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On 12/16/2018 04:14 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 12/16/2018 5:09 PM, Kristy Ogilvie wrote:
What's the world coming to? I just bought 2 bags of seed for
my
parrots. Each one is 12.75kg. I picked both up at once and
carried
them easily, yet each ONE says on the back, "it is
recommended
two
people carry this bag together". I find it very hard to
believe
I'm
4
times stronger than the average person.

For the metric impaired, that is 28 pounds American. When I
was
13
I
worked in a grocery store after school and moved 50# bags of
sugar
and
potatoes. Probably most of us at that age could.

I don't have parrots but a few weeks ago I bought a 50# bag of
sunflower
seeds for the wild birds, slung it over my shoulder, grabbed a
box
of
suet blocks with my other hand, checked out, and headed for the
car.
fwiw I haven't seen 13 in many decades.

You're lucky you weren't jailed for endangering yourself.

No one gets jailed for that.

Won't be long the way health and softy's going.

Bull****.

Have you not noticed the wimps are taking over?

No wimps have taken over anything to do with me.

It's the wimps that put these silly safety notices on everything.

I ignore them.

I don't follow the instructions they give, but I can't ignore something
trying to tell me to do something I don't want to.

I don't bother to read the sack at all.

You might be looking for other info, like how many kilos are you getting
for your money,

I know that from the size of the sack.

Not accurate enough if you're comparing two similar products, especially if they aren't in the same shop or are online.

what type of seed is it etc.

Normally in much bigger letters. I don't bother
to read the fine print like which country it
comes from and warnings that those who are
allergic to seeds shouldn't eat the parrot seed.

I don't normally even check if its fit for human
consumption because the stuff that's meant for
pets usually has a picture of a pet on the container.

If it won't kill a pet it won't kill a human. Why would we be more fragile than them?

For example I just bought some specific sunflowers with extra nutrition
with different oils in them.

Sure, but there is no need to read everything on the
sack to see that info. Its listed separately and one of
the knacks with speed reading is being able to read
the right bit of text that has the info you want in it.

Still annoying to sift through the health and softy info.

For example a speed limit sign doesn't make me go at the speed limit,
but it still ****es me off that someone wants me to obey it.

That's different, you can be fined when you ignore it.

You can't with the **** on the sack that suggest you use two people to
carry it.

And plenty are silly enough to touch what is claimed to be wet paint.

It's still annoying being told to do something.

You arent being told to do something with a wet paint sign,
just warned that its not a great idea to sit or lean on it.

It's being told, but I can ignore it. I still waste time reading it.

It's the wimps that make silly regulations forbidding people from just
getting on with what they're doing.

I ignore those too.

Sometimes they get into laws

I ignore those too.

Until you get fined.

I don't.

Then you're lucky. I get fined for not wearing a seatbelt.

and prevent things from running smoothly. In fact if there were no
health
and softy regulations, I bet you most companies would make a much bigger
profit, and the cost of products would plummet everywhere.

Nope, because china isnt stupid enough to have them.

Which is why they're doing better than the rest of the world.

Nope, they have much lower labour costs.

Because of our other bull**** legislation about minimum wage.

Hang on, isn't it about 3am in Australia?

Ignore that last remark, I thought you'd only just posted it.