Ok I'll start with the glue and take the medicines later. Why is it that when you buy a tube of glue in packaging, whether it's superglue (in any of its varieties) or contact adhesive, wood glue or even Uhu, that all the instructions only seem to appear on the packaging itself? So, after the first use (or two if you're being careful to keep the glue in its plastic - that you had to cut open with scissors leaving a sharp edge..) you throw the packaging away, only to find that the next time you need to use the glue that you don't remember how to use it properly.
Was it supposed to be applied to one surface only, or both? Do you need a continuous coverage, or just spots here and there, and just how long do you need to wait before joining the two parts together? And then how long do you have to hold it together before it sets enough to let go (oh dear it fell apart...) and then how long is it going to take before it's set completely and the item is ready to use like before?
All this info was on the packaging and not on the tube. So why is this? Could it be that the manufacturers want us to waste endless tubes of glue through lack of information, i.e. we end up throwing them away as they don't work properly because we couldn't remember how to use the stuff correctly. I wonder... Certainly won't hurt their repeat sales if we have to go and buy yet another tube just for the instructions again!
That leads me on to the medicines, where a similar thing seems to be going on. Why is it that many medicines come in such plane packaging, both bottles and boxes? The instructions for use are almost always a piece of paper folded up inside the box, often written in about 30 different languages too. So once again we have the situation where the medicine doesn't have any instructions (or even warnings in many cases) on the bottle, and nothing of any use on its box either. Invariably the little piece of paper is the first thing to get lost, and then of course you don't know what the dosage should be; was it 2 tablets 4 times a day or 4 tablets every 2 hours...
Also many medicines must be applied / used in a certain manner and there could be dangers, and or side effects, involved that are only mentioned on that piece of paper. Why on earth can't they just print this stuff in the language of the country of sale on the box? It would be much more informative, and safer too.
On top of this, most medicines have strange generic names that rarely hint at their actual remedy, so you've got no idea what the hell Gerandiumoxygelfen is actually for if you lose that little bit of paper. Why it can't just have words like 'for sore throats' or 'for insect stings' written under these brand names I cannot fathom. Could it be that the manufacturers actually want us to waste all these medicines so that we have to go out and buy new ones because we don't know how to deal with the medicine in question and dare not use the stuff incorrectly? I wonder... At the very least the important information should always be on the bottles, especially if you consider the warnings currently printed on many packets of tobacco!
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