We had a trampoline growing up. This was before anyone even dreamed of those pussified retaining screens. My parents also though that it was a good economic move to forgo the pad that covers the springs and outer perimeter bar. I probably spent several thousand hours on that thing over the years. We perfected timing bounces with larger people so that you could jump 8+ feet in the air. It was never a problem unless your trajectory was off and you scissored the springs right into the crotch. Getting thrown off was bad as well but nobody broke any bones.
How does one go about cleaning out their ears without q-tips? If I knew of a better, safer way to do it I would!
You’re not supposed to clean out your ears. I know, that’s crazy talk, right? Apparently if you forgo the Q-tips for a month or more, your ear will stop producing so much wax and what wax it does make will just form little balls and roll out when you’re yawning. I swear I’m not making this up. Me, I get to about 32 hours and my ears itch like a mo-fo and I’m reaching for the Q-tips again.
I think that warning’s there for my sister, who once, in a bathroom argument of epic proportions, sprayed a can directly in my face. I can say with certainty that the yelling I did was disproportionate to the actual pain, which if I recall, was nonexistent. But it did get her in trouble.
Another Q-tip user here. I cannot avoid cleaning out my ears after a shower. I’ve even been known to occasionally use them in my nose (I don’t think there was a warning about that anyway.)
One warning I should not have ignored was putting fish sticks in the microwave. Not good.
On a related note, I bypass those start in neutral only switches in ATVs the first chance I get , because many a time it’s got to be left in gear when parked to stop it running away, and there’s no way to get it back into neutral with all the weight on the tranny.
Interestingly, Merriam-Websters has “frig” listed as an alternate spelling of fridge. I find this rather curious, considering as I’ve never seen it spelled this way and they also include the other, more shocking meaning of “frig” as a seperate entry.
Keep away from small children. I try locking myself in the garage, but the little bugger just beats on the rollerdoor with a cricket stump: “Daddy - come out and PLAAAYYY!”
I’m sitting here wincing at the people who disobey ketchup and trampoline warnings, but I’m just as bad. I just found out, via my friend’s rather horrified face, that you aren’t supposed to hold roman candles (the fireworks) when you’re shooting them off. I’d never seen it any other way and didn’t quite believe that he wasn’t just a pansy until I read the warning on the side of one. Sure enough, he was right.
I knew a one eyed kid that shot an eye out with a bottle rocket.
OK - you got me. Is the mattress label a merkin thing? I’ve just had a look at mine and either Ms Trmatthe’s OCD has got the better of her and she’s snipped the “do not remove” label, or we just don’t get that in the UK.
Anybody care to enlighten me?
trm
Mayo is the same. If you use it fast enough, you don’t have to keep it in the fridge. If you open it and put it in the fridge, keep it in the fridge. If not, you’re OK.
Some kind of federal law requires mattress manufacturers to attach a big tag to their products that say what kind of stuffing is used (100% new material, yada yada yada). These say something like “This tag may not be removed under penalty of law except by the consumer”
It’s an American pastime to joke about the scary mattress police who will catch you if you rip off that tag, but everyone sort of glosses over the fact that the tag clearly states that the consumer has the right to rip the tag off whenever he or she pleases.
Use in a well ventilated area. On a bathroom cleaner. What am I supposed to do, drag the toilet to the yard?
I agree with you in the real world. However, vignettes on Trading Spaces are staged and you’d think they would stage it with a thought toward pretending to use safety gear.
In the past, I don’t recall there being the disclaimer that it was “Except by the consumer”, thus the jokes. They might have put them on there recently, as the last time I checked, in the 90s, the “consumer” wording was indeed there but I recall in the late 70s it was not. Just my childhood recolleciton though.
Was he a one-eyed kid after the bottle rocket incident, or was he a one-eyed kid who was a no-eyed kid afterwards? 
One eye afterwards. He reloaded them at home too, so how safe was that.
That’s sad… Was this kid ever on TV to promote firework safety??
It would be the “Well, I’m here to tell you… I never thought it would happen.” campaign.
I am guilty of this. It’s my back that usually needs the heating pad, and I don’t want to lay on my stomach. I don’t even use the towel.
“Dry Clean Only”
Yeah, right. If something is that delicate, I’ll hand wash it. Only truly formal clothes (of which I own very few) would actually get special cleaning.