What is your favorite stupid statement?

[Kacey]

Let me give you an example of what I mean - there are lots of sleeping medications being advertised lately, and they all list side effects... including drowsiness! Now, isn't that kind of the point of sleeping medications?

This kind of goes along the lines of stupid product warnings - pictures also welcome! See below for examples, and look here for more examples.

 

[exile]

My favorite stupid product warning was a graphic on a pair of ski boots that depicted them in a big dutch oven full of boiling water, inside a circle with a diagonal slash running through it. Like, sorry mate! No Rossignol stew for you this winter!!

I also appreciated a sign on the back of a shop in a shopping strip in Columbus that read, `No trespassing without permission'.

 

[crushing]

My lawnmower has a sticker that warns against putting fingers under the deck while it's running. I'm sure some of these stupid warnings are the result of and a defense against stupid lawsuits. Like some bonehead trying to trim his hedges with his pushmower and instead cut off his fingers when he tried to get a good handle on the thing.

 

[Carol]

*Thwack!*

*Thwack Thwack!*

 

[Carol]

I know you are but what am I?

 

[Carol]

Yep. Back up to paying $40.00 a tank

 

[Sukerkin]

My favourite 'product warning' has to be the one that appears on bags of peanuts ... "Warning. May Contain Nuts" :lol:

 

[loyalonehk]

OK not sure if this fits here... Its more of a WTF/WHY question.

Have you ever wondered why they have "Brail" signs at the "Drive Up" ATM machines? Maybe I'm stupid but I just don't get it?

 

[exile]

My favourite 'product warning' has to be the one that appears on bags of peanuts ... "Warning. May Contain Nuts" :lol:

The really bad side of that warning is that the implication—that the bag of peanuts only may contain nuts—is probably quite true. Who knows what those things in that bag really are??? :uhohh:

 

[Skip Cooper]

OK not sure if this fits here... Its more of a WTF/WHY question.

Have you ever wondered why they have "Brail" signs at the "Drive Up" ATM machines? Maybe I'm stupid but I just don't get it?

Here is another one that doesn't really fit...why does the fast food chain "Sonic" have hanicapped parking spaces?!?!?!?

 

[Skip Cooper]

I am told, but have never verified for myself that the M18 Claymore mine bears a product warning "Do Not Eat". This is apparently due to the fact that the packaging is similar in size to the MRE's that the soldiers carry with them.

 

[Skip Cooper]

Here's two more and then I'm done...

"You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!" - Dr. Phil

...and...

"A cat can have kittens in a oven, but that don't make 'em biscuits!" -Quanell X, Houston area civil rights leader.


Funny how both quotes say the same thing, but they sound stupid out of the original context.

 

[fnorfurfoot]

This is less of a stupid statement and more of a pointless one. Why do Band-Aids state that their products are sterile? Can you buy them with diseases built into the padding?

 

[exile]

Here's two more and then I'm done...

"You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!" - Dr. Phil

...and...

"A cat can have kittens in a oven, but that don't make 'em biscuits!" -Quanell X, Houston area civil rights leader.


Funny how both quotes say the same thing, but they sound stupid out of the original context.

But there really is a difference. Quanell X is right, but Dr. Phil is wrong: you can put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken... doing so would take us from the realm of stupid statements to that of stupid actions, but ... :lol:

 

[crushing]

Here's a statement I've heard too often, especially from pro-athletes and even their coaches; usually as a reaction to something negative brought up in a press conference:

"It is what it is."

Come on guys! We realize you aren't Norman Einsteins, but please say something smarter than that!

 

[elder999]

Sign recently noticed in one of my favorite Santa Fe restaurants:

"Braille Menus Available Upon Request"

(Yes, I recognize the expectation is that if, say- I were dining with a blind person, I'd request the menu, but the incongruity had me laughing....)

 

[exile]

Here's a statement I've heard too often, especially from pro-athletes and even their coaches; usually as a reaction to something negative brought up in a press conference:

"It is what it is."

Come on guys! We realize you aren't Norman Einsteins, but please say something smarter than that!

At least they're not saying `It is what it isn't' or `It isn't what it is'... be thankful for small mercies!

 

[LawDog]

Do as I say not as I do.
:mrtoilet:

 

[CoryKS]

The really bad side of that warning is that the implication—that the bag of peanuts only may contain nuts—is probably quite true. Who knows what those things in that bag really are??? :uhohh:

Schrodinger's Warning Label - This package may contain nuts, or nothing at all. Or both.

 

[LawDog]

Get it done yesterday