They had to make a sign for that

[Lauren]

In regards to the husband forcing himself on his wife after surgery, when my auntie was in hospital after her first child, there was a man that had to be removed by security guards from the hospital because he wanted sex with his wife two HOURS after she gave birth by a C section! The nurse had tried to get him to stop, the doctor couldn't get him off the bed (he was trying to take her gown off and they're both fighting him. My auntie had to call security from her room because every other doctor/nurse was trying to restrain this man. He was banned from the hospital after that and she was kept in for three weeks to give her as much time as possible away from him.

[emeraldsage85]

Here are some good warnings I found at http://www.rinkworks.com/said/warnings.shtml

"Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body they do not cover." -- On a pair of shin guards made for bicyclists.

"Do not eat toner." -- On a toner cartridge for a laser printer.

"Not dishwasher safe." -- On a remote control for a TV.

"For external use only!" -- On a curling iron.

"Not intended for highway use." -- On a 13-inch wheel on a wheelbarrow.

"For use on animals only." -- On an electric cattle prod.

[nutraxfornerves]

WARNING AGAINST PUTTING PEOPLE IN WASHING MACHINE WINS TOP PRIZE  IN M-LAW's TENTH ANNUAL WACKY WARNING LABEL CONTEST

I rather like "Don not iron"--on a lotttery ticket.

[blue2000]

You'd be surprised how many people don't know that electricity and water don't mix.

Every time I see somebody using an electrical appliance in a bathroom in an American TV program, I just shake my head. Here, you are not allowed to have electrical outlets in the bathroom at all. Period. You can have normal ceiling lights, but the switch has to be outside the bathroom. Whenever I see people electrocuting themselves with CD players, tanning lamps, hairdryers, etc., I always think that if they followed common sense and didn't put electrical outlets in bathrooms, those things could be avoided.

I think here new homes are required to have Ground-Fault Circuit Interruptors (I think that's the name of it).
It's a special device in the outlet that will cut off the electricity if too much power goes through the circuits. So if you were making toast in the bathtub, and the toaster fell in the water, the GFI would kick in and shut down the outlet.
They still have people on TV killing themselves with appliances, though, because it's a very dramatic way to die.

[emeraldsage85]

So if you were making toast in the bathtub, and the toaster fell in the water, the GFI would kick in and shut down the outlet.

Is anyone else picturing Bill Murray in Grounhog Day? I sure am! 

[artk2002]

You'd be surprised how many people don't know that electricity and water don't mix.

Every time I see somebody using an electrical appliance in a bathroom in an American TV program, I just shake my head. Here, you are not allowed to have electrical outlets in the bathroom at all. Period. You can have normal ceiling lights, but the switch has to be outside the bathroom. Whenever I see people electrocuting themselves with CD players, tanning lamps, hairdryers, etc., I always think that if they followed common sense and didn't put electrical outlets in bathrooms, those things could be avoided.

In the US you are required to have a special kind of outlet, a GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor).  It sort of like a very fast circuit breaker, so that if anything does short out (like a hair dryer falling into a full sink), the GFCI will trip and the power will stop.  Building codes require these for all new construction and remodels and, if you buy an older house, the home inspector will suggest, strongly that you get them installed.  I put them into my kitchen when I moved into my current place.

[Julia Mercer]

I found a whole bunch of silly warning labels here:

http://www.rinkworks.com/said/warnings.shtml

Kinda scary!

Here's a couple  more sites!

http://www.dumb.com/productwarnings.htm
http://www.bored.com/crazywarnings/

[T'Mar of Vulcan]

In the US you are required to have a special kind of outlet, a GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor).  It sort of like a very fast circuit breaker, so that if anything does short out (like a hair dryer falling into a full sink), the GFCI will trip and the power will stop.  Building codes require these for all new construction and remodels and, if you buy an older house, the home inspector will suggest, strongly that you get them installed.  I put them into my kitchen when I moved into my current place.

You mean like a trip switch? All houses here are built with them in automatically, but we still don't put electrical outlets in bathrooms. And it's not inconvenient to us; it's just normal. We just do our grooming in the bedroom!

At one stage we had this eye-level oven that kept on tripping the lights when the temperature reached a certain level. My father (who wasn't a qualified electrician, but who built houses - out of brick here, BTW - as a money-making hobby) *disabled* the trip switch so that the electricity wouldn't go off every time we used the oven! But as soon as we got a better oven, he reenabled it. Then my mother's housekeeper, who did ironing in the outbuilding, decided to throw water *over* the iron cord while ironing. Boom, there went the lights every five minutes. So my father made it that only the outbuilding's lights would trip, not the rest of the house. After a few times of that, I guess she figured out not to throw water over electrical cords anymore.

[housewife2k]

I have yet to find a pair of running shorts with pockets.  And while it is very gross and I never do it when there are people around or indoors, for me it's the difference between spitting or choking.  Hence why a cold is a good reason to stays home from the gym.  There's a guy at the gym who always sounds like he's about to spit and is very vocal around it and grosses me out. 

Okay then, who cleans up the spit that you spat out onto the indoor track? Or do you just leave it there for someone else to clean up or be grossed out by? Sorry, but if you can't run without spitting, then perhaps you should just stick to an outdoor track where that is perfectly okay to do.

King's ring's, they stated in an earlier post that they ONLY use outdoor tracks, because of the need to spit.

[artk2002]

In the US you are required to have a special kind of outlet, a GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor).  It sort of like a very fast circuit breaker, so that if anything does short out (like a hair dryer falling into a full sink), the GFCI will trip and the power will stop.  Building codes require these for all new construction and remodels and, if you buy an older house, the home inspector will suggest, strongly that you get them installed.  I put them into my kitchen when I moved into my current place.

You mean like a trip switch? All houses here are built with them in automatically, but we still don't put electrical outlets in bathrooms. And it's not inconvenient to us; it's just normal. We just do our grooming in the bedroom!

At one stage we had this eye-level oven that kept on tripping the lights when the temperature reached a certain level. My father (who wasn't a qualified electrician, but who built houses - out of brick here, BTW - as a money-making hobby) *disabled* the trip switch so that the electricity wouldn't go off every time we used the oven! But as soon as we got a better oven, he reenabled it. Then my mother's housekeeper, who did ironing in the outbuilding, decided to throw water *over* the iron cord while ironing. Boom, there went the lights every five minutes. So my father made it that only the outbuilding's lights would trip, not the rest of the house. After a few times of that, I guess she figured out not to throw water over electrical cords anymore.

I think that a "trip switch" is what we would call a normal circuit breaker.  You have them (instead of fuses) on all of the circuits in your home.  These are generally too slow to trip when a small appliance (like an electric razor or hair drier) short circuits in the bathtub, or if water gets into a normal outlet and shorts it.  The GFCI is actually built into the outlet itself and trips much, much faster than a normal breaker, making it safe for use in a bathroom or kitchen.

Sorry to make a negative comment about your father, but disabling a breaker or fuse is extremely dangerous.  Among other hazards, a short-circuit could easily result in a fire.  I'm interested that water on the cord caused this.  It must have been a cloth-covered cord (probably quite old) for that to happen.  I can't think of an appliance that isn't made with a waterproof cord now, for just that reason.

[Virg]

Artk2002 wrote:

"You mean like a trip switch?"

Not at all.  A trip switch (that's called a circuit breaker in the U.S.) is designed to break a circuit when too much amperage is going through the circuit.  A ground fault circuit interruptor breaks a circuit when the ground loop faults (like dropping a hair dryer into water, which would cause the power to ground through the plumbing instead of the ground circuit in the outlet).  The advantage is that it's much, much faster than a breaker and it trips with far less current, so it's useful in allowing power outlets near water sources.  The catch is that a GFCI can't replace a circuit breaker (a short circuit doesn't cause a ground fault but will overheat wiring and cause fires), so every circuit that uses a GFCI also has a breaker in line.  All new construction in the U.S. requires GFCI-equipped outlets within reach of water.

Virg

[LadyDyani]

Rinkworks also has some extremely funny computer stupidities.  Highly recomended.

[IndianInlaw]

I bought some orange scented kitchen wipes.  The label says "do not taste".

So I didn't.

[T'Mar of Vulcan]

Sorry to make a negative comment about your father, but disabling a breaker or fuse is extremely dangerous. 

Wherever he is, I don't think he minds. He's probably playing golf on that huge course in the sky.

I totally get what you're saying, and so did my dad. He only did it to stop the lights tripping every time we cooked, which was every day. He once disabled the earth leakage, also to stop the lights tripping, and a week later the house got hit by lightning and it fried every appliance in the lounge...

I'm interested that water on the cord caused this.  It must have been a cloth-covered cord (probably quite old) for that to happen.  I can't think of an appliance that isn't made with a waterproof cord now, for just that reason.

Could be. She would just throw water haphazardly over the iron, the cord, wherever. My mother, though, is allergic to buying new stuff. You have to use and fix all the old stuff until you can't anymore. So it's possible that the iron was from the Jurassic era.

[RuneGuardian]

Every time I read a stupid label, it will either make me laugh or sigh in disbelief because I know the label is there because someone was stupid enough to do what's being warned against (and probably sued).

For example, on a bag of generic white sugar, it read across the bottom, "Ingredients: Sugar". Gee, really? Maybe it's not a warning label, but how dumb can a person be to not know that sugar contains sugar? I've only ever seen this on that brand of sugar, too.

I've also read warnings about not using hair dryers in the bathtub or while sleeping, using curling irons externally only, and a mattress that said "Do not swallow". I would love to know who attempted that last one just so I could track them down and laugh in their faces.