I can remember when I could see, most instruction books for home mains
operated audio gear had a little picture.
A strangely short squat man holding an umbrella with very large raindrops
dropping out of the sky, a stylised cat sitting on top of the piece of
equipment on a table and a bonfire next to it with a red line through
it.This I suppose meant do not use outdoors in the rain wallow your pet to
lay over the cooling vents or expose to excessive heat.
I did not get the thing about the umbrella though, unless some Far eastern
equipment had some strange aversion to these devices or they were
subliminally trying to sell you one.

Do books still contain such things, I suppose these days they may need one
for does not contain nuts or use in the bath as well.
Brian

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On Tuesday, 31 October 2017 17:50:41 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
I can remember when I could see, most instruction books for home mains
operated audio gear had a little picture.
A strangely short squat man holding an umbrella with very large raindrops
dropping out of the sky, a stylised cat sitting on top of the piece of
equipment on a table and a bonfire next to it with a red line through
it.This I suppose meant do not use outdoors in the rain wallow your pet to
lay over the cooling vents or expose to excessive heat.
I did not get the thing about the umbrella though, unless some Far eastern
equipment had some strange aversion to these devices or they were
subliminally trying to sell you one.

Do books still contain such things, I suppose these days they may need one
for does not contain nuts or use in the bath as well.
Brian

I've often found pictograms less than helpful, but recently had a set of instructions in Spanish only, and for the first time ever appreciated the pictograms.


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Brian Gaff wrote:
I can remember when I could see, most instruction books for home mains
operated audio gear had a little picture.
A strangely short squat man holding an umbrella with very large
raindrops dropping out of the sky, a stylised cat sitting on top of
the piece of equipment on a table and a bonfire next to it with a red
line through it.This I suppose meant do not use outdoors in the rain
wallow your pet to lay over the cooling vents or expose to excessive
heat. I did not get the thing about the umbrella though, unless some Far
eastern equipment had some strange aversion to these devices or they
were subliminally trying to sell you one.

Do books still contain such things, I suppose these days they may
need one for does not contain nuts or use in the bath as well.
Brian

A while ago I bought a laser printer. I'd never used one before.
I read the instructions, then looked at the pictures (?) and thought, well,
okay then.
The A4 paper was too big to fit into the paper feed! Back to the
instructions, no help there. Shirley this will take A4 paper!?
Took a very good look at the paper feed tray and saw two *very* small thumb
marks on each side of the tray. Pressed the marks and the tray slid back.
Why this tip is not in the instructions I will never understand.

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I can remember when I could see, most instruction books for home mains
operated audio gear had a little picture.
A strangely short squat man holding an umbrella with very large raindrops
dropping out of the sky, a stylised cat sitting on top of the piece of
equipment on a table and a bonfire next to it with a red line through
it.This I suppose meant do not use outdoors in the rain wallow your pet to
lay over the cooling vents or expose to excessive heat.
I did not get the thing about the umbrella though, unless some Far eastern
equipment had some strange aversion to these devices or they were
subliminally trying to sell you one.

Do books still contain such things,

Its actually much worse now. Some of the very brief instructions
on how to use a device are nothing but symbols, no words at all,
so they don’t have to bother with multiple language pages.

I suppose these days they may need one for does not contain nuts

Havent noticed any of those.

or use in the bath as well.

Have seen a few of those.