How have we got to a point where an iron comes with instructions to not iron clothes while wearing them. Seriously. How?

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Wtf?
This is something people need to be told?
I'm starting to think the joke about a warning on packets of nuts that reads caution may contain nuts wasn't actually a joke!

My best mate did this circa 1989. Ironed the lapel of her shirt whilst wearing it. Still sports the iron shaped scar on her décolletage to this day. Daft mare. Mind, she used to try and bleach her teeth with domestos as well. (On a cotton bud, she didn't swig from the bottle thankfully)

We have a Miele pet hoover, instructions state don't use directly on the pet

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I'm really hoping that is based on an urban legend

Bloody hell fire. Don't folks do some stupid shit?!
I was the dumbest kid on earth. No brains at all. I once got gum on my skirt and was told to freeze it off. So I went and perched on the edge of the freezer with my skirt half inside. Never occured to me to take me skirt off.
Thick as pigshit 🤦

A relative who worked in A&E claimed they had someone who ironed clothes while wearing them about once a month.

There is an inference here that somehow linked to "the younger generation" and an undercurrent of what is the world coming to. However, you'd probably not think that you'd need to tell people not to use their iron to straighten their hair and people were doing that when i was a child, in my 50's now.

Redglitter · Today 13:48

I've got a mini fridge for taking on holiday etc. It has a sticker on the back saying 'Do not use underwater'

I would imagine that some complete moron did just that, then asked for a replacement.

crumblingschools · Today 14:57

We have a Miele pet hoover, instructions state don't use directly on the pet

My Labrador comes to be hoovered, when I'm cleaning. If I don't hoover her, she first attacks the tube bit and then turns round, to instruct me to hoover her.

I had a Kawasaki motorbike, about 25 years ago, not a standard model. The shop ordered me a manual, which came from Australia. It had all sorts of warnings, with one about the tyres, saying something like:

OK, somebody might be dumb enough to drink the battery acid, or dumb enough to to work on the carburettors with a lit cigarette, but for God's sake, I defend the right of any man to chew his damn tyre if he wants to.

(The warning was not to eat the tyres...)

Or to glue tea-dyed bandages to plain white top and leggings to make your child a manky rancid looking mummy outfit for Egypt Day...

My MIL was the original that "Serving Suggestion" was invented for. She looked at the photo on the front of a powder gravy packet and said "Well I can't use this, I don't have a casserole dish like that".

There was a "do not eat" warning on daffodils a few years back

Although for a good reason as several people ha become ill after confusing them with Chinese chives.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-17233766

You only have to read some of the threads on here to realise that there are many people incapable of thinking for themselves and extrapolating.

Which would have really annoyed my old beagle, as he loved getting his back done with the crevice tool.

Wouldn't have run him over with a Dyson Pet, mind. That brush bar was an absolute pig to clean.

I bought eggs once, with a warning on the box saying "May contain eggs"

I also bought a plastic shower curtain that said "Do Not Iron"

when I was at unit and on a night out, a lad on my course had a big red triangle where his shirt opened at the neck. When asked what the mark was he said he couldn't be bothered to tale the shirt off to iron it.

He is now a multi millionaire.

I also saw a supermarket cake that had instructions on the box.... about how to cut the cake. "Take a sharp knife...." then it continued. Give me strength!

unit not uni

I bought a new oven some years ago.

There was a warning in the instruction manual that it might get hot when in use!! Well, I think I would have been more likely to complain if it didn't!!🙄🤣

As for irons though, I don't do ironing and just about know where mine is. 🤣

I was just about to post this. My Beagle cross comes running when he hears the Henry being turned on.

I've done it before 🤣 quite effective

The toilets at my work have these stickers on them and it amuses me every time I see them.

😂

For the same reason I’ve just read of a poster who doesn’t understand how thermal curtains work and how they can help reduce heating bills.

People make complaints and seek compensation for the most ridiculous things, so no wonder things such as OP highlights happen.

The travel system I bought for my baby had instructions on how to fold it.

Step 1: Remove baby.

I had a lovely pair of waterproof ankle boots. The label helpfully advised that because of their toughness "care must be taken to avoid accidental ignition," near naked flames. I survived!

If you want a real answer, it's to do with the measures manufacturers have to take to satisfy various standards and regulations. They have to reduce risks of their product as far as possible, including "reasonably foreseeable misuse". People burning themselves while ironing clothes they're wearing is pretty common, so falls into that category. You can't design that risk out so it's called a "residual risk" and needs to be put on the product labelling/user manual. If the manufacturer doesn't do it then they can have their product removed from the shops (and open themselves up to being sued).

You and I might think it's obviously a very silly idea but I've done it myself half the population are below average intelligence.