Which rules do you break or which instructions do you ignore?

I’m doing an informal study of what happens if I don’t do some silly paperwork that I think isn’t important and /or checked by another human.

I thought I’d be called out for my badass rule-breaking.

But nope. No one has said anything and the Earth hasn’t burst into flame (yet).

I treat “use by” dates as suggestions, doing a quick taste-test if something is moderately expired or tossing it if it’s expired by a time measured in years.

(Anybody else visualizing these items as part of one of Stephen Colbert’s Midnight Confessions?)

I use the internet for personal purposes at work. Hence this posting… and most of my other weekday, daytime postings.

I routinely check the box vowing that I’ve read the user agreement terms and conditions, yet I never have. Including on this site…

I void warranties.

And this is your theme tune?

I ride on the footpaths where not doing so would result in my swift flattening by a truck.

I also don’t read EULAs. Is this a thing that’s actually been done by a human, ever?

I don’t touch on my travel card when I’ve already hit the daily maximum cost and a on ‘free’ time

You should probably follow that one most of the time.

I won’t look you in the eye when I speak to you, or else I’ll look intensely straight at you for just a little too long.

Any explicit order I am given, I will ignore or, more likely, do the opposite of.

I willingly follow the small rules (cross at the lights etc.) and try to slide around the big rules.

Nifty.

To carelessly split infinitives gives me great delight.
I use less when I mean fewer, all the time.
I wish death on other posters at least once a day. Sure, I don’t post about it, but* that’s* not the rule. I could be doing in about you right now. Yes, you!

All that I can and never to answer the questions asked

That bullshit grammar thing about quotes absorbing punctuation that follows them.

You’re just writing English instead of American. :slight_smile:

(The Brits don’t do the weird trick with quotation marks - they just treat it logically.)

Sometimes I use the Oxford comma, sometimes I don’t. It depends on the sentence.

I doln’t even know what thew rules are. I do as I please, and if it happens to be in compliance with a rule, that’s a coincidence.

Sometimes I observe people who are already there, and do things in a way that avoids pesky conflicts. Like driving on the right.

Rule about rules: Rules are to guide the wise and command the foolish.

I do not sort, stain treat, pre-soak, or soften my laundry. Just throw them in the washer together with a pod and then throw the wet clothes into the dryer.

Well, that’s a fake rule anyway.

I wear ribbed condoms inside out, for MY pleasure.:smack::eek:

I mismatch impedance between amps and cabs.:smiley:

I throw stuff in the quarry:rolleyes:

:D:D:D

I’ve read a few, just out of curiosity. Some have some really weird bits. iTunes specifically forbids that its software is used to pilot a plane or in the manufacture of chemical, biological or nuclear weaponry. I hope the vast majority of Dopers follow those rules.
I scorn use by dates, especially on fruit and vegetables. Washing is bunged in the machine, dark and light colours together, no soaking, no pre-treatment other than emptying pocketses. And as for ‘serving sizes’ I note them only to ridicule them.