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Submitted by: SP Riley via Oddly Specific

It scares me that they need to warn someone about this.

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  1. Mike says:

    If they didn’t someone probably would. That’s the REALLY scary part…

  2. Steve says:

    Incredibly old picture.

  3. Mike says:

    It’s not too bad until you get to #1.

    • Patrick says:

      If you think 1 is bad, you clearly haven’t seen some of the sounding rods out there. I can’t even fathom the how or why of it.

  4. hazlecreek says:

    The sad part is, it must have already happened or they wouldn’t have to warn you about it.

  5. Cath says:

    yikes and blimey cubed!

  6. Sam D says:

    the second line of text looks photoshopped to me :|

  7. Dan says:

    I cringed

  8. User McUser says:

    It’s called “Sounding”. You probably shouldn’t Google that term.

  9. dw says:

    Let’s please get rid of all the warning labels telling people not to do abjectly stupid things. Let the morons weed themselves out of the gene pool!

    • Em The Mildly Amazing says:

      Seconded!

      • Duke says:

        All in favor?

        Motion carried.

        • CK159 says:

          Warning: Coffee is hot
          Warning: Light cigarettes don’t magically make them safer
          Warning: Don’t stick your screw driver into the appliance before pulling the plug
          Warning: This thing has shiny lasers. Don’t try to play track 4 while looking there.
          Warning: If it can dissolve 2 month old dinner from the pipes, just think what it will do when you take a bath in it.
          If nothing else, just think of all the ink and sticker glue stuff that could be saved!

          • riku910 says:

            warning, always read lube lable (Plane glue… “HONEY! MY HAND IS STUCK AGAIN!” or “PULL OUT!” ‘rrriiiipp’ “AHHHH…”) forklift, not to eat with. gun, do not look in barrel to see if empty. pokemon, seizure center. mop, not for kissing practice. condoms, not for dildo’s/not a kids baloon. garbage bags, not to put an old, homeless women in. hotdog… use your imagination on this (female use)

    • Damage says:

      Does Sir read bash too?

      http://bash.org/?4753

      Or did Sir just have an epiphany and realise the solution to at least 50% of the worlds problems as well?

  10. A Noun says:

    It’s that wacky language barrier again…they just don’t get what the word screw is supposed to mean here.

  11. SEN5241 says:

    Pretty sure this is ‘shopped

  12. Seibee says:

    The question being why anyone would /want/ to stick that up there..

    • hdaid says:

      from what I’ve heard, sounding is suppose to be extremely pleasurable…
      Still makes me cringe though, hahaha.

      • Patrick says:

        With the right tools, from what I hear (no personal experience), but not with something that can/likely will rip the urethra to shreds. THAT, they call masochism.

  13. cinderkeys says:

    Oh my god. That’s a thing?

    I’m in total agreement with dw here, and not just because we need to cleanse the gene pool. The more companies provide warning labels like this, the more companies will be on the hook to provide even more extensive and ridiculous warning labels. “The instructions didn’t say I shouldn’t stab myself in the eye with this knitting needle. I’m suing!”

    • master baiter says:

      Well, that’s America weeding itself out of the gene pool for you… I don’t know of any other country where idiocy can be taken to such increadibly breathtaking heights by completely serious people in serious business suits.

      • Mitsuki says:

        And that is why I hope to one day move to a country far, far away.

      • benny says:

        Actually, that particular form of masturbation was relatively unknown in the United States until the publication of the book Haunted. Unless I’m much mistaken, sounding was first “perfected” in the middle east/Turkey.

        A–hole.

      • Patrick says:

        I have seen plenty of idiocy in other countries. And sounding (look it up) isn’t strictly an American pass-time.

        • Rattus says:

          Yes, idiocy is global, but suing in response to one’s own idiocy is a primarily American activity, and that litigious spirit is the father of all these ridiculous warnings.

        • master baiter says:

          Yeah, well, I lived all over the globe, and I agree that America doesn’t have a monopoly on idiocy. However, INSTITUTIONALISED idiocy is another matter. It should be by now enshrined in the Constitution, you know, every citizen’s right to be an idiot, and to sue someone else for it.

      • shredded says:

        Hey guys, I hear that intelligence is equal to morality and that all stupid people deserve to die – amirite?!

        (Not that I’m defending people who sue for stupid crap; that’s not being an idiot, that’s being an asshole.)

  14. Manda says:

    Um…. EWWWWWwwwwwwww w w w . . . .

  15. Sir Unimaginative says:

    I don’t know if it’s photoshopped, but it’s definitely altered.

    First, the warning text is parallel to the image’s borders, not to the product’s name.

    Second, the warning text is yellower and not as sharp.

    Third, the image doesn’t make sense without the warning text. (There isn’t enough context to determine whether or not the image would have been put on a general-audience retail product in the first place, so I won’t go there.)

  16. Random Joe says:

    Yea, I agree with User McUser…they look like sounds, so I’m sure people actually needed to be warned.

  17. Blikk Terrible says:

    That’s not funny. My uncle died that way.

  18. lurker9000 says:

    Just remember, the warning label is there because someone tried to sue…

  19. bigyellowdinosaur says:

    ow. that’s all.

  20. evildave says:

    I think more things need illustrated (and if at all possible, ‘Engrish’) warnings to make you cringe.

    Scanner, cart stock, color printer, scissors, stock art, photoshop…

    Look on someone’s face when they see the instructions… PRICELESS.

    Just think of the stupidest, worst possible abuses for a product, and run with it.

    It’s what that indestructible plastic packaging is made for – alternate labeling!

    Prayer beads (not for anal insertion)

    Pipe cleaner (not a recommended treatment for STD)

    Drill bit (not for teeth)

    Auger bit (not for brain surgery)

    Reciprocating saw (sawz-all) [All manner of 'Do Not']

    Circular saw blade (Not a frisbee)

    Chainsaw (Not for zombie movie re-enactments)

    Salad forks (Not for ‘piercings’)

  21. Bob says:

    It’s shopped!

  22. cinderkeys says:

    Probably shopped, but easily mistaken for Not Parody.

    It’s not any less stupid than the windshield shades I saw that said “Don’t drive with this on.” And I saw that one on the shades themselves — definitely not altered. :)

  23. Happy Guy says:

    It is shopped, but I’ve sounded with a screwdriver. It’s not for everyone, but I love the feel a lot.

    Don’t bash it ’til you’ve tried it. ^_~

  24. Nelson says:

    Pfft! Well… I’m not going to use a FULL SIZED screwdriver to tighten my penіs! What are THEY thinking?

  25. Allie says:

    So, then….a vagina is totally fine, right?

  26. elr says:

    Dear god…..Think of the horrors that might transpire if the word “not” was covered with tape or something of the like….

  27. Gerg says:

    Definitely shopped. Second text line is different color, different edge sharpness, different size (look at S), and not parallel to first line.
    The diagonal line and arc at the bottom (and probably the circle) have been added to the illustration.

    Thus the illustration does make sense without the added text: it shows how to hold a jeweler’s screwdriver properly, which is helpful since a lot of people don’t know why there’s a turny bit at the top end.

  28. Sage says:

    this was on failblog i think.

  29. Laura C says:

    They’re trying to distinguish it from their *other* set of screwdriver-like, ribbed metal rods.

  30. Kleanthes says:

    I know why this is on there! Someone must’ve tried using them as cheap sounds..:[

    http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Sound

  31. tehreporter says:

    IT’S STUCK!

  32. Kusac says:

    Seen these sold in dollar stores… they are so disturbingly real.

  33. JB says:

    I’m a little wiser, and a little more depressed, knowing about another disgusting and barbaric thing men do to themselves.

  34. Sargasm says:

    Great, now they tell me.

  35. HellOnWeelz says:

    …’cause if you take the screw out, it’ll fall off.

  36. SympatheticLady says:

    OH! OH! OW! I don’t even HAVE a penis and that hurts me!!!!!!

  37. Takaska says:

    HAHAHAHA!!…NO but seriously, was there alot of this happening somewhere? O.o

  38. Babyseal says:

    My only thought is: For the love of God why would you do this?

  39. Shade says:

    Well, see guys, the thing is… This has happened before. I have seen it. There is a video on the Internet called “One Man One Screwdriver”. And it isn’t one of these wimpy things either, it’s a REAL screwdriver, the kind with the plastic handles.

    Warning, look that shit up AT YOUR OWN RISK. I take no responsibility for mind scarring as the result of said video.

  40. Things I did not know.

    Gotta luv the internet!

  41. Roxie says:

    You keep using that word, “screwdriver.” I don’t think it means what you think it means…


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