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kmk
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Username: Kmk
Post Number: 1111
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 4:09 pm: | 
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I realized today that there are certain warning labels that I will not live by.
I am an unbelievable "girl scout" when it comes to most things but actaully disposing of my daily disposable contacts after wearing them only one day - you have got to be kidding!
I also lather and rinse...I almost never repeat.
Our life is full of silly warnings and I have reached an age where I know what is best for me. "Don't take the tag off of the pillow under penalty of law" - yeah watch me! |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 7095
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 4:25 pm: |
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I don't remove my sunglasses driving thru tunnels (as per some road signs). I figure that it is the lesser of two evils, since my sunglasses are prescription.
I have an illegal space heater under my desk.
I open umbrellas in the house.
I taste a small sample from the salad bar at Whole Foods before I put a big spoonful in my carton.
I used a home microdermabrasion treatment before stopping the use of a retinol product (supposed to be two weeks).
I put colored towels in with whites if I'm not using bleach.
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Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13290
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 4:53 pm: |
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Warning: Do not drive with Auto-Shade in place! Remove Auto-Shade from windshield before starting ignition. (That's for the cardboard shade you put in the windshield.)
Brew strength depends on the amount of coffee used. (From my Black and Decker coffee pot.)
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gj1
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Username: Gj1
Post Number: 322
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 4:55 pm: |
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I routinely wear my disposable contacts for 3-4 weeks without removing them at all. I mentioned this to my optometrist and he had no comment except to offer a warning.
From the Wacky Warning Label Contests:
- A label on a baby stroller warns: “Remove child before folding."
- A brass fishing lure with a three-pronged hook on the end warns: “Harmful if swallowed."
- A popular scooter for children warns: "This product moves when used."
- A nine- by three-inch bag of air used as packing material cautions: "Do not use this product as a toy, pillow, or flotation device."
- A flushable toilet brush warns: "Do not use for personal hygiene."
- The label on an electric hand blender promoted for use in "blending, whipping, chopping and dicing," warns: "Never remove food or other items from the blades while the product is operating."
- A digital thermometer that can be used to take a person's temperature several different ways warns: "Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally."
- A household iron warns users: “Never iron clothes while they are being worn”
- A label on a hair dryer reads, “Never use hair dryer while sleeping”
- A warning on an electric drill made for carpenters cautions: “This product not intended for use as a dental drill.”
- The label on a bottle of drain cleaner warns: “If you do not understand, or cannot read, all directions, cautions and warnings, do not use this product.”
- A smoke detector warns: “Do not use the Silence Feature in emergency situations. It will not extinguish a fire.”
- A massage chair warns: “DO NOT use massage chair without clothing... and, Never force any body part into the backrest area while the rollers are moving.”
- A cardboard car sunshield that keeps sun off the dashboard warns, “Do not drive with sunshield in place”
- An “Aim-n-Flame” fireplace lighter cautions, “Do not use near fire, flame or sparks”
- A label on a hand-held massager advises consumers not to use “while sleeping or unconscious”
- A 12-inch rack for storing compact disks warns: “Do not use as a ladder.”
- A cartridge for a laser printer warns, “Do not eat toner”
- A 13-inch wheel on a wheelbarrow warns: “Not intended for highway use”
- A can of self-defense pepper spray warns users: “May irritate eyes”
- A warning on a pair of shin guards manufactured for bicyclists says: “Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body they do not cover.”
- A snowblower warns: “Do not use snowthrower on roof.”
- A dishwasher carries this warning: “Do not allow children to play in the dishwasher.”
- A popular manufactured fireplace log warns: “Caution - Risk of Fire”
- A box of birthday cake candles says: “DO NOT use soft wax as ear plugs or for any other function that involves insertion into a body cavity.”
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Morrisa da Silva
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Username: Mod
Post Number: 407
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 4:59 pm: |
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Wait at least 1/2 hour after eating before going in the water. 2 hours if your jewish - " Nu, It couldn't hurt". |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13293
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 5:08 pm: |
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A chainsaw came with a warning: "Do not attempt to stop chainsaw with your hand or your genitals."
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gj1
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Username: Gj1
Post Number: 325
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 5:31 pm: |
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Ouch! Someone must have gotten a nice settlement for that one. |
CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 2083
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 6:15 pm: |
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Eeew.
My new KitchenAid food processor has warnings all over the product book talking about risk of dismemberment and death - you can be sure I read ALL of the safety instructions after seeing those!
Here are some "laws" I break routinely. Strange, but these are mostly laundry violations. I guess it's my vicious passive-aggressive way of getting back at society, somehow or other.
I iron tailored woolens (lightly) without a press cloth. (please, nobody tell my mom!)
I often put a tablecloth onto the dining room table that hasn't been ironed. Ditto my cloth napkins. (again, please don't tell my mom!)
Sometimes I don't put the laundry away and just take the clean folded clothes right out the laundry basket.
(and sometimes they never even get folded)
I sometimes mix light-colored clothes in with the gentles.
Sometimes I mix light-colored clothes in with the hot wash.
Sometimes I toss my "gentle-only" clothes into the regular laundry. (if anybody else in the family did this, I would probably maim or murder them - but I'm the mom so I'm allowed.)
Sometimes I machine wash certain dry-clean only items. (the horror!)
I simply do not believe in hand-wash only. My feeling is if an item of clothing can't make it through the wash cycle, I don't want it anyway.
(las close your eyes) this goes for hand-knits, too. (though I do dry them flat - there are some laundry laws even I won't break.)
(las, still keep your eyes closed) I sometimes stitch my hand-made knitwear together without having first blocked the pieces.
I often carry a brown handbag when I'm wearing a black suit. I am simply NOT going to move all of my crap from one bag to another every day just to match my outfit. No way.
And of course, my shoes almost never match my handbag.
I often start to watch a movie when I know I'll never stay awake until the end. My husband thinks this is shocking, and if it isn't illegal probably should be.
I almost never measure or check if stuff is level, plumb, square, and all those other things that drive my husband totally mental. Thank goodness that he is obsessive about that kind of thing because I surely am not. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13295
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 6:50 pm: |
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CLK, I'm calling the police on you. You'll be getting a large list of citations.
Sometimes, I let my kids eat just one thing for dinner. I tell them not to let anyone know, lest the Parent Police come.
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CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 2084
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 8:00 pm: |
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Tom! Horrors!
OK I admit that sometimes I let my kid have mac'n'cheese for supper and I don't even fix a vegetable for her. So add it to the list!!
And here's another one that I thought of while I was making dinner -
I put my Henckels knives in the dishwasher. (GASP!!!)
OK, I know I'm going to be doing some serious time for all of this.... |
CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 2085
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 8:05 pm: |
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One more thing:
I never sift. Ever. And I don't level off the measuring cup of flour with a knife, either. And I never measure spices or salt. (except the salt that goes into bread.) And I about lose my mind when forced to watch people who do all of this.
I am feeling GREAT. Woohoo, who knew being rebellious was so much fun? |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 2000
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 9:20 pm: |
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when I used to dye my hair myself, I never did a "test" patch beforehand. Same for home hair removal products. I just go full steam ahead with the whole project and if I get a reaction, well....s#@t happens
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Scully
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Username: Scully
Post Number: 268
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 9:33 pm: |
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Years ago I bought a heat gun paint
stripper (went up to 1500 degrees)
with 'Warning: Not to be used as a
hair dryer' on the side...! |
ML
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Username: Ml1
Post Number: 2966
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 10:17 pm: |
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Quote:A household iron warns users: “Never iron clothes while they are being worn”
Major league baseball player Lew Ford once injured himself because he ironed his shirt while he was wearing it.
Those warnings are on products for a reason -- there are a lot of nutty people out there. |
las
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Username: Las
Post Number: 1443
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 10:43 pm: |
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(close your eyes CLK) I don't always knit a swatch before starting a new knitting project;
I don't replace my Brita filter every ninety days;
I prefer a mix of 75% milk to 25% chai as opposed to the 50:50 ratio on the box.
Somebody stop me. |
Lizziecat
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Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 1135
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 11:56 pm: |
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I tore the do not remove label off a pillow. |
Alleygater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1499
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 12:07 am: |
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I don't back up my data on my computer. |
Albatross
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Username: Albatross
Post Number: 823
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 1:25 am: |
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Alleygater: BLASPHEMY
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Virtual It Girl
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 4207
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 7:04 am: |
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Pippi, I don't do the patch test either! Well, I did once or twice... |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5373
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 7:21 am: |
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I suppose Ive broken some of the Ten Commandments. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13298
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 7:45 am: |
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CLK, you have some reprieves you don't know about. The law to sift flour was lifted years ago. They changed the way they make it. It doesn't clump any more.
Levelling off a cup of flour is for people who can't eyeball the measurement. So is measuring spices.
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Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5374
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 7:52 am: |
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but Tom, one ought to spoon flour into the measuring cup because there is a difference in volume between a cup (or two) of flour that has been scooped out versus spooned out.
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kmk
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Username: Kmk
Post Number: 1114
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 7:52 am: |
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For those Catholics out there I am not terribly proud to say that I have - on occastion - eaten before mass.
(I think they lifted this law too, but only for kids.) I think the parish would prefer that I remain standing during service rather than faint from hunger!
Then there is birth control......Come to think of it, I break quite a few religious laws. |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5375
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 8:04 am: |
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you heathen! (not that there's anything wrong with that) |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 7104
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 8:17 am: |
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Decades ago, I smoked a joint, went to Temple, took a brownie out of the fridge and ate it in the auditorium to satisfy my munchies.
It was Yom Kippur.
All's I know is that it is a damned good thing that Reformed Jews don't believe in Hell. |
CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 2086
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 8:23 am: |
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Hank, re flour - perhaps - but it doesn't seem to affect the quality of my baked goods. Maybe if you're making an angel food cake or something else that is really delicate, precise quantities matter, but in ordinary everyday cooking & baking precise measurement is really a waste of time (IMHO).
As to which Catholic rules I've violated ... well I'd just as soon stay away from that topic on a public forum, other than to say I don't think I know anybody who doesn't routinely violate at least a couple of them.
My mum-in-law in Ireland doesn't say anything, but I can tell that she is shocked that I eat before going to Mass. But like kmk I don't want to faint (I remember nearly fainting in Mass pretty routinely as a teenager). |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 7105
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 8:39 am: |
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Speaking of breaking the 10 Commandments, I just tried to steal another woman's husband.
Reingold and Red were walking in front of my house and I tried to seduce him (Tom, not the dog). Even tho I was most alluring, he was completely unimpressed. How could any normal, straight man resist a woman in a plaid flannel bathrobe with a Native American embroidery-patterned jacket, furry snow boots and hair sticking straight up, cemented by cat spit? I'm sorry, Carol. You must be quite the vixen for him to have resisted that. |
Buzzsaw
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Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 4292
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 9:16 am: |
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Our hair dryer says it should not be used as a heater, especially as something you put under to covers to keep you warm. Since then I have been thinking about doing that.
I don't break many laws.
Oh. And I jay walk from time to time. |
The Soulful Mr T
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1703
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 10:43 am: |
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I have been known to fold, spindle and mutilate. |
ess
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Username: Ess
Post Number: 1559
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 12:49 pm: |
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This should alleviate some guilt:
Those "do not remove" tags found on pillows, furniture, and the like are "not to be removed by anyone except the consumer". So, if you buy the item, you are the consumer, and are allowed to remove it. No laws were broken!
We can all breathe easy and focus on the real transgressions. |
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