ChatterBank1 min ago
This country is sh*t
Part A;
Has Health and Safety in this country gone totally looney tunes? Why, if someone microwaves their dog, is the microwave manufacturer responsible because there wasn't a 'Don't Microwave Your Dog' warning? Surely everyone who has bought, or who has been given, a microwave knows that its for cooking food, not drying wet dogs. A conventional cooker cooks food, yet they don't stick their household pets in them do they? Why do small claims courts award in the favour of the person who has been totally stupid instead of telling them to get lost and learn some common sense? Has this culture of 'someone-else-will-look-out-for-me' come about due to the ever downward spiral of this country's education standards? Who is the idiot; the guy that power drills his hand or the judge that agrees it was the fault of the power tool maker for not telling him to not drill the soft fleshy items known as body parts?
Part B;
Is this the right topic catagory to post the questions posed in Part A?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Hello again Skids. Yep, you got it in one. The nanny state knows no bounds. What about the latest scarelist of 359 foods that might just possibly damage you? Is it safe to go outside? Is it safe to stay inside? Is it safe to drink the water that's been "purified" with the addition of chemicals? What about breathing fresh air full of fumes coming at you in all directions especially when you think of the upper atmosphere being pumped full of jet exhaust at the rate of a gallon a second for every jumbo jet. The fact is...we're all gonna die of something.
Can we all agree....We're Doomed ?
It's just that there seems to be a bit of a craze fro this "straw man" stuff on AB at the moment. That is: take something that has never happened or is a wildly distorted version of the truth, then rant about how shocking, wrong, unjust etc it is.
Skids based his/her premise " This country is sh*t" on arguments that don't actually stand up to even cursory examination. There are plenty of real problems that need airing without the need to invent spurious ones.
Even though i wish you could have used a different example instead of the dog in the microvave ( i cant stand knowing about bad things that happen to defenseless animals ) I agree 10000% with you. The reason this happens is because, like you said this country sucks. People know they can get away with being as dumb as a lemming and get rich from it. The court system sucks too. Everyone knows not to drill a hole in thier hand but are still dumb enough to do it. There was once a lady who spilled hot coffee on herself at a restaraunt and won a million dollars in the lawsuit. Apparently coffee is sopposed to be served cold and have a locking lid and a huge platform as the base of the cup to prevent being spilled. Hey now that i think about it i can probably sue hustler magazine for sexual harassment since there is nothing other than an age warning on the cover.
In November 2000, Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32 foot Winnebago motor home. On his first trip home, having joined the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly, the Winnie left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the handbook that he could not actually do this. He was awarded $1,750,000 plus a new Winnebago.
I don't think the UK is quite as looney as the States!
the scary thing is that if one person wins a suit like that, then people will simply start to microwave pets, to get compensation, who need to pay a �1 every week and hope your numbers come up , simply buy a cute little puppy and microwave it, then sue the company cos it didn't tell you not to.
If you think these people are complete morons, then you treally need to meet the Darwin Award winners, now here are some real stupid people