The whole "discard if damaged" is likely just standard cover-your-ass legalese which the lawyers will copy-paste on every single product they sell, including this one.
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It’s cardboard, not depleted uranium. How the fuck is it so dangerous I must dispose of it if damaged? The entire point of the product is for the furry psychopath that lives with me to damage it. It literally has no other reason to exist.
I would imagine this same label is applied to all of their products as a cost savings measure.
Gets damage, kid uses it as a stool, falls, parents decide to blame the company.
Pretty run of the mill situation tbh.
Only in America.
I presumed that since they mentioned a lawsuit.
True. Everyone knows other countries have no laws! /s
These things actually only degrade as your cat uses them in America. Elsewhere the cardboard doesn't mix with hair and fall off into little cardboard chunks that are attractive for small children to eat. Also, the structural integrity actually only gets stronger in other parts of the world, so you're actually encouraged to step on it, as after some play and what might seem like structural damage to a piece of cardboard, it can actually support the weight of a fully grown adult.
Doesn't it?
The small pieces the cat rips out fill the holes and make the structure stronger, until the cat can't use it anymore, because it's too strong for its claws
Then we use it as bricks for our houses
Haven't you seen the cardboard quarries full of cats working their ass off?
Edit: on a second thought, that's also why de-clawing is unethical here, because it hinders our never ending demand on bricks...
Honestly my issue with the way the US handles these things is that if wealth was distributed more equitably and fluidly we wouldn't need to be half as litigious.
If getting your car damaged didn't mean your only transportation to and from work being nonfunctional in a way that would require several months worth of wages from that job to fix, you wouldn't need to focus as much on who specifically changed lanes wrong, you'd just fix it. And if you could just go to the doctor and get care, and easily take time off work to heal, a little bit of muscle tension would be easy to catch, treat, and heal up from well before the possibility of lifelong and career ending injuries came into question.
If we were able to have the resources and time to just handle most small things, we wouldn't have to be constantly holding every individual working class individual personally liable for which direction they sneeze in. Litigation could be saved for serious and repeat offenders. But no, squeezing every last dime out of the working class is a feature, not a bug.
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You only hear about the ridiculous lawsuits. Local lawyer used to explain it on the radio all the time.
- Media doesn't report on the 99.98% of boring, and meritorious, lawsuits
- Judges toss frivolous cases
- Lawyers are loath to bring frivolous cases due to reputational harm, even disbarment
Our sense of risk is absurdly out of whack with reality.
According to a friend who's a lawyer she once had to explain to someone that she can't sue her landlord because she slipped on a wet floor, since it was her house and therefore her wet floor. The landlord merely owns the house, but didn't make the floor wet.
I remember a summer about 10 years ago, when I went out at the beginning of summer to buy some new pool noodles. I looked everywhere, and couldn't find them, all summer.
The next year, they were back, but they all had new tags that said "Not to be inserted rectally."
Suddenly, I knew why they hadn't been available, as lawsuits and regulatory issues got worked out. All because someone looked at a pool noodle, and got a weird idea.
So you put it in your butt right?
Yeah, I wondered if it actually gave some people the idea: "Hmmm, hadn't thought of that, but now that you mention it..."
Or a friends butt. Get permission first though
Maybe after they permission, they convinced the friend to do ass to ass. Like that movie.
Now we need a hero to test the sounding characteristics.
The dangers of corrugated cardboard are unknown to most, it's good they're trying to spread awereness
We should do a fun run to raise money for victims of corrugated cardboard abuse.
-in the arms of the angles plays-
the angles
I've always wanted to be held by a kind gentle right angle.
God I hate what the iPhone keyboard has become.
Clearly, you do not understand THE POWER of corrugated cardboard!
That Spanish translation is awful
Your favorite pet only 😂
Hey can you give a better Spanish translation? I'm a beginner at learning Spanish and was reading the Spanish version in the picture and going "oh I see, so this is how you say this."
"No permita niños que juegen con o cerca de este articulo." Is pretty jumbled up. "No permita que los niños jueguen con este artículo ni cerca de él." would be more correct. The way it's written is like "Don't allow kids that play with or near this article", and "juegen" is spelled incorrectly
"Este producto se diseña para un específico y un uso previsto" - "se diseña" makes it sound like it designed itself? It should be "está diseñado". Also they're missing something to go with "específico", probably "propósito específico"/"specific purpose" as is it just reads "for a specific" which makes no sense.
"Esto no se piensa para el uso como paso." Sounds like "This is not thought of for use as a step", but step in this case meaning like a footstep (action) not a stair step (noun). It should be something more like "No está diseñado para ser usado como escalón"
Lastly "animal favorito"... It would mean exactly what it does in English. My favorite animal is the dolphin. Pet, however, should be "mascota". And also why only the favorite? So if one of my cats is my favorite animal then I should only let my other cats play with it? Lol.
Disclaimer: not a native Spanish speaker, just a self taught learner of several years.
It reminds me of the time at work that we got a piece of industrial equipment. The manual clearly had been translated from Chinese into English via a Tibetan monk who would never heard either language.
It said things like "ensure when on that the fingers are not found" and "if loud kick immediately and call for help from empowering". The best bit was the warning at the top that said "DO NOT DANGEROUS", which was very helpful.
For some reason it also had a biohazard label on the box. It was a laser engraver. Where's the biohazard?
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Maybe your cat is dumb, rips a chunk out, decides to eat it, cat could get sick or catch fire or something
"nom" 😼
"MEOW?!?" on fire🙀
If your pussy has a burning sensation, I highly doubt it was cardboard that did that.
sounds like liability cover
Choking hazard, next.
It's because for the corpo, it's cheaper to say it might hurt you than to not say anything at all.
My kayak has this warning on it. When everything warns you it causes cancer people no longer take the warnings seriously. Now where did my Cobalt 60 lollipop go.
I've seen this warning on a t-shirt. Not on the label of the t-shirt, the actual design of the t-shirt. Which presumably also constitutes a warning, I bet the lawyers love that one.
The Spanish is wack. That last line says to only use it for your favorite pet.
“Bad kitty! That’s for the superior cat!”
It's for cats to scratch. It's supposed to be damaged.
Right?!
This is only meant for the 300 million Americans, not for the rest of the planet
Drop and run
That was the bridge to Tarabithia 😢
It makes it sound like some cursed item. Get the SCP on this.
Easily damaged paper product.
Is omnipotent,and can do anything unless it is slightly damaged. If attempting to use it while it is not pristine, will lead to a catastrophic cascade of calamity that may or may not result in false vacuum decay destroying everything from itself at the speed of light.
Maybe someone ate it and got food poisoning?
The last line mentions not using it as a step so maybe someone was stepping on it and after a while it broke down and they fell and sued
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