Having to State the Bleedin’ Obvious!
I was on Amazon earlier this morning looking for an anti-glare screen for my laptop as I can’t see a fucking thing when I use it outside in the garden with the sun shining.
Anyway, there was some decent choices on offer, but I also noted that some photos showed a screen and a laptop, but next to it a big message saying “Laptop not included!”
And it got me thinking: do people actually think they’re going to get a laptop as well as an anti-glare screen, and all for £16.99? Well clearly some morons must think that way otherwise the sellers wouldn’t point the fact out!
And then I noticed similar instances for HDTVs (remote controls and set-top boxes), smartphones (protective covers) and other high value goods.
I can only conclude that customers in the past have tried to sue Amazon (or any retailer come to that), highlighting the fact that they were expecting to take delivery of say,a laptop, with their anti-glare screen because the photo suggested that was the case.
It’s just a new level of stupidity in my book: just like cretins who have an accident in their car because they were drinking a hot coffee from a fast-food joint. But the driver sued because there was no message on the side of the cup to suggest the contents might be fucking hot to hold while driving!
Or the morons who don’t remove the outer covers of frozen foods, and just whack them in the microwave and then find their house burns down because the cardboard packaging caught fire.
I even saw a sign at a train platform suggesting that if you wander out on the tracks you may end up seriously injured by an oncoming train (and they used pictures to make the fucking point even more clear!)
So now we have a situation where common sense goes out the window and everything we buy comes with a disclaimer message stating the fucking obvious just in case the thick cunt doesn’t have the intelligence to understand what to expect!
Common sense – what the fuck happened?
Nominated by NoCuntForOldMen




