Duh! Warnings

January 31, 2009

Sometimes I really just wonder how stupid some people are and how they make it through life. My lips are a bit chapped so I pulled out my trusty Cherry Chapstick and happened to notice the warning on the side.
Keep out of eyes! Duh! Who in the world tried putting Chapstick in their eyes that caused the company to need to had such a warning. Yikes!

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Phoebe

Crack me up!!

Thanks for the laugh.

@GettingFreedom
Sarah

The same people who tried to take a tiger to the movies. (I once saw a weird law that included “you cannot bring a tiger to the movie theater.”)

LOL
Michele

That gave me a chuckle. It made me check on my Burt's Bees lip balm label…no warning, just says that it's tube is made out of 50% post-industrial recylced plastic & not tested on animals. Maybe it's the green alternative that you CAN rub in your eyes. Then again perhaps that's a theory better left untested…
brandy

just a warning. some people are that dumb. haha j/k. maybe incase your kids get a hold of it or something
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The Mother

My favorite was the warning label on a new hammer telling the user that one should move one’s hand out of the way first.

Duh.
superfizz

You never know what people will do.
mom2anutball

Lol!
Reminds me of a time when we were out of town and I had to go to a laundry mat, on the washer it said to make sure there were no children, CHICKENS or animals other animals of any kind before starting!! HUH? Who tried that?
jurrel

LOL! That was funny! Though I think that’s because of some regulations or laws imposed on manufacturers hence the seemingly silly warnings.
stephie

It is funny how these companies have to protect themselves from every possible contingency regardless of how ridiculous they may be.
Ingrid

That is something, but you never know. Maybe they melted it first!
mom2beauty

Robyn
Oh it is so funny to look up weird and unusual warnings and laws too…everyone will remember the HOT coffee at McDonald’s that the lady sued them over! HELLO…ITS HOT COFFEE!!!! Now they have warnings in the windows and on the coffee cups…..TOOO FUNNY!!!
Cheri2628

Ditto the DUH!!! :-)
Christine @ Live Laugh Love and Bloggings

*laughing* DITTO on the Duh!!

It’s also like the warning’s on toasters “not to use in the bathtub” I want to know, who in the world tried to make toast while bathing?

Doesn’t Bill Engvale do a thing schtick about silly warning signs -and his comeback is “here’s your sign”!?! *laughing*
Leland’s Mama

Yeah, there are a lot of stupid people in the world. But really made me comment on this is that I have that exact same chapstick. lol.
Also, since I enter your giveaways I thought you may want a chance to enter mine, I am having one for a $30 Applebee’s gift card going on until Feb. 4th.
Betty

lol funny!
I wonder what happened. hmmmmmmm

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http://www.squidoo.com/Stupid_Warning_Labels

here are some more good ones. I love stupid warning lables. Always good for a laugh.
4in4

I thought of the McD’s coffee too. I think that set the whole thing in motion. The part I like the best about the coffee warnings, and lots of others, is how they put the best possible spin on the warning – the coffee you are about to ENJOY…
foamfan

A friend’s child received a toy tool set with a plastic hardhat at his first birthday, and while guests were looking at the gifts, I noticed inside the little yellow hardhat, there was a warning note: “Do not use this for actual construction projects!”
Everyone fell out on the floor, laughing,when they saw it.
I also saw a strangely humorous tag on a dishtowel at Dollar Tree, once. There were all kind of dire warnings, including not to use the dishtowel to put out fires!
I’d love to know, who tried that…and should have bought the towel, just for the entertaining tag.
Lori

The most weird eye thing I’ve heard of is on some brand of herpes meds they pedal on tv, and the announcer says, “not for use in eyes” or somethign to that effect. GROSS!

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Stacey Moore

that is a total duh!
funny!
Valerie

Haha, I’m not surprised..
I checked out one of mine, and it said the same thing plus “Not to be eaten” It’s chocolate chip flavor, so I guess it might be tempting?
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angie

LOL! Many of the warnings out there are common-sense, and stupid, like those emails you get with signs on the side of the road. Crazy huh?!

Angie
Pricousins at aol dot com
kristacooks

This is too funny! I love randomness like this!

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my crazy Ender!

Krista:)
Michelle

oh you didn’t know? lots of people put chapstick right on their eyeballs, its the new solution for dry eye.
j/k
She Became A Butterfly

Ellen DeGeneres has an old comedy routine in which she talks about the directions on a shampoo bottle, like we all don’t know how to use shampoo!

she
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Gregg

The worst thing is that I think most of those warnings get added after they are sued for THAT PARTICULAR WARNING!

Think about McDonalds and the years of “CAUTION-COFFEE IS HOT” all over the cup.

Also, my daughter once sampled a watermelon scented shampoo, because it smelled so good. It didn’t taste so good, just so you know.
Devita

ahahahhahahah… ROFL
Beth

Ha ha ha ha ha!!! I can’t believe that was on there. Now I am going to go find a chapstick at Walgreens and check it out. Thanks for the laugh, it made my night.

Beth
hohanker (at) gmail (dot) com
TechyDad

The McDonald’s coffee incident is often used as an example of frivolous lawsuits, but it actually had some merit. That McDonald’s was cited repeatedly for serving coffee too hot. They were keeping the coffee at 180-190F while other places serve it much lower.

In this particular case, Liebeck’s grandson (who was driving at the time) stopped the car so his grandmother could add cream and sugar to her coffee. The coffee spilled into Liebeck’s lap and caused third degree burns on 6% of her body.

I’ll agree that the amount awarded to Liebeck was high. Then again, she did try to settle with McDonald’s for $20,000. (In the end, they settled for an undisclosed sum.)

My information was obtained from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mcdonalds_coffee_incident

I’m completely opposed to frivolous lawsuits. Just trying to spread a little information about a case that’s frequently misunderstoon.

TechyDad at TechyDad dot com
calimama

I can see your point. But I can also see some people feeling the bite of a blizzardy ski day and thinking it might help the edges of their eyes from hurting. Don’t know where that came from but that’s just how my mind works!
Lomagirl

What’s especially ironic is how difficult it is for most people’s eyes to even read that. Does it warn you not to eat it, too?
hondaray6

Well, I never put chapstick in my eyes, but maybe I should read warning labels. Last winter during a sliding party I ran in to grab chapstick for my lips. There were a lot of people here and by mistake I grabbed a gluestick and slathered it on my lips! My kids say its the quietest I been in weeks! LOL
Superjaxster

You know that they were required to put in the warning because people actually did it. So sad…yet so very amusing!

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Mangi

LOL, Maybe someone cold think this is for the whole face use.

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Anonymous

This is so damn funny.
What kind of person would try to use it in the eyes.

There are weirdos for everything.
LOL.

onegaisan at gmail dot com
Reva Skie

I have seen a blowdryer say to not use while sleeping. My iron has a warning to not iron clothes while wearing them.
Shin

I once saw a Super Man costume which says:
WARNING
It doesn’t give you the power to fly.

Those people are ever breaking the childs dreams…
LOL

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Mandi

WHO?

Probably the same people that NEED the directions on a shampoo and conditioner bottle.

Or how about the guy that won the lawsuit for putting his RV on cruise, going in back and making a sandwich, and crashed. It didn’t state that you must stay at the wheel during cruise.

HELLO It’s not autopilot!!!
MonkeyBaby

hey, i like putting cherry chapstick on my sore eyes instead of eye drops — who knew you weren’t supposed to!? :)
Molly C.

lmao! I’ve seen some crazy weird warnings on things also. Really makes you wonder. lol