doh - what is the world coming to...

[bigchris]

just saw instructions on a mini pepper grinder tonight

"Grind over food where you require a peppery taste."

am i just being stupid but who actually need this kind of instruction???

[rowanp25]

you have to wonder how many people tried grinding the pepper grinder over food though thats how stupid some ppl are assumed to be

[annonymous]

Originally Posted by bigchris

just saw instructions on a mini pepper grinder tonight

"Grind over food where you require a peppery taste."

am i just being stupid but who actually need this kind of instruction???

i ask myself these questions everyday. . .

some other examples are:

"braille on the drive-thru ATM machine" (if u dont beleive me, go check it out, it is REALLY THERE!!)

"health facts on a bottle of water"

"WARNING! THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS PEANUTS OR PEANUT RESIDUE" on a jar of peanut butter

[savageman25]

coppers asking you 'do you no how fast you were going?'
when they jsut pulled you over for speeding?

[mdb_75]

Our PG Tips cups out of the machine at work, "Caution -Contents May Be Hot"

[tc3team]

Tixylix cough and cold medicine for 2-10 year olds.

do not mix with alcohol, or operate machinery...

[bodgit]

Picolax...given for an ennama
caution side effects: may cause diarrhoea.
Isnt that the desired effect

[ben]

Originally Posted by savageman25

coppers asking you 'do you no how fast you were going?'
when they jsut pulled you over for speeding?

Because they're asking you if you know you've done wrong!

[SlowOne]

On (polythene) bags of bananas in Sainsbury's last year - "Great when peeled"

Where is the idiot who tries to eat a banana with the peel on? It used to be said there's one born every minute; isn't that nearer 30 seconds these days?

[mrspeedy]

Or warning on a 3" toy boat ... "not to be used as a buoyancy aid "

[ashleyb4]

Originally Posted by SlowOne

On (polythene) bags of bananas in Sainsbury's last year - "Great when peeled"

Where is the idiot who tries to eat a banana with the peel on? It used to be said there's one born every minute; isn't that nearer 30 seconds these days?

Because you can eat a bannana without peeling it.

A

[Jamie.T]

On my CD player it says not to look directly into the laser....Bit difficult unless you've got a 5mm thin head to fit in the slot. LOL

Safety warnings for everything nowadays. Whatever happened to common sense eh?

Jamie....

[j.m.]

Common sense went when it was accepted for people to be ignorant; when not understanding something became cool.

Jon

[Titch]

Originally Posted by thomj316

Safety warnings for everything nowadays. Whatever happened to common sense eh?

It got owned by Brussells lol



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[markwilliamson2001]

My thinking on this, is this:

If your too stupid to do any of these things, then its your own damn fault, and nature is taking its course and the evolutionary process

[Titch]

Why do my youtube videos never show? what do i put between the tags? the whole address or just a bit of it.

[hide]

If they didn't put the safety labels on the products they get some idiot who sues them for not telling him Peanut Buter contains Peanuts when he has an allergic reaction.

[SlowOne]

Originally Posted by markwilliamson2001

My thinking on this, is this:

If your too stupid to do any of these things, then its your own damn fault, and nature is taking its course and the evolutionary process

Isn't the evolutionary process being interefered with? Now, if you're an idiot, you're likely to survive!!

[Spoolio]

As has already been said, it's the "If There's Blame There's A Claim" mentality which has been driven by the Great American Legal System (or the Compo Culture as we in the UK know it) which had it's heart in the right place (google "Ford Pinto memo") but as evolved into these examples quoted above that we know and love.

Once upon a time somebody spilling coffee over themselves in McDonalds would have sworn at themselves under their breath and tried to slope off to the toilet to clean up and hope no one saw them making a tit of themselves. Now of course, they sue because no one told them the coffee was hot, they now have post traumatic stress syndrome and will never play the piano again etc etc.

It's by no means a new phenomenon though. I well remember back in 1988 when I got my first car ('73 Beetle 1200) I bought a Krooklok - hands up who remembers them - and embossed in the plastic at the steering wheel end it said "REMOVE BEFORE DRIVING". I thought this was hilarious, I mean, as if anybody could ever be that stupid...look at us all now eh.