FabSwingers.com forum: Do you read instructions

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

When you purchase new items ...bought a new pink microwave and just plugged it in and popped instructions In drawer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When you purchase new items ...bought a new pink microwave and just plugged it in and popped instructions In drawer.

Always read the instructions in packets of painkillers etc mainly because no matter which end you open the fucking paper is always at that end !!!!

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

No, thats part of the fun being a bloke.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"When you purchase new items ...bought a new pink microwave and just plugged it in and popped instructions In drawer.

Always read the instructions in packets of painkillers etc mainly because no matter which end you open the fucking paper is always at that end !!!!

Yes your right lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Somethings are intuitive and the instructions are unnecessary. Somethings I've had to return to the manual (mainly my parents' fucking TV recording box thing).

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"No, thats part of the fun being a bloke."

Must be a bloke then..Ohhhh lordy im fake

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Never! As my beloved vet once said - that's why we only ever get about 10% of the functionality of our gadgets, we have no idea how to use them!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm weird. I love reading instructions.

Mrs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bought a new car stereo last week for my iPhone! ( was and still am very excited) and I fitted it all on my own!!! Very proud of myself. Didn't even take the instructions out of the box!

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

Oh love the sound of a pink microwave

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"Bought a new car stereo last week for my iPhone! ( was and still am very excited) and I fitted it all on my own!!! Very proud of myself. Didn't even take the instructions out of the box!

Good skills, all those fiddley fucking wires can drive anyone nuts

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Bought a new car stereo last week for my iPhone! ( was and still am very excited) and I fitted it all on my own!!! Very proud of myself. Didn't even take the instructions out of the box!

Well done

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No I don't. Naughty me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

if I can figure out how a man works with no instructions then I can figure out anything without instructions lol.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Oh love the sound of a pink microwave

Kettle to match too its lush baby pink . .

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"if I can figure out how a man works with no instructions then I can figure out anything without instructions lol. "

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By *sexDanMan
over a year ago

Romford

"if I can figure out how a man works with no instructions then I can figure out anything without instructions lol. "

same as for a man working out a woman! lol

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"if I can figure out how a man works with no instructions then I can figure out anything without instructions lol.

same as for a man working out a woman! lol"

Type that into 'google' and you'll find 'sorry no results could be found'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ive tried lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bought a new car stereo last week for my iPhone! ( was and still am very excited) and I fitted it all on my own!!! Very proud of myself. Didn't even take the instructions out of the box!

Well done

Cheers Zoya!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Bought a new car stereo last week for my iPhone! ( was and still am very excited) and I fitted it all on my own!!! Very proud of myself. Didn't even take the instructions out of the box!

Well done

Cheers Zoya! "

All for girl power x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bought a new car stereo last week for my iPhone! ( was and still am very excited) and I fitted it all on my own!!! Very proud of myself. Didn't even take the instructions out of the box!

I think of myself as pretty mechanically minded but would have no idea how to go about fitting a Car Stereo into an iphone

Gimp

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By *hattyman80Man
over a year ago

stockport

I'm a typical man and just assume I know how everything works without instructions. However it doesn't always work as a set of drawers from ikea is currently being used as a stool lol

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"When you purchase new items ...bought a new pink microwave and just plugged it in and popped instructions In drawer.

Important piece of advice:

"Always read the instructions, even if you don't follow them"

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

not often with most appliances though new 'kit' may get a perusal..

had never read any notes on any medication in over 40 yrs till we got some eye drops for one of our dogs..

read those..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bought a new car stereo last week for my iPhone! ( was and still am very excited) and I fitted it all on my own!!! Very proud of myself. Didn't even take the instructions out of the box!

Well done

Cheers Zoya!

All for girl power x

And long may it live!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Bought a new car stereo last week for my iPhone! ( was and still am very excited) and I fitted it all on my own!!! Very proud of myself. Didn't even take the instructions out of the box!

Well done

Cheers Zoya!

All for girl power x

And long may it live!

Alive well in my household

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rarely, i get impatient and dive in head first

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When it comes to new gadgets I usually start tinkering with it until something screws up, then I rush for the instructions and pray to the technology gods I haven't broken it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I normally try to do stuff without instructions, usually I get by but often that means I'm not properly utilising all the functions of the gadget so I don't actually know what I'm missing!

For example last week I finally found out by tapping the home button on the iPhone twice it shows all the apps you currently have open ( LOADS in my case!) which was slowing my phone down!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Only when I buy stuff for work so I don't miss critical info or assembly sequencing. When I buy things for home I don't bother.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nahhh I'm a DIY genius no need for instructions.... Although I do wish my Mrs had come with instruction I've only just got her working properly I've had her 5years as well

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never read instructions, I just wing it!

Also, loving the idea of pink kitchen items.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Instructions are for girls!

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By *rank EinsteinMan
over a year ago

Burton upon stather

"When you purchase new items ...bought a new pink microwave and just plugged it in and popped instructions In drawer.

Always read the instructions in packets of painkillers etc mainly because no matter which end you open the fucking paper is always at that end !!!!

Shrodingers painkillers box, the paper is at both ends until you open the box and it's at the one you open.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like the pictorial instructions you get which have (almost mockingly) smug looking cartoon people.

Plus, then you can just take a pen to them, draw in some speech bubbles and turn it into a free comic book. For bonus points, this can be used to trick children into assembling furniture for you.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I laugh at most roadside and pedestrian instructions, and most ikea kind of stuff, but I do look at more technical / unfamiliar ones like a lawnmower the other day I put together (not from scratch, just a lot more pieces than I expected!).

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

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Top tip:

If the manufacturer wants you to read the instructions for a item you have just spent your money on - there's a good reason why - read them.

If you knacker the item or it doesn't work because you haven't read and followed the instructions, don't start bleating about the item being useless, crap and demanding a refund!!

Just saying!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I only read the instructions on flat-pack stuff. If it's got curves and is pink I just use my intuition

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rarely read instructions initially.

Maybe read them a day or two later to discover there are additional features or I have missed something!

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