Do You Read The Instructions?

^ If MC Escher had chosen a career in making instruction manuals

 

i read them if i need to, and don't if i don't.

 

depends on what it is, and if they contain anything useful. complete documentation is a useful reference, but it seems that fewer and fewer products aimed at the consumer market, even those aimed at professional applications come with anything approaching it. and even those that do, you have to look it up on line somewhere, instead of finding a printed version in the packaging.

most of the "instructions" anything comes with any more, just say fcc, or some other agency, regulations forbid you to dispose of your batteries in the microwave, or something as brain dead simple and obvious as that, with artistic illustrations and translated into seven languages, if not 20.

 

I read the Lego instructions and the washing instructions on clothes. That's all. lol

 

Gooood morning,

I just read the instructions for the time machine that I bought from epay (running fine when last checked said the guy selling it). But I can't get it to work as expected. Lights are flickering, but nothing else happens.

Regards
Gyro

 

real men, and women, and beasts and children, don't really give a fart, what "real men" don't do ... neither do rocks, trees, nor the universe in general
i don't believe i would call engineers, scientists, or astronauts, not real people.
it IS all too common, that documentation provides no real useful information. its worth looking to see if it does, and then choosing to ignore, after, with some knowledge of what it might have contained if it does. instructions aren't always useful, that's for sure, but its always a good idea to have some idea where you are, or how to deal with the kind of place, and have a good sense of direction. the real world can be a tricky and sneaky old place, just looking to slip banana peals under the feat of those i assume their personal force to be all sufficient.

all the time i hear people whine that the universe is picking on them, when they fail to look where they put their feet. of course the careful can have a run of bad luck, and the careless a run of good, but there is such a thing as probability.

by contrast of course, why leggo instructions? aren't they supposed to be for being creative and imaginative with? i kind of sort of thought that was supposed to be the whole point of them.

 

i just read the instructions for my new computer chair. or more accurately, i viewed the instructions. i don't think instructions actually come with any words to "read" anymore; it's always just a bunch of pictures with numbers.

anyway, i'm thankful for the pictures in this case. putting this chair together was not intuitive at all.

 

Hello,

yeah, I know what you mean. I still have some screws left from my office chair. I should send them as an improvement suggestion to the manufacturer, the chair clearly works without that screws.

Regards
Gyro

 

Glance at the quick guide. The rest is for reference only.

I mean do I really need to be told:-
"Your new PC should not be taken into a swimming pool"
OR
"Cautiono not lick power supply".

(says the person who once put a KNIFE in a live toaster whilst toasting bread hahaha)

 

If I paid attention to instructions I wouldn't be enjoying non-microwavable foods lighting fast from the microwave.

I've messed around with so many things over the years that I usually only refer to instructions when I get stuck long enough that I feel my blood pressure rising.