# Products most often used in direct violation of package directions. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 24, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627 "2002-07-24T20:11:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627/101 "2002-08-05T06:26:30Z")
So **that** ’s why they call it electric jello. I wonder about the electric kool-aid acid test… ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627/102 "2002-08-05T15:48:14Z")
> [@](#): > > “Always wear cycling helmet”. On a lazy ride through deserted back streets on a hot summer day? Who are you kidding? Nobody-- this is actually a very good idea. My worst wifeout in 8+ years of cycling came on a casual commute home from school. ALWAYS wear your helmet. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627/103 "2002-08-05T15:52:42Z")
wifeout —} wipeout. Yeesh, I don’t even want to guess what caused that typo. . . . 😉 ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627/104 "2002-08-05T18:37:00Z")
I always open the end of the package that says “Open other end” ---
**Author:** ![Sn-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sn-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sn-man)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627/105 "2002-08-05T18:40:36Z")
**Larry Mudd & Sublight** , you would have fit right in with my friends and I. Our two big misuses were along the same lines. BB gun wars were favorite, simple rules, no shooting above the shoulders (very surprised someone didn’t lose an eye), no more than two pumps (yeah right). The other one was Fireworks. Roman candles at 40 feet, sometimes with we would do three people in a triangle or 4 people in a square. A big adrenaline rush to play dodge ball when the ball you’re dodging is a fireball. Pop bottle rockets at each other while driving in our cars. We were a bunch of idiots. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627/106 "2002-08-05T19:20:58Z")
i drink alcohol in my hot tub - somewhere i saw a warning about not drinking and hot tubbing–something about the hot water speeding up the effects of the alcohol – yeah baby-- spending less money to get drunk ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627/107 "2002-08-05T20:12:49Z")
Y’all ever shoot each other with 12 gauges by riccocheting the pellets off a stock pond? ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627/108 "2002-08-05T23:09:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Y’all ever shoot each other with 12 gauges by riccocheting the pellets off a stock pond? \*\* Does it work with slugs? 🙂 I’m sure you used environmentally friendly bismuth or steel pellets, rather than lead ones. Riiiight… ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627/109 "2002-08-06T02:50:42Z")
I regularly reach into the sink disposal (insinkorator) to retreve things. I think you’re supposed to unplug it or something. I don’t know I didn’t read the instructions. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627/110 "2002-08-06T02:55:18Z")
I just remembered another one. Shaving cream cans all say “keep away from flame,” but in Jr. High my buddies and I would prepare for Halloween by putting pins into the nozzle of the can and using a lighter to melt the plastic around the pin. Taking the pin out left a much smaller hole, which would cause the shaving cream to shoot a good 10-15 feet. Unbelievably stupid, but nobody blew themselves up. And just for the record, my friends and I always wear safety goggles when shooting each other. We do it at night and are always diving through the underbrush, so it’s kind of hard to keep one’s aim below the shoulders. ---
**Author:** ![WortMeWorry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@WortMeWorry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WortMeWorry)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627/111 "2002-08-06T03:29:46Z")
Cervaise & Cards, I agree there is never too much. Besides who hasn’t squirted more on while the fire was going? As a kid we used to ride in the dryer. You just need to set the cycle to cool and keep the door open. ---
**Author:** ![Sinshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Sinshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinshine)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627/112 "2002-08-06T05:43:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*So **that** ’s why they call it electric jello. > > I wonder about the electric kool-aid acid test… \*\* so do I… I think I’ll check with some of my badder badder friends, though: I have a sense that in this case, flashbacks can be a b\*tch! ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627/113 "2002-08-06T15:26:10Z")
Gas stations here have warning posted that gasolines is to be “used only as an engine fuel”. Oh yeah… I’d NEVER clean tar off my hands with it. Nor remove paint from rags. And never, NEVER would I use it to start a bonfire! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-most-often-used-in-direct-violation-of-package-directions/120627.md?page=5)