# Any other products that warn you against using it the way everyone uses it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 10, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593 "2008-12-10T19:07:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/21 "2008-12-10T22:09:59Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > IANAD but I know that a couple of times both my father and I were prescribed Tylenol by a doctor and the pharmacist just advised taking 3 regular Tylenol instead of paying $40 for the scrip. It is something people should be very careful of, of course, but it is occasionally prescribed by medical professionals too. Of course, which is why I said “ask your MD”. For some, that dosage is just fine, for others, very dangerous. Not a decision for anyone to make without expert advice. Pharmacist’s are indeed experts, _but_. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/22 "2008-12-10T23:04:49Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > When I saw the thread title, my first thought was Q-Tips. I guess great minds must think alike. …until you stab your brain with a Q-Tip. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/23 "2008-12-11T00:00:23Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > …until you stab your brain with a Q-Tip. Well, if ALL the great minds in question stab their brains with a Q-tip, they’ll STILL think all alike. Not that well, mind you, but alike. ---
**Author:** ![AdmiralCrunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@AdmiralCrunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AdmiralCrunch)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/24 "2008-12-11T00:04:05Z")
I’ve kept a “Alcohol and Drug Awareness Program” card that I needed to get a learner’s permit in my wallet for 8 years, because it says **DO NOT CARRY IN BILLFOLD OR PURSE** ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/25 "2008-12-11T00:10:50Z")
I once saw a bottle of fingerprint ink at work that had the warning “Avoid Skin Contact” on it. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/26 "2008-12-11T00:40:17Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > I use bobby pins to scrape out my ear canal. The absolutely _frightening_ ear wax scrapers used commonly here in Japan are not unlike scraping your ear out with a really long bobby pin. That being said, Asian people tend to have a dry, flaky cerumen, rather than the soft, viscous liquid cerumen of Caucasians, so a scrapy thing works better for them. Still creeped me out whenever I saw my ex using it. I bought a six pack of a microbrew beer while on vacation in the summer. It came in a decorative corrugated cardboard carrier with a handle at the top. Written on the box was the warning that one should not carry it by the handle. Brother, they weren’t kidding. Luckily the handle only partially failed and I was able to catch the box before 20 dollars worth of beer crashed on the street, the resulting shuffling to fit in my luggage, however, caused me to miss my train by a minute. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/27 "2008-12-11T01:02:36Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > I’m off Q-Tips, because I figured maybe I was pushing as much wax in as was getting swabbed out. When I clean my ears with a Q-tip, I gently insert down the middle of the canal, rubbing the sides as little as possible, then wipe the wax on the way out. In addition to minimizing wax pushed in, if I slip while cleaning, it slips _out_, not in. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/28 "2008-12-11T04:57:49Z")
ISTR one of the major brewers (Budweiser?) put out a beer pong game kit awhile back and warned against playing it with beer. They suggested water. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/29 "2008-12-11T05:04:07Z")
Vacuum cleaners. “Warning: do not insert penis” Yeah right :dubious: What? hey guys…, where you going?.. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/30 "2008-12-11T05:51:00Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > ISTR one of the major brewers (Budweiser?) put out a beer pong game kit awhile back and warned against playing it with beer. They suggested water. I had friends that would use water and then would just drink the required beer from seperate cups that didn’t have dirty basement floor ping pong ball crud in it. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/31 "2008-12-11T06:35:39Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I had friends that would use water and then would just drink the required beer from seperate cups that didn’t have dirty basement floor ping pong ball crud in it. This is one reason why I don’t play beer pong. [QUOTE=Isamu] Vacuum cleaners. “Warning: do not insert penis” Yeah right :dubious: [/QUOTE] Here’s my card, we should get together sometime. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/32 "2008-12-11T06:54:01Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I had friends that would use water and then would just drink the required beer from separate cups that didn’t have dirty basement floor ping pong ball crud in it. I thought that was part of the point. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/33 "2008-12-11T07:35:03Z")
Some banks let you choose your PIN. Others send one letter with the card, one with the PIN. The letter with the PIN always says to never carry it with the card. This is bad enough when the customer actually can change the PIN at the ATM, but I’ve had cards whose PIN couldn’t be changed, either by me or by the bank’s cashiers. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/34 "2008-12-11T07:52:52Z")
When jump starting a car, never, _ever_ connect the black cable to the negative terminal of the dead battery – unless you actually want the car to start. > **[Is it dangerous to jump start a dead battery? (Especially the way most guys...](https://www.straightdope.com/21343743/is-it-dangerous-to-jump-start-a-dead-battery-especially-the-way-most-guys-do-it)** ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/35 "2008-12-11T08:01:12Z")
Well…I have been known to put food into new freezers without waiting 24 hours, or however long it is you’re supposed to wait. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/36 "2008-12-11T08:54:08Z")
I don’t know if it’s still this way, but Social Security cards used to come with instructions that your SSN was NOT to be used for identification purposes. Of course, I was required to use it all through college as an ID number and my current employer–until just recently–required us to use our SSN as an employee ID and as our username for logging on to our network. And health insurance providers use it, and on, and on… Oh, and on cleaning ears: An older guy I used to teach with always used his classroom key to clean his ears. They were fairly “jagged” sawtooth keys and it always made me cringe when he would stick that thing deep in his ear and start twisting it around. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/37 "2008-12-11T09:01:06Z")
I have seen a few doors with a sign “Keep this door closed at all times” or something to that effect, but people cannot help opening it as it is the only door to the room. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/38 "2008-12-11T09:01:13Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > **I don’t know if it’s still this way, but Social Security cards used to come with instructions that your SSN was NOT to be used for identification purposes.** Of course, I was required to use it all through college as an ID number and my current employer–until just recently–required us to use our SSN as an employee ID and as our username for logging on to our network. And health insurance providers use it, and on, and on… [The Master speaks.](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/141/why-does-my-old-social-security-card-say-it-cant-be-used-as-id) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/39 "2008-12-11T15:17:24Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I had friends that would use water and then would just drink the required beer from seperate cups that didn’t have dirty basement floor ping pong ball crud in it. Yeah, but they were “shocked” that people were drinking beer at all as part of the game. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593/40 "2008-12-11T15:50:20Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > …until you stab your brain with a Q-Tip. I can make this Q-Tip…_disappear_! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-products-that-warn-you-against-using-it-the-way-everyone-uses-it/476593.md?page=3)