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Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? #616293 09/23/20 11:26 AM Off-Topic
Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,109 Essex England Bob Calver OP Veteran
OP Bob Calver Veteran Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,109 Essex England	Or am I getting older and feebler? I remember ripping packs open but now I have to use a knife on cardboard boxes and sometimes I'm even reduced to using scissors to open plastic packs. Worst of all are blister packs! Last edited by Bob Calver; 09/23/20 11:28 AM.

Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? Bob Calver #616353 09/23/20 11:48 PM Off-Topic
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Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? Bob Calver #616369 09/24/20 03:08 AM Off-Topic
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Notes Norton Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 6,350 Fort Pierce, Florida, U.S.A.	I loathe blister packs. I have a pair of shears advertised to be able to cut through a penny and it makes short work of them. When buying something if I have a choice between plastic packaging or not between two comparable products, I'll buy the non-plastic. We have too much of it and less than 10% of it gets recycled. Insights and incites by Notes Bob "Notes" Norton Norton Music https://www.nortonmusic.com 100% MIDI Super-Styles recorded by live, pro, studio musicians for a live groove & Fake Disks for MIDI and/or RealTracks

Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? Notes Norton #616374 09/24/20 03:38 AM Off-Topic
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MarioD Veteran Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 23,144 Hamlin NY	I hate them also. Sometimes a CD/DVD opener will work on them: https://www.walmart.com/ip/EZ-CD-113-067...94f753373389cc9 Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer. It's called the Heineken Maneuver. 64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware

Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? Bob Calver #616380 09/24/20 04:15 AM Off-Topic
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Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,703 Gulf Of Mexico As Of Late	Packaging use to be for the convenience of the buyer. It is now produced only to assist the seller. We put up with it and it is just one more quality of life issues of the current times. I don't even try to open things without tools any longer. We may not be required to put up with this too much longer. Much of this plastic is winding up in the ocean and in the food supply. It very well may kill all of us. Billy “Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”

Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? Bob Calver #616427 09/24/20 09:36 AM Off-Topic
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Jim Fogle Veteran Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 10,792 Winston Salem, NC USA	I think retailers believe blister packs are a theft deterrence. Hard to open packaging may deter the "honest" folks the same way door locks do but they don't slow down professionals at all. Jim Fogle - 2025 BiaB (Build 1128) RB (Build 5) - Ultra+ PAK DAWs: Cakewalk by BandLab (CbB) - Standalone: Zoom MRS-8 Laptop: i3 Win 10, 8GB ram 500GB HDD Desktop: i7 Win 11, 12GB ram 256GB SSD, 4 TB HDD Music at: https://fogle622.wix.com/fogle622-audio-home

Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? Bob Calver #616463 09/24/20 12:16 PM Off-Topic
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Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? Bob Calver #616473 09/24/20 01:48 PM Off-Topic
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eddie1261 Unregistered E	I bought one of these for opening those blister packs. It came in a blister pack.

Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? #616475 09/24/20 02:08 PM Off-Topic
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Pipeline Veteran P Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 7,954	That's what happen to Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, he bought an exacto knife at the hardware store to open the package he had at home, they put it in a bag for him, so on the way home he saw his friend was in a car accident and he couldn't get out as his seat belt was stuck so Larry ran back to his car to get his exacto knife to cut his seat belt but when he got it out of the bag it was in impregnable plastic packaging

Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? Bob Calver #616505 09/24/20 06:19 PM Off-Topic
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bobcflatpicker Veteran Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 4,251 WV, USA	Bob, I think we're all getting older and feebler but those damn blister packs are a pain. I keep a couple of pairs of heavy duty kitchen shears laying around for that and splitting open an occasional lobster tail to put on the grill. Bob ................................ http://soundcloud.com/bobcflatpicke/music-in-the-mountains

Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? #616540 09/25/20 03:35 AM Off-Topic
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Notes Norton Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 6,350 Fort Pierce, Florida, U.S.A.	Originally Posted By: eddie1261 I bought one of these for opening those blister packs. It came in a blister pack. THANK YOU!!! Bob "Notes" Norton Norton Music https://www.nortonmusic.com 100% MIDI Super-Styles recorded by live, pro, studio musicians for a live groove & Fake Disks for MIDI and/or RealTracks

Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? Notes Norton #616547 09/25/20 04:12 AM Off-Topic
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Guitarhacker Veteran Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 10,298 Middlesex, NC	Originally Posted By: Notes Norton Originally Posted By: eddie1261 I bought one of these for opening those blister packs. It came in a blister pack. THANK YOU!!! Oh the irony..... huh? You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.com Add nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.

Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? #616910 09/28/20 03:08 AM Off-Topic
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Deryk - PG Music PG Music Staff Joined: Feb 2017 Posts: 3,414	Originally Posted By: eddie1261 I bought one of these for opening those blister packs. It came in a blister pack. Oh the irony! Thanks for that - needed a laugh this morning, haha Cheers, Deryk

Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? Bob Calver #616923 09/28/20 05:51 AM Off-Topic
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Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? Bob Calver #771079 07/14/23 02:12 AM Off-Topic
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jdew Enthusiast J Joined: Apr 2023 Posts: 40	A struggle? I've been tempted to take a power tool to some of them.

Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? Bob Calver #771140 07/15/23 12:13 AM Off-Topic
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OP Bob Calver Veteran Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,109 Essex England	mmmmmm ......... revisitng my original post i would add vacuum packed meat from the supermarket. steaks arrive vacuum packed and i have to cut round them with a sharp knife to get at them. and becasue they are so tightly wrapped you have to cut all the way round and its messy and dangerous cutting under the meat.

Re: Are plastic packaging and cardboard boxes getting tougher? Bob Calver #771320 07/18/23 12:17 AM Off-Topic
Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,109 Essex England Bob Calver OP Veteran
OP Bob Calver Veteran Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,109 Essex England	thanks Michael but unless the suermarkets and manufacturers change the problem still exists. do you have any interest in PH music apart from the forums? I see you have two posts both on this topic. that behaviour is a little bot like.

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