A couple of random things

[pez]

1.

We have become a country obsessed with putting warning labels on everything. While I understand "this product has been prepared at a place which handles nut", I don't understand:

i) Labelling a jar of peanut butter "contains nuts" (Sainsburys)
ii) Labelling beef lasagna "contains meat" (M&S)
iii) Labelling the water boiler "caution: hot water" (at a workplace near you)

Has there been some sort of legal changes that means liability can be shifted as long as there is a label on something? Has there been some changes with the human brain no longer being able to exercise common sense that beef lasagna has meat in it and water boiler deals with hot water? If Sainburys didn't put "contains nuts" on their peanut butter and somebody with nut allergy eats it and dies, can the family sue or something? Even though, hello, it's called PEANUT BUTTER?

I wonder how long it'll be until I start seeing electric sockets labelled "caution: live electricity".

2.

Ladies, once again, if you are a size 14, don't wear size 12 clothes - it won't make you look size 12, it'll make you look size 16 or 18. Wearing clothes that are too small for you is not clever.

And wearing a bra that's too small for you is even worse. Don't do that. Your poor breasts don't deserve to be squeezed like that; they aren't just fat, there are glands etc inside. And my poor eyes don't deserve to see those two extra lumps emerging from the top of your bra-line. You're not doing yourself a favour.

3.

For the last time, please don't stop walking once you've gone through a doorway, and start walking as soon as you get off the escalator. Why do you stop? Why? It's dangerous goddammit.

4.

Having a baby pram does not give you right of way. Motherhood is a great thing - until you use your baby and its transport vehicle as your shield and your way to get in front of everyone. btw, I will hold the door open for you, you don't need to run over my foot to prompt me.

5.

I appreciate that emergency vehicles, even when not on call, should get back to the base quickly in case a call comes. But it really, really annoys me when ambulances sound their sirens just to get past a junction and then switches it off again.

Comments

[shazz-chan.livejournal.com]

Parents who use their children as battering rams(prams) eughD

[lechaco.livejournal.com]

I think the whole hot water labeling came from a lawsuit where a woman sued McDonald's (I think it was that fast food giant) for not warning about the coffee being hot (she spilled it on herself and got burned). It's common sense to know that if you order coffee, it's probably going to be hot but she used a loophole. :\ So that's why all coffee and hot water have labels and some places, coffee isn't that hot anymore.

I didn't notice if we have "contains nuts" and "contains meat" for peanut butter and beef lasagna. XD;;;

[kidboomerang.livejournal.com]

Actually, she sued McDonald's as well as the manufacturer of said coffeemaker. (Which just happens to be the company my father works for, so I hear a lot about this sort of idiotic lawsuit and how many inane warnings have to be on everything involving commercial food preparation to avoid litigation.)

[tokkitsu.livejournal.com]

I thought the McDonald's lawsuit was because McD's coffee was actually much hotter than most other places than it needed to be, and McD knew it and didn't care, and she ended up getting second-degree burns or something?

[elyndys.livejournal.com]

AAARGH no 2, my eyes, my eyes!! It's as bad as the Triangle of Doom, as seen on so many women, many of them more overweight than is advisable when choosing to wear such a style of underwear. *shudder*

Also, no. 1 is stupid too, but I bet someone could sue if their kid died after eating a jar of peanut butter that wasn't labelled that it contained nuts. -_- Tragic, but all things legal are pretty topsy-turvy.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* I know most of those kinds of TV shows are stupid, but I really want to tell some people to watch "What Not To Wear" - there are ways to make yourself look good, whatever your size. People reeeeeally need to know that what looks good doesn't necessarily look good on them, and the latter is more important than the former.

In any case, I still don't see the appeal of showing underwear -_-

[moonrainty.livejournal.com]

I never understand why ppl wear clothes that are way too small for them. I mean....do they really not see the problem??

[dystopiarcadia.livejournal.com]

Well the UK's about the only country to have such obnoxiously huge power sockets in the first, and what kills me is that they each have a little switch-off button. Honestly and I'm not just saying that because I keep having to buy bulky adapters for all my french appliances/tech >D


And I see this a lot at work, because apparently Wagamama is the place to eat out for pregnant women: why do they all insist on wearing skintight tops? WHYYYYYY? It's bad enough I have to deal with their stupid food modifications, but I don't want to have to stare at their bulge every time I walk by.. *shudder*

And I'll stop spamming your LJ now XD

[eames.livejournal.com]

People are dumb. Seriously dumb. In reference to the lawsuit thing, I read/was told about someone (I think in America) who tried to sue because she put her cat in the microwave, (to dry it, I believe) and naturally - it died. I think she tried to sue because there wasn't a label saying 'Do Not Put Your Pets In The Microwave.' I wish I was kidding. >.< So yeah, I think everything has to be labelled now, as we pretty much live in a compensation-seeking society.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

That one, I'm glad to say, was an urban myth. ^^ But it does illustrate how people'd look for gaps and sue for practically anything now -_-

[seraphim-grace.livejournal.com]

Having a baby pram does not give you right of way. Motherhood is a great thing - until you use your baby and its transport vehicle as your shield and your way to get in front of everyone. btw, I will hold the door open for you, you don't need to run over my foot to prompt me.

and don't push it half way unto the road to cross over in the hope, possibly, that some well meaning motorist will either snatch the child or just run it over, and my ankles were not in your way, why the hell did you have to run them over.
I shop in the chemist too, and i'm nowhere near the baby aisle, so no, you ddin't have to go down the only other aisle with someone in it.

I think they're on points for how many people that can ram with their pushchairs.

but old ladies on those electric trolley things are far worse.