So it seems to me like people's first reaction to any little thing is: "well who can I sue?" its gotten to the point where I had to sign a freaking waiver in order to volunteer in a park on MLK day. VitaminWater and Coca Cola are in the news recently because some non-profit is suing them over the fact that VitaminWater isn't healthy. To me this is bullshit. I love VitaminWater. Are their healthier ways to get the same vitamins in larger quantities? Yeah but none taste as good! That said, do you really think suing is the right response? I just want to know what lush thinks of this trend of solving problems, as my friend put it, "like white people" (THE WORDS IN QUOTES ARE A FREAKING JOKE, LIGHTEN UP LUSH)

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First World Problems...

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Show us your pussy, <3rooke, you've already shown us your ass. Can you display a photograph of someone not easily found via Tineye?

Thanks much

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The best thing you can do for your fellow,
next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things
to think about, but to wake things up that are in him...
to make him think things for himself - George MacDonald

I'm not judging or anything, but if this little snippet from your profile and the last part of your question is any indication, it seems you have bigger issues to deal with than who's suing who.

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This really is a issue I hate. Just getting a part-time job seems to take hours of signing forms, contracts, policies, and all kinds of legal voodoo. So many people tryng to cover their ass from lawsuits. Nobody can just relax and live life. The world today depends on the courts and "big brother" to handle every little problem. We all need to just remove the stick from each other's ass.

Once again, like I stated up there, those things are to protect you , as much as they are to cover their own ass.

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Never sued anybody in my life. My ex sued for a divorce but I just ignored all the correspondence until the final one that said I was divorced.

I feel compelled to put my two cents into this post.
If someone order a cup of coffee, than sues an establishment and "win" millions in the settlement because the coffee is hot and it burned her...Than I feel that's a frivolous wrongful lawsuit.

If Vitamin Water (and so many other companies) are cashing in on a "healthful label" that is deceiving the consumer. If you're concerned about the food that you buy, it should not be an investigation to shop for healthy options. Lots of misused words abound as organic, healthy, heart friendly, etc. I even saw a sign describing their store made hot-dogs as gourmet ones.

Regarding the "white......" I'm not going to comment as I would believe we would not go anywhere.

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Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. — Rembrandt

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. — John Cage

Sorry if the comment from my friend offended anyone. I dont necessarily agree with her about suing being white people's solution I was just trying to lighten the mood a little bit LOL. As for the people who actually took the question seriously, I agree with a lot of what you said. @pixidust65 I understand that many of these documents are actually to protect me it just seems like a sad commentary when we sue a company for marketing or when a charity organization is so worried about being sued that I have to sign a waiver to volunteer my time with them. I do understand that contracts and waivers have a place, however, in our day it seems like there are sooo many of them and that the point of many is just to keep people from suing the person who issued it.

As for my taste in music I can't help what gets me going!

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Mcdonalds was sued because someone spilled theri coffee. Baseballs come with a warning on the package, "May cause brain injury or death if hit in head" because someone sued. While I was working for Target Dept. Stores a customer sued because they walked into a bright read pole. This is why orginaiztions have to protect themselves with endless forms and red tape. Even when some one is doing a good thing volenteering for a good cause like you are . Its a sad commentary om our socieity. I guess we just need to "Nerf" the whole world.... Then what would be the fun in that.

As far as musical tastes... I grew up on Black Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin. My Parent hated it. They love Elvis, their parents hated it. I don't get rap but am open minded enough to say if its what you like, its what you like, go for it.

I tried uploading this picture but all I get is an error message. Okay, first I tried it with a TinEye search just on the image, and then I tried posting it to Lush, which worked temporarily, but when I started to edit it and put in my results, because I didn't want to waste a lot of space with my experiment, it wouldn't display the picture.

But, while the picture was displayed before the attempt to add this message via editing, TinEye told me that the URL wouldn't display, then sure enough it wouldn't.

This is my third attempt at editing, and I've forgotten what the question was.

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I am a whore. Find something else to fight about. - Nell Gwyn (to her coachman, who was fighting a man for calling her a whore)

Most tort reform laws are just attempts to limit liabilities for insurance companies and corporations. Civil law has traditionally been the place where wrong doers can be taken when there is no recourse in criminal court. If the carelessness of a corporation or individual causes me harm, why shouldn't they be liable for causing me injuries? There is no evidence that tort reform has reduced medical costs, pretty much all it has done is to limit the amount insurance companies have to pay out. It hasn't even reduced malpractice insurance prices. What it has done is to increase the profits of malpractice insurers.

I suppose you're referring to the MacDonald's coffee case where a woman sued because she had a cup of hot coffee spilled on her. Lieback vs. McDonald's restaurants. In that case the coffee was scalding hot, so hot that it caused instantaneous skin destruction. Mrs. Lieback suffered third degree burns over six percent of her body, including her genitals. She was in the hospital for eight days and had to have extensive surgery. She offered to settle for twenty thousad dollars, but MacDonald's refused.

During the discovery phase of the lawsuit MacDonald's produced documents showing that there had been 700 claims against them in the last ten years because of their scalding coffee. Many of the cases were similar to the Lieback case. MacDonald's kept it's coffee at 180° to 190° F. Most places keep their coffee between 130 and 140 degrees. The quality control manager testified that MacDonald's policy was to keep coffee at the higher temperature despite knowing that coffee that hot would cause third degree burns. Liquids at 180° F will cause third degree burns within two to seven seconds.

The corporation had already had 700 chances to reduce the temperature of it's coffee to one that didn't cause instant third degree burns, but had refused. They knew that the coffee they were serving was dangerously hot. The jury found Liebeck to be 20% at fault, and reduced the compensatory damages from $200,000 to $160,000. The judge reduced the 2.7 million dollar punitive damage award to $480,000. She didn't even get all of that, since MacDonald's appealed, finally settling for an undisclosed amount.

MacDonald's knew that they were at fault, that their coffee shouldn't have been so hot that it would cause injuries, but they chose to ignore that until they were brought to court. They could have settled for twenty thousand dollars, but chose to litigate instead. Still, 79 year old Stella Liebeck is made to seem like the villain in the case.

Of course there are frivolous law suits, but the reason the insurance companies and corporations want tort reform is to enable them to make more profits.

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I am a whore. Find something else to fight about. - Nell Gwyn (to her coachman, who was fighting a man for calling her a whore)

I know it's a first world problem and all but.. to be honest, half of the reasons (maybe more come to think of it) for these lawsuits are for some of the most inane reasons I've seen. I'll admit that I facepalmed when I heard someone sued McDonalds because their food made them fat (happened in Brazil, sadly), or when a burglar tries suing a homeowner after getting injured or shot (lost count of how many of those I've seen on Google).

It's gotten to the point where the thought of suing someone seems a lot easier than using common sense.

They must be measuring in the same way that guys measure their dicks. It's always off by at least an inch.

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I Agree completely! I don't use Vitamin Water as a substitute to vitamin supplements, who the hell would? It tastes good its marketed everywhere and the energy edition gives me a small boost without making me hyper as fuck! It makes me so mad to think that anyone would build a case against the company based on their name and a few exaggerated marketing claims! But that's the world we live in! I agree completely with your idea for a fine as well @Dancing_Doll these lawsuits are waisting tax payer dollars not to mention the time of judges that could be better spent hearing legitimate cases.

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