| Hall0wed United States. April 28 2012 15:53. Posts 7235 | Profile Blog # |
| Meh, the world revolves around making a dollar. Can only be mad because I didn't think of it first. |
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| Kich United States. April 28 2012 15:57. Posts 338 | Profile # |
| I don't think I've looked into this enough to make an informed decision, but my knee-jerk reaction is that lack of rational thinking our society exhibits and the superfluous self-entitlement is sickening. |
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| Netsky Australia. April 28 2012 15:59. Posts 1102 | Profile # |
| I wish the title could be changed...Ferrero (not Nutella) didn't "lose", they reached a settlement. |
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| Avelii Switzerland. April 28 2012 16:04. Posts 18 | Profile # |
Rule of thumb: If your kid really likes it, it's most likely not that healthy!
Also, read the nutrition labels on it? It's sad, that people actually get money for such things... And waste other peoples time (judges etc.) which could be spent on actually important stuff. |
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| Arush Canada. April 28 2012 16:09. Posts 68 | Profile # |
| Sad Sad world it is the greedier the better i guess.... disgusting... |
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| FallDownMarigold United States. April 28 2012 16:21. Posts 3192 | Profile Blog # |
On April 28 2012 08:40 flamewheel wrote:
Coffee is hot.
This should be regarded as a gaffe, believe it or not. People like to make fun of the lady who sued McDonald's because she spilled scalding hot coffee on her lap. The fact of the matter is that the coffee was so negligently hot that it actually burned her vagina straight through to the pelvic bone. Too graphic? Well that's what she endured due to McDonald's mistake. She didn't even get any money in the end, so it's pretty crude to deride her experience.
Spilling coffee from a restaurant should result in some sharp pain at most. I think it's reasonable to sue the SHIT out of a place that serves a product capable of melting flesh to the bone without explicit warning. If they wanted to serve it that hot they could've at least included a "CAUTION: Don't spill or this shit will melt your flesh! It's that hot and good!" sticker on their cupsLast edit: 2012-04-28 16:24:01 |
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| Kazahk United States. April 28 2012 16:21. Posts 214 | Profile # |
In my opinion, this is just another case of relativism. Some think the woman should have been smarter, while some think its the companies fault for fooling and twisting her play dough like mind into believing that chocolate paste is good for you. Truth is (realitave to me that is  ) is that it's no ones fault. Or rather every ones fault;
The companies want money, its a fault in our human psychology. We cant blame people for being human, at the same time we cant blame some one for being dumb. It was their fault and they should take full responsabilty for it; but still its not their fault if you get what im trying to say, sort of like a person who was brutally abused as a child and grew up into a phsycopathic murder. They killed people but it wasnt their fault it was the parents. They abused and neglected their child and now their dead. Said crazy killer will be put to trail and is responsible but you cant call say it was directly his fault that he killed his parents. Same thing here with nuttella woman, she was very naive and not smart like, but it was her parents that neglected/ poorly disciplined, never taught her to think etc.
But ill go even further and say what if it wasn't her parents but the Government who put subliminal messages on the TV who's parents set no limit to as they were alcoholics because of their own child hood problems, who parents had their own who's great grand parents who's cousin was a child molester etc. etc. etc.
My main point was to say were all messed up people, and the next person is more twisted and evil in their own way. WE are some how were involved in this sad sad world we live in today and unless we realize that and stop going to either side red or side blue, we will never progress and shall be feeding vanilla gummy bear spread to our children thinking its healthy because vanilla is a bean.
Let us accept that were in a way both right. She was dumb and should have looked at the nutrition panel, but at the same time the companies are evil greedy bastards.
some where between black and white is gray, ...and we must accept that. (im still down for the vanilla gummy bear spread, shit sounds DOPE! :D) |
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| sc4k United Kingdom. April 28 2012 16:32. Posts 4382 | Profile Blog # |
| This is completely justified. I hate unhealthy food manufacturers putting bullshit about 'balanced' and 'great way' and crap like that to peddle their junk, they deserve to be sued. All the breakfast cereal manufacturers too. |
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| renlynn United States. April 28 2012 16:40. Posts 145 | Profile # |
On April 28 2012 16:21 FallDownMarigold wrote:This should be regarded as a gaffe, believe it or not. People like to make fun of the lady who sued McDonald's because she spilled scalding hot coffee on her lap. The fact of the matter is that the coffee was so negligently hot that it actually burned her vagina straight through to the pelvic bone. Too graphic? Well that's what she endured due to McDonald's mistake. She didn't even get any money in the end, so it's pretty crude to deride her experience. Spilling coffee from a restaurant should result in some sharp pain at most. I think it's reasonable to sue the SHIT out of a place that serves a product capable of melting flesh to the bone without explicit warning. If they wanted to serve it that hot they could've at least included a "CAUTION: Don't spill or this shit will melt your flesh! It's that hot and good!" sticker on their cups
looks like about 40 degrees too hot
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
I remember reading somewhere this was because a lot of their customers didn't get around to their coffee until much later (driving on the road or whatever) so they overheated to make it keep its temperature longer. |
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| screamingpalm United States. April 28 2012 16:43. Posts 885 | Profile # |
Seems like in general, many people on here claiming that this is frivolous live in countries that have universal health care. Easy to criticize those of us decrying deceptive marketing practices when you have a safety net to fall back on, I suppose!
We consumers are constantly told to take responsibility for our actions, yet this type of deceptive advertising and other shady business practices are accepted for some reason. Barely even an outcry when peanut butter companies were knowingly shipping product contaminated with salmonella in order to save the bottom line. And still, people eagerly rally around agendas to shut down government agencies such as the FDA!
Giving up rights to and/or putting limits on litigation through tort reform while waiting for unfettered capitalism to run its course doesn't seem like the best option to me.Last edit: 2012-04-28 16:51:15 |
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| -Archangel- Croatia. April 28 2012 16:46. Posts 3589 | Profile # |
On April 28 2012 08:38 rotinegg wrote:http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/today-food-finance-nutella-not-broccoli-162956191.htmlSo basically, Ferrero, the company that makes Nutella, got sued by some woman named Athena Hohenberg, because she was an idiot and thought Nutella would be HEALTHY for her children. Turns out, it's not (surprise surprise) and she filed a lawsuit claiming false advertising. She won the case, and Ferrero has to shell out $3.5 million, 2.5 of which will be spread out to claimants in a class action lawsuit. I think this is retarded, and sometimes I really hate the people we live with. Thoughts?
If she is retarded then why did Nuttela lose the lawsuit? There were obviously some false advertising involved here.
Personally I hate companies that lie to us more then people suing them. |
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 horsebanger April 28 2012 16:47. Posts 132 | Profile # |
there's more to it than we know for sure. remember, the woman had the jury from USA backing her up  |
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| Man with a Plan United States. April 28 2012 16:55. Posts 387 | Profile # |
On April 28 2012 16:21 FallDownMarigold wrote:This should be regarded as a gaffe, believe it or not. People like to make fun of the lady who sued McDonald's because she spilled scalding hot coffee on her lap. The fact of the matter is that the coffee was so negligently hot that it actually burned her vagina straight through to the pelvic bone. Too graphic? Well that's what she endured due to McDonald's mistake. She didn't even get any money in the end, so it's pretty crude to deride her experience. Spilling coffee from a restaurant should result in some sharp pain at most. I think it's reasonable to sue the SHIT out of a place that serves a product capable of melting flesh to the bone without explicit warning. If they wanted to serve it that hot they could've at least included a "CAUTION: Don't spill or this shit will melt your flesh! It's that hot and good!" sticker on their cups
Yeah, the McDonald's example is becoming a legend that people do not anymore know the real story behind it. The sad thing about it is that the woman didn't even get compensated. |
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| jobber123rd United States. April 28 2012 16:56. Posts 501 | Profile # |
On April 28 2012 16:47 horsebanger wrote:there's more to it than we know for sure. remember, the woman had the jury from USA backing her up
No jury was involved; it was settled out of court.
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| redemption United States. April 28 2012 17:03. Posts 98 | Profile # |
On April 28 2012 16:46 -Archangel- wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 28 2012 08:38 rotinegg wrote:http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/today-food-finance-nutella-not-broccoli-162956191.htmlSo basically, Ferrero, the company that makes Nutella, got sued by some woman named Athena Hohenberg, because she was an idiot and thought Nutella would be HEALTHY for her children. Turns out, it's not (surprise surprise) and she filed a lawsuit claiming false advertising. She won the case, and Ferrero has to shell out $3.5 million, 2.5 of which will be spread out to claimants in a class action lawsuit. I think this is retarded, and sometimes I really hate the people we live with. Thoughts?
If she is retarded then why did Nuttela lose the lawsuit? There were obviously some false advertising involved here. Personally I hate companies that lie to us more then people suing them.
They didn't lose. They settled. |
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| grtgrt1 April 28 2012 17:06. Posts 74 | Profile # |
| Well, if she won the case, obviously there was false advertising involved. Who cares whether she's calculative or a moron? This will help weed out false advertisements as well. |
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| Daogin Canada. April 28 2012 17:14. Posts 988 | Profile Blog # |
On April 28 2012 16:55 Man with a Plan wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 28 2012 16:21 FallDownMarigold wrote:
On April 28 2012 08:40 flamewheel wrote:
Coffee is hot.
This should be regarded as a gaffe, believe it or not. People like to make fun of the lady who sued McDonald's because she spilled scalding hot coffee on her lap. The fact of the matter is that the coffee was so negligently hot that it actually burned her vagina straight through to the pelvic bone. Too graphic? Well that's what she endured due to McDonald's mistake. She didn't even get any money in the end, so it's pretty crude to deride her experience. Spilling coffee from a restaurant should result in some sharp pain at most. I think it's reasonable to sue the SHIT out of a place that serves a product capable of melting flesh to the bone without explicit warning. If they wanted to serve it that hot they could've at least included a "CAUTION: Don't spill or this shit will melt your flesh! It's that hot and good!" sticker on their cups
Yeah, the McDonald's example is becoming a legend that people do not anymore know the real story behind it. The sad thing about it is that the woman didn't even get compensated.
the thing that gets me about mcdonalds is the fact that i dont even know how they managed to get such "hot" coffee. I work at Tim Hortons and the hottest thing we serve is tea, which is boiling water but not enough to cause third degree burns. I've even spilt it all over my hands, yea it's hot but not that hot :S |
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| UltimateHurl Ireland. April 28 2012 17:14. Posts 554 | Profile Blog # |
| Nutrition is such a weird area. On the one hand the common 'wisdom' from people to dieters is that a calorie is a calorie and to be nourished we only need to eat the right amount of calories for our bodies. By this definition a chocolate spread that contains a lot of calories is highly nutritious, it provides a lot of energy. But the entire area has been subject to so much more advertising than scientific scrutiny that while we have a vague idea of it being bad to get too much calories from one kind of food most of us don't know specifics, and provided we aren't trying to lose fat don't bother to learn. So yeah... don't know how to feel about this. |
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| Slaughter United States. April 28 2012 17:29. Posts 8262 | Profile Blog # |
First off I just have to say, especially to a lot of you posters with barely any posts, PLEASE READ THE THREAD BEFORE COMING TO CONCLUSIONS. The OP can be wrong/biased/too soon before facts come to light. This leads to you looking at the OP and coming to a conclusion then posting. It makes you look a bit silly (hell we are all guilty of it from time to time). So many posts that are straight up wrong because they read/skimmed the OP assumed the worst (especially when it is about a sterotype such as US lawsuits) and posted. I really hope those who posted like this will come back and read more so they can get an idea of what actually is happening.
As for the lawsuit itself, meh in the end its just another expense that doesn't hurt them much. I hope something good can come from this but honestly companies don't change until they have to or something really scares them into change.
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| goldenwitch United States. April 28 2012 17:37. Posts 319 | Profile # |
| I can't help but wonder if the people that file this kind of lawsuit are genuine shocked to find out that eating food has obvious consequences or if they simply understand that its nearly impossible to prove that they aren't shocked and there is a big paycheck if they are. |
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