Astroboy…
I’m pretty certain if you bring this thread up the first thing you’re hearing is ‘Touch Your Nose’!
I love this line and I am immediately going to start working it into my everyday conversations.
Every time this topic comes up somebody makes this comment. And every time I post the following link
I have yet to see where McDonalds has strayed from these standards. My guess is that these people who sue, would have sued if the coffee was too cold when they got it.
McDonald’s are notoriously litigious themselves. A friend of mine wrote a play for kids to put on, and it was pulled off because it was about earning crappy wages in a place called McBurger’s. Frankly I think McDonald’s drew more attention to the play by silencing it than it would have got otherwise, but it was ten years ago and I’m the only one who even remembers…
Anyway I heard that if you spill your drink on the floor in McDonald’s while on your way to the seat, they’ll give you another free. I’ve never had the guts to try asking… but is it true? How does it work, logically? (I mean, I’m totally to blame)…
A new McDonald’s has just opened near me. It’s still young and naive. The fries taste of potato and the burgers taste of meat. Cool.
She got it right, she just explained it poorly, and Rilchiam misunderstood it.
Absolutely correct. And, sorry, Bildo, buddy, but this isn’t res judicata or collateral estoppel. Instead, this is the entire controversy doctrine. "The entire controversy doctrine requires the mandatory joinder of all claims to a single transaction. Oliver v. Ambrose, 152 N.J. 383 (1998). To allow parties to not join all necessary parties and try all aspects of a dispute at one go means that the original suit would be “the trigger which … would start the chain reaction of other litigation.” Vacca v. Stika, 21 N.J. 471 (1956).
So, Rilchiam , the reason the food poisoning victim was SOL was because he was stupid. Instead of suing the company whose name was on the freaking chicken wrapper, he sued only the store. Having bitten the apple once, you don’t get a second bite. Courts get a little pissy if you say, “Oops, yer Honor, sorry we wasted your time by not suing the right person. Kin we try again?”
Sua
Yes, I stick the tip of my finger in it quickly or take a very small sip. I also do this while cooking, dipping the tip of my finger or a spoon into a boiling stock or sauce to taste it. Just as many people do, and most anybody can do. Or grabbing the end of a baked potato that is 400 degrees to quickly slide it out of the oven onto a plate without getting burned. Contrary to the thermodynamics “expert” who claimed in the trial that boiling liquids will instantaneously melt your skin off, momentarily touching most boiling liquids, water included, with minimal exposure and surface contact will not cause a third or even second degree burn. If this were not true, there wouldn’t be a cook on this planet with any fingers or lips. Pouring a cup of boiling water over your finger will though, and pouring a cup of water about 170 degrees into your lap can also, after a several seconds, as it is now on your clothing and continues to heat the skin, burning more severly due to the contact time (cooking). Same concept as a candle flame. Pass your finger slowly through it, you don’t get burned. Hold it in the flame and it will. That’s why I don’t open any hot liquid over my lap. I assume it might burn me, until I stick the tip of my finger in it to see how hot it is, because that doesn’t burn.
I’m having a rough time with this.
McDonalds using “superheated” water (whatever that nonsense is), hotter than reasonably expected, etc, sounds like a load of superheated horseshit. Who was taught that you shouldn’t expect third degree burns from hot coffee? I assume that a cup of coffee can be at any temperature up to the boiling point of water. And since I can cook an egg in boiling water, that stuff’ll probably cook me, too. I have an expectation that if I dump a cup of coffee in my lap, I’ll probably be horribly maimed. Are these not reasonable assumptions? I honestly don’t see how anyone but the plaintiff is at fault.
This has all likely been pounded out of that horse carcass long ago, but I just had to get it out of my system. Thank you. Carry on.