<body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ url: 'https://www.blogger.com/navbar/8036640?origin\x3dhttp://thorpedoed.blogspot.com', where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), id: "navbar-iframe" }); } }); </script>



Sunday, January 08, 2006

Weird notices

So I was watching Power Rangers Dino Thunder this morning (OK, there wasn't anything else on and I was eating my breakfast/lunch so I stuck it out), and when the credits rolled, I couldn't help but notice what it said at the last part:


The story is purely fictious and any resemblance to person(s) living or dead is purely coincidental.


You'd think one has weekly battles with overgrown robots, and giant robotic prehistoric creatures.


Then I couldn't help remembering something I read on my phone's warranty card one week ago:


The Consumer shall have no coverage or benefits under this limited warranty if any of the following conditions are applicable:


(a) The Product has been subjected to: abnormal use, abnormal condition, improper storage, blah...blah...blah....Acts of God...blah...blah...



Acts of God?! I mean, come on, Acts of God indeed. Suffice to say, I read and re-read the entire contents of the warranty card (something which I've never thought of doing), searching for any mention of the stated 'Acts of God', but found nada/zilch/nothing else mentioning it. Those 3 little words held my amusement for like 2 minutes while I imagined what 'Acts of God' one can commit with the humble mobile phone. I couldn't think of any.


Ok, I retract my previous statement. I was pondering 'Acts of God', and decided to search online and here's what I found:


Act of God is a common legal term for events outside of human control, such as sudden floods or other natural disasters, for which no one can be held responsible.


Put into context, 'Acts of God' now sounds perfectly reasonable, although sending one's mobile to the care centre in an earthquake would hardly be the utmost thing on anyone's mind.

written at
|11:40 AM|


0 comments       link this post       contact me       sign guestbook

THIS IS ME
swimmer
bassist
interior designer [I guess]
poet
LITTLE SUPERHERO GIRL

view guestbook
sign guestbook


Pieces of History
  • Happy New Year
  • toothache
  • *gloom*
  • The Christmas Lesson
  • Deck the halls with boughs of holly...
  • Philosophy behind comics
  • Outwit, Outplay, Outlast
  • Liberated
  • Online Shopping
  • Candy Empire rocks



  • Museum of Memories
    MY PALS
    My Routes