A Consumer WTF Moment

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Just back this puppy up to the edge of a deck, and you are excess baggage, buddy-boy!

We got seals here. They burp all by themselves as far as I’ve observed. I definitely wouldn’t want one doing it on my skirt though.

I have these moments about perfectly ordinary items:

Branded clothes: Usually cheap clothes, cheap stitching, falls apart after ten washes, overpriced, and you have pay them to advertise.

Cigarettes: Pay $10. Get a pack of 25 foul-smelling sticks that will kill your sense of taste, age you prematurely, cause your slow agonizing death, and make you a social pariah in an increasing number of situations.

Television: Spend an average of nine years of your life staring at people you’d probably hate if they came over for dinner, re-enact the same boring plots you’ve seen a millions times over, inspersed with loud commercials about products you either can’t afford or couldn’t possibly want. Everybody hates TV and yet almost everybody watches it.

Seriously, it’s scary if you think about it. Maybe one day, no one will feel they can be without underwear in re-sealable bags…?

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner! Our knowledgable contestant wins an all expenses* paid day trip on Lake Superior in a canoe out to Victoria Island!

*Travel to and from point of departure not included.

Nature Valley Granola Bars “Peanut Butter” flavor.

Large warning on the front of the bar “MAY CONTAIN PEANUTS”.

Now, I understand allergy warnings, especially if the food is processed with peanut oil or on machinery that also processes peanuts. But… it’s peanut butter! Of course it contains peanuts (one hopes)!

I always got a kick out of gun owner’s manuals with this disclaimer:

WARNING: Use of this firearm may cause serious injury or even death.

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Well, no shit. . . Granted, your purpose for firing a gun may be just to punch holes in paper or empty tin cans, but if you didn’t already know this, you shouldn’t be handling the gun. :rolleyes:

But I’m sure some lawyer somewhere, at some time argued that his client(s) weren’t properly aware of the danger. :rolleyes:

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But I guarantee you’ll never find a new gun in a resealable bag at any respectable gun store.

The poptarts package does say 3 seconds. However, poptarts should be microwaved for 30 seconds, give or take.

Well, ya gunna anyway. It’s so you don’t throw the useless packaging away but now you have a useful bag for whatever, maybe saving some natural resources if it stops you buying some other bag. Depending on size it could be used as a lunch bag, for leftovers, all sorts of stuff.

I think it’s a good idea.

If Omphaloskeptic doesn’t want his prize…can I have it? I woulda answered that but I was working.

Sure. Cervaise too. Welcome aboard!

Have you no vise-grips?

Mmmmm…Southern Decadence…

A total hijack, but I’d just like to mention that Southern Decadence is the same weekend as Convergence this year, and Convergence is in N’Awlins too. And I’m going to be there.

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There are actually a frightening amount of people who believe that a small caliber firearm, .22 for example, cannot hurt a human being. Where they grow this level of ignorance I have no idea.

For my late last cat the instructions on the can could have said, “To call the cat for supper, just open this can.” He would come running every time he heard me open a pull[tab can, or even one with the electric opener. I don’t know why Lauren Bacall doesn’t do this on her tv ads, instead of tapping on the goblet with a fork.

That’s what bothers me. People like this deserve to take their own foot off when handling a firearm.

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“Aw shit Sheriff, I shot myself in the foot because I’m a moron!”

Eh, plenty of stores put them on hangers. More efficient for customers and staff alike to be able to flip through them on a rack rather than paw through them in a bin. I don’t think anyone expects you to use them at home, but whatever.

I’ve seen those. These, however, were so substantial*. They were just crying out to be hung in the wardrobe.

  • the hangers were substantial, not the knickers.

I was checking out the electric toothbrushes on the Oral-B website and came across a WTF moment. They have a music download site. WTF?