I'm actually writing this post on Friday night, but I figured I should "stagger" my posts so I can "capture" my audience more effectively.

In any case, I have found my one fatal flaw in life ... they are the packaging that surrounds the DVD. I swear to God, DVds are IMPOSSIBLE to open. Those three security stickers around the edge foil me EVERY TIME. You see, I like my DVD cases to be "perfect." I don't like the plastic coating scratched or nicked at, so I always take painstaking efforts to open the DVD cases openly... but I always fail.

Everytime I purchase a DVD, it's like the stickers are mocking me ... "ha ha ... let's stress Roy out!!!!" The manufacturers are twice as evil, because they moronically put a "Pull" tab on the top sticker of the DVD case that never works. Picking at the "Pull' tab only rips the plastic casing ... or the Pull tab itself just rips off and the rest of the 'security sticker' is still on there.

I think if I ever start dating girls again, one of my prerequisites for any future girlfriends (assuming I can even trick one into liking me) is the abilty to quickly open a DVD case without damaging the plastic case. I could marry a girl like that.

please... please... oh dvd manufacturers... make the security stickers easier to rip off...

Posted by roy on January 20, 2005 at 09:49 PM in Ramblings | 15 Comments

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Comment posted on January 23rd, 2005 at 11:37 PM
I think she moved her name... tabulas.com/~sixty_four/
Comment posted on January 24th, 2005 at 02:52 AM
yeah, you //think// she moved her name ~ooooh~
Comment posted on January 23rd, 2005 at 07:17 PM
I heard Jaymee can't open DVD cases without ripping the covers.

BTW...how does one put avatars in their "friends" list. It's hard to leave jackass comments when you don't know who's post you're reading without clicking onto their blog. :)
Comment posted on January 24th, 2005 at 02:54 AM
In your own journal template, place either a or (which can now be opt.)
Comment posted on January 23rd, 2005 at 11:36 PM
Really? Where did you hear that? I think Jaymee and I are destined to be together now ;)
Comment posted on January 22nd, 2005 at 12:31 PM
Try taking a sponge, soaked with HOT water and squeezed out, and hold it over the stickers. Once heated, they are easier to remove.

Either that, or grow longer finger nails. :)
Comment posted on January 23rd, 2005 at 11:37 PM
OOOOOH ... but that requires too much work for me :(
Comment posted on January 22nd, 2005 at 01:11 AM
I do the same thing, I hate those rotten DVDs.
Comment posted on January 22nd, 2005 at 12:07 AM
What I hate: DVDs which refuse to leave their case. I've almost snapped a few in half because the inner holding thing is one of the cheap 'CD-style' ones which are brittle/inflexible but strong and strong gripping.
Comment posted on January 23rd, 2005 at 11:38 PM
YES THAT HAS ALMOST HAPPENED TO ME TOO! I was almost deprived of Underworld because of this... oh boy that Len Wiseman would of been a dead man if I had to buy TWO DVDs to get my dose of Kate Beckinsale!
Comment posted on January 21st, 2005 at 11:57 PM
the key is to use a sharp edge, and cut the stickers in the middle where the dvd seam is. then peel it from the middle, thus not ruining the case. Works like a charm. you newb.
Comment posted on January 23rd, 2005 at 11:38 PM
So smart. But what if you don't have a blade?!?!?!/ HOW ABOUT THEN?!?!?! HUH?!?!?!?


great idea though. damn i should of thought of that earlier.
Comment posted on January 22nd, 2005 at 09:20 AM
darn, you beat me to it! yeah, this is how i open dvds too. it works great!
Comment posted on January 21st, 2005 at 10:08 PM
hahah i feel your pain, but i've mastered it now. it still takes a little patience, but you begin to figure out techniques to get the sticker off the top without much effort. yes... i learned some of it form my girlfriend, but i would've figured it out eventually... i think... :D
Comment posted on January 23rd, 2005 at 11:39 PM
no sir, we men are stupid.