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Originally Posted by aephi alum
^ Great. First some woman sues McDonald's because her hot coffee burned her, and now all the fast-food restaurants who serve coffee have to print "Be careful, this product is hot" on their hot-beverage cups. Now some idiot doesn't realize fajitas are served on hot pans, and he gets burned. Are Applebee's and other restaurants that serve fajitas now expected to imprint their fajita pans with "Be careful, this pan is hot"? Are Americans really that stupid? Oh, wait ... yes, many of them are. 
I don't blame him for wanting to say grace before eating. But I've never heard of people actually leaning over their food while saying grace (Catholics don't). Besides, if the server had brought out a bread basket and he ate some bread, shouldn't he have said grace before eating the bread? |
FWIW, the woman who sued McDonald's did so because her coffee gave her third degree pelvic burns, forced her to spend eight days in the hospital getting skin grafts, and then spend two years after that receiving follow-up care. She sued for the $20,000 (in 1992 dollars) that her medical treatment cost, but McDonald's only offered her $800 in return. Some argue that her suit was frivolous, but since she only wanted the money required to pay for her medical expenses in the first place I'd disagree with that. If anyone wants to read more the Wikipedia article about the lawsuit can be found
here.
Back to our regularly scheduled thread...
this story of Syracuse's academic fraud to keep a basketball player academically eligible made me want to bonk my head against the nearest wall. Stupid that Syracuse did this, and stupid that they felt like they were justified in doing so.
