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Post by enigma72 on Aug 7, 2020 17:08:10 GMT
enigma72 Glad you like it ! I stole borrowed the first picture from another thread. Can you find some more to post (I hope, I hope ! ) I wish. I'm on my phone as my laptop went belly up March 11th! The isolation was starting and I was busy doing other things like stocking up on food. I don't want to just buy a laptop. I wa t it to feel right. But stores don't have them on display. I don't know how to have 2 windows open on the phone. Ugh! I'm les incompetante
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Post by marianne48 on Aug 7, 2020 19:54:03 GMT
A little off-topic, but...
Whe I was a kid, companies would often send out free samples of new products--miniature boxes of detergent, for example. They stopped doing this after one company sent out samples of their new lemon-scented dish detergent, and several people were sickened after drinking it because they saw the picture of the lemon on the bottle and immediately assumed it was lemon juice (even though the bottle was in the usual detergent-shaped design) before reading the label. A lot of food products have the words "serving suggestion" next to the illustration on the front of the container so that angry customers won't threaten lawsuits when they discover that what's inside doesn't necessarily match the picture. This was an issue some years ago when the makers of Crisco shortening received complaints from customers who expected to find a little cherry pie inside the Crisco can, just like the picture on the outside.
With this in mind, why are some hand sanitizers currently being sold in what looks like vodka bottles? That's just asking for trouble.
Printed on those little packets of silica gel that are included in some packaging to prevent moisture: "Do not eat."
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Post by Catman on Aug 7, 2020 23:37:02 GMT
marianne48, that brings to mind the people who sued because the computer monitors did not match the advertised dimensions. They won the lawsuit even though the manufacturer pointed out that the dimension listed was the diagonal, as was common with televisions of the day.
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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2020 23:42:27 GMT
marianne48, that brings to mind the people who sued because the computer monitors did not match the advertised dimensions. They won the lawsuit even though the manufacturer pointed out that the dimension listed was the diagonal, as was common with televisions of the day. And they still are, so I don't know what good that did.
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Post by Catman on Aug 7, 2020 23:43:44 GMT
marianne48, that brings to mind the people who sued because the computer monitors did not match the advertised dimensions. They won the lawsuit even though the manufacturer pointed out that the dimension listed was the diagonal, as was common with televisions of the day. And they still are, so I don't know what good that did. Well, Catman got a check for $10.00 even though he was not party to the suit.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 8, 2020 9:32:45 GMT
The one that comes to mind is one that I saw many years ago on one of those towel loop things. It said βdo not put head inside towel loopβ. The only reason why anyone would possibly do that is to try to hang themselves, and people trying to kill themselves probably wouldnβt be dissuaded by a warning label.
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Post by autumn on Aug 9, 2020 3:17:43 GMT
I was going to say the obvious about not drinking bleach. But then President Trump said we could.... It's funny to joke about, but in reality he never said that. What he did was ask if there was a way to put "inside" whatever it is in disinfectant that kills the virus on the outside. It's an intuitive question, but easily straw-manned and ridiculed. And so it is. How funny would it be if the vaccine contained an ingredient that's also used in Lysol? I know. I'm just being facetious.
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Post by autumn on Aug 9, 2020 3:25:56 GMT
The ones that always got me were the jars of nuts with the warning that read: May contain nuts.
And the ones that are so silly that they defy common sense, like the footlong sandwiches, (and that they won!!) when their subs measured an inch less or something stupid like that. FFS bread shrinks in the oven, and you're really going to get your panties in a twist over an 11" grinder roll, that's packed full with all sorts of vegetables and stuff. Picky.
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 9, 2020 6:26:11 GMT
The warning on Claymore mines always suggested to me that the army didn't think we were very bright. The curved shape pretty much tells you which is the business side.
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Post by redhorizon on Aug 10, 2020 9:25:13 GMT
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 10, 2020 11:31:26 GMT
They still have this warning sign on AlbertBridge but I think itβs there for historical purposes.
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Post by redhorizon on Aug 10, 2020 14:05:15 GMT
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