Careful, it's heavy!

[Bill Wright]

What a stupid pointless wrangle. A misuse of Usenet.

Bill

[rbowman]

I don't have parrots but a few weeks ago I bought a 50# bag of sunflower seeds for the wild birds, slung it over my shoulder, grabbed a box of suet blocks with my other hand, checked out, and headed for the car. fwiw I haven't seen 13 in many decades.

[Meanie]

Changing nyms is the only way he remains off killfiles and receives the attention he craves.

[Tim+]

Never saw the thread. It's not as if those trolls were hard to spot. Kill filed them ages ago.

Tim

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[The Natural Philosopher]

Elfin safety. so you dnt sue them for picking two up and doing yer back in.

A cwt sack - about 50kg -is beyind most peoles limits and IIRC 35kg is the most workers in coureir firms are allowed to process off a pallet.

Squaddies are trained to carry around 50kg on their backs IIRC

[Andy Burns]

Just press 'K' (uppercase)

[Brian Gaff]

I suspect its a cover all statement. IE if anyone did get injured and tried to claim from the company. Its like so many things that say may contain nuts which are, um nuts, they consider the public to be stupid and often they could be correct. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

The other possibility is that you might try to lift it with your mouth or some other delicate part of your anatomy I suppose. You should never underestimate the ingenuity of the public to damage themselves. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

They obviously forgot the Braille warning sign so we blind can feel better about ourselves as well.

:-) Brian

[Brian Gaff]

If so then any thread discussing it has to be as well then?

Brian

[Brian Gaff]

There is a serious side to the thread on messages on things though, as we generally get so many now, does this mean nobody actually takes any notice any more? Danger holding live cables can be fatal. Brian

[John Rumm]

Its hucker, what do you expect?

He seems to be on a nym shift fest - presumably because most have learnt to ignore him. My hucker filter is lighting up new nyms like a Christmas tree at the moment.

[Max Demian]

They may not know in advance whether they can carry it the distance required.

[charles]

when I was in my 20s, I often carried 1 cwt sacks of cement and the coalman carried that amount of coal, I think that the change is due to people discovering the longterm effects of such loads; as they have done with loud noises.

[Liam Roberts]

I call it "health and softy".

But logically I could state that the warning is in small writing on the back and I didn't see it before taking it from the shelf. See how utterly stupid these warnings are? Only people who already know what they're doing actually ever see them. Those who f*ck up have never seen the warning.

I'd not enjoy carrying 50kg for a long distance, but I can easily pick it up and take it from say my house to my car. And I'd say I was below average build.

[Liam Roberts]

All we need is common sense. Your body tells you if you're straining it. Since everyone is different in their capabilities, we should just make our own decisions and sack the nanny state.

[Liam Roberts]

But they chose to be coalmen and they chose to ignore the warnings their body gave them.

[Liam Roberts]

Then you put it down and have a rest or ask someone to help you. Or have the intelligence to know how far you can carry something. When I pick up something heavy, I can immediately tell you how far I could carry it. Oh my f****ng god are we all becoming 6 year olds that need careful instructions? Think for yourself for crying out loud.

[Liam Roberts]

I only do it because morons such as yourself reply to a huge post with 5 different points, then AFTER I've read them all and replied, there's a note at the bottom saying you won't see the reply. Grow up.

[Liam Roberts]

I've never stated I was strong.