Can you identify this product...

...from the warning label attached to it?

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Reply to
mike
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I thought toilet seat, and a Google search seems to confirm it.

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Reply to
Graham.

I'd guess at something like wooden platter.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

It is a toilet seat:

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The next question is why you thought it was a toilet seat.

Reply to
mike

all the warnings made sense if it was a rather fragile material capable of absorbing water and finished on some kind of finish that was inimical to solvents.

That suggested varnished wood.

they reasoning there is that you don't use materials that need so many warnings unless there is some overriding aesthetic reason for them. Wood and perhaps woven fabric come into that category, but the insistence on non scouring cleaners suffesteed a rigid surface ergo wood, not fabric.

I didn't then go further and deduce its actual function and indeed not putting plant pots on it seemed a spurious thing as why on earth WOULD one put plant pots on a toilet seat.

So hats off to whoever got it right.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Just a guess. It had to be something innocuous, and toilet seats often have labels that state the bleeding obvious, usually headed "Notice to the builder"

Here is a piece of Chinglish on my desk.

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Google is aware og this one too.

Reply to
Graham.

Or papier mache!

Strangely it omits to say "not suitable for standing on" and that is a genuine cause of accidents in the home often requiring the fire brigade to extract the unfortunate DIYers foot from the bowl of the lavatory.

Probably an injury at least as unpleasant as putting leg through a lath and plaster ceiling.

Reply to
Martin Brown

On 03/04/2014 16:37, Martin Brown wrote: ...

Perhaps it is suitable for standing on. Toilet seat covers are made both in types that can take the weight of a human standing on them and in types that cannot. ISTR there is a suffix letter for the British Standard that distinguishes which is which, as there is for 13A plugs, depending upon whether they are impact resistant or not.

Colin Bignell

Reply to
Nightjar

Sorry, got this far and all I could think was "There's a standard for a

13A plug you /can/ stand on? Gosh."

:-)

Reply to
Scott M

Yup, me too. I wondered how that came about, until I finished reading. A shame, actually.

Reply to
Davey

Any 13A plug can take a bleeding foot!

Reply to
PeterC

Well, I suppose that, provided you don't bend the pins by doing so, that would be BS 1363A :-)

Colin Bignell

Reply to
Nightjar

:-) Now they just need a BS for the Lego/sock interface!

Reply to
Scott M

ITYM Any 13A plug can make a foot bleed...

Andy

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Vir Campestris

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