From what I’ve seen a lot of people don’t even know how to wash their hands. “Wash your hands” does not mean “wet them under the tap and then dry them off.” You do have to apply soap and rub it all over your hands before rinsing.
Labels are a self-protective legal necessity. A ladder company’s lawyer griped about this decades ago to a work colleague of mine in the next seat on the plane. A guy was suing the ladder company after he fell off one of its extension ladders, breaking his leg. This guy had cleverly set the ladder’s bottom legs on top of a huge, long, frozen-solid pile of manure, so he could take advantage of the pile’s height to get himself up high enough to reach whatever his target was on his barn wall. Weeks later he finally got around to climbing the ladder, failing to notice that the weather had warmed and the pile of crap had thawed. The ladder did its level best to keep its vertical position, but with his added weight, it couldn’t. One leg broke through the top dried-up crust and the whole thing fell sideways into the pile, depositing him in the, er, deposits. He blamed the ladder company for not having labels on its ladders warning people not to set them up on manure piles. I’ve always wondered how that suit turned out.
Sanity has its root in being affected by the sun; whereas lunacy has its root in being affected by the moon. The myth was that the moon made you crazy but the sun restored your mental balance. Each night (if the moon was out) would bring you closer to lunacy and each day would restore your sanity (sunliness).
You would think so. But industrial strength soaps require that you apply the soap prior to wetting the hands. It can be confusing to those more sheltered, when they encounter such things as are only found in shop or factory settings.
The final panel state’s Rat’s and The❤️Count’s Philosophy of Life to a Tee. Rat and Count… Telling lowly unworthies that the Emperor Has No Clothes since 2020 and, like all Wise Asps, being (generally) ignored in Their Own Be❤️ed Country. God Bless America.
You’d have thought that the COVID-19 epidemic would have taught people the necessity of proper hand-washing. However, from what I’ve observed, it seems not to be the case.
Brand new motor home manual says don’t use cruise control and leave drivers seat to make a cup of coffee. Someone had to of done that one time for them to write that in their
This is like a meme that I saw. It shows people in the 50s, saying, “We’ll have flying cars!” Then to 2023, where someone has a sandwich wrapped in paper, and the paper says all over it: Do not eat. How ironic.
I took my dog to his play date, when the owner opened her door, one foot from me and was obviously sick. Yep, I got it, two weeks before Christmas I was sick, missed everything. She said, “I choose not to believe I catch things.” Choose to believe what you want lady, you GAVE it to me!
Just hold them over a fire until they get to 185 degrees and they will be germ free. Makes about as much sense as all the crap that people advise on “how to wash your hands”. If you don’t know how to wash your hands, you’re an idiot. You shouldn’t be running around loose.
I’m sure if the manufacturer did not include those instructions, someone would bring a lawsuit for not making it clear that you don’t use the soap by swallowing it.
For a fun time about the wash rooms look up the “Myth Busters” episode where they did a study on the three drying methods generally used; roll cloth, paper, air. There is also one about three washes people do. For the lazy (me), the full correct answer is: use soap, rinse and dry with disposable paper towels.
It’s tragicomic because it’s true. Part of me deplores the stupidity of some people who seem to have been raised by wolves (if they’d been raised by racoons, they would know how to wash their hands!); but another part of me blames the litigious bent of our American society: companies don’t want to be dragged into frivolous lawsuits, so they post these inane instructions even a 5-year-old would turn his/her nose to. Reminds me of that lawsuit by a woman who was suing a restaurant because the hot soup scalded her.
When I turned 12, my dad gave me a stick of deodorant. It didn’t have any instructions on it. My dad didn’t explain what to do with it. The only thing I had to go by were the commercials. He asked me one day, “Aren’t you using the deodorant I got you?” I said yes, and confidently raised my wrist up to him, “See? Smell.”
Well, what can be expected from a country that got into the habit of suing for everything caused by stupidity. Then worsened by allowing the change in philosophy of education and centralizing it’s control thereby yielding a larger less educated and logical society causing even more ridiculous suits and other modern wonders, that our parents would have taken to the wood shed for spouting such drivel.
Proper: turn water on, wet hands, get soap. Teach the students, in’s/out’s/top and bottom of hands. Wash off, dry and if available paper towel to turn faucet off.
I’ve also heard of instructions on a bag of peanuts: Open bag. Eat nuts. Or how about the warning “Will be hot after heating”? I fear for a society that needs that much help to survive.
BE THIS GUY 11 months ago
What about those people who grew up with only bar soap? They need help!
BasilBruce 11 months ago
How about, “It’s soap for your hands. Figure it out, pea-brain.”
Ratkin Premium Member 11 months ago
Without that warning someone would eat it and then their relatives would win a few million in a product liability suit.
ronaldspence 11 months ago
get a Life-boy!
momofalex7 11 months ago
Amen.
Concretionist 11 months ago
But what about the person whose job is to write explanatory prose? Have you thought of THEM? Hah. They need work too!
The dude from FL Premium Member 11 months ago
You wet your hands, applied soap…..NOW WHAT? You left me hanging!
The Duke 11 months ago
What about a drowning warning on a bucket? If you’re not smart enough to use a bucket without drowning maybe you shouldn’t be using a mop either.
orinoco womble 11 months ago
From what I’ve seen a lot of people don’t even know how to wash their hands. “Wash your hands” does not mean “wet them under the tap and then dry them off.” You do have to apply soap and rub it all over your hands before rinsing.
cmxx 11 months ago
Labels are a self-protective legal necessity. A ladder company’s lawyer griped about this decades ago to a work colleague of mine in the next seat on the plane. A guy was suing the ladder company after he fell off one of its extension ladders, breaking his leg. This guy had cleverly set the ladder’s bottom legs on top of a huge, long, frozen-solid pile of manure, so he could take advantage of the pile’s height to get himself up high enough to reach whatever his target was on his barn wall. Weeks later he finally got around to climbing the ladder, failing to notice that the weather had warmed and the pile of crap had thawed. The ladder did its level best to keep its vertical position, but with his added weight, it couldn’t. One leg broke through the top dried-up crust and the whole thing fell sideways into the pile, depositing him in the, er, deposits. He blamed the ladder company for not having labels on its ladders warning people not to set them up on manure piles. I’ve always wondered how that suit turned out.
MeanBob Premium Member 11 months ago
Reminds me of Wonko the sane. For further information, read the directions on a box of toothpicks.
jefffsr Premium Member 11 months ago
Poor Trina and her “Prin”Albert and Marian are wide awake…
ajr58(1) 11 months ago
In grade school the soap dispensers had Borax, and the sign said “wet hands first.”
iggyman 11 months ago
Warning on an umbrella stroller “Remove child before folding stroller”, lawyers and liability!
Johnnie Polo Premium Member 11 months ago
Like the warning that hot coffee is HOT. Only takes one idiot to make a warning label.
donlackie 11 months ago
How is that surprising? We live in a world where people have to be TOLD not to take a drug they know they are allergic to.
colddonkey 11 months ago
No wonder my hands are so slippery I haven’t been adding water.
WaitingMan 11 months ago
If you follow the instructions “lather, rinse, repeat” on a bottle of shampoo, you get stuck in an infinite loop.
Huckleberry Hiroshima 11 months ago
No, you’re an a$$hole in an otherwise okay world.
jessegooddoggy 11 months ago
Incomplete instructions, or is the soap meant to stay on?
The Orange Mailman 11 months ago
Sanity has its root in being affected by the sun; whereas lunacy has its root in being affected by the moon. The myth was that the moon made you crazy but the sun restored your mental balance. Each night (if the moon was out) would bring you closer to lunacy and each day would restore your sanity (sunliness).
ladykat 11 months ago
Rat has a point.
[Traveler] Premium Member 11 months ago
Preparation H, do not take orally
kittygatos 11 months ago
How many people know you’re supposed to wet the toothbrush first before applying the paste?
Ellis97 11 months ago
I always wash my hands.
Brass Orchid Premium Member 11 months ago
You would think so. But industrial strength soaps require that you apply the soap prior to wetting the hands. It can be confusing to those more sheltered, when they encounter such things as are only found in shop or factory settings.
Count Olaf Premium Member 11 months ago
The final panel state’s Rat’s and The❤️Count’s Philosophy of Life to a Tee. Rat and Count… Telling lowly unworthies that the Emperor Has No Clothes since 2020 and, like all Wise Asps, being (generally) ignored in Their Own Be❤️ed Country. God Bless America.
MS72 11 months ago
And “Bob the Squirrel” describes the crazy soap flavors…
Ignatz Premium Member 11 months ago
The bag of Cat Litter also has directions.
Doug K 11 months ago
But how do you apply the soap?
monya_43 11 months ago
At least, their hands will be clean while solving their other problems.
mindjob 11 months ago
DO NOT use crazy glue on your dentures
SofaKing Premium Member 11 months ago
“I drank the whole bottle of soap and my hands are still dirty” is why that’s on the label.
Linguist 11 months ago
You’d have thought that the COVID-19 epidemic would have taught people the necessity of proper hand-washing. However, from what I’ve observed, it seems not to be the case.
Killraven Premium Member 11 months ago
I knew we were lost when I saw instructions on the side of a can explaining how to open the can. This was years ago!
BadCreaturesBecomeDems 11 months ago
Yes Rat, there are people who are confused by liquid soap: remember, Kamala Haris is confused by the directions on the bottle of water!
SusieB 11 months ago
Those instructions are incomplete. It should go on to say rub hands together to form a lather, rinse hands after at least one minute, then dry hands.
dieseldude 11 months ago
Brand new motor home manual says don’t use cruise control and leave drivers seat to make a cup of coffee. Someone had to of done that one time for them to write that in their
rshive 11 months ago
Maybe a land of dirty lunacy, Rat.
royq27 11 months ago
Oh that you Rat! I always wondered what that thing was…
DaBump Premium Member 11 months ago
“For external use only.”
notjimothy 11 months ago
Are all lefties on this strip?
James Gifford Premium Member 11 months ago
Worse, there are instructions on a box of toothpicks.
timothy6522 11 months ago
Sing the ABC’s while washing.
MollyCat 11 months ago
True dat.
feralcat_52 11 months ago
My favorite warning label was on the tag in an adult-size Superman costume. It read: “Warning! Does not enable wearer to fly.”
Ji535m 11 months ago
On occasion one has to agree with Rat.
ElwoodP 11 months ago
How about the Bubble Bath container that says: Keep the product dry?
kaycstamper 11 months ago
I think it’s the first time I’ve agreed with you, Rat!
elgrecousa Premium Member 11 months ago
I am amazed at the large number of comments that this strip generated. People have too much time on their hands, dirty or clean. Happy New Year.
IndyW 11 months ago
I like the instructions that used to say on liquids- “Shake well before using” to now they say – “Shake the bottle well before using” Really??
snowedin, now known as Missy's mom 11 months ago
This is like a meme that I saw. It shows people in the 50s, saying, “We’ll have flying cars!” Then to 2023, where someone has a sandwich wrapped in paper, and the paper says all over it: Do not eat. How ironic.
Goat from PBS 11 months ago
There are labels on bleach bottles that tell the user to not drink the contents.
Things like this make me lose faith in humanity.
kaycstamper 11 months ago
I took my dog to his play date, when the owner opened her door, one foot from me and was obviously sick. Yep, I got it, two weeks before Christmas I was sick, missed everything. She said, “I choose not to believe I catch things.” Choose to believe what you want lady, you GAVE it to me!
KEA 11 months ago
the one that gets me is… “don’t use product X if you’re allergic to product X”
hooglah 11 months ago
Just hold them over a fire until they get to 185 degrees and they will be germ free. Makes about as much sense as all the crap that people advise on “how to wash your hands”. If you don’t know how to wash your hands, you’re an idiot. You shouldn’t be running around loose.
zeexenon 11 months ago
Well, it is a full moon, and to be sure, use hand sanitizer, we have railroad tankers full of the stuff.
prrdh 11 months ago
I’m sure if the manufacturer did not include those instructions, someone would bring a lawsuit for not making it clear that you don’t use the soap by swallowing it.
UlrigJaeger Premium Member 11 months ago
For a fun time about the wash rooms look up the “Myth Busters” episode where they did a study on the three drying methods generally used; roll cloth, paper, air. There is also one about three washes people do. For the lazy (me), the full correct answer is: use soap, rinse and dry with disposable paper towels.
wildlandwaters 11 months ago
Kinda like “don’t use toaster when taking a bath”!
cracker65 11 months ago
The irony of a rat being concerned about this.
sirjackum 11 months ago
Do not use hair dryer in shower.
willie_mctell 11 months ago
With liquid soap it’s better to put on the soap first. I’ve tested this extensively with grease and oil.
klesmiley_ Premium Member 11 months ago
Today’s comments are hilarious!
pamela welch Premium Member 11 months ago
LOLOL — This was very funny Stephan, and TRUE!!!
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 11 months ago
Labels that say DO NOT OPEN UNTIL CHRISTMAS means that they definitely will be
wordsmeet 11 months ago
It’s tragicomic because it’s true. Part of me deplores the stupidity of some people who seem to have been raised by wolves (if they’d been raised by racoons, they would know how to wash their hands!); but another part of me blames the litigious bent of our American society: companies don’t want to be dragged into frivolous lawsuits, so they post these inane instructions even a 5-year-old would turn his/her nose to. Reminds me of that lawsuit by a woman who was suing a restaurant because the hot soup scalded her.
Bilan 11 months ago
Caveat: If you’re washing your mouth out, you don’t need to wet your hands.
Boots at the Boar Premium Member 11 months ago
When I turned 12, my dad gave me a stick of deodorant. It didn’t have any instructions on it. My dad didn’t explain what to do with it. The only thing I had to go by were the commercials. He asked me one day, “Aren’t you using the deodorant I got you?” I said yes, and confidently raised my wrist up to him, “See? Smell.”
miztrniceguy 11 months ago
Yes Rat, we know this
Ron Bauerle 11 months ago
“Here’s your sign”
https://www.youtube.COM/watch?v=ZBjelRDKHUk&t=50s
Sisyphos 11 months ago
Sometimes—in fact, rather often—Rat is right, skewering the idiocy of our world….
UlrigJaeger Premium Member 11 months ago
Well, what can be expected from a country that got into the habit of suing for everything caused by stupidity. Then worsened by allowing the change in philosophy of education and centralizing it’s control thereby yielding a larger less educated and logical society causing even more ridiculous suits and other modern wonders, that our parents would have taken to the wood shed for spouting such drivel.
Scurvey duck 11 months ago
There is a drug for that. BTW, don’t take this drug if you are allergic to it.
Swirls Before Pine 11 months ago
But, do you rub the soap off, or just rinse it off?
missyhyattfan 11 months ago
Proper: turn water on, wet hands, get soap. Teach the students, in’s/out’s/top and bottom of hands. Wash off, dry and if available paper towel to turn faucet off.
alantain 9 months ago
I’ve also heard of instructions on a bag of peanuts: Open bag. Eat nuts. Or how about the warning “Will be hot after heating”? I fear for a society that needs that much help to survive.