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Bizarre household product labels...

  • 09-11-2002 12:56am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭lordsippa


    just saw the best warning on a product EVER!
    "Do not place in close proximity to your pet"

    I'm not going to name what it is but suffice to say that I found that particular warning QUITE odd.

    Anyone else got any other kinda bs <this isnt' actually bout what the title suggests... i'm just bored and tired and'll probably delete this tomorrow morning>


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭Happy CTYI guy


    I know that this isn't a label but i saw a sign saying"Deliveries in Rear" Oh how i laughed.
    I saw another one saying" Trespassers will be shot, beaten, stabbed and savaged by dogs. Survivors will be prosecuted".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭ll=llannah


    How bout the ones which have "Do not turn upside down" printed on the bottom of the product?
    those never cease to amuse me. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭Green Hand Guy


    Well there's a sign in some car park saying:
    "Warning. Do not hit this sign."


    Also this one isn't neccessarily real but still funny. In GTA: Vice City there's a sign saying:
    "Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,946 ✭✭✭D-Generate


    In some shop in Temple-Bar there is a sign saying "All unaccompanied children will be rounded up and sold as slaves"

    Being from Cork I don't know the name of the shop :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23 Laura


    the best one has to be on a superman costume.

    "this suit does not enable the wearer to fly":D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭lordsippa


    Aw! I wanted to post the Vice City one... GRR!

    Hows bout:
    "file NOT
    under
    doofe
    cúntry music
    or fallacío"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭nosmo


    Originally posted by Happy CTYI guy
    I know that this isn't a label but i saw a sign saying"Deliveries in Rear" Oh how i laughed.
    I saw one a bit like this. It said "Goods vehicles to rear", but someone had scraped off the S..heh.
    Also on peanuts: WARNING! THIS PRODUCT MAY CONTAIN NUTS!
    On coffee machine: "WARNING! COFFEE IS HOT!!"
    "To touch these wires is fatal! Anyone found doing so shall be prosectued!"
    "Tresspassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭Happy CTYI guy


    I see they started putting jokes on the backs of McDonalds chip cartons. "100% potato"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Or on their burgers, 100% Irish beef. HAHAHA. Or is that Burger KIng?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭nosmo


    Burger king, until recently, had "King Pommes" on their chip packets.
    Seeing as Pommes is french for apples, this is the same as having "Roi apples" on packets in France..


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭Happy CTYI guy


    Lets have a big cheer for gross corporate incompetence


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 38 Moni


    On my street theres a sign saying "Slow children at play."


    That always sorta hurt my feelings.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Typedef


    Rat poison that reads. "Do not ingest".

    I'd be amazed that the sort of people who would in fact 'ingest' (but not inhale), could in fact walk upright should the occasion arise(no pun).
    *splort.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭smiles


    There was a "WARNING: THIS WATER IS WET AND SLIPPY" sign next to the toy boats in Mosney for a while.

    They had to have it for insurance reasons.... oh how i ROFLed... :)

    << Fio >> - the bitter CTYI mod


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Asuka


    Actually, Ive seen a couple of classic warnings since I came to Scotland... Ive been meaning to tak pictures.

    Written in marker on a break-glass fire alarm: 'Danger - do not use'
    On a sign next to the glass case containing the hammer to break the glass on a bus: 'Warning: Do not break glass with hand'

    A


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭nosmo


    Saw this one this morning.. not too strange.
    WARNING! COFFEE MAY CAUSE INSOMNIA!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭Green Hand Guy


    Seeing as Pommes is french for apples, this is the same as having "Roi apples" on packets in France..

    But Pommes is German for potatoes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭Happy CTYI guy


    There's a slightly vandalised sign on my road saying- Drive Slowly- Fa-t moving children


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭nosmo


    Originally posted by Green Hand Guy
    But Pommes is German for potatoes.
    Hush,dearie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭nosmo


    Originally posted by Happy CTYI guy
    There's a slightly vandalised sign on my road saying- Drive Slowly- Fa-t moving children
    There used to be one on my road that had been changed from Cul de Sac to Pull de Sac... nasty


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭joe the coat


    Cul de Sac is kinda wierd anyway... french people apparently haven't a clue what it means...

    And i think the shop in temple bar is Se Si... though i could be wrong

    And a GOOD sign i once saw was a modified "men at work" sign so it showed a guy with a hurly... it was quite well done...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,198 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Originally posted by G@ndalf

    Also on peanuts: WARNING! THIS PRODUCT MAY CONTAIN NUTS!


    Thats actually a legimate warning. a peanut is not a nut. its a root. therefore people who are allergic to nuts will be able to eat peanuts (though there is some connection) but cus they're put in packages in the same factory they have to put that on it.

    Best one ever has to be

    "CHOKING HAZARD: UNDER 3'S" on a frisbee.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19 Alaronshannara


    Er, on that one about the superman costume, my mum taught a pupil once that actually tried to fly with one of those. Teehee. He was ok, he landed on grass. A second storey window. I mean, come on! Surely you would start on a low wall or something? Sheesh.
    And to add my little bit, the makers of this wierd kind of prepacked minitoast that I enjoyed during the course are of course called "The Masterbakers". Narf narf narf.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭Happy CTYI guy


    Did the canteen in CTYI ever actually claim to serve meat?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23 Laura


    Cathal!!!!! i tryed e-mailing you but neither of the two worked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭nosmo


    I just saw this one around Trinity College..it just seems a bit weird to me..
    PLEASE DO NOT USE FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AS DOORSTOPS!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭mm.ie


    there is a bottle of toilet cleaner in work and the brand name is "Shifter".

    Apart from it being amusing in its own right, there are loads of word play combinations...

    going to the toilet hasn't been the same for me since it appeared.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Typedef


    My all time favorite is.

    "Windows XP.... Yes you can".

    I always sleep easy knowing "I can".
    *sigh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    According to the people who made the frisbee, there's a guy in my year who's a choking hazard. I'm going to go up to Philip Dunne tomorrow, tell him he's illegal and slap a homemade choking hazard warning on his face! Heehee! 'Twill be great fun!


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  • Posts: 0 Kareem Juicy Desk


    The shop is called the source its like the gadget shop in the jervis


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭lordsippa


    "Microsoft Works"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Mystic Fibrosis


    Originally posted by G@ndalf

    PLEASE DO NOT USE FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AS DOORSTOPS!
    We do that in Tower all the time.........

    But we're pretty stupid.
    Microsoft Works
    ROTFL


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭nosmo


    "Windows 2000 - It won't let you down."
    Frankly, I don't want to be supported by it in the first place.
    http://www.antioffline.com/windows2000.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭Barry Aldwell


    Originally posted by joe the coat
    Cul de Sac is kinda wierd anyway... french people apparently haven't a clue what it means...
    Cul = Arse (seriously, look it up)
    De = Of
    Sac = Bag

    So when you say "cul de sac" you are really saying "arse of bag". And apparantly french cows say "beugler" instead of moo.

    The best household product that I have ever seen is c0ck meat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    I actually looked that up. It's so damn funny it makes me want to cry!Boo hoo Ha ha!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭littlehedgehog


    Celebrity Ham in Lidl



    .
    .


    Yummmmmmmy
    Cant wait to dig in...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭lordsippa


    What about that caramel bar called "Plop". Tasted a bit odd, but wasn't too bad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭stevanavich


    just to show the incredible intelligence of microsoft, try this "modem not responding. for help go to www.microsoft.com, or contact your service provider"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭SOL


    I'm concerned, did i miss something or why has no one pointed out the "God filled the void inside me" sign yet?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭joe the coat


    because some people believe in that stuff and its not nice to take the piss out of something which makes people feel better without damaging them.

    i'd now like to point out i am an aethiest (who may not be able to spell... but isn't sure)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭joe the coat


    oh, and god isn't really a household item... if it said jesus, then thats a little different


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