@@vxicepickxv You might not be surprised to hear that many first-time users ("installers"???) overlook this rather important requirement. The Wife's a Pharmacist, and the things she sees (and hears) are somewhat scary - "following simple instructions" seems well beyond a large chunk of her customer base!
There's an antipsychotic that listed, initially, the first 2 side effects as "can cause your heart to quit," and "painful, permanent erection that can only be repaired by surgery." Was generally given to early adolescent boys. At levels well above the recommended safe high adult dose... 4-6x the daily high dose, several times a day...
@@tamsel814 It was olanzapine (Zyprexa) in my case. Antipsychotics will win that competition regardless though. I mean: male breast development, lactation, parkinson's-like symptoms, ejaculation disorder, hallucinations... to pick a few that most antipsychotics have.
The back and forward of the writers knowing how Simon thinks and answering/heading off this thoughts with the next line that they know he hasn't read yet.
Right? Like, there's not a single channel of his that I don't have at least a passing interest in, often just because he makes the subject matter entertaining.
I have a friend who works for the health and safety executive, she gets so pissed off when random companies decide stuff is "against health and safety" when it isnt. The rule of thumb she says is, "for it to be a real warning, it has to be written in someone's blood." Stuck with me.
It only takes one idiot to ruin it for the rest of us. If you're going to be stupid, be smart about it. Don't put any other appendage somewhere you wouldn't put your reproductive one. If the breaker is in the box, the line is hot. A falling blade has no handle. Just a few off the top of my head...
I worked in consumer product sector. I can tell with confidence that all of those wired warnings you saw on products are there because they already happened. We did not make them up as your friend suggested.
My sister and I are both English majors, so when we see poorly worded warning labels, we text a pic of it to one another. Usually it's bad translations, but poor word choices are the best. "Do not throw missiles at workers" found a few miles from an Air Force base is my personal favorite find. (They meant rocks but... I mean... I just HAD to photoshop a missile into the pic!) For dumb safety warnings, we come up with elaborate stories about what some poor sap must have done to REQUIRE such a label. "If they have to warn against it, someone definitely has tried it."
Pretty much this. I was dating someone that worked on repairs on planes and other stuff on a bass. The number of shortcuts, or just bad things people did there was horrifying. Her Ex who was fulltime in the army IIRC:didn't keep the saftey of his gun on, thought it was fun to twirl and through despite being a literal weapon, even though ( at the time) there are specific lifts and carriages for everything from what I could tell. her back got messed up once when someone she was helping a routine airplane inspection didn't bother going 10-15 feet to get the right gizmos for replacing the tires. So part or all of fell down on her, friend get herself checked out, and the dunderhead that caused ripped a new one because he just damaged a insanely expensive thing. I bet somewhere out there are now lifts for replacing tires for jeeps and airplanes saying: use the right one!!!
I once bought a piece of armor for a medieval costume. On the tag were the usual warnings, not use it in actual combat, dispose of it if damaged etc. The last sentence though has always made wonder just what others had tried doing with it. The last sentence on a warning tag for a piece of metal armor read “ do not eat “.
This just reminds me of a couple time when I would be at Walmart with someone, while they are trying to decide on what type of whatever they are looking at I would pick up something and just read the random safety warnings. On an extension cord, AN EXTENSION CORD, it said "may cause cancer". I’m still baffled by this and have made it a habit to check the labels on random items during any trip to the store, just to see what else may have that warning on it.
One way it could cause cancer would be if the cord was set on fire somehow and you inhaled the fumes from the burning plastic. However, you are probably more likely to expire from toxic fumes or the fire itself, of course.
You must be in the US. That's there because some random part of the extension cord may have been found to cause cancer, so in order for it to be sold in California, it has to have the Prop 65 warning. Instead of making separate tags for CA products, they just have it on everything. It's sort of hilarious. Every store you go to in CA has a.warning label at the entrance letting you know that they carry products that may cause cancer.
Yeah, that cancer warning's there for California, SAME with the warning on damn nearly everything, "This product has components and/or substances that are known to the State of California to cause birth defects and reproductive harm." It's funny to find on the first... oh... couple hundred products when you're specifically (still) wondering if they include it, too... BUT when it starts to sink in that it's on literally EVERYthing, it loses its appeal to humor. That doesn't stop a LOT of warning labels from being fun... and some of them are downright hilarious, whether or not you specifically include the context "Someone tried it and sued the company or this wouldn't be on here." ;o)
I'm 48 years old and so far in my life, I've been able to get a warranty under repair for a household item ONE time. It was a refrigerator, and it lasted one more year after the warranty, then broke again without the warranty so I just bought a new one.
Depending on the problem, they're sometimes quite easy to fix. I repaired my dryer one time, a job that took about an hour after I got the parts, and it ran better than the day I bought it. (Granted I bought it used.)
..as a former ER (A&E) nurse, the object insertion incidents were extraordinary and ...well, frankly mad - I was working on a crazy friday night in the UK, and a woman came in with a small fruit juice bottle stuck (neck first) in her lady garden... the warmth of her body had expanded the air in the bottle, and created a vacuum - we managed to slide a catheter (a small plastic tube) up.. and in.. to release the vacuum, and were able to release the bottle - job done... but she appeared the next week, with another bottle stuck! Same procedure, sorted - I called the on-call maintenance dude, and asked if a hole could be drilled in the bottom of the glass bottle - he could - I then gave the bottle back to the woman, and asked her to never darken our doors again... Bonkers!
I wonder if any hospital has ever partnered with their local sex toys stores to hand out discounts and to encourage use of proper tools to repeated offenders.
@@popenieafantome9527 some people have aversion to using actual tools meant for...intimate stuff out of shame. and this leads them to justifying shoving objects that should not go where they go.
My girlfriend and I got into my car one sunny day, and as I removed the sun shade from the windshield I noticed a small note in the corner I'd never seen before: "Do not drive with sun shade in place." We were reduced to hysterics and it was some time before I could drive. From then on anytime we needed a laugh we'd just mention it.
the rectal thing is because when we take an animal’s temperature we do it rectally! surprisingly this is often less upsetting for them than orally but also it’s more accurate 🤷🏽♀️ but just know that if you’ve ever taken your dog to the vets he’s had a thermometer up there during a checkup haha
I've always been curious why vets choose rectal temperature checks over oral, makes sense that it would be more accurate than oral checks but my dog got an aggression mark for showing his teeth while having his temperature checked
It is more accurate for humans also. We just do oral ones as it's more comfortable, but I know a lot of NICUs do rectal temperature nearly exclusively. Given you might be taking care of the mother also I can see why a friendly reminder is helpful there.
Keep the blazes on, factboy! I would LOVE to see a blaze about the 2nd pacific squadron voyage of the damned, the amount on incompetence during the trip was astonishing and surely deserves a video
Looks of things n this thread, just about everyone's seen or heard about it... BUT the "Flight of Rodina" in 1938 was a pretty good clusterf*ck... The Soviets were hellbent for an all female flight crew to establish a record breaking distance flight at about 3600 or 3700 miles, but bad weather led to poor visibility and they lost the airfield... and then rescue crews had to go find the plane... which it took 'em about 8 days to do, still in decent condition, so not all was lost... BUT with the navigator's position particularly vulnerable in emergency landings, the nav' chuted out of the plane before landing... and couldn't find her emergency pack... but stumbled into camp when she finally found the plane 10 days after the emergency landing... Apparently, rescue crews had found it, and just waited 2 days for her to show up. ...and of course, everyone involved got medals... Well... let's face it. Nothing ever really went particularly according to plan in the 30's anyway, and at least nobody was killed in this one. I guess that's good enough for a "success". ;o)
In regards to the hair irons being put in strange areas I can sadly say that those aren't the only things that happens with. 8 or 9 years ago I worked as a paramedic/firefighter and we had a call designation for this, FOIB (Foreign Object in Body). I can more clearly remember more of those calls than any other call types I ran on.
22:49 I have never had cause to hold a gun in my life and even I know the most basic rule of gun safety: Never point it at someone you don't intend to shoot. I also know to never put your finger on the trigger unless you plan to shoot right fucking now.
I used to be an RSO. Believe me, you need those safety warnings. Particularly the one about not using while under the influence. I worked at a small range where 70-80% of our shooters were regulars, many of whom had been shooting for longer than I've been alive, but we still had morons coming high as a kite or piss drunk trying to shoot. Not our regulars, of course, I only mentioned that to highlight how few people came through who we didn't know. It's was also funny how few people are capable of simply using their eyes. Every day, we'd have at least 3 people come in asking if we had guns to rent. There was not a single firearm of any type displayed anywhere in our office. I've also seen people walk up to a counter with a case full of guns and a sign saying "rentals" on it and ask if they rent guns
Thumbs up just for having a frog leap studios clip lol I love their metal versions of non-metal songs. My daughter was 3 or 4 and we used to listen to them together and I even have a video of her headbanging to one of their videos.
Back in the early 90's I had a Payday candy bar that literally had the warning on its label "May contain peanuts." I was like "Well I sure as @&#% hope it contains peanuts!"
I remember working with someone in a workshop, and they walked right in front of a gas space heater [as in blowing flames] with a bucket of acetone. I pointed it out to them after, and they just sort of shrugged it off. We all do some things without thinking, but I don't think they realised how combustible acetone was. Oh well, got away with that one at least.
I was 14 and couldn't get the wood stove going looked under the sink saw acetone said flammable. I put only small amount in as it smelled really flammable. And i threw a match into it from as far away as I could. 😂 hahaha I was like 6 feet away and a fireball came out and burned my eyebrows and eyelashes 😅😂
Had this clothes drying rack. A fairly standard thing, mostly about made of aluminum, the type you can often see in some corner or on a balcony of a small flat in the city even. It didn't have any sharp edges or anything, and the whole thing weighed less than 2kg, so it wouldn't exactly hurt if someone knocked it over on you. One of it's warning labels said "do not let kids under the age of 12 within a 5 meter radius of the product".
Simon: "No one is putting that in their butt!" Oh Simon.... we thought you'd learn by now. No matter what item you think of, someone has shoved it up their butt.... or at least tried.
@stevenpeek8842 I know for a fact people have used the gear shifter on a lawn mower and I wouldn't be shocked if a few women have straddled the engine lol
This reminds me more of Business Blaze!!! Also I have stacks of papers in a box and we can never find the one paper we are looking for, rather just pay for the repair.
Speaking as a (thank God!!!) retired doctor two of my favourite 'incidents' are: The woman who attended A+E to have a carrot removed from her 'front bottom'. "I rarely wear knickers and while I was in the shop I knocked a packet of carrots on to the floor and one bounced up." The man who claimed he used a live cannon shell to "reduced his piles" and got it stuck in his rectum - the only time I know of that an object had to be removed from somebody's butt-hole by the -bomb- bum squad... having, a-hem, 'evacuated' everyone else from A+E first. As an aside I remember a tall, blonde, female colleague from Germany who used to 'march' about the hospital in her knee-length leather boots... One evening she came marching in to GP admissions to see an elderly patent, threw back the curtains, proclaimed "I am Dr .... and I shall be asking you some questions" in a thick German accent. The -interrogation- examination proceeded as follows: "Where does it hurt!?!" "My, my stomach doctor." "Very well, does it hurt when I poke you here?" "Ow, ow, ooo!" "Does it hurt here?" "Ow, ooo, ouch!" "What about here?" "Yes, ow, please stop!" "Very well. I now wish for you to lay on your side and pull down your underwear." "Why?" "Because I am the doctor and I am telling you to do it." "Oh, ok..." "I shall now stick my finger in your bottom!" "Oh, oh, please..." "Does it hurt when I push here?" "Ow, ow, oo-yes!" "And how about when I move my finger... here!?!" "Owww, please, PLEASE stop! Owwww!" "I am now done! Pull up your pants. I will come back with a needle to draw your blood." The curtain snapped back, she stepped smartly out of the cubicle, snapped the curtain back in place, and she marched off in the direction of the ward's store room for the tools of her profession... ...the poor bugger could be heard to quietly wimpier as she stomped away. I'm afraid the three of us doctors who had been sat at the nurse's station listening to the performance all broke down if fits of quiet laughter. Another...? Oh, ok then. Picture the scene: I'm a brand new doctor in the process of admitting a poorly chap - history taking, examination, investigation. It's all a bit stressful as I'm pretty new to the business and the patient is both in a good deal of discomfort and mentally handicapped. (sorry, I don't do political correctness BS)... ...having done my best I put out a call for the Registrar I was on call with me that evening whom I had never met for a more experienced opinion. He duly turned up looking very much like a clone of Colombo in a shabby lab coat rather than a mac, saw the patient, then came out to speak with me. "Lane, are you Lane..?" He asked. He had a fairly thick accent, being recently from Egypt as I discovered later. "Yes, Dr .... I replied." "Why have you asked me to see this, this... Lane..?" I stammered my difficulties over the history and examination, and my concerns that I might have therefore missed something important, and so my asking him to see the patient for a more senior opinion. I assumed he was annoyed with me for having done a less than stellar job, seemingly backed up by his looking at the ceiling while I attempted to explain myself... "No, no, no, no... Lane. I mean why have you asked me to see this..? Do I look like a green grocer? He's not human, he's vegetable!" Stunned in to silence, I stood rooted to the spot while he went about his business ordering further appropriate tests and prescribing treatments. Having been neither dismissed nor asked to help I stood and watched, thinking I was in the dog-house for my shoddy work. Once the poor chap's condition had been stabilised, his discomfort attended to, and he was sent up to a ward, Dr ... finally turned to me once again with a grave look on his face. "Well... Lane. I do hope you won't be asking me to see any more vegetables this evening. No doubt it will be a long enough night without your making me feel hungry." He then bad me "Good night" and shambled on his way. Yes, he did indeed have a truly wicked sense of humour that I did not catch on to until later... I remember him once remarking to me "Lane... do you wonder why I use a nurse's stethoscope instead of a doctor's? Three reasons: They are cheap and we have to buy our own equipment. If you can't hear anything then there can't be anything wrong with the patient, which saves a lot of stress all round. My hearing is so bad I can't hear anything anyway." This said in front of a ward nurse he wasn't too keen on who would probably repeat all of the above to our consultant, no doubt much to his amusement. He never once called me 'doctor', or used my first name, but instead always referred to me as "Lane..." He eventually explained gravely that first names were unprofessional enough among doctors, and he could hardly refer to me as a 'green grocer' when it was his experience patients expected to see a doctor. I miss him.
ngl 13:30 has taken me by much surprise Also, getting your body to produce milk without a pregnancy is possible, and some people do it, but it takes a good amount of effort
Yup! Every human body is capable of lactation with the correct hormonal signals. Typically this happens as part of pregnancy, but can of course be induced by professionals if the body doesn't get that signal for whatever reason.
Jetski fuel tanks are just right there like a motorcycle but on a car the fuel tank is usually under the back seat so chances are there's probably children riding there.
Sometimes they are under the trunk as well. My car and my friend's car have them there, all the way at the back, very flat but wide and long. Some pickup trucks have a very flat one behind the seat standing up, and most newer pickups have them under one side of the bed.
6:50 In Model T era, someone twisted a famous song: "My bonnie leaned over the gas tank / The depth of its contents to see / I lighted a match to assist her / O bring back my bonnie to me!"🎶 🤣
I worked for a commercial property insurance company. We insured companies like McDonald's, Pepsi, Coke, Playboy, and so on. Yes, people do some ridiculous sh*t. If there is a silly sounding warning then someone has done it and tried to sue the manufacturer or retailer or whatever or everyone. 🙄 It costs less to settle out of court so that is why companies don't fight harder. I think if they would fight a case or two or three people would quit suing because they realize it's no longer a way to make money. 🤷🏻♀️ One of my personal favorites is this one. Caution: Do not use curling iron while sleeping.
It wasn't uncommon to find instructions on how to adjust the valves and other complex repairs in a cars owners manual through the seventies, now the manual tells people not to drink the various car fluids.
In fairness to sleeping meditation, most drugs can be used for multiple different issues. For example, the sleeping meditation I take is also an antihistamine used to treat hay fever.
In the late aughts I worked at an adult boutique. We sold a "toy" made of a colorful pastel silicone. The name of this toy was "Butt Candy" and despite being made of essentially a firm rubber, the large print warning on the back was "DO NOT EAT."
So, viagra and similar medications actually affect blood pressure thus delivering the desired effect. As a blood pressure medication, they can be prescribed to men, women and dogs. I've had many a pharmacist call our veterinary clinic giggling and confirming that it was rx'ed for a dog with a heart condition...
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin We need to put a warning in the pedal of the teller prompts that it can reset it .
Best Buy does quite well when it's in a US state with zero sales tax. In that unique circumstance, it's cheaper to drive over the state line and buy it in a store than pay for amazon+delivery. A huge amount of Delaware's revenue (and thus retail jobs) come from people travelling form Maryland, Pennsylvania & New Jersey to buy huge TVs, do a booze run, or visit Home Depot.
Any doofenschmirtz clip automatically elevates the entire episode! Go editor! (Sorry, so many Simon channels, I don't know who the editor is on this one... but good job!)
My cousin did a stint in A&E for medschool and sadly there is a lot of folks sticking stuff where they shouldn't, it's a depressingly frequent occurrence
Yup. My friend/roommate is an X-ray tech and my SIL a nurse. So far the most “OH MY GOD!!!!!” story I’ve had was expanding foam. The stuff you use for insulating houses….
I was working on threat identification software algorithms for UAVs a decade ago and we cut a 2x4 into the rough shape of a rifle to present a gun silhouette from about 2000’ away, and I had a coworker that would yell at anyone that didn’t keep it pointed down at all times. I’m all for gun safety, but this was just over-reacting. We just assumed he was at fault for a serious accident at some point and never recovered, but no one dared ask him.
The scooter thing I have a plausible explanation for: It's a Get Out of Settlement card for the manufacturer as a parent may buy a toddler what they wrongly assume is a toy scooter and not a scooter in miniature format. Then the aforementioned toddler zips around the house and break something, someone, or themself. In which cause the angry parent attempts to sue the manufacturer. I also strongly suspect that many of these safety warnings are preventative, and not because someone actually has done anything stupid. Just someone with an active imagination could imagine someone stupid doing it.
I've actually (embarrassingly) gotten by ponytail blown by the wind into the intake valve of my leaf blower! Luckily it's wimpy and I didn't scalp myself 😮.
I work at a place that sells storage totes. The lids have a sticker with a cartoon baby with the circle and slash meaning “no.” I gauge my audience and deadpan that the containers are not for infant storage.
Most ropes come with the warning: "Improper use of rope is dangerous", but my parents have a really old one that has a very cartoonish picture of a kid with a rope tangled around their neck. It's both hilarious and terrible at the same time.
I recently took up the old art of keeping a commonplace book which is like the perfect organized disorganization system/journal. Things are everywhere, but there's also a table of contents and an index (when I remember to add things to the index). It's easy to put into practice digitally too, which might be useful for say keeping track of notes taken for a previous video that weren't used.
My Dad used to make the 'I can't see if there's any fuel in the tank you got a lighter'? Joke every time he put gas in a quad or anything. Never thought anyone would've actually done it.🤦💀⚰️
It's amazing how much the movie 'Idiocracy' has predicted. If there hadn't been a trapdoor link Simon clicked on at the end I would have for SURE thought it was that movie reference.
Don't apologize, this is one of my favorite topics in the entire world. It's hilarious. Also, you're not the only one who thinks eugenics isn't always bad. That said, I just think we should target the people who just keep harming other people, like child abusers, rapists, etc., and who rate too highly on narcissism tests. That's it. Just cut out the most selfish and antisocial of people who have no regard for others and won't bother not harm them and it would make the world a lot better for everyone left. Repeat drunk drivers, those Karens (the type of selfish person, not the ethnic group) who constantly harass and attack people in public, try to claim and steal others' belongings, often assaulting the victim and lying about who owns the property and who assaulted who in the process, deliberately expose allergic people to food allergens to prove they're lying, it's not serious, they're just picky, etc. (those are all excuses they've used), take people's epipens and inhalers when they need them, lie to police to try to get their victims in trouble, etc. Because they are incapable of realizing they are wrong, they can't learn and get better. It is truly impossible to rehabilitate them. They are capable of doing any or even all of these things without a second thought, and because they are also not good at anticipating the risks of their actions they never realize that they shouldn't. It isn't really their faults, they can't help it. Whether it's biology, their upbringing, or a mix of the two, it's not their fault. But that doesn't mean they aren't a danger to everyone around them all the time and are completely unable to stop themselves. And this should not be taken as an endorsement of going after LGBT people. If anything it's the bigots who are a problem and need to be stopped, but I think their issue is different and not a narcissism thing. They just need to be deprogrammed and properly educated. Racists and religious extremists are also unacceptable, but their issue is different and I think it's treatable, so every effort should be made to give them the therapy they need too. I don't care what your religion is, it's not right to label those who don't follow it evil and condemn them. Like I said, this is about harm reduction, not moral values. Some things are demonstrably harmful to others, and to society at large, and some aren't. LGBT people are not demonstrably harmful to society. Neither are normal feminists, anyone who cares about human rights and equality and/or freedom of religion, or people who oppose fascism.
As far as the children's medication is concerned, it's not that uncommon for adults to take children's medication if they need it to take effect quickly. My allergist recommended I keep children's Benadryl on hand in case of allergic reactions, in addition to an epi-pen, because it takes effect much faster when taken as a liquid. It's just a case of figuring out the dosage. Not quite a warning label, but my husband once purchased a waterproof laptop case with an incredible warranty that finished with the statement that the warranty wasn't valid "in cases of shark attack, bear attack, or children under the age of 5."
If you’re taking medications, it is good thing to read the warnings, facts and interactions. Like if you take acetaminophen (paracetamol) you shouldn’t drink more than two drinks for at least 24 hours, otherwise the liver toxicity is increased exponentially. It’s also good to know what the maximum daily dosage is, which is 3000mg for acetaminophen. It’s a particularly common, yet potentially toxic medication.
My favourite one has to be the ones on large IKEA contaiers : an image clearly ordering the buyer to not put a baby inside the container (I am referring to the box with is about 1ft x 1.5 ft x 1.5 ft)
