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Topic: Russian spills coffee on herself, sue's McDonalds
Reynar
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posted 11-15-2004 03:16:30 PM
http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/361/14585_coffee.html

Deja Vu?

Frivilous suits have spread into Russia it seems. I can't help but chuckle though.

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Gadani
U
posted 11-15-2004 04:20:47 PM
Isn't Pravda a tabloid?
`Doc
Cold in an Alley
posted 11-15-2004 04:26:04 PM
quote:
"There is a warning written in Russian on every McDonald's coffee cup: "Caution, hot!" The written warning guarantees that the goods are safe for customers," the company's press secretary Svetlana Polyakova believes.
How is a printed warning supposed to make a topheavy cup more stable?
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Trillee
I <3 My Deviant
posted 11-15-2004 04:43:06 PM
quote:
There was much rejoicing when `Doc said this:
How is a printed warning supposed to make a topheavy cup more stable?

Well assuming people read... the warning will hopefully make then excersize caution with it so they don't get hurt. Kinda like the warning lables on hair dryers. How would a warning make an electrical item work in a bath or showwer? ;P

Ares
posted 11-15-2004 04:45:57 PM
quote:
Trillee had this to say about dark elf butts:
Well assuming people read... the warning will hopefully make then excersize caution with it so they don't get hurt. Kinda like the warning lables on hair dryers. How would a warning make an electrical item work in a bath or showwer? ;P

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posted 11-15-2004 04:58:33 PM
quote:
Trillee had this to say about Tron:
Well assuming people read... the warning will hopefully make then excersize caution with it so they don't get hurt. Kinda like the warning lables on hair dryers. How would a warning make an electrical item work in a bath or showwer? ;P

You know, one of my friends was trying to fuck up a hairdryer (Or an electrical system of an apartment complex he was staying at; I can't remember) and dunked a hairdryer into a full bathtub.

It started pushing the water around like a pump.

Damnati
Filthy
posted 11-15-2004 04:59:53 PM
quote:
`Doc stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
How is a printed warning supposed to make a topheavy cup more stable?

I think a better question would be is "how inept do you have to let a door slam in your face?"

quote:
"I pushed the heavy door with my hand, while carrying the tray with the other. The door slammed and spilled the cup of coffee on me. I asked the personnel of the restaurant, if they could help me out, but they just said that they had run out of ointment and brought a towel and some ice,"

Her hand was on the door and it slammed on her? How does that work? And cold water/ice has long been the better treatment for burns. Last I knew, you were supposed to -avoid- putting oinments on burns as they made them worse. So wtf is her point? That McDonald's should take responsibility for her being a dumbass?

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posted 11-15-2004 05:20:45 PM
quote:
So quoth Maho:
Last I knew, you were supposed to -avoid- putting oinments on burns as they made them worse.

Wait...since when have burn ointments made burns worse? Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of a burn ointment?

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Demos
Pancake
posted 11-15-2004 05:23:14 PM
Ointment usage and other techniques are dictated by the degree of the burn.
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Taylen
Pancake
posted 11-15-2004 05:49:27 PM
Some ointments can make burns worse because they trap the heat against it. For the most part the best treatment for burns is cool water. Though certain substances can help some, like aloe.
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Pancake
posted 11-15-2004 06:19:07 PM
You put the balm on? Who told you to put the balm on? I didn't tell you to put the balm on.
Maradon!
posted 11-15-2004 06:36:03 PM
quote:
`Doc stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
How is a printed warning supposed to make a topheavy cup more stable?

That is pure idiocy. EVERY disposable cup is shaped that way. Billions of people use those cups daily without a disfiguring accident. It's idiotic to even suggest that the cup could be the source of the problem.

As adults human beings are expected to be capable of preventing injury to themselves and others when engaging in activities in reasonably dangerous situations. Carrying a fucking cup is one of them. By your logic, you could sue oven manufacturers, any electrical facility ever invented, any car manufacturer.

Demos
Pancake
posted 11-15-2004 06:46:31 PM
Whoh there Sparky, I don't think he was saying that was justification; in fact I think his point was that even if that's what they claimed, the fact that they are pressing for a warning label does nothing to change that situation either.
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Noxhil
Pancake
posted 11-15-2004 06:48:13 PM
quote:
And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Maradon! was all like:
Billions of people use those cups daily without a disfiguring accident.

o rly

Cass
Pancake
posted 11-15-2004 06:50:44 PM
(rolls her eyes)
Drysart
Pancake
posted 11-15-2004 08:29:58 PM
Whose McDonalds?
Trillee
I <3 My Deviant
posted 11-15-2004 08:32:18 PM
quote:
Drysart had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
Whose McDonalds?

Russian!

Mr. Gainsborough
posted 11-15-2004 10:00:12 PM
quote:
Gadani got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
Isn't Pravda a tabloid?

If I recall right, it was the newspaper that was started around the time of Lenin and was completely filled with propaganda. I know for a fact that it was big in circulation during Stalin's era, but most people just lined their birdcages with it because of how much crap was in it already. Pun intended.

Flea
Pancake
posted 11-15-2004 11:43:55 PM
People who suit McDonald's who burn themselves with a cup of coffee that has a fucking warning lable attached deserve to be shot in the face with a 2 guage double barreled shotgun then have their corpse raped by a blue whale's penis.

If you suit someone else for your stupid mistake you have failed life.

Monica
I've got an owie on my head :(
posted 11-15-2004 11:55:32 PM
In Soviet Russia, coffee drinks YOU!
Mr. Gainsborough
posted 11-16-2004 12:04:47 AM
quote:
This insanity brought to you by Monica:
In Soviet Russia, coffee drinks YOU!

Monica
I've got an owie on my head :(
posted 11-16-2004 12:05:38 AM
YES!
Mr. Gainsborough
posted 11-16-2004 12:07:55 AM
quote:
Everyone wondered WTF when Monica wrote:
YES!

Да!

nem-x
posted 11-16-2004 12:15:25 AM
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Pancake
posted 11-16-2004 12:55:31 AM
In russia, The coffee spills you!
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