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

[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 -_-