# "Please do not sit on the rice."

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-sit-on-the-rice/588752>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 12, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-sit-on-the-rice/588752 "2011-07-12T15:16:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-sit-on-the-rice/588752/41 "2011-07-16T07:21:27Z")

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> [@LeeshaJoy](#):
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> …wait a sec. If there was room for “Please Don’t”, they could have just written “Don’t Touch” and not had the ambiguous cycling text.

Yes, that occured to us too. This proves you’re a more critical thinker than the person who programed the thing.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-do-not-sit-on-the-rice/588752/42 "2011-07-17T06:23:24Z")

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> [@LeeshaJoy](#):
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> …wait a sec. If there was room for “Please Don’t”, they could have just written “Don’t Touch” and not had the ambiguous cycling text.

That wouldn’t make much of a trap, though, would it?

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