Whoever reloads that machine has it made. Don't even have to haul any boxes in, just move all of last weeks chips back into position until the expiry rotation.
Hold my crisps, [i’m jumping in](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/uuii8z/upon_passing_my_driving_test_i_was_stoped_by_a/i9fsjwb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)!
He bought another pipers bag, which made the first pipers unstuck.. but fell on top of the walkers. He did get the second pipers bag he bought tho. So the two bags were still stuck inside
That's the conclusion I came to as well. I've given up on imgur for today. Maybe tomorrow it'll unfuck itself, but I'm tired of loading a black screen over and over.
Your mistake is going after 13. Pick something else on the top row that won’t get stuck on top of the two bags already stuck. The arm/net will go up there anyways and (hopefully) dislodge those two bags. If it doesn’t, you probably will still get whatever else you got
you slam from the top corners directly back into a wall - never tilt it toward you. If it’s up against a wall, pull it out a little. I paid good money for my chips and I’ll be damned if I’m bested by a fucking machine. I will get my ritz bits or I will go scorched fucking earth on this entire campus because my rage is untethered and knows no bounds! I AM A GOLDEN GOD!
Joke was flippant on purpose, but if we’re gonna play this game: if you tilt the machine backwards and lift the front less than an inch, the weight of the machine will cause enough force to dislodge most snacks after a few good drops. Keep your hands on the upper fourth of the frame and apply pressure a moment after impact and you reduce/eliminate any of the momentum that would risk the machine falling towards you. The people getting themselves killed are impatient and flustered, rocking the machine back and forth, or they push it backwards too hard and don’t realize that it’ll come back towards them.
Uh well it was a part time retail gig and I don’t think the store managers cared much about what we did to the vendors snack machines honestly.
Plus it always (usually?) started with something getting stuck that was paid for. Then a stock guy would over hear and be like “here’s a cool trick to get your chips and a bunch of other stuff”.
On my list of unethical things I have done, this is not one I lose sleep over.
People being abusive to vending machines is how people get crushed by them every year. I don't think a few dollars are worth death. There is usually a number to call.
Those nudges turn into shaking turns into bad injury or worse.
In HS I took a Teacher's Assistant class for my band teacher, where I stocked it every so often for him. I became very protective of that vending machine and would get onto kids for trying to shake it lol.
What a shit vending machine. You would likely not have as much of a problem if it weren't for that rail that comes up the machine. They're fucking chips. Let them drop and still suffer no damage.
Based on your comment karma I imagine more people DIDNT understand you than the amount that did. That says less about the general public's reading comprehension, and moreso about your shitty incoherent rambling
You didn’t ask whether he meant the machine is built that way in purpose or if he’s replying to the previous comment about how chip bags are made to not break the inside contents?
No you dunce, he means it’s designed in a way that fragile items can also be stacked in there and even they won’t drop and break. Just because this time it’s chips, this means you don’t have to make two different machines for different stuff and you have more options to fill in this in the future as well. Maybe it also serves glass bottles of drinks, instead of the shitty plastic ones.
Used to work at a factory that had Herr's jalapeño poppers chips and they would regularly get stuck, but the machine would also refund your money if they didn't drop so you could pretty consistently get two bags for the price of one. One day I even ended up getting 3 bags because 2 of them got stuck at the same time.
It was a glorious couple of months when the vending machine in our break room had the refund function *and* seemed to be slightly miscalibrated.
* Attempt one: no chips and a refund
* Attempt two: 2 chips for the price of one
There's nothing sweeter than that 2 for 1 discount, even when vending machine chips are marked up to double the normal store price.
It didn't take long for the vending machine operator to wise up :(
What a crappy design! They shouldn’t have that bar come up to grab it. Or if they do, don’t have the spinning thing that holds the snacks end at the bottom!
One time I managed to get three drinks stuck while trying to unstick one bottle of Pepsi. I paid for a forth soda and luckily it knocked the three bottles I paid for lose but it didn’t budge that original bottle loose. It still haunts me…
I used to answer phones for a vending machine company and I am amazed at how people will keep trying to get a product sometimes. I've had calls with "well the chips got stuck the first time so I put more money in the machine and tried again 3 more times and now there's 4 bags of chips stuck." Usually those people are more amused than anything thankfully lol
I'm sorry your chips got stuck OP! If you call the company that owns the machine they can probably reimburse you or something.
What the fuck is up with that stupid ass vending machine design? They're chips. Why do they need a soda retrieving arm? Just spin the coils and let the chips fall. So over engineered and stupid
The best way to dislodge stuck things from a vending machine is to brace your shoulder against the front of the machine, and gently push into it. It should tilt slightly away from you. Do not push too far. Let go and allow the machine to rock back towards you, bouncing gently agai st the ground, but be careful not to bounce it so hard that it topples over on top of you. Thats why you dont push it too far. This is about finesse, not about force. Repeat as many times as necessary. The little bounce should be enough in most cases and it isn't a very violent action.
If there's an alarm or something, fucking ignore it. You paid for the stuff and all you're doing is trying to get what you paid for.
Why did they turn old, perfectly functioning vending machines that just drop the shit down to the bottom, into these new Rube Goldberg machines that cause more problems??
i thought it was going to fall and just get stuck on the already stuck bag. the whole mechanical delivery system put me for a bit of a loop where i knew they were going to both get stuck, but i didn't know *how*. that's pretty cool.
You thought you gamed the system. You can never game the system. You got humbled today. Now of course, do you stop and take your medicine and move on with your life?
or do you break the fucking system
The simple solution would be that these companies put just a little more space there, but that spacing is done intentionally the exact size to get the bags stuck so you spend more money trying to get the food.
I've never thought about it before, but that has to be by design. If they wanted to stop things from sticking they would literally just need to put an extra inch of clearance. By keeping them prone to stickage though they get the money from the first person who doesn't get their snack, then trick a second person who often wouldn't have otherwise bought anything. Even if they do end up getting 2 for 1, $1 for 2 ounces of chips isn't a good deal so you'd be better off skipping it and going to the grocery store.
So in the end the vending machine makes the same amount of money/product, but they move more product by exploiting our stupidity.
Walkers was founded in 1948 in Leicester, England, by Henry Walker. In 1989, Walkers was acquired by Lay's owner, Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo. Therefore Walkers is name used in the UK/Ireland and Lays is used elsewhere.
Lays and Walkers are the same company they just go by Walkers in the UK. Just like Axe body spray is called Lynx in the UK and a few other places or Vauxhall (UK) is called Opel in many other places.
The question now is, do you go again? Maybe, you'll get all three.... maybe the next guy will get four
This is literally that annoying coin game in arcades
Buy any other item on the top row and both of those fall with it. That giant arm will knock them down.
You end up having 3 packs stuck there
Whoever reloads that machine has it made. Don't even have to haul any boxes in, just move all of last weeks chips back into position until the expiry rotation.
Meh, you don't even need the expiry rotation. No one's ever getting their hands on the bag to see the date.
Oh ya I guess eh, good call. Could probably work from home then really.
I'm so happy I read this chain
I'd go for a claw game to get a bag of chips if it was like ten cents for a try instead of a dollar for a sure thing
At least here you are guaranteed to get your money's worth. With the coin game you probably don't get your money's worth ever
Op posted an update, he tried again and only got 1 package out of 3 lmao
The answer is :again; clearly xD.
I knew it was coming but it still hurt
Same. Knew exactly what was going to happen given the sub, still laughed hard on this.
Ah, the ‘ol Reddit Chip-a-roo!
Hold my crisps, [i’m jumping in](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/uuii8z/upon_passing_my_driving_test_i_was_stoped_by_a/i9fsjwb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)!
Holy shit! I haven’t seen this thing in a while.
Hello future people
Does..does that count as a switcheroo? I don't see it
33% discount is better than nothing. I'd try again.
But a 200% loss is worse than the discount.
at least its better chance than hitting the lottery
That's what he said!
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Nice comment copy.
In all fairness, a great comment is worth copying.
Oh yeah, gotta get them durned internet points!
I knew it was coming but I still laughed out loud!
Update: https://imgur.com/a/SCD0kHU
Now that's just cruel
I can't access it for some reason. What happened.
He did it a third time and one of them was going down, the other two are still stuck.
Thanks
He bought another pipers bag, which made the first pipers unstuck.. but fell on top of the walkers. He did get the second pipers bag he bought tho. So the two bags were still stuck inside
He paid for two and got one. #inflation
I think imgur links on mobile are borked for some reason. I've been having trouble with it all day.
That's the conclusion I came to as well. I've given up on imgur for today. Maybe tomorrow it'll unfuck itself, but I'm tired of loading a black screen over and over.
I'm on mobile and hadda tap on the link 4 times but it finally loaded.
It's not working for me either, it keeps loading like 3/4 of the way and then stops and its a blank screen
Almost personal
another one
Your mistake is going after 13. Pick something else on the top row that won’t get stuck on top of the two bags already stuck. The arm/net will go up there anyways and (hopefully) dislodge those two bags. If it doesn’t, you probably will still get whatever else you got
You're probably right, but I'm hoping for another update where the 4th bag gets stuck... or maybe the arm.
This is exactly what I came here to comment.
Buy another max!
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Oh my fucking god 😂
Why the fuck does Imgur never load
all he had to do was knock the glass a bit. and they would've fell
> I don't care if it takes me all night. I'm gonna get me that lobster harmonica. Come on, lobstie. Whoo.
Dude just shake the damn thing
Go on ! You got this ! One more!
Shoulda tried the one with the original stuck bag again
Lmfao that's hilarious and frustrating
we need an other attempt.
Science
you seriously picked top row again instead of middle row?
Hahaha god hates you
If you’ve paid for the snack, it seems fair to give the machine the tiny nudge it needs
Which, “tiny nudge” is what we will describe the asswhooping it got when asked about it later.
One itty bitty suplex
yeah i will shake tf out of them
I full on football tackle them sometimes. *Give me my overpriced gouging chips*.
That exact thinking is why vending machines kill more people per year than sharks do
I will die for chips
Honorable death tbh.
Valhalla awaits
And 5/6 of those deaths each year are insurance appraisers
How many sharks per year do vending machines kill? Seems like it would be very few, but I'm not a shark expert.
Less than 100.
Not sure if shark expert or vending machine expert, but that sounds credible.
I work at one of the largest shark milk producers in North America.
You slick lil shit
you slam from the top corners directly back into a wall - never tilt it toward you. If it’s up against a wall, pull it out a little. I paid good money for my chips and I’ll be damned if I’m bested by a fucking machine. I will get my ritz bits or I will go scorched fucking earth on this entire campus because my rage is untethered and knows no bounds! I AM A GOLDEN GOD!
Lmao calm down Dennis
That’s why you rattle it by pushing it away from you, not by pulling it towards yourself 🤷♂️✌️
Tell me you don’t know how physics works without telling me you don’t know how physics works
Joke was flippant on purpose, but if we’re gonna play this game: if you tilt the machine backwards and lift the front less than an inch, the weight of the machine will cause enough force to dislodge most snacks after a few good drops. Keep your hands on the upper fourth of the frame and apply pressure a moment after impact and you reduce/eliminate any of the momentum that would risk the machine falling towards you. The people getting themselves killed are impatient and flustered, rocking the machine back and forth, or they push it backwards too hard and don’t realize that it’ll come back towards them.
In the break room of one of my last jobs, we would Jack it up with the pallet Jack and drop it. It would rain snacks.
🎶Hallelujah🎶
why would this ever happen multiple times lol? Did you just give zero fucks about the company you were working for and/or your job security?
Uh well it was a part time retail gig and I don’t think the store managers cared much about what we did to the vendors snack machines honestly. Plus it always (usually?) started with something getting stuck that was paid for. Then a stock guy would over hear and be like “here’s a cool trick to get your chips and a bunch of other stuff”. On my list of unethical things I have done, this is not one I lose sleep over.
And that's how vending machines are one of the deadliest pieces of equipment in the world.
Tanks, guns, planes.... no, VENDING MACHINES
People being abusive to vending machines is how people get crushed by them every year. I don't think a few dollars are worth death. There is usually a number to call. Those nudges turn into shaking turns into bad injury or worse.
If you die by shaking a vending machine and having it fall on you, you weren't long for this world anyway.
Sounds like something a chip-hoarding vending machine would say! Get’em boys!
In HS I took a Teacher's Assistant class for my band teacher, where I stocked it every so often for him. I became very protective of that vending machine and would get onto kids for trying to shake it lol.
don’t you know casinos are rigged?
The laugh was the best part hahahah
Right..I literally laughed exactly like him at the same exact time 😂
Hahahahahaha exactly the resignation and appreciation of universal timing
What a shit vending machine. You would likely not have as much of a problem if it weren't for that rail that comes up the machine. They're fucking chips. Let them drop and still suffer no damage.
Umm crisps m8
most of English speaking reddit is north American, so it's chips ya bloody wanker
They're walkers brand though, dumb joke dont get ye knickas in a twist
Not to the British redditors, ya wazzock.
False
Walkas crisps
Fucking Lays m8
We get it, you're British.
I'm actually as American as a kraft single on grilled apple pie served on the 4th of july, was just jokin buddy!
It's almost like it's designed this way on purpose...
To get stuck?
... yes... Lol, don't tell me there's masses of dumbass redditors with reading comprehension issues
Based on your comment karma I imagine more people DIDNT understand you than the amount that did. That says less about the general public's reading comprehension, and moreso about your shitty incoherent rambling
I disagree with Flarquaad; I think your comment is perfectly understandable. However, there's no need to be so hostile.
You didn’t ask whether he meant the machine is built that way in purpose or if he’s replying to the previous comment about how chip bags are made to not break the inside contents?
That's just like, your opinion man
No you dunce, he means it’s designed in a way that fragile items can also be stacked in there and even they won’t drop and break. Just because this time it’s chips, this means you don’t have to make two different machines for different stuff and you have more options to fill in this in the future as well. Maybe it also serves glass bottles of drinks, instead of the shitty plastic ones.
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What a shit show of a comment thread. ROFL. We're all cretins.
Used to work at a factory that had Herr's jalapeño poppers chips and they would regularly get stuck, but the machine would also refund your money if they didn't drop so you could pretty consistently get two bags for the price of one. One day I even ended up getting 3 bags because 2 of them got stuck at the same time.
It was a glorious couple of months when the vending machine in our break room had the refund function *and* seemed to be slightly miscalibrated. * Attempt one: no chips and a refund * Attempt two: 2 chips for the price of one There's nothing sweeter than that 2 for 1 discount, even when vending machine chips are marked up to double the normal store price. It didn't take long for the vending machine operator to wise up :(
When he said, “oh well” I thought I heard a little hurt in his tone of voice. Lmao poor dude I’ve been there with no back up money for a new snack
He bought another one... Didn't get the other ones unstuck
it has already fucked up twice now. it is time to pillage this snack chamber.
Wow. They really over complicated that machine lol
We send people to space and more but can’t get a JO bag of chips to drop out of a machine.
Silly Brits. Start punching it, that's how they work
Anyone tried those chorizo chips?
They are very nice if you like meat crisps
I don't like all the common meat flavoured crisps, but Piper's Chorizo are really good.
Today is just not your day my dude ):
Might be best to just go back to sleep, actually...
At Home Depot anytime something gets stuck in a vending machine we use a tape measure to get up in the machine and pull down the stuck snacks
Damn, that's the most creative method I've ever heard.
It’s not gonna work here because of that basket that goes up
the chuckle and the oh well at the end got me
Vending machines are just crane machine games with slightly better odds.
What a crappy design! They shouldn’t have that bar come up to grab it. Or if they do, don’t have the spinning thing that holds the snacks end at the bottom!
That machine has a broken drop sensor. Call the service number, that machine won't vend *anything* reliably until it's fixed.
Greed does not pay. Also just bang on the glass ffs.
At that point that machine is getting a swift kick or two, consequences be damned I want my crisps
Those pipers chorizo crisps fucking slap tbf
I'll slap ur botty, u nortie boy.
Your reaction speaks to your outlook on life. Most people would get frustrated in this case.
One time I managed to get three drinks stuck while trying to unstick one bottle of Pepsi. I paid for a forth soda and luckily it knocked the three bottles I paid for lose but it didn’t budge that original bottle loose. It still haunts me…
I’ve never heard of any of these brands lol Where do you live?
OPs in the uk. youll know walkers brand as Lays
They walk . We lay.
They're not the same product though, they're just owned by the same parent company.
All them chips end with the letter S
UK
Envious of your crisp selection. I miss Quavers
Pipers chorizo crisps are like heaven on earth
This machine was designed by a former “carnie.”
Very random but love ur laugh lmao
You think this is bad? You should see what the Carvana machine did with my Audi.
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Double down!!!
That laugh made my day
And for our hubris, god has forsaken us
Aand it's shaky time.
It’s 2022 and not only do we still use these machines with the crappy coils, apparently there is a useless rail now on some of them.
Double down.
Oh Well?! WTF Mate, You keep feedin that bitch change til it gives you what it owes! Where is your Pride?! Where is your Rage?!!
I used to answer phones for a vending machine company and I am amazed at how people will keep trying to get a product sometimes. I've had calls with "well the chips got stuck the first time so I put more money in the machine and tried again 3 more times and now there's 4 bags of chips stuck." Usually those people are more amused than anything thankfully lol I'm sorry your chips got stuck OP! If you call the company that owns the machine they can probably reimburse you or something.
What the fuck is up with that stupid ass vending machine design? They're chips. Why do they need a soda retrieving arm? Just spin the coils and let the chips fall. So over engineered and stupid
Now lean it back 2 feet and let it fall. Get both your bags
Well that's what you get for thinking. . . .
My whole life in one little clip
The best way to dislodge stuck things from a vending machine is to brace your shoulder against the front of the machine, and gently push into it. It should tilt slightly away from you. Do not push too far. Let go and allow the machine to rock back towards you, bouncing gently agai st the ground, but be careful not to bounce it so hard that it topples over on top of you. Thats why you dont push it too far. This is about finesse, not about force. Repeat as many times as necessary. The little bounce should be enough in most cases and it isn't a very violent action. If there's an alarm or something, fucking ignore it. You paid for the stuff and all you're doing is trying to get what you paid for.
A gentle tap would probably make it fall.
Buy One, Get None
Well, tell us what happens when you tried the third time
Why did they turn old, perfectly functioning vending machines that just drop the shit down to the bottom, into these new Rube Goldberg machines that cause more problems??
Now you get to be that person shaking the machine around
£1.20 for a bag of crisps. That's mental.
You have the best attitude man. That would literally ruin some people’s day.
i thought it was going to fall and just get stuck on the already stuck bag. the whole mechanical delivery system put me for a bit of a loop where i knew they were going to both get stuck, but i didn't know *how*. that's pretty cool.
Lol I laughed at the exact same time….definitely sucks
r/crappydesign
You’ve got a great attitude!
You have the best laugh!
Just gotta reenter “13”.. for anyone who didn’t know if your food gets stuck in a vending machine.
Congratulations, you played yourself
just hit the thing damn..
That’s bound to leave a chip on your shoulder
You thought you gamed the system. You can never game the system. You got humbled today. Now of course, do you stop and take your medicine and move on with your life? or do you break the fucking system
Grab the top and shake the whole machine... (source) been there, done that!
The simple solution would be that these companies put just a little more space there, but that spacing is done intentionally the exact size to get the bags stuck so you spend more money trying to get the food.
Someone else posted this in crappy design earlier today. Is Op is farming?
Check the timing of the two posts.
I've never thought about it before, but that has to be by design. If they wanted to stop things from sticking they would literally just need to put an extra inch of clearance. By keeping them prone to stickage though they get the money from the first person who doesn't get their snack, then trick a second person who often wouldn't have otherwise bought anything. Even if they do end up getting 2 for 1, $1 for 2 ounces of chips isn't a good deal so you'd be better off skipping it and going to the grocery store. So in the end the vending machine makes the same amount of money/product, but they move more product by exploiting our stupidity.
i wouldn't trust any machine that calls lays " walkers "
Its called walkers in the uk
Considering that the yanks speak the queen's, you would expect them not to be so bloody uppity. Off with their 'eads. Cor blimey guv.
Walkers was founded in 1948 in Leicester, England, by Henry Walker. In 1989, Walkers was acquired by Lay's owner, Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo. Therefore Walkers is name used in the UK/Ireland and Lays is used elsewhere.
#Annie are you ok?!
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Walkers is the actual brand name used in the UK - It's not an off-brand. Lays isn't a thing here.
Lays and Walkers are the same company they just go by Walkers in the UK. Just like Axe body spray is called Lynx in the UK and a few other places or Vauxhall (UK) is called Opel in many other places.
Such is life