On Packaging

[buschtrommel]

As part of my "new" job, I subscribed to a mag called "Packaging Digest". They send me daily "news" from the packaging world and obviously felt the need to lighten up my day by sending me the following list of surreal warnings found on packaging:

-- Packaging Digest, 9/10/2008 1:28:00 PM

Comments

[diarytypething]

To be fair, I have actually seen someone having their clothes ironed while they were still wearing them, so can concur that there are in fact some people who are that stupid. There's a good reason for the "contains nuts" warning on peanuts too: peanuts are not really nuts, and some people are allergic to proper nuts that grow on trees, but not peanuts (or vice versa), so the warning is there because the peanuts will probably have been processed in the same machines as other nuts and contain the occasional small bit of something else.

[buschtrommel]

Which poses the question of whether it is possible to buy peanuts without nuts in a major supermarket without buying peas. Fair point there, though.

As regards the stupidity of people. I wonder whether someone, who stops a chainsaws with parts of their bodies, does Darwin a favour by removing himself from the gene pool. That would render the warning superfluous.

In software configuration terms, this species is known as dumbest imaginable user which is as insulting as it is apposite.

[diarytypething]

The thing about the dumbest imaginable user is that even if you have a really good imagination, there will always be at least one person who is even more stupid.

[miss_hididi]

My old flatmate used to use her hairdryer to warm up her bed and often fell asleep with it still on...

Fascinating

[buschtrommel]

Hmm, in that case they should consider warning people "Do not use to heat bed".

"Do not use while sleeping" involves too much lateral thinking if it is to be intended as a stupidity warning.

I never thought that both you and diarytypething have had equally strange flatmates.

One of mine threw our TV out of the second floor window for the Fife Liberation Revolution. I wonder what the warning label for that should look like...