Do you read the instructions?

martin

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Wing it. My shower drain started smelling weird last week so I bought a tub of caustic soda flakes. The instructions said "proceed to use 125g to 5 litres of water" but I just poured half the tub down down the plughole and a couple of kettles of water and it worked fine.

Most of these instructions are subcontracted to a student 'copywriter' on Fiverr. Just go with your gut instinct.
 

martin

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"Not to be taken if operating machinery". Yeah, hence all those well-recorded cases of stevedores crashing their forklifts over the side of the harbour after taking their gout meds. It's a load of bollocks.

Has anyone ever made a curry and not put 4 x the 'recommended' amount of chillis in?
 

version

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I'm convinced at least some of the stuff you get on prescription doesn't actually become useless/dangerous past its sell-by-date and it's just a scam to sell more drugs.
 

martin

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I'm convinced at least some of the stuff you get on prescription doesn't actually become useless/dangerous past its sell-by-date and it's just a scam to sell more drugs.

Yeah, you'd be right. I've got really old packets of Nurofen Plus and they work fine. It's just a bunch of spivs in white lab coats trying to run a scam.

Do drugs ever go off? I reckon you could safely neck a rhubarb & custard from 1989 - and still get through the NYC rave thread in one piece.
 

luka

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ive heard of people necking 30 year old Ecstasys and having them work a treat. i've had various things that are years old, up to 12 year old, and having them work a treat. dont seem to go off.
 

boxedjoy

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I once went to a party where two women turned up and one had a bag she hadn't used in twenty years. She had found two pills in it from the early 90s so her and her friend took one each and watching them come up was delightful.

Paracetemol is lethal in big doses but the recommended limit is something like half of what you can safely take, it's just that the consequences if you survive can be so brutal that it's not worth the risk
 

Leo

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depends on what it is. if it's technology related -- setting up a new laptop, wifi, cable modem, etc. -- then yes, will read it, get confused, struggle, try my own way, etc until something works. sheer luck, mostly.
 
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