Kong me
So, Burger King are doing a tie in with the new King Kong movie. One of the BK adverts being shown on TV here has a chap getting out of his car moments before a massive Whopper gets dropped onto it. The allusion being, I assume, that your ‘Konged’ Whopper is too big even for a fifty foot ape to finish, something like that anyway – I don’t do ad-speak. So far so nothing to really get wound up about. But, last night I noticed something. As the camera pulls back to reveal the massive burger upon squished car, a caption appears on screen saying
“Actual burger not size shown”
The caption raised my ire - WTF!? Have we become so stupid as a race we need it spelling out to us that, in actual fact we’re not going to get a 15 foot diameter burger for under a fiver? Is this what we have become?
I was still thinking about it when I got to work this morning. So much so that I noticed something else for the first time. In the office toilets there are little signs above each of the hot taps. Can you guess what they say? Guess again.
“Caution. Hot water”
Imagine such a thing, hot water coming out of a hot tap. There was me expecting ambrosia and nectar. The times we live in.
posted by phylos @ 16:30
7 Comments:
Is it that we are so stupid? OR that companies are so wary of people trying to sue them all the time that they have to state the obvious in order to keep the wolves from the door?
It's the price of living in a nanny state, where all personal resposibility and common sense are being taken away by health and safety, insurance companies and government bodies. It is the right ... or rather the stupidity of the individual to once again ruin it all for the rest of us!
You've seen thoses 'No win, No fee' ad's on TV, where some tosspot has fallen over at work carrying a pot of boiling tar ... that he didn't appreciate was HOT and managed to sue the company, whose insurance compay then puts our premiums up to cover the cost!
I say if these people are such dyspraxic, incapable F**kwits, perhaps they shouldn't be in the jobs in the first place. I mean would you employ them?
LOL. Here's a slightly different one for you. I told my father about your blog this evening, and he laughed and told me one of his own. Went something like this...
"Stuff like that can be really funny. Every time I go into our Men's Locker Room I laugh, because the sign says
MEN'S LOCKER ROOM
KEEP DOOR CLOSED AT ALL TIMES
and I think to myself, "How are we supposed to get in and out if it's supposed to be kept closed at all times?"
Tee hee. Those are the thoughts of a Gemini for you! I had to smile, anyway...
When a woman sued McDonald's after being burned with hot coffee she was awarded $6,000,000. Granted she received third degree burns, and granted the coffee was super-heated, but truly how disconnected from reality must you be to not realize coffee is, generally, hot. Those silly little disclaimers are nothing more than the little boy with his finger in the dyke stemming the flood of litigation. sadly, nothing will change without tort reform. Your coutryman, Shakespeare, had it right, "First, let's kill all the lawyers." maybe that's too extreme a viewpoint, but a clipping of their wings is definitely in order.
I've got to disagree with Martin. If you work in dangerous conditions and are injured, then there needs to be compensation. Now, a decent state (a 'nanny' state?) would have comprehensive health an disability cover, and to receive this blame need not be assigned, merely injury and incapacity demonstrated. We do not have this; this fact is demostrated by the arguments FOR incapacity benefit reform. If people on incapacity benefit are suffering deprivation, then incapacity benefits are plainly not too high, and neither can they act as an economic disincentive on any large scale.
Now aside from this, there is still the need to improve unsafe workplaces. I favour the state support for the injured and criminal corporate law to deal with negligent employers.
Given that we have neither tough enough legislation or decent state support, we NEED ambulance-chasing lawyers. They act as a necessary band-aid to a sick system. Consider that the symptoms that you complain of are more extreme in the USA, a country with next to no safety net, comprehensive health cover or worker protection and you see the choice; a proper 'nanny' state or a 'sue' state. If you reject both then you basically toss the vast mass of people to the wolves.
Well, I'm off to remove all the "Danger High Voltage" signs from my local substation, before throwing the neighbours frisbee in..... lets see if kids can learn a lesson in school or need to be constantly reminded!
Bought a packet of roasted salted peanuts the other day. Allergy advice on the packaging: "Contains nuts." I mean, really...
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