{"id":10030,"date":"2011-06-26T11:46:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10030"},"modified":"2011-06-26T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:46:39","slug":"product-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/26\/product-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Product warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many weird and whacky warnings get attached to products as a result of product liability concerns, but some of them must be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/231109\/30_ridiculously_dumb_tech_warning_labels.html#tk.nl_dnx_t_crawl\" target=\"_blank\">generated without legal prompting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Warning #2: Booze Blues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seen on a Terrestrial Digital outdoor antenna: &#8220;Do not attempt to install if drunk, pregnant, or both.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you&#8217;re drunk <em>and<\/em> pregnant, you probably have bigger problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warning #3: Three-Dimensional Danger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seen on a Samsung 3D TV disclaimer: &#8220;Pregnant women, the elderly, sufferers of serious medical conditions, those who are sleep deprived or under the influence of alcohol should avoid utilizing the unit&#8217;s 3D functionality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Man, those drunk moms-to-be just can&#8217;t catch a break!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warning #4: Options, Options<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seen on a computer software package: &#8220;Optional modem required.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The writer&#8217;s mandatory English language class, incidentally, was not completed. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many weird and whacky warnings get attached to products as a result of product liability concerns, but some of them must be generated without legal prompting: Warning #2: Booze Blues Seen on a Terrestrial Digital outdoor antenna: &#8220;Do not attempt to install if drunk, pregnant, or both.&#8221; Of course, if you&#8217;re drunk and pregnant, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,9,15],"tags":[52,104,133,101,43],"class_list":["post-10030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-law","category-technology","tag-absurd","tag-booze","tag-techwriting","tag-tv","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2BM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10031,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions\/10031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}