if the lid/ seat gets broke, you sometimes have to change the plugs as well. This ends up being annoying, when you bought one for the exact reason of not having to change the plugs.

 

[Alzi]

Not making a complete mess of cling film when trying to unravel it evenly… might just be me.

 

[bumface]

Not making a complete mess of cling film when trying to unravel it evenly… might just be me.

Not just you. My Dad is the same. Drives my Mam nuts.

 

[Cuthbert]

Fitting a back wheel to a road bike, I don't know why, but every time I do it I just think "there's got to be an easier way than this, what am I doing wrong?", especially when I see others do it in seconds. Just don't have the nack!

The 'trick' is to have it in the smallest ring on your rear cassette. Makes it easier.

 

[festa5]

Constructing the toys that you get out of kinder eggs.

Supposed to be for young children, but you need an engineering degree for some of them.

 

[Steve8778]

Cleaning any weapon is ****, although saying that with my experience of having to clean only one type, and not as complex as a GPMG!

The thing is, when it matters (not on a course) you do a damn good job of it, as if you need it, you really want to make sure it's going to work

My background is guns and javelin so I've had plenty of practice over the years, in some establishments they have brought in cleaning machines in which you dip weapon parts. Its pretty good.