Better stop drinking those hand sanitzing gels! (1 Viewer)

[Jay H]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070131/hl_nm/handgels_dc

[sarcasm]I think they need another warning label[/sarcasm]

Jay

 

[Citizen87645]

Maybe they got the idea from The Office.

 

[Greg_S_H]

"A person dumb enough to drink Minwax, bleach and paint thinners, or drive with a sun screen in place, is probably also too dumb to read. In that case, warning labels are a waste." -- Walter Williams

Maybe we ought to change the name from "alcohol," so these people won't be stupid enough to drink wood alcohol, rubbing alcohol, etc. For the latter, I propose "Rubbing Holy Shit, You Do NOT Want To Drink This!"

 

[MarkHastings]

I'd prefer not to protect the dumb people any more than we already are. We have enough of them as it is.

 

[Chris Lockwood]

Yes, change the name to Rubbing Tasty Drink.

I just puked up a bunch of ethanol after reading this.

 

[Colton]

You know, the whole idea of Escape From New York is sounding better and better every day. Let's just take a state and build a wall around it and dump idiots in it.

- Colton

 

[MarkHastings]

I know this should go in the commercials thread, but there's a new car commercial where they show cars driving on buildings. There is a disclaimer that says something like "Obvioulsy this is fantasy. Cars can't drive on buildings" :rolleyes

Come on! I want people to try and do this! I want some moron to drive off the roof of a parking garage, thinking his car can scale the walls!!!

 

[KurtEP]

I remember reading a short story where the lead character hired his illiterate and very hard drinking enemy to transport a barrel of "alcohol" somewhere, not telling him that it was wood alcohol. Good concept, but I can't remember the name of the story or the author.

 

[MarkHastings]

Sam Malone (to delivery guy): Damn it, I didn't say I wanted Sorghum...I said I wanted some more gum!!!

 

[Todd H]

Geez, we are totally destroying the process of natural selection.

 

[KurtEP]

Unfortunately, I think the real problem is that we destroyed the process a few generations back.:frowning:

 

[PhillJones]

"The Maryland Poison Center was called about a 49-year-old, usually calm prison inmate who was described as being 'red-eyed,' 'loony,' 'combative,' and 'intoxicated, lecturing everyone about life',"

Seems to me that the guy hadn't misunderstood anything. He got the effect he was after.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Mike Judge was right!

 

[Dome Vongvises]

Toooooooooooooo laaaaaaaaaaaaaate

 

[Linda Thompson]

Idiots are one thing, but children get ahold of this stuff too. Labels wouldn't help to warn THEM, but at least a clearer warning might help to make adults more aware of an easily-overlooked danger, so that they might be more encouraged to keep the products out of reach or have them so that they're only usable with adult supervision. (And, as a health care worker myself, I do indeed encourage their use. We use them at work, and I have them all over my house...but there are rarely any children in my house, and never any without direct supervision.)

From snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp

According to the above item, the taste of Purell is "akin to a slightly flowery version of vodka." I can definitely imagine that attracting some desparate adults as well.

 

[MarkHastings]

Kids like chocolate, they also make high tech candy (like plastic cell phones with candy inside), so should my Chocolat DVD have a warning label?? Won't kids eat the DVD, thinking it's chocolate?

Or does the Darwin rule not apply to kids?