>>>>>Comes in a really stupid case that I cannot for the life of me see how you open. I can see a hinge but it defies all attempts to open it so I am now going to break the stupid perspex box.
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>>>>When I 1st got my iPod I couldn't figure how to release it from the cable connected to the PC. I was almost on the point of wrenching it off when my daughter pointed out the wee squeeze buttons on the sides :-)
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>>>>(She also, in the first hour ever of using it, discovered control buttons on the fascia of my CD player that I hadn't discovered in 10 years of having it. lol.
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>>>>So, get your kid to look at it.
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>>>Too late.
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>>>No actually I found the carefully invisible piece of clear plastic tape holding it shut.
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>>And they're welded on!
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>>Getting the cellophane off a new DVD (or indeed a greetings card, without mangling the card) kills me! I usually have to take a knife to it. I think the DVD may have a wee strip to pull but I'm buggered if I can find it most the time.
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>Its natures way of weeding out the old Terry.Used to be you couldn't run fast enough to escape the sabre toothed tiger. Now its when you can't open packaging any more so you starve to death

'pends on whether you're too proud or fastidious to eat the pasta off the floor after ripping open the package and its spilling all over the place. :-)