People who make things that don't work

This is my first blog post so I thought I'd open with one of my earliest rants. This one goes back maybe 25 years.

When I was a boy I wondered why anyone made milk jugs that simply didn't work. At hotels and restaurants you'd regularly get served these steel milk jugs for your tea which just dribbled milk down the side and onto the tablecloth. WTF! WTFF?

Now, if you're going to mass manufacture milk jugs, wouldn't you first make sure they actually worked? By that I mean: poured milk in a predictable trajectory and direction. And if you were to buy some milk jugs for your eatery, wouldn't you make sure they worked? And how hard is it to make a milk jug that works, honestly?

But they persist. And don't even get me started on pepper grinders.

About 75% of the pepper grinders I have bought in the last decade don't actually work. They don't grind pepper, they get jammed, they break or they grind pathetically slowly. I am astonished - presumably pepper grinding, and the machinery thereof, is not rocket fucking science. Luckily I found an old fashioned one in Carrefour that does work, and I love it. But WHO oh WHO is persisting in manufacturing ones that don't work? And why are shops stocking them?

I can only assume that there is a market for this kind of shit. There are people that buy milk jugs as social artefacts. There are people who buy pepper grinders as table ornaments. There are hoteliers who buy crap that doesn't work because it is cheap or they are stupid.

Most of all I want people to stop making things that don't actually work.