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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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IncompleteSenten · 05/03/2024 13:45

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!

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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MrsTopliss · 05/03/2024 19:45

I wouldn't be so quick to mock and dismiss warnings because there are circumstances that make it understandable how this came to happen, you could look up unusual consumer cases from a reliable source as companies like to shame complainers of being greedy and bored when they are the greedy ones too cheap to take care and make better quality product or skimp on warnings as a money saving exercise to the detriment of the consumer and btw there are many cases that go unreported or settled out odmf court so there is a lot more that gets brushed under the carpet.

UtterlyOtterly · 05/03/2024 19:52

DH has an electric paint stripper. It had a label on the box: not to be used for drying hair.

SomePosters · 05/03/2024 20:17

It’s completely pointless anyway

The sort of people who iron their clothes while wearing them aren’t going to read the label first are they?

Meowandthen · 05/03/2024 20:43

I think of this several times a week.

How have we got to a point where an iron comes with instructions to not iron clothes while wearing them.  Seriously. How?
birdglasspen2 · 05/03/2024 20:48

Having watched my friend iron her hair each day before school I think they need more instructions than just ironing your clothes! Oh the days before GHD’s!!

treacledan71 · 05/03/2024 21:05

I looked at the calories in a kebab on a stick. It says calories not including the stick. As if you would eat the stick.

Icannoteven · 05/03/2024 21:13

I will be honest, I have actually tried to iron out the wrinkle in the bottom of a shirt I was wearing and accidentally burned my stomach. But people like me don’t listen to warnings anyway 🫠

Citrusandginger · 05/03/2024 21:37

I once read a story, possibly apocryphal, about an RV driver in the US who tried to sue the manufacturers because he had put it into cruise control and then gone to the back to make a coffee...

He had thought it could drive automatically.

Toddlerteaplease · 05/03/2024 21:39

NigelHarmansNewWife · 05/03/2024 14:46

What's an iron?

😂😂😂😂

Toddlerteaplease · 05/03/2024 21:41

Dyson do a a pet attachment for hoovering dogs. I would love to try it on my cats.

HappyHealthy23 · 05/03/2024 21:52

BebbanburgIsMine · 05/03/2024 18:24

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"

I managed to ruin an iron when I was younger by trying to iron-dry a pair of knickers I had just washed. Unfortunately, the knickers were nylon and actually fused with the iron, destroying both.
Luckily, I had just about enough sense not to have ironed the knickers when they were actually on me. 😁

SoupDragon · 05/03/2024 21:55

To be fair, I know two adults who have ironed clothes whilst wearing them. Both resulted in (thankfully minor!) burns. Or in one case, I suppose it was a scald as it was a steam iron.

WTF1974 · 05/03/2024 21:57

Crunchymum · 05/03/2024 16:27

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

I ate some once and got admitted to hospital. When my husband rang to see how I was they said I'd be out in the spring! Smile

I'll get my coat...

Strangeness · 05/03/2024 22:03

People do it !

How have we got to a point where an iron comes with instructions to not iron clothes while wearing them.  Seriously. How?
scalt · 05/03/2024 22:04

This is nothing new. I’ve seen this on lists of “silly instructions” since before the year 2000.

”wearing this garment does not enable you to fly.” (A child’s superman costume)

BringMeSunshineAllDayLong · 05/03/2024 22:08

NigelHarmansNewWife · 05/03/2024 14:46

What's an iron?

This is the issue. My DS very loudly at school asked what the toy iron was in the play corner 😂

ScrambledSmegs · 05/03/2024 22:10

A former colleague of mine ironed her skirt while she was wearing it. All fine until she hit the steam button without thinking.

She showed some of us the awful burn on her leg (scald?) and we made her go to A&E. She was the second person that day with an 'ironing clothes whilst wearing' injury...

tangycheesythings · 05/03/2024 22:20

I've seen 'remove packaging before consumption' on a few things on my travels.

People must try to eat the food without taking the wrapper off - who does that!

NeverDropYourMooncup · 05/03/2024 22:27

WTF1974 · 05/03/2024 21:57

I ate some once and got admitted to hospital. When my husband rang to see how I was they said I'd be out in the spring! Smile

I'll get my coat...

😂

I've actually seen what happens when somebody eats a tiny amount of daffodil - not even the bulb, just a scrap of a petal and a stalk (they were dared, they were a bit thick 12 years old and wanted to prove they were edgy).

They disappeared off to the toilet after about 40 minutes because they didn't feel well. by the time they'd been tracked down due to the sound and the smell, they were in no condition to unlock the door, so I had to climb up and look over the top.

Has anybody here seen the The Exorcist?

That child was rotating with the force of the vomit coming out of them.

Was absolutely fine, no hospital treatment needed (Mum volunteered to make the 111 call - wish she'd volunteered to deal with the child, who was by then in a condition consistent with having been in the eye of a vomit vortex for twenty minutes, but never mind). But the entire risk assessment had to be rewritten to allow for saying at least three times not to eat plants, flowers or other non food items and checking at the end of the lesson whether any ostensibly intelligent teenagers had decided to eat the things labelled DO NOT EAT, and if the answer was yes, the appropriate action began with removing child to a location outside, rather than anywhere enclosed.

fuckityfuckityfuckfuck · 05/03/2024 22:27

I do actually know someone who burnt her arm ironing creases in her shirt sleeves whilst wearing it. She now has a doctorate in neuro something or other so definitely not stupid! Just a moment of not thinking.

Toddlerteaplease · 05/03/2024 22:28

@NeverDropYourMooncup I had to replace my Dyson pet. As it couldn't cope with long haired cats. 🙄😬

Lighteningstrikes · 05/03/2024 22:31

Hilarious 😂

QueenOfThorns · 05/03/2024 22:38

crumblingschools · 05/03/2024 14:57

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

I have some disinfectant that’s safe to use around pets. It says the same thing on the label!

measuringmylifeincoffeespoons · 05/03/2024 22:44

Admittedly in the US, a couple sued the manufacturer of a camper van because they put it on cruise control and popped in the back to make a cup of coffee ...

Hence the warnings

FlamingoFlamboyance · 05/03/2024 22:46

I used to work with a girl who once showed up to work with a massive burn line on her collarbone, as she had tried to press her collar flat with the iron that morning.

After she had already put the shirt on.