I’m sure that out there somewhere, someone has grabbed a pool float to help someone struggling in the water, despite the fact that the pool float had “not to be used as a lifesaving device” printed on it.
Many of the houses you see decorated for Christmas/Holidays are trimmed in lights and using extension cords which have “for indoor use only” tags on them. They are also connecting four or more strings together, despite the fact that the tag warns against that, too.
And the spare ‘doughnut’ tire that comes with many vehicles says, “Do not exceed 45 MPH”, but that is frequently ignored.
I disagree. I use the approved method and have yet to deliver power insufficient to vigorously spin a starter. Cars often don’t start no matter how you connect jumper cables due to the underlying problems that drained the dead car’s battery to begin with.
Jump starting is most effective when it’s just a matter of some stupid human error–like leaving headlights on-- involving an otherwise healthy car. Or when that 4y.o.+ battery first starts giving trouble.
I once used the approved method on an ancient Dodge Coronet, got the starter to spin vigorously and,in spite of the fact that the carb reeked of unburnt gas, the owner swore that her repeated pumping of the accelerator had not flooded the engine and that my not hooking the cables up “right” was the problem. She whipped her cables off both batteries and declared that she couldn’t work with an “incompetent” like me.
Believe it or not, but in some municipalities in Texas, all vibrators must have a warning sticker on them saying that they are not for internal use before they can be sold.
Um . . . yeah. I . . . uh . . . promise I didn’t swallow mine.
I know that everyone goes under the car when they’re up on stands (isn’t that the point of raising it?) but I actually know a girl whose husband died when the car slipped off and crushed him. :eek:
I have this thought every time I see one of those signs. Would you like to join me in the Excessively Literal-Minded Club? At UCLA there used to be a handmade sign: “Caution! This door may open without warning,” and I thought, “but you’ve just warned me…”
This reminds me of another drinking game, one I used to see at Spencer’s all the time when I was a kid: Pass-out. The game? Move your pawn around the board, drinking when told, and recite a tongue twister after you pass a checkpoint.
“Not for use with alcoholic beverages.”
Right.
Copy programs for old computers (C64, Apple II, etc.) always stated that their purpose was to make legal back-up copies, and not to crack and copy friends’ games.
We were instructed many times to never blow into the end of a Nintendo cartridge. What’s the one trick that every NES owner knew from week one of owning the system? Blow in the end of the cartridge.
That reminds me of the “THIS IS NOT A STEP” at the top of all stepladders. I agree, it is not a step, but it sure as hell is used as one. Maybe they should make it with spikes on it, like the way they put spikes on overpasses to keep pigeons off them.
Another one I thought of was the paper bag of sugar that has the warning on it to not pick up by the fold. I can see their point, everyone breaks the fold and the bag is opened and thrown out then, but on the other hand, maybe they should realize that everyone is doing it because there is no other good way to pick up a bag of sugar, and work with us here.
