How much time have you wasted trying to figure out what's detergent, what's softener and what's some sort of other assinine additive? I remember when they were clearly marked:
DETERGENT. FABRIC SOFTENER. BLEACH. Big, bold white letters on a blue (or whatever) bottle. Clear, concise and easy to understand. So what happened? At what point in the history of bottle design did Mr. Sparkle take over and decide to blow the labels to huge proportions, add 2x this, 1/2 times 3 and 1/4 to the square root of pi...and hide what it actually is in fine print on the back of the bottle under the ingredients? Even the stores can't really figure it out, and just shove them all on the same rows of shelves, leaving customers twice-damned. Not only do we have to run a magnifying glass over the damn things to puzzle them out, but as soon as we get them home we're stuck doing the same thing. And I can't really tell by the smell because it's all stinky slop to me.
What if PC parts were packaged like this? Who could figure that shit out?
MEGA COMPUTER CARD 2X SHINY FOR SPARKLE-SPARKLE!
Yeah. I'd have someone else do it.
DETERGENT. FABRIC SOFTENER. BLEACH. Big, bold white letters on a blue (or whatever) bottle. Clear, concise and easy to understand. So what happened? At what point in the history of bottle design did Mr. Sparkle take over and decide to blow the labels to huge proportions, add 2x this, 1/2 times 3 and 1/4 to the square root of pi...and hide what it actually is in fine print on the back of the bottle under the ingredients? Even the stores can't really figure it out, and just shove them all on the same rows of shelves, leaving customers twice-damned. Not only do we have to run a magnifying glass over the damn things to puzzle them out, but as soon as we get them home we're stuck doing the same thing. And I can't really tell by the smell because it's all stinky slop to me.
What if PC parts were packaged like this? Who could figure that shit out?
MEGA COMPUTER CARD 2X SHINY FOR SPARKLE-SPARKLE!
Yeah. I'd have someone else do it.
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2009-05-04 11:09:07)