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Real Funny Label Instructions

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Actual label instructions on consumer products:

On a blanket from Taiwan -
NOT TO BE USED AS PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO.

On a helmet mounted mirror used by US cyclists -
REMEMBER, OBJECTS IN THE MIRROR ARE ACTUALLY BEHIND YOU.

On a Taiwanese shampoo -
USE REPEATEDLY FOR SEVERE DAMAGE.

On the bottle-top of a (UK) flavoured milk drink -
AFTER OPENING, KEEP UPRIGHT.

On a New Zealand insect spray -
THIS PRODUCT NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS.

In a US guide to setting up a new computer -
TO AVOID CONDENSATION FORMING, ALLOW THE BOXES TO WARM UP TO ROOM TEMPERATURE BEFORE OPENING. (Sensible, but the instruction was INSIDE the box.)

On a Japanese product used to relieve painful haemorrhoids -
LIE DOWN ON BED AND INSERT POSCOOL SLOWLY UP TO THE PROJECTED PORTION LIKE A SWORD-GUARD INTO ANAL DUCT. WHILE INSERTING POSCOOL FOR APPROXIMATELY 5 MINUTES, KEEP QUIET.

In some countries, on the bottom of Coke bottles -
OPEN OTHER END.

On a packet of Sunmaid raisins -
WHY NOT TRY TOSSING OVER YOUR FAVOURITE BREAKFAST CEREAL?

On a Sears hairdryer -
DO NOT USE WHILE SLEEPING.

On a bag of Fritos -
YOU COULD BE A WINNER! NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. DETAILS INSIDE.

On a bar of Dial soap -
DIRECTIONS - USE LIKE REGULAR SOAP.

On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom of the box) -
DO NOT TURN UPSIDE DOWN.

On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding -
PRODUCT WILL BE HOT AFTER HEATING.

On a Korean kitchen knife -
WARNING KEEP OUT OF CHILDREN.

On a string of Chinese-made Christmas lights -
FOR INDOOR OR OUTDOOR USE ONLY.

On a Japanese food processor -
NOT TO BE USED FOR THE OTHER USE.

On Sainsbury's peanuts -
WARNING - CONTAINS NUTS.

On an American Airlines packet of nuts -
INSTRUCTIONS - OPEN PACKET, EAT NUTS.

On a Swedish chainsaw -
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO STOP CHAIN WITH YOUR HANDS.

On a child's superman costume -
WEARING OF THIS GARMENT DOES NOT ENABLE YOU TO FLY.

On some frozen dinners -
SERVING SUGGESTION DEFROST.

On a hotel provided shower cap in a box -
FITS ONE HEAD.

On packaging for a Rowenta iron -
DO NOT IRON CLOTHES ON BODY.

On Boot's "Children's" cough medicine -
DO NOT DRIVE CAR OR OPERATE MACHINERY.

On Nytol sleep aid -
WARNING MAY CAUSE DROWSINESS.

On a Casio calculator -
ACCURACY NOT GUARANTEED.

On a Chrysler boot lock -
DO NOT LEAVE KEYS BEHIND.

On a Jensen car stereo -
WARNING: Loud music can cause deafness

On Jenkyl's Children Multivitamins -
NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.
 
On a packet of Sunmaid raisins -
WHY NOT TRY TOSSING OVER YOUR FAVOURITE BREAKFAST CEREAL?

I dont get this one. I was just thinking that yeah of course.


On Sainsbury's peanuts -
WARNING - CONTAINS NUTS.

Yeah, i've seen this or similar, in some peanut packet it reads "May contain peanuts".
That's because they have made it in same production line as the peanuts - indeed they have.


On Jenkyl's Children Multivitamins -
NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.

Hehe. My little brother once took a whole vitamin bottle. But he was ok, the most dangerous vitamin was A vitamin. because he had too much of that for sure.
 
lol good stuff , i was laughing about that the other day i opened a jar of peanut butter and i was reading the label WARNING CONTAINS PEANUTS i had to to laugh hmmm yes and what else would it contain ,,,lol

God Bless and Much Love xoxoxoxoxoxx
 
On a New Zealand insect spray -
THIS PRODUCT NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS.

---> insects? i know it's an animal? lol....



On a bag of Fritos -
YOU COULD BE A WINNER! NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. DETAILS INSIDE.

---> lol how could you know the details unless you buy it.. hahaha



On an American Airlines packet of nuts -
INSTRUCTIONS - OPEN PACKET, EAT NUTS.

---> nice instructions,.. hahaha
 
:laugh:Ha! ha! ha!, are these things for real!!

Some of them are just radiculous especially the last 10.

What got my attention most is the one for Chilren medication and the label reads DO NOT DRIVE OR OPERATE MACHINERY. This is not only funny but sad too.....as a parent am worried if they can make such unthinkable statement on medication then to me it shows the company is not serious of their products thus, gives me no confidence in it. Is someone getting me? This is childrens' medication, precious young lives. Recently there was a very famous meds for children which was reported to be too strong for kids, thus have negative effects and it has been there in market over 20 years!! I will be very careful now in whatever meds i buy for my daughter.

Thank you sister for the post.
 
On a helmet mounted mirror used by US cyclists -
REMEMBER, OBJECTS IN THE MIRROR ARE ACTUALLY BEHIND YOU.

:laugh:
thanks for posting
 
While we may chuckle at some of the gaffs, mistranslations and obvious, it's the MacDonald's case of the spilled coffee that prompts companies to print such warnings. Unfortunately, what takes a paragraph may need to fit on a single line. TV ads are famous for fine print at the bottom of the screen while showing your their product. Radio ads are famous for normal speech regarding their product and racing through the warnings.

BTW, MacDonald's added the words "Hot Beverage" to their coffee cups in response to lawsuit happy people looking to make a quick buck. Of course, there is the mother who injured herself tripping over her uncontrolled child and then threatened to sue the store because the Manager did nothing about it. That's life.

Cheers,
John
 
On a Japanese food processor -
NOT TO BE USED FOR THE OTHER USE.


I am afraid to ask what they are talking about

LOL, I feel more normal all the time.

In Christ,

NC
 
While we may chuckle at some of the gaffs, mistranslations and obvious, it's the MacDonald's case of the spilled coffee that prompts companies to print such warnings. Unfortunately, what takes a paragraph may need to fit on a single line. TV ads are famous for fine print at the bottom of the screen while showing your their product. Radio ads are famous for normal speech regarding their product and racing through the warnings.

BTW, MacDonald's added the words "Hot Beverage" to their coffee cups in response to lawsuit happy people looking to make a quick buck. Of course, there is the mother who injured herself tripping over her uncontrolled child and then threatened to sue the store because the Manager did nothing about it. That's life.

Cheers,
John

I agree with you on this. People are evil money sucking beggars who will sue out of their wickedness, not honesty. Its a shame really. They will lose more on judgment day.
On a Korean kitchen knife -
WARNING KEEP OUT OF CHILDREN.

Clearly mistranslation. Or we can only hope so :x
On a string of Chinese-made Christmas lights -
FOR INDOOR OR OUTDOOR USE ONLY.

I doubt this was a mistranslation, but then again - what's the third option?
 
I just received an email from a friend called the "Stella Awards" the other day. It was actual law suits, that won money that were ridiculous. I cannot believe such kinks in the U.S. justice system are there. Although we are human and that leaves room for error and misjudgement. :coocoo:


While we may chuckle at some of the gaffs, mistranslations and obvious, it's the MacDonald's case of the spilled coffee that prompts companies to print such warnings. Unfortunately, what takes a paragraph may need to fit on a single line. TV ads are famous for fine print at the bottom of the screen while showing your their product. Radio ads are famous for normal speech regarding their product and racing through the warnings.

BTW, MacDonald's added the words "Hot Beverage" to their coffee cups in response to lawsuit happy people looking to make a quick buck. Of course, there is the mother who injured herself tripping over her uncontrolled child and then threatened to sue the store because the Manager did nothing about it. That's life.

Cheers,
John
 
Actually - here it is.

It's time again for the annual "Stella Awards"! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico where she purchased the coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right?


That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. Here are the Stella's for the past year:

7TH PLACE :
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son. :shock:
6TH PLACE :
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hub caps.
5TH PLACE :
Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT, days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance com pany claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.
4TH PLACE :
Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.
3RD PLACE :
Third place goes to Amber Carson of Lancaster , Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113, 500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?
2ND PLACE :
Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure.
1ST PLACE: (May I have a fanfare please?)
This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisin gly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her (are you sitting down?) $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.
Are we, as a society, getting more stupid...or do we just have too many lawyers???? Or did I just rephrase the same question?







I just received an email from a friend called the "Stella Awards" the other day. It was actual law suits, that won money that were ridiculous. I cannot believe such kinks in the U.S. justice system are there. Although we are human and that leaves room for error and misjudgement. :coocoo:
 
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