Things that make you go hmmmm. (44)
Cranky_GeezerPatchogue, New York USA29 Threads 1 Polls 2,239 PostsFifty years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery... 
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Whoever thought that people would have to be warned about eating detergent???
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Taralyn: Whoever thought that people would have to be warned about eating detergent???
On microwave manuals it say do not use to dry your pet 
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Cranky_Geezer: Fifty years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery...
I get the impression that education comes at the expense of something else. Yes we can all read now and it's to be told not to drink battery acid. People used to have freedom from the press by their inability to read, how quick universal literacy turns to media-spawned idiocracy.------ This thread is Archived ------
Taralyn: Whoever thought that people would have to be warned about eating detergent???
it all started with the MacDonalds coffee being “ too hot”. Since then, seemingly ridiculous warning labels have come out. (Shall superglue have the packaging statement :” warning- this product may adhere and bond tightly”. Duh...------ This thread is Archived ------
I'm starting to understand Socrates hatred of the written word more every day. His insistence that if you've got something to say you can say it to his face. Socrates lies between the fall of classic Greek wisdom and the rise of the modern Roman pleb. In the days of antiquity. The balance of modern rationality and traditional method - good old Socrates.
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Wonder what it will be like in a 100 years times
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If you're not really into it then I regard education as training you to be a good boy. And if you're living your life for fun why would you learn? Pleasure is the essence of life in the imperial age of decadent grandeur, we have all this knowledge but no one wants to learn. We would rather watch Rome burn than learn. This is why we need to be told about the battery acid.
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I remember my sister having a teddy bear with 'Do Not Iron' on its label.
I was highly amused by the imagery of that one.
I was highly amused by the imagery of that one.
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Something a bit different. I go hmmmm whenever I listen to Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic." There is not one example of irony in the song. Alanis clearly does not understand the concept of irony. "A bit ironic, don't you think?"
Oh and pop tarts instructions. Remove wrapper before putting pastry in the toaster. Hmmmmm
Oh and pop tarts instructions. Remove wrapper before putting pastry in the toaster. Hmmmmm
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lets talk about politics
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pedro27: lets talk about politics
Yep, that makes me go hmmmm NO THANKS! 
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Alanis Morrissette doesn't understand the concept of singing from what I've heard of her. 
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jac_the_gripper: Alanis Morrissette doesn't understand the concept of singing from what I've heard of her.
A great singer she is not, but her pop rock album Little Jagged Pill does have some catchy songs. Her anger and angst were real. It jumps off the grooves.
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Cranky_Geezer: Yep, that makes me go hmmmm NO THANKS!
Just joking........at the end of the day, most politics views don't effect us the public.......
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I'm not adverse to people expressing their emotions, I just can't be done with whiny female singers.
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jac_the_gripper: I'm not adverse to people expressing their emotions, I just can't be done with whiny female singers.
Hmmmm... Fair enough! 
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Cranky_Geezer: Fifty years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery...
Technology and development in general will rob us of the patience to learn anything. Curiousity and critical thought are killed off by their own creation, a larger and larger pool of humanity piggybacks and smaller and smaller amount of people who can think until theres only the artificial intelligence left.And the mob will throw in the Caeser at about the same time. Two fingers to the last of the thinkers.
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I bought a package of scissors a couple of years ago. There was about 6 pairs, all different shapes, sizes, whatnot. It was also packaged in a hard plastic blister pack with no marking whatsoever as to where to break, tear or chew open.
The only thing it said was........ may require scissors to open.
The only thing it said was........ may require scissors to open.
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Taralyn: I bought a package of scissors a couple of years ago. There was about 6 pairs, all different shapes, sizes, whatnot. It was also packaged in a hard plastic blister pack with no marking whatsoever as to where to break, tear or chew open.
The only thing it said was........ may require scissors to open.
The only thing it said was........ may require scissors to open.
packaging, that's something that does not make one go hmmmm but aaargh!!!
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