Pointless Instructions

He's one me and Vix found at a local beach earlier this month:

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those 13A IEC plugs

with a sticky label with instructions on what coloured wire goes where....

dammit, the plug is "moulded", you are never going to see the wires unless you hack it open !


btw.
"warning: do not hack this plug open to see the wires"

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I think the "3. Remove from oven and serve" is probably there to indicate the end of the cooking. If it wasn't there, people may think they need to do something else to it like stick it under the grill or whatever. Saying remove from oven and serve tells them thats the last cooking step better than "3. There is no step 3." :p
 
DanTheMan said:
Is it just me who find pointless instructions...well, pointless?

Just got a cottage pie out of the oven and checked the instructions which read as follows:

1. Remove sleeve and plastic lid.
2. Place on baking tray in preheated oven at gas mark 5 for 40 mintues.
3. Remove from oven and serve.

What other possible things would I do with it? :confused: Rub it on my head? Throw it at people?
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Serve it to your guests with a tennis racket and then sue due to burns and other projectile induced injuries via an omission in the method of serving.
 
Samtheman1k said:
On a 'meal for one' shepards pie, on the front there was a picture of the shepards pie on a plate and it said 'Serving suggestion'! :D
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Practically all food has “serving suggestion” written under a picture of the food in question. I never knew how to serve soup until I saw the suggestion on the tin :D no mention of an eating suggestion but I find a fork works best as I burnt my hand the first few times I tried.

Have a look at the food in the cupboard now and I bet they will all have serving suggestions, it makes you wonder what type of person needs the suggestion of serving a pie on a plate. :rolleyes:
 
How about the all time classic from Haynes car manuals:

"Refitting is a reversal of removal"

No **** Sherlock!

Thing is, they use it after almost every point in the manual as a blatant cop-ouit so they dont have to tell you how to put something back together after you've dismantled it. They might as well say:

"You'd better remember how you took that apart, as we can't be bothered to tell you how to put it back together. You're stuffed, ha ha."
 
My hair dryer instructions has "Do not used while sleeping" :rolleyes:

Also when I was little I got some cream for my gum that was strawberry flavoured from the doctor. It said on the bottle "Warning: Toxic do no ingest" :eek:
 
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