*sigh*

[cheerful_deviant]

On the back of a box of Elio's Frozen Pizza:

CAUTION: Product becomes hot when cooked!




The really sad part is that you just know that the warning label is there because of some moron and a lawsuit.

 

[arienette]

On the back of a box of Elio's Frozen Pizza:

CAUTION: Product becomes hot when cooked!




The really sad part is that you just know that the warning label is there because of some moron and a lawsuit.

I take it you passed out last night?

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I take it you passed out last night?

Got the kids to bed, set myself up in the living room witha movie, icecream and my lappy, turned on the movie and the comp, fell asleep.

 

[arienette]

Got the kids to bed, set myself up in the living room witha movie, icecream and my lappy, turned on the movie and the comp, fell asleep.

Awwww. Glad you got some rest!
I've slept way too much and I'm still tired.
So tired that I would probably need that caution warning on a box of pizza.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

LOL. Ahhh... people amuse me.

When I worked at the salon, we got a new wax machine.
Ya know, a little container that ya plug in and the wax gets hot, then ya smear it on your eyebrows etc. and rip the hairs out.

I was flipping through the directions, and there was a warning.

"Do not use while in the bath tub."

Well no shit. And that thought would have never occured to me.
I'm not much on multi-tasking though.

 

[Aurora Black]

The masses are asses.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

That reminds me...

The whole putting 'Caution: Hot' bullshit on coffee cups.
No kidding. It's coffee.
They'd bitch if it was cold, but sue if it's hot and they spill it on themselves.

Thats like at work...
Some woman is throwing a fit because her kid got coffee spilled on him.
Wanna know why?
A customer was out in the lobby with the lid off his coffee, putting sugar in it.
Her mongrel child was running around like a maniac, ran into the guy, and the coffee spilled on the kid.
Now, who's fault is that?
She thinks it's OUR fault. Evidentally, we should have been watching her child when she wasn't.

 

[English Lady]

That reminds me...

The whole putting 'Caution: Hot' bullshit on coffee cups.
No kidding. It's coffee.
They'd bitch if it was cold, but sue if it's hot and they spill it on themselves.

Thats like at work...
Some woman is throwing a fit because her kid got coffee spilled on him.
Wanna know why?
A customer was out in the lobby with the lid off his coffee, putting sugar in it.
Her mongrel child was running around like a maniac, ran into the guy, and the coffee spilled on the kid.
Now, who's fault is that?
She thinks it's OUR fault. Evidentally, we should have been watching her child when she wasn't.

That kind of crap completely gets my blood boiling. We're a society that is never at fault -theres always someone else to blame and that is so damn wrong!

 

[Belegon]

That kind of crap completely gets my blood boiling. We're a society that is never at fault -theres always someone else to blame and that is so damn wrong!

Well at least it is not only the U.S.

I used to deal with things like this so often...in my old job, it was always our fault that one of our customers couldn't add somehow. And they would always expect us to waive the costs that we went through because of their addition mistake.

You were supposed to learn how to add and subtract in grade school, dumbasses. This ain't calculus or even long division...

 

[English Lady]

Well at least it is not only the U.S.

I used to deal with things like this so often...in my old job, it was always our fault that one of our customers couldn't add somehow. And they would always expect us to waive the costs that we went through because of their addition mistake.

You were supposed to learn how to add and subtract in grade school, dumbasses. This ain't calculus or even long division...

Oooh it's annoying, isn't it? Britain is just like this, or getting more and more like it. I get sick of it. Common sense people, all it takes is a bit of damn common sense. *shakes head* In the end it just makes us have to pay out more, as companies have to cover their asses against being sued.

 

[Oblimo]

That kind of crap completely gets my blood boiling.

That's almost ironic, because they coffee in that "infamous" lawsuit was served at boiling point, and McDonalds knew that people were regularly getting burned by handing people boiling coffee through a drive-in window but decided not to do anything about it since it saved them money and no one bother to sue...until a women sufferred third degree burns on (IIRC) her thighs and clitoris.

See, what boils my blood is a company thinking it can get away with something that's actually very dangerous because everyone assumes the company is being safe and not handing them cups of boiling-point water.

 

[Remec]

Thats like at work...
Some woman is throwing a fit because her kid got coffee spilled on him.
Wanna know why?
A customer was out in the lobby with the lid off his coffee, putting sugar in it.
Her mongrel child was running around like a maniac, ran into the guy, and the coffee spilled on the kid.
Now, who's fault is that?
She thinks it's OUR fault. Evidentally, we should have been watching her child when she wasn't.

Heh
I know of at least three independent salons around here that have MASSIVE signs hanging both in their windows as well as on the walls inside stating that children are not allowed on the premises unless being worked on.

Guess bad parents are everywhere these days, eh? *g*

 

[Oblimo]

On the back of a box of Elio's Frozen Pizza:

CAUTION: Product becomes hot when cooked!

That's a -worthy warning, alright, because it doesn't actually warn you of anything, and thus would not actually insulate anyone from suing Elio over getting burned when cooking their pizza. The companies with the good lawyers put "Let pizza sit in microwave for two minutes before eating" in the cooking instructions instead.

 

[CopyCarver]

On rare occasions--OK, very rare occasions--there can be a small element of humor. I once bought a wood-burning stove made from steel boilerplate and massive slabs of soapstone. The warning label read, "Net weight: 510 pounds. Should not be lifted by those who have ingested laxatives."

 

[Oblimo]

She thinks it's OUR fault.

If you were serving unreasonably hot coffee, it probably (legally) was, but it doesn't sound like you did (ie, the coffee didn't poach the brat's eyeballs), so it wasn't.

 

[Oblimo]

IIRC, the labels on soda dispensing machines warning against injury from tiping them were the result of a rash of lethal incidents aboard a couple of US aircraft carriers in the late 80s.

 

[Guest]

it would be nice, though, if there were a warning on envelopes:
"If you lick this, you may gag"

just a thought.

 

[The_Darkness]

it would be nice, though, if there were a warning on envelopes:
"If you lick this, you may gag"

just a thought.

I know of a few other things that sticker could be placed on

What I always wanted to do was to get a whole bunch of the little orange stickers that say "Not to be taken internally" and go down the medicine aisle at a Walmart or something. I'd like to also do that and then sit out side the pharmacy with a bag of popcorn and a camera.

 

[Guest]

I know of a few other things that sticker could be placed on

What I always wanted to do was to get a whole bunch of the little orange stickers that say "Not to be taken internally" and go down the medicine aisle at a Walmart or something. I'd like to also do that and then sit out side the pharmacy with a bag of popcorn and a camera.

ohmigod! that would be a hoot. ok, color me there. lets hold up a store with a price gun and threaten to cut everything in half if they dont give us everything we demand!

 

[Boxlicker101]

LOL. Ahhh... people amuse me.

When I worked at the salon, we got a new wax machine.
Ya know, a little container that ya plug in and the wax gets hot, then ya smear it on your eyebrows etc. and rip the hairs out.

I was flipping through the directions, and there was a warning.

"Do not use while in the bath tub."

Well no shit. And that thought would have never occured to me.
I'm not much on multi-tasking though.

Actually, the warning makes a certain amount of sense. If waxing is an alternative to shaving, (It is, isn't it?) the warning might make sense. After all, you can shave your legs while in the tub.

 

[The_Darkness]

ohmigod! that would be a hoot. ok, color me there. lets hold up a store with a price gun and threaten to cut everything in half if they dont give us everything we demand!

I'm so digging that idea.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I miss you!
We even have an unrequited pizza date!
I must figure out a way to make that happen next summer.
I'm hoping to be in a good place to schedule a honeymoon/anniversary trip with my blondie to the Cape then. If so, we will have to meet up with you and share time.

~lucky
p.s. T.L. was downloaded tonight.

 

[Aurora Black]

...until a women sufferred third degree burns on (IIRC) her thighs and clitoris.

OUCH!

 

[EmeraldKitten]

(ie, the coffee didn't poach the brat's eyeballs)

Hahaha..

Unfortunately.

~*~*~
Rem, I saw a sign at the Pumpkin Show one year that I wanted to buy and hang up at the beauty school sooo sooo soo badly, but it wasnt quite appropriate..
However, the innapropriate factor didnt stop me from cackling like a demented madwoman...
"All unattended children will be sold into slavery."

~*~*~
There was one day I was handing a guy an ice cream cone, and the ice cream fell off the cone into his lap.
Should there be a warning on the wrapper that says, "Warning: Extremely cold!"
I mean, he could have sued me. What if I froze his balls off?

Another guy came through and complained to me that the last time he got food there, his sandwiches were sooooo greasy, that the grease dripped onto his seat and he had to get the uphostery cleaned.
The guy practically wanted to send me a fucking bill.
Should have there been a warning label? "Warning: Extremely greasy!"

I dont know..
I guess I just think people in general are idiots, and they'll do anything to make a buck.
"The more people I meet, the more I like my cat."

Next time I mop the floor at work, I'm going to purposely not put the wet floor signs out, slip and fall, and hopefully break a hip. Then I'll sue.
Hey! Don't judge me! The wet floor signs weren't out! I didn't know!
Hehehehehee.

 

[The_Darkness]

You know, according to Darwin, this problem could eventually sort itself out. And occassionally to the great amusement of the rest of us.