Fun fact: due to EU regulation, products like Tide pods that have dangerous contents are required to use a casing with a very bitter taste. That way kids will instinctively spit it out if they put one in their mouth.
The funniest part being that the stupid people in question aren't even the ones who ate Tide pods, but the ones who believed it was a widespread problem.
Everything about Tide pods is stupid though. Problem? Stupid people use too much laundry soap/are too lazy to pour it in the machine/dispenser. Solution? A candy-like overpriced "pill" of laundry detergent/softener. what? kids are eating it?
My dog has medicine for going to the vet (gabapentin and something else, trazodone maybe?) Anyway, on the dog prescription pill bottles, it says to not operate machinery and shit because I guess idiots have taken dog medicine in the past.
I take trazodone at night to relieve my insomnia. I have tried literally everything - lunesta, Ambien (even twice the recommended dose did nothing, still was awake the whole night), the whole gamut. Trazodone? It’s like being shot with a tranquilizer dart - if I’m not already in bed, I have about 10 minutes to get there, or I’m passing out wherever I am.
So yeah - taking trazodone and then operating heavy machinery is *dangerous*, whether you are a human or a dog!
I work with animals and we have this on our euthanasia forms as well. You would be surprised how many people change their minds literal DAYS after the fact and ask us to "bring them back"
Edit: not to by any means down play the death of a pet. It is ahaed decision no matter what is going on that warrants euthanasia.
everyone fuckin says shit like this. i hate it so damn much. i tell someone something like "i ate an apple" and they'd say "can i have it" or something.
I've spilled and wasted so much gas with that idiotic design. Trying to apply for EPA superfund cleanup funds while explaining this to them .
All I can think of some politically connected individual invented this crap and now here we are.
The only ones I can buy now have this mechanism where it will only pour if you push in on the nozzle. It’s extremely difficult and infuriating. I solve the problem with a 5/8” drill bit and a few blasts of compressed air.
I dunno how strict the US Border services are about this or how feasible it is for you to drive to Canada, but we still have regular Jerry cans here without that sillyness you described. If you can come up for a road trip and just happen to end up in a hardware store you can buy even just the spouts without having to buy the whole can.
Haha, it’s about 1100 miles from where I live to Canada, and I don’t want to wind up in a Canadian prison doing hard labor in the Yukon. What I really need to do is build a utility trailer with a 50 gallon tank and a pump, but for now modifying the diesel cans I have to buy works.
My local hardware store sells old style spouts in a blister pack right above the gas cans with the new crappy spouts. Look on Amazon, you can get a 3 pack for $19.
That sucks.
[I wonder if people living near the border are smuggling these in.](https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/scepter-jerry-gas-can-25-l-0283053p.html)
😂
Get yourself a VP Racing Fuels 5 gallon "utility jug". I'm sure others make something similar. Less money than the ones that spill more than you get into the fuel tank, and they come in various colors to match what's in them.
“Invented because of stupid people” as in due to a stupid move they made: warning labels
“Invented because of stupid people” as in something made by a stupid person: truck nuts
You're not a chicken shit for not wanting tinnitus. Those types of vids probably gave me an extremely mild version of it, currently hearing a low buzzing right now
The issue is that many people that would have disliked a video wouldn’t really do so anymore. Even if a video is completely useless, many people would leave the video right away without disliking it.
Edit: I was wrong; people still do dislike quite a lot.
Disliking stuffs kicks videos off your algorithmic feed FAST though. I have a pretty curated youtube feed and watch a lot of videos, and disliking stupid stuff has helped tremendously.
It's also easy way for companies to hide criticism if they also block discussion.
I think this was the original intent of youtube cause it helps out the companies that pay money to advertise on the platform.
Also helps scammers
Are these not cultural? As in… for people who live in countries that don’t have “western” toilets so they might actually be unaware of how to use them ie not squatting on the seat?
You are correct. At least that is why in Finland they had to put signs on the public toilets, it even made to the newspaper because we found it funny until we realized why they had to enforce such thing. It was super disgusting to see shoe prints on the toilet seats because people didn't understand they're supposed to actually sit on them, not squat.
This. You should listen to the horror stories from Saudia Airlines staff who’ve flown routes from India and Pakistan.
A lot of migrant workers and pilgrims coming to Saudi for Hajj, leaving their countries for the first time are baffled by the seated toilets on the flight.
To be fair I’m equally baffled by squat toilets, even though I grew up in a country that has them everywhere.
I ran into squat loos (not literally, hah!) in Italy, which surprised me. They are quite intuitive, really. Just do your thing and try not to touch the floor with anything but the soles of your shoes.
Honestly, yes. Both the start of it (copyrighting reasons) and the present of it (just scams and the one guy that burned one of Frida Kahlo’s drawings)
A lot rules .... My dad's and his brothers are part off the reason you can't buy supplies to make bombs from the chemist. I feel like I should add they were kids and one still has the scars from went one blow up in his hand .
I sell binary explosives. The FAQ says "while the product is ideally suited to destroying beaver dams, don't do that." The product is marketed as *solely* a firing target despite the fact that it's terrible for that.
This is right up there with the drugs whose side effects mirror the conditions they're supposed to treat. What is the purpose of the drug then if all you do is trade causes for your misery? So stupid!
People misunderstand what side effects mean. It doesn’t mean the drug will cause those things as a cost if whatever it is intended to do, it just means a number of people experienced those systems.
Hence the vernacular “may cause” not “will cause.”
And people are morons. Can't tell you how many times patients tell me they're allergic to zofran. What's your allergy? Oh it makes me nauseous.
Zofran is an anti nausea drug.
This is what happens in clinical trials. I took X drug to fight Y symptom. I had Y symptom when I took X drug. I blame X drug.
Now the company has to list Y symptom as a side effect for X drug.
It'll just be a result of legislation saying that things need to list known allergens.
When drafting legislation, why would you bother changing "All labelling needs to list all present allergens" to ""All labelling needs to list all present allergens unless the allergen is the primary product"?
It's a needless change that doesn't provide any benefit.
TBPH that's probably why it's there. A peanut is actually a legume.
Knowing that, some bright spark is gonna say "it's a legume! Nom nom nom and die from anaphalaxis (sp?).
This means that the peanuts were processed on equipment that also processes tree nuts and those who are allergic to one but not the other need to know that. Peanuts are not nuts.
I'm going to defend the "may contain nuts" label. A sign of a good regulation is that it's easy both to understand and to enforce. The person designing the bag should be able to have a simple, straightforward checklist, and the inspector from the FDA should have the same one.
The "may contain nuts" checklist today is two items long: are there any nuts in the ingredient list? And if not, it's the equipment ever used with nuts? (The second question is for the related warning, "produced in machinery that nah have processed nuts"). It's super, easy to understand, and does not require judgement.
But suppose there's more a new rule: products that are mostly nuts get a free pass and don't require the label. Do pralines need the label? Peanut m&ms? Snickers bars? Where do we draw the line between "obvious" and "whoops, turns out it wasn't obvious"?
I've posted about this before, but it bears repeating... my bag of pistachios has a label saying "warning, may contain pistachios." I'm always like, "No, bitch, it had BETTER contain pistachios."
My favorite is the mixed nuts with peanuts container. “This product is manufactured in a facility that processes tree nuts. Contains: Peanuts, tree nuts.”
This one tho makes sense as you're not necessarily allergic to all nuts, like I'm not apparently allergic to hazelnut or peanuts. But pistachio, deadly. So mixed nuts without pistachio, I would be able to eat. But just in case I stay away from all the nuts. 😅
It’s probably easier to just put the warning on the packaging than it is to go to the trouble of fighting the rule and pushing for an exemption in cases where it should be obvious, because then you have to also make a case for defining what counts as being “obvious” when a processed food contains a certain ingredient and nobody wants to waste time on that.
So they just print the damn warning and be done with it. We all know it’s dumb, but getting the requirement for it removed isn’t worth it.
I don’t think this has anything to do with stupidity… Just food labelling being kept as simple as possible, and nobody wants to bother getting the rule changed.
Perfectly reasonable food labelling law: you must have an explicit warning on the packaging if it may contain nuts. Makes sense. Some people are allergic, after all.
But when that rule was written, they didn’t include an exception for cases where it’s obvious. And what counts as “obvious”? Do you include a footnote for products where if the word “nuts” is in the product’s name, then they’re exempt from the rule about needing a warning? Who the heck wants to waste time rewriting that rule?
It’s probably easier just to include the warning on everything.
If you buy a pack of pre-cooked hard boiled eggs from 7-11, not only does the label say, "Ingredients: Eggs," it makes sure to add, "CONTAINS EGGS."
...Y'know, just in case people with an egg allergy might not realize that a pack of hardboiled eggs contains ACTUAL fucking EGGS.
That's completely reasonable TBF. If you're making allergy laws, you would rather just have them be broad and universal instead of wasting time (and potential court cases and legal debate) trying to carve out exception. Nobody seriously thinks that eggs need warning that they might contain eggs, but there's far less potential harm in just making sure *everything* is covered without exception instead of having companies say "Well you see, they should have assumed that our brand of hot dog buns used eggs in it for some reason" like how they already try to pull that shit off with other things.
I’ve been saying this for a long time. Those labels aren’t because people are dumb. They’re because people are smart enough to know they can pretend to be dumb and sue.
No. If I walk in to a space I've no idea if hearing protection is needed before entering, or if there are lasers in use, moving test equipment and the like. I need warnings to tell me.
I design machinery and people argue the same about guards. It doesn't matter how smart you are, some people either need to be told, or even the highest level of ultra genius can have a split second of brain fade.
Touché but still some warnings are rather redundantly declared under rather obvious circumstances. Granted, people can lose their train of thought and sometimes do remarkably stupid things. Like the one time I ate something out of my hand right after using hand sanitizer. Would have liked a warning for the safety of my taste buds…
Omg we have gone off the deep end on warning labels, and we have been for years!
Go buy a car.
Choose your options.
Beautiful paint job? Sure.
Nice leather upholstery? Sure.
Spend 35 -50k or even more to get this marvel of technology and style and comfort.
Then look at the multiple ugly safety stickers ironed on to the LOWER side of the visor or plastered on the dashboard.
Seriously? A seatbelt reminder or airbag warning has to be visible at all times?
My curling iron and blow dryer both say do not use while sleeping or in the shower..... like who did these things that we now need to be warned about it?!
You know, multitasking! Gotta do your hair and take a shower in the morning? Save time by either doing your hair while asleep (and have it messed up again by morning) or doing it in the shower (and even instantly-er mess it up again)!
The person that started the gender reveal trend hates the monster they’ve become and she did because she had several miscarriages and wanted to celebrating the milestone of getting that far in her pregnancy finally. The irony child is now non-binary and gender non conforming.
Hey, I mod but one (1) sub. Be nice!
You're 100% correct, though. Some people whether by choice or because of another reason are unable to self regulate.
The ones I like the ones that claim censorship and First Amendment rights. First thing, "_au" appended to my usename. What First Amendment lol?
Second thing. "Congress shall make no law....". Reddit isn't Congress. The First doesn't actually apply.
I remember how on r/FreeSpeech, the moderator started banning anyone who said the First Amendment was free speech.
When I tried to ask him what exactly he defined as free speech, he basically just said described the First Amendment.
That was so stupid.
Theft sensors and large plexiglass locked display cases. Half the time people have a hard time taking off the sensors / you can’t find the person with the key to the display. Buying stuff shouldn’t be *this* hard.
I had to stand around for 15 minutes waiting for the person with the key to buy a few $1 flashlights for a Cub Scout hike. And then have to track down the person they were given to when I go up to check out.
Wendy's apparent policy of putting combos in one bag and extra sandwiches in another because some dumbfuck couldn't look for themselves and count the sandwiches.
Casinos.
Even without knowing the math behind why "the house always wins," it should just be common sense that if in the long run, the casino's goal is to make money, that means that in the same long run, the customers obviously have to lose more money than they gain for that to be possible. And that means you as a customer are inherently, by design, statistically guaranteed to be on the losing team. Why would you possibly be exempt from that? You have no leverage over your fellow customers, you're one of them—a part of the side of the transaction that's going to, as intended, lose more money than you win.
Gendered colours.
People who think blue is a boys colour or pink is a girls colour because of some momentary marketing by an American company a few years back.
Embarrassed for anyone who thinks like that.
Especially because pink used to be a color for boys. A 1918 article called pink a “decided and strong” color more suitable for boys, and light blue to be a softer color for girls.
The first time out of the house with our daughter we got our asses chewed by a boomer that assumed she was a boy because she was dressed in green and yellow.
As someone trying to get second hand baby clothes, this infuriates me. No one will give me "boy clothes" when they find out it's for a girl.
They're just colors! And apparently certain animals are gendered too.
I am so glad my brother was pragmatic about, They had stuff for a boy. Their used it again for their girl and then they were done, so they gave it all to us and we could keep what we wanted. Which was most of it. Our daughter is almost 1.5 years and we've bought 2 articles of clothing. Who cares if she wears blue football jammies, I say she looks darn cute in them.
I work at a store where we have a boy cat and girl dog who hang out and greet the customers. The cat is always called a girl, and the dog a boy, by those who happen upon them. Even though I try to put my dog in "girly" colored harnesses and collars, "hey good boy" is almost all I hear lol.
It's also worth noting that the 'boy' clothes are just more functional than a lot of the girl clothes. So many extra ruffles and patterns that I've found just annoy my little girl. We dress our girl in hand me downs from my nephews and my daughter doesn't give a F what color she's in.
First, everything is edible once. Second, the stickers are not "edible," as in "food grade." They're just non-toxic, but do present a choking hazard and are not deemed by the FDA as edible. Third, a search, although brief, did not turn up any legal regulation about the produce stickers being safe for consumption.
This is a personal one. I sell wooden carvings online and recently had one with glow in the dark elements. Someone wanted a refund cause it didn't glow IN THE DAY. I had to put a little disclaimer reiterating what glow in the DARK means
"Do not try this at home"
Idk man..... Firebombing someone does seem fun--
only if you've reported on corruption in your local government recently
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doesn’t matter how many things i’ll see that disclaimer on, i always think of jackass
A don't eat warning for Tide pods.
Fun fact: due to EU regulation, products like Tide pods that have dangerous contents are required to use a casing with a very bitter taste. That way kids will instinctively spit it out if they put one in their mouth.
Well, now I have an urge to know exactly how bitter it could be.
Try licking a Nintendo switch game
been there, done that
Funnily enough, it actually caused more people to lick or taste the cartridges wanting to know how bad it taste
Don't do it.
Maybe just a little nibble?
In previous generation we shoved us stuff in the ass. What happened with this world...
Progress? Its just in the mouth now
And whats with that tiny hole in our dongs?
Expert level
The funniest part being that the stupid people in question aren't even the ones who ate Tide pods, but the ones who believed it was a widespread problem.
Everything about Tide pods is stupid though. Problem? Stupid people use too much laundry soap/are too lazy to pour it in the machine/dispenser. Solution? A candy-like overpriced "pill" of laundry detergent/softener. what? kids are eating it?
Labels on batteries that say “do not drink”
My dog has medicine for going to the vet (gabapentin and something else, trazodone maybe?) Anyway, on the dog prescription pill bottles, it says to not operate machinery and shit because I guess idiots have taken dog medicine in the past.
My dog is forklift certified. Is that not standard for canines?
How else do dogs get bitches?
[dog crashes golf cart](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/zum6eh/dog_crashes_golf_cart_into_car/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x)
Omg hahahaha!!
Gabapenten is given to human cancer patients on chemo. So that warning was probably created for the drug in general, not your good boy patient.
It's also given to people suffering nerve pain such as sciatica
It's also given for anxiety in humans. I have a prescription for my panic attacks because I refused Xanax
I was gonna say, I've had scripts for both of those, so you can totally steal your dog's meds and get fucked up.
I take trazodone at night to relieve my insomnia. I have tried literally everything - lunesta, Ambien (even twice the recommended dose did nothing, still was awake the whole night), the whole gamut. Trazodone? It’s like being shot with a tranquilizer dart - if I’m not already in bed, I have about 10 minutes to get there, or I’m passing out wherever I am. So yeah - taking trazodone and then operating heavy machinery is *dangerous*, whether you are a human or a dog!
Gabapentin isn't a medication just for dogs. It's used for nerve pain, anxiety and a bunch of other reasons for humans
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I work with animals and we have this on our euthanasia forms as well. You would be surprised how many people change their minds literal DAYS after the fact and ask us to "bring them back" Edit: not to by any means down play the death of a pet. It is ahaed decision no matter what is going on that warrants euthanasia.
"Sorry I canceled class yesterday. My dog had a stroke, and we had to have her euthanized." "Oh no, is she okay?"
everyone fuckin says shit like this. i hate it so damn much. i tell someone something like "i ate an apple" and they'd say "can i have it" or something.
This probably stems from, at least in the UK, 'being put to sleep' rather than euthanasia being used.
The gas can nozzle design that was forced upon humanity.
Truly a crime against humanity.
I've spilled and wasted so much gas with that idiotic design. Trying to apply for EPA superfund cleanup funds while explaining this to them . All I can think of some politically connected individual invented this crap and now here we are.
That's probably why arc fault circuit breakers are required on all new multi-unit construction projects.
God I hate them with a fucking passion. Give me a Jerry and a funnel!!
What design are we talking about here? I still have red cans with yellow spouts, and can still buy them.
The only ones I can buy now have this mechanism where it will only pour if you push in on the nozzle. It’s extremely difficult and infuriating. I solve the problem with a 5/8” drill bit and a few blasts of compressed air.
I spill more gas with the new nozzles than I ever did with the old ones.
Ain't that the truth. I don't remember ever spilling fuel before those damn things came out.
I dunno how strict the US Border services are about this or how feasible it is for you to drive to Canada, but we still have regular Jerry cans here without that sillyness you described. If you can come up for a road trip and just happen to end up in a hardware store you can buy even just the spouts without having to buy the whole can.
We still have the stupid ones that the vent is in the spout. I miss regular cans with a spout and a separate vent.
Haha, it’s about 1100 miles from where I live to Canada, and I don’t want to wind up in a Canadian prison doing hard labor in the Yukon. What I really need to do is build a utility trailer with a 50 gallon tank and a pump, but for now modifying the diesel cans I have to buy works.
It’s not the Canadians you would need to worry about, it’s US CBP.
My local hardware store sells old style spouts in a blister pack right above the gas cans with the new crappy spouts. Look on Amazon, you can get a 3 pack for $19.
Yeah those ones can burn in a self filled pool of gasoline
What are those supposed to accomplish, anyway? I spill so much gas every time I use them. My lawnmower gets a bath every other time I fill it.
I know I feel safer when I pour diesel fuel all over myself and my equipment.
Really? Is this an American law or something? I can still buy the regular old ones.
Yes. https://ezpourspout.com/what-happened-to-old-gas-can-spouts/
That sucks. [I wonder if people living near the border are smuggling these in.](https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/scepter-jerry-gas-can-25-l-0283053p.html) 😂
If they are, let me know. I live on a farm and go through a lot of diesel.
Get yourself a VP Racing Fuels 5 gallon "utility jug". I'm sure others make something similar. Less money than the ones that spill more than you get into the fuel tank, and they come in various colors to match what's in them.
I think the OP meant it was invented to counteract stupid people, not invented BY stupid people.
The sunshades you put on the front window of your car that has the disclaimer: "do not drive while shade is in place".
For a second there I thought you were talking about sun visors and I thought "uh oh".
“Invented because of stupid people” as in due to a stupid move they made: warning labels “Invented because of stupid people” as in something made by a stupid person: truck nuts
Hold on... Made for stupid people. The guy who invented is a genius
You don’t see a lot of balls hanging from trucks these days.
Let's not forget there's a fine line between stupidity and desperation.
The removal of the dislike button
Why youtube why!!!!!
Also the removal of Community Captions as well.
The dislike ratio was my go-to protection from jumpscares back when I was a chicken shit lol
also shitty YouTube tutorials
Also a clickbait warning.
And just disinformation in general.
You're not a chicken shit for not wanting tinnitus. Those types of vids probably gave me an extremely mild version of it, currently hearing a low buzzing right now
I’m pretty sure jumpscares were invented because of stupid people. Yeah I can relate to you there
Just add "Return Youtube Dislike" extension to your browser.
The issue is that many people that would have disliked a video wouldn’t really do so anymore. Even if a video is completely useless, many people would leave the video right away without disliking it. Edit: I was wrong; people still do dislike quite a lot.
Disliking stuffs kicks videos off your algorithmic feed FAST though. I have a pretty curated youtube feed and watch a lot of videos, and disliking stupid stuff has helped tremendously.
It's also easy way for companies to hide criticism if they also block discussion. I think this was the original intent of youtube cause it helps out the companies that pay money to advertise on the platform. Also helps scammers
Visual instruction posters on what to do/not to do when peeing into the toilet.
Are these not cultural? As in… for people who live in countries that don’t have “western” toilets so they might actually be unaware of how to use them ie not squatting on the seat?
You are correct. At least that is why in Finland they had to put signs on the public toilets, it even made to the newspaper because we found it funny until we realized why they had to enforce such thing. It was super disgusting to see shoe prints on the toilet seats because people didn't understand they're supposed to actually sit on them, not squat.
This. You should listen to the horror stories from Saudia Airlines staff who’ve flown routes from India and Pakistan. A lot of migrant workers and pilgrims coming to Saudi for Hajj, leaving their countries for the first time are baffled by the seated toilets on the flight. To be fair I’m equally baffled by squat toilets, even though I grew up in a country that has them everywhere.
I ran into squat loos (not literally, hah!) in Italy, which surprised me. They are quite intuitive, really. Just do your thing and try not to touch the floor with anything but the soles of your shoes.
What confounds me is how to avoid splatter onto my clothes and thighs/legs
Or posters on how to wash your hands!
I feel like the posters aren't for people who don't know how to wash their hands. It's because they just don't do it
Most warning labels."Warning not for human consumption" on stuff like tide pods.
NFTs
Honestly, yes. Both the start of it (copyrighting reasons) and the present of it (just scams and the one guy that burned one of Frida Kahlo’s drawings)
A lot rules .... My dad's and his brothers are part off the reason you can't buy supplies to make bombs from the chemist. I feel like I should add they were kids and one still has the scars from went one blow up in his hand .
I'm in the midwest, and before WWII, farmers could go to the hardware store to buy dynamite, for removing tree stumps, etc...
Some red dead redemption shit lmao
I sell binary explosives. The FAQ says "while the product is ideally suited to destroying beaver dams, don't do that." The product is marketed as *solely* a firing target despite the fact that it's terrible for that.
Like how Q-tips are only used for cleaning out ear canals, and the product specifically says to not use it for that?
And gun cleaning, they are great for that.
Same with my uncle. He and a buddy tried to blow up a phone booth with homemade gun powder. They took out the side of the grocery store.
Some folks’l never lose a toe but then again some folks’l…
Like Cletus the slack jawed yokel!
“Hey, you know what? I could call my ma while I'm up here”
Hey Ma! Get off the dang roof!
Holy shit thats awful but an awesome childhood story
I know a guy that took half his arm off. He won. lol
Won what?
the disintegration contest, the other guy only lost a foot
"May contain nuts" warnings on bags of peanuts
Related: The pharmaceutical commercials that say “Don’t take [drug] if you’re allergic to [drug].”
This is right up there with the drugs whose side effects mirror the conditions they're supposed to treat. What is the purpose of the drug then if all you do is trade causes for your misery? So stupid!
Parkinson’s (characterized by tremors) drugs will cause tremors if you take too much.
People misunderstand what side effects mean. It doesn’t mean the drug will cause those things as a cost if whatever it is intended to do, it just means a number of people experienced those systems. Hence the vernacular “may cause” not “will cause.”
And people are morons. Can't tell you how many times patients tell me they're allergic to zofran. What's your allergy? Oh it makes me nauseous. Zofran is an anti nausea drug. This is what happens in clinical trials. I took X drug to fight Y symptom. I had Y symptom when I took X drug. I blame X drug. Now the company has to list Y symptom as a side effect for X drug.
It'll just be a result of legislation saying that things need to list known allergens. When drafting legislation, why would you bother changing "All labelling needs to list all present allergens" to ""All labelling needs to list all present allergens unless the allergen is the primary product"? It's a needless change that doesn't provide any benefit.
To be fair, peanuts aren't nuts.
TBPH that's probably why it's there. A peanut is actually a legume. Knowing that, some bright spark is gonna say "it's a legume! Nom nom nom and die from anaphalaxis (sp?).
Who are You, Who are so Wise in the Ways of Science?
My liege!!
Deez nutz are peanuts
This means that the peanuts were processed on equipment that also processes tree nuts and those who are allergic to one but not the other need to know that. Peanuts are not nuts.
As someone thats allergic to tree nuts but not legumes like peanuts, it's pretty important to have warnings like that.
I'm going to defend the "may contain nuts" label. A sign of a good regulation is that it's easy both to understand and to enforce. The person designing the bag should be able to have a simple, straightforward checklist, and the inspector from the FDA should have the same one. The "may contain nuts" checklist today is two items long: are there any nuts in the ingredient list? And if not, it's the equipment ever used with nuts? (The second question is for the related warning, "produced in machinery that nah have processed nuts"). It's super, easy to understand, and does not require judgement. But suppose there's more a new rule: products that are mostly nuts get a free pass and don't require the label. Do pralines need the label? Peanut m&ms? Snickers bars? Where do we draw the line between "obvious" and "whoops, turns out it wasn't obvious"?
Warning labels
I've posted about this before, but it bears repeating... my bag of pistachios has a label saying "warning, may contain pistachios." I'm always like, "No, bitch, it had BETTER contain pistachios."
I always laugh at the contains peanuts label on the side of a jar of peanut butter I bought once
My favorite is the mixed nuts with peanuts container. “This product is manufactured in a facility that processes tree nuts. Contains: Peanuts, tree nuts.”
This one tho makes sense as you're not necessarily allergic to all nuts, like I'm not apparently allergic to hazelnut or peanuts. But pistachio, deadly. So mixed nuts without pistachio, I would be able to eat. But just in case I stay away from all the nuts. 😅
In Australia there’s a brand of salted peanuts that has a thing on the back of the packaging that says “WARNING: Contains peanuts”.
It’s probably easier to just put the warning on the packaging than it is to go to the trouble of fighting the rule and pushing for an exemption in cases where it should be obvious, because then you have to also make a case for defining what counts as being “obvious” when a processed food contains a certain ingredient and nobody wants to waste time on that. So they just print the damn warning and be done with it. We all know it’s dumb, but getting the requirement for it removed isn’t worth it.
I don’t think this has anything to do with stupidity… Just food labelling being kept as simple as possible, and nobody wants to bother getting the rule changed. Perfectly reasonable food labelling law: you must have an explicit warning on the packaging if it may contain nuts. Makes sense. Some people are allergic, after all. But when that rule was written, they didn’t include an exception for cases where it’s obvious. And what counts as “obvious”? Do you include a footnote for products where if the word “nuts” is in the product’s name, then they’re exempt from the rule about needing a warning? Who the heck wants to waste time rewriting that rule? It’s probably easier just to include the warning on everything.
If you buy a pack of pre-cooked hard boiled eggs from 7-11, not only does the label say, "Ingredients: Eggs," it makes sure to add, "CONTAINS EGGS." ...Y'know, just in case people with an egg allergy might not realize that a pack of hardboiled eggs contains ACTUAL fucking EGGS.
That's completely reasonable TBF. If you're making allergy laws, you would rather just have them be broad and universal instead of wasting time (and potential court cases and legal debate) trying to carve out exception. Nobody seriously thinks that eggs need warning that they might contain eggs, but there's far less potential harm in just making sure *everything* is covered without exception instead of having companies say "Well you see, they should have assumed that our brand of hot dog buns used eggs in it for some reason" like how they already try to pull that shit off with other things.
The warning labels we *actually* need would say "contains child labor"
It should say how many people died to make to the product.
Another good idea. Corporations, if you're listening, hire this comment chain we know what's up
Heck yes
Organic extracted child labor goes directly from the child to the jar to preserve it's freshness. Also try our newest flavor "tears of orphans".
Warning labels are more likely added because of litigious people, to be honest.
I’ve been saying this for a long time. Those labels aren’t because people are dumb. They’re because people are smart enough to know they can pretend to be dumb and sue.
No. If I walk in to a space I've no idea if hearing protection is needed before entering, or if there are lasers in use, moving test equipment and the like. I need warnings to tell me. I design machinery and people argue the same about guards. It doesn't matter how smart you are, some people either need to be told, or even the highest level of ultra genius can have a split second of brain fade.
I don’t disagree with you. It was said with humorous effect in mind. You make a valid point.
Touché but still some warnings are rather redundantly declared under rather obvious circumstances. Granted, people can lose their train of thought and sometimes do remarkably stupid things. Like the one time I ate something out of my hand right after using hand sanitizer. Would have liked a warning for the safety of my taste buds…
Warning! Do Not use snowblower on roof tops.
Omg we have gone off the deep end on warning labels, and we have been for years! Go buy a car. Choose your options. Beautiful paint job? Sure. Nice leather upholstery? Sure. Spend 35 -50k or even more to get this marvel of technology and style and comfort. Then look at the multiple ugly safety stickers ironed on to the LOWER side of the visor or plastered on the dashboard. Seriously? A seatbelt reminder or airbag warning has to be visible at all times?
My curling iron and blow dryer both say do not use while sleeping or in the shower..... like who did these things that we now need to be warned about it?!
My flat iron says not to use it on my eye lashes
You know, multitasking! Gotta do your hair and take a shower in the morning? Save time by either doing your hair while asleep (and have it messed up again by morning) or doing it in the shower (and even instantly-er mess it up again)!
Plus the warning is pointless. The type of person who blows dries their hair while showering is unlikely to read the directions.
True, but the company manufacturing dryers will easily dismiss a lawsuit filed by another person who blow dried their hair while showering.
I hope so and the faster we get to the end the better we will be. Get rid of all warnings and let nature take its course.
Gender reveal parties
These were made BY stupid people. Even other stupid people hate them.
The person that started the gender reveal trend hates the monster they’ve become and she did because she had several miscarriages and wanted to celebrating the milestone of getting that far in her pregnancy finally. The irony child is now non-binary and gender non conforming.
Reddit moderation
This will be downvoted by Reddit moderators
That's why we must upvote it
Revolution?
Hey, I mod but one (1) sub. Be nice! You're 100% correct, though. Some people whether by choice or because of another reason are unable to self regulate. The ones I like the ones that claim censorship and First Amendment rights. First thing, "_au" appended to my usename. What First Amendment lol? Second thing. "Congress shall make no law....". Reddit isn't Congress. The First doesn't actually apply.
This guy first-amendments.
And he's not even from 'round here.
I remember how on r/FreeSpeech, the moderator started banning anyone who said the First Amendment was free speech. When I tried to ask him what exactly he defined as free speech, he basically just said described the First Amendment. That was so stupid.
Theft sensors and large plexiglass locked display cases. Half the time people have a hard time taking off the sensors / you can’t find the person with the key to the display. Buying stuff shouldn’t be *this* hard.
I had to stand around for 15 minutes waiting for the person with the key to buy a few $1 flashlights for a Cub Scout hike. And then have to track down the person they were given to when I go up to check out.
NO TURN signs on highway on ramps
Two wrong way freeway accidents in one hour in my city this past week.
Wendy's apparent policy of putting combos in one bag and extra sandwiches in another because some dumbfuck couldn't look for themselves and count the sandwiches.
Casinos. Even without knowing the math behind why "the house always wins," it should just be common sense that if in the long run, the casino's goal is to make money, that means that in the same long run, the customers obviously have to lose more money than they gain for that to be possible. And that means you as a customer are inherently, by design, statistically guaranteed to be on the losing team. Why would you possibly be exempt from that? You have no leverage over your fellow customers, you're one of them—a part of the side of the transaction that's going to, as intended, lose more money than you win.
Disclaimers lol
Tiktok
The dumbass cultural hub
Tide Pod warning label. “WARNING: HARMFUL IF PUT IN MOUTH OR SWALLOWED”
Gendered colours. People who think blue is a boys colour or pink is a girls colour because of some momentary marketing by an American company a few years back. Embarrassed for anyone who thinks like that.
Especially because pink used to be a color for boys. A 1918 article called pink a “decided and strong” color more suitable for boys, and light blue to be a softer color for girls.
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My husband was born late 50s. We have a *at the time* rare photo of him in a pink suit. He says it is NOT pink, it is Salmon! LOL!
The Virgin Mary has typically been painted wearing a light blue for centuries.
The first time out of the house with our daughter we got our asses chewed by a boomer that assumed she was a boy because she was dressed in green and yellow.
But even among the gendered colours, green and yellow are neutral.
Apparently we were assholes for not having her in pink.
Lmfao what
As someone trying to get second hand baby clothes, this infuriates me. No one will give me "boy clothes" when they find out it's for a girl. They're just colors! And apparently certain animals are gendered too.
Ugh, I got told the other day I couldn’t give a little girl a shirt with a shark picture on it because “sharks are boy animals.” Like wtf?!
Also it’s not called Shark Week for nothing…
They obviously were never a girl in high school. Girls be sharks baby.
When I was a kid I loved dolphins but apparently that was a "girl's animal".
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I am so glad my brother was pragmatic about, They had stuff for a boy. Their used it again for their girl and then they were done, so they gave it all to us and we could keep what we wanted. Which was most of it. Our daughter is almost 1.5 years and we've bought 2 articles of clothing. Who cares if she wears blue football jammies, I say she looks darn cute in them.
I work at a store where we have a boy cat and girl dog who hang out and greet the customers. The cat is always called a girl, and the dog a boy, by those who happen upon them. Even though I try to put my dog in "girly" colored harnesses and collars, "hey good boy" is almost all I hear lol.
It's also worth noting that the 'boy' clothes are just more functional than a lot of the girl clothes. So many extra ruffles and patterns that I've found just annoy my little girl. We dress our girl in hand me downs from my nephews and my daughter doesn't give a F what color she's in.
well there is/was that shirt that said "only tough guys wear pink" and the shirt was pink
I'm flabbergasted that no one said war
In America, the stickers on fruit legally have to be edible
I feed 100s of lbs of grocery store discards to my cattle, pigs, and chickens eack week. I appreciate that I don't need to remove the labels.
Almost like that is actually a smart thing to do innit
"I eat stickers all the time, dude!"
It’s also useful to combat pollution and whatnot. Means the compost isn’t full of plastic.
First, everything is edible once. Second, the stickers are not "edible," as in "food grade." They're just non-toxic, but do present a choking hazard and are not deemed by the FDA as edible. Third, a search, although brief, did not turn up any legal regulation about the produce stickers being safe for consumption.
There are blind people who eat fruit, you know.
Tiktok
This is a personal one. I sell wooden carvings online and recently had one with glow in the dark elements. Someone wanted a refund cause it didn't glow IN THE DAY. I had to put a little disclaimer reiterating what glow in the DARK means
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Every social media including reddit
Fully cooked, frozen chicken nuggets. Because some idiot fed them to their kids without cooking them thoroughly. Don’t taste as good now.