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[FollowThisLogic]

You order coffee.

You know it's hot. (Those styrofoam cups don't displace THAT much heat.)

You're 79 years old, and are trying to handle the coffee between your legs.

Don't be stupid, you don't have the motor control to handle that action. Of fucking course you're going to spill it.

[SO]

They sold a product that they knew was dangerous.

The consumer should know better than to spill coffee on themselves. The consumer should not, however, expect third degree burns should shit happen. When your product has been documented as dangerous, and you've not taken steps to correct this - or to distinguish your product from similar products on the marketplace that are not dangerous - you should expect to face the consequences when your product causes injury.

And I'm not saying people should be protected, or even rewarded, for their own stupidity. Far from it. I am saying, that as a consumer of a popular product in America, the assumption among the majority is that the product is safe, unless common knowledge or warnings dictate otherwise. When I buy a coffee, I am under the assumption that spilling it will hurt - not that it will cost me thousands of dollars and put me in the hospital for days. This is based on every other cup of coffee I've ever consumed (or spilled on myself in the haze of half-sleep I know as morning). If I sell a cup of boiling water to someone and tell them it's ok to drink (as a cup of coffee is assumed to be safe to drink), and it turns out to be untrue, I'm at the very least partially at fault.

Besides, McDonalds coffee is absoutely the worst tasting coffee in the world. They should be sued for even fucking trying to pass that shit off as coffee. <--joke, but true

[HydratedPeach]

OK, I must be really exhausted... how the fuck did we go from joking about Spike Lee's lawsuit to seriously discussing a stupid bitch who can't hold her coffee?

Yes, I'm in a piss-ass mood... why the fuck do you ask?

[Justin]

Originally posted by Fieldy
God bless Spike Lee. I am a huge fan of his now. He screwed over Viacom badly and they deserve it. Viacom spent the last month promoting spike tv for june 16th, today I turn it on and no spike tv just the same TNN. Viacom/ Infinity/ MTV/CBS) must've wasted millions of dollars on advertising. serves them right for firing O and A.

With the millions viacom is losing over this, maybe they should just relase O&A now in order to cut their losses shorter.

[SO]

Originally posted by HydratedPeach
OK, I must be really exhausted... how the fuck did we go from joking about Spike Lee's lawsuit to seriously discussing a stupid bitch who can't hold her coffee?

Cause I showed up

[Flock of Moosen]

Originally posted by SO

Originally posted by HydratedPeach
OK, I must be really exhausted... how the fuck did we go from joking about Spike Lee's lawsuit to seriously discussing a stupid bitch who can't hold her coffee?

Cause I showed up

So, you were the old, stupid bitch with the burnt crotch?

[SO]

So, you were the old, stupid bitch with the burnt crotch?

Shit, I just wish I was her attorney

[The Brain]

And on a side note, it always amuses me when people bring up the \"McDonalds coffee lady\" when trying to prove the danger in frivolous lawsuits. Considering the coffee they sold her was not only hot, but near-boiling, caused third degree burns over 6% of her body, and McDonalds knew about problems caused by selling coffee that hot, the lawsuit was absoutely justified.

All right then, but what about the more recent attempt to sue McDonald's, when the parents of some (shall we say "hefty" children) sued McDonald's because <b>they were feeding their kids the stuff every single damn day and SURPRISE SURPRISE they got fat</b>. I mean, thank God that lawsuit got tossed out on its keister, but the fact remains that no one EVER wants to take responsibility for their own actions, it's always a case of if you fuck up, it has to be someone else's fault.

And it's not only lawsuits that need to be placed under control, it's the cash awards that can be given out from them. Some politicians (I think Bloomberg is leading the way locally) are trying to get a cap placed on how much a person can win from lawsuits against the city and such.

[SO]

All right then, but what about the more recent attempt to sue McDonald's, when the parents of some (shall we say \"hefty\" children) sued McDonald's because they were feeding their kids the stuff every single damn day and SURPRISE SURPRISE they got fat. I mean, thank God that lawsuit got tossed out on its keister, but the fact remains that no one EVER wants to take responsibility for their own actions, it's always a case of if you fuck up, it has to be someone else's fault.

I absolutely, 100%, agree. Perfect example of a BS lawsuit.

And it's not only lawsuits that need to be placed under control, it's the cash awards that can be given out from them. Some politicians (I think Bloomberg is leading the way locally) are trying to get a cap placed on how much a person can win from lawsuits against the city and such.

I'll just say that Bloomberg can eat a dick, and leave it at that...

[Flock of Moosen]

After what I just saw, maybe Spike Lee deserves to win this.

I just watched that 100 Most Irresistable Women special after RAW. A lot of the placings were downright awful, but this one in particular made it clear whoever made this list is a moron.

Anna Kournikova - #40
Serena Williams - #6

They have got to be joking on that one. I don't think if you took a worldwide poll you could ever come up with a result of Williams beating out Kournikova, EVER.

That sure was a waste of an hour of my life.