AHEM, blog-post is below
I wonder if a bit of softcore-porn will get myself more readers? I desperately hope so... 3 followers and no comments anymore, it's almost not worth continuing this blog. But, I am one to be optimistic (when under the influence of alcohol) and shall thus, continue regardless. I need this blog... OK well that would be a lie, but as a gap year student, I need a soapbox to punctuate sentences and conjugate verbs to keep my brain stimulated and constantly engaged in meaningful thought (Though more often than not, I'm finding myself a body with no soul, no thought and no movement... ).
Warning labels, they're everywhere, and are fast becoming really annoying (as I'm sure the tape in the above picture is to you guys... For shame!). I'm sure most of you have probably seen that email that's floating around listing the top ten most retarded instruction/caution/warning labels to be printed on a commercially sold product, but for those of you who don't, I'll list one: "Warning: chainsaw is not to be stopped by genitals". Graphic, I know, but I had to give a point.
It seems that nothing has been saved from the wrath of the warning-label-hungry individuals with obviously a low viewpoint of the world's intellectual capabilities. Though, it's true I regard the norm for intelligence to be leaning, somewhat, to the retarded end of the scale, I do NOT see the need for the flurry of idiotic and pointless warning signs we have now. I'm a firm believer in the saying that we must learn from our mistakes, and if someone is dumb enough to attempt to stop that chainsaw with their genitals, then let him/her do just that; they'll never be able to reproduce and the gene pool will be one person less, that swims around with metaphorical Arm-Bands.
What constitutes as a 'mandatory' warning, anyway? I mean, if you're going to point out stupid warnings, why only point out that one particular reason, surely someone is going to attempt something else that's incompetent and then sue you anyway. We're heading into a future where scientists promised us flying cars and humanoid robots, but the only breakthrough that we will probably see is that every product for sale will be shipped with a 600 page warning pamphlet.
Stupid warnings are not the only labels I find a problem with, what really annoys me are the warnings that are printed on literally EVERY side of a cigarette carton. Yes, I understand that smoking can/will kill you, but the thing is this, everyone will die eventually. If Joe X wants to die from lung cancer and not simply old age, that's his own democratic right; suicide is not a crime. Smokers know the dangers their addiction/hobby has, so why advertise to them that they're killing themselves when they know the dangers already? That's just cruel. The government feeds them more cigarettes, takes their money, and laughs it's way to the bank and STILL has the nerve to rub that in the smoker's face? It's like having a Christian run around telling all non-Christians that they shall all burn in hell and laugh about it. Now, the last time I checked, that's illegal as it defecates on the rights of anyone to have freedom in religious choice. So why is there this double standard in government?
Now I get that if you don't warn people about these things, they will sue you for their stupidity, and I know that the courts always rule in their favour, leaving the 'ungifted' individuals with money they don't rightfully deserve, and push their children through university to probably become a lawyer. It's the circle of life that's ebbing itself around the shallow end of our ever depleting gene pool.
The problem lies in the fact that society will become so accustomed to warning labels, that they'll completely overlook those warning labels that are rightfully there; labels that aren't stupid. Life will become so haphazard, that people will just do and act without weighing the pros and cons of the outcome. All because of the irony of a warning label. Because of what was meant to spell out danger, shall create a danger itself.
