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Incongruities in instructions.

by raydp
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I've always been surprised that manufacturers find it necessary to give a warning that a packet of Brazil nuts "May contain nuts".

I've noticed one or two other oddities.

In the UK Vitamin C is labeled:

25mg Dosage, one tablet per day. Warning, do not exceed the stated dose.

Then:

50mg. Dosage, one tablet per day. Warning, do not exceed the stated dose.

Right the way up to:

1gm. Dosage, one tablet per day. Warning, do not exceed the stated dose.

If you mustn't take more than one 50mg per day it would seem foolhardy to take a dose 20 times the strength!

My alltime favourite was a large supermarket chain that sold a gateau with a note on the top of the box to the effect that the storage instructions were on the bottom of the box. When you turned the box over, amongst the instructions was the notation "Keep this product upright at all times"

It's amazing the amount of fun that can be had in a supermarket!

Ray
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      I think the warning are there because someone used the product incorrectly - and then SUED the manufacturer.

      Funniest lawsuit I've read of was a person who placed an extension ladder against a barn in the winter. One of the ladder supports was resting on a pile of frozen manure. When the guy climbed on the ladder in the Spring - the ladder fell because the manure pile under the footing had thawed. He sued.

      Can you imagine the wording of a warning about that? "Before positioning ladder, scoop the poop"??? "Placement of ladder on frozen manure may cause a fall to the rear"????

      Writing those warnings could be a fun job.

      kay
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  • Profile picture of the author raydp
    It's an unfortunate fact that so many people really are stupid.

    Some years ago, my wife and I had an aquatic centre - everything from goldfish to marines. One day a customer asked me how to deal with the feeding of his fish whilst on holiday. His mother was to look after things and she had previously been guilty of overfeeding the fish.

    I told him the only failsafe method was for him to make up little parcels of fish food in pieces of kitchen foil, one for each day of the holiday.

    Two weeks later he came into the shop and told me of his shock, on returning home, to find a tank of dead, or nearly dead, fish and fourteen little foil parcels floating on top!

    You just can't win sometimes!

    Ray
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