If someone can make a buck off it, it's approved for sale, no matter how unsafe it is. I can remember when we were warned to never operate the copier with the lid up & never to stand in front of a microwave oven while it's running.
We'd like to think we're more sophisticated these days, & the media inform us that it's so, but I see drivers every morning doing 30 mph over the speed limit with their high beams on: if it got them where they're going faster, they'd use a coin-op razor & go without a condom when they nail nameless, leaking hag.
It's called subliminal advertising: sounds like they're saying eat healthy, less trans-fat, more green vegetables; what they're really saying is drive like a maniac, run your SUV into a ditch, & sue everybody. That's the Reagan legacy: max profit with min responsibility.
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pinecone9
17 years ago
Oh yes indeed, if something can make a buck, there's a good chance it will be sold, no matter now dangerous it is. For example, just look at all those laser pointers/laser pens for sale now. It says right on the packaging-don't point those into anyone's eyes-it will ruin their eyes if you do that. Do people listen? No. If you watch wrestling on TV there is always some awful jerk kid or teen (or adult?) in the audience shining a laser pointer onto the wrestlers and into the camera and into the eyes of other people in the audience trying to watch the event. They smuggle them into events...the probably do it at concerts too And brats in the back seats of cars turn around and shine them into the eyes of other people driving down the freeway. Then let's not forget Nutri-Sweet/Aspartame that has finally been proven to cause cancer...I think they first proved it in Sweden and the report was on the news recently. Do you think then it will be taken off the market? NO.
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WarpedRecord
14 years ago
I'm not going to get into the Aspartame argument, but I must say I was very surprised to see a coin-operated razor machine in a film from the '70s. Even then, people had disposable razors. And even then, people were aware of the dangers of hepatitis and body lice. Did these things actually exist, and did men actually use them?
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