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Not to sound elitist, but I think we need to remember that the vast majority of the world's population operates at a less than fourth grade education level. The warnings that were posted on this site were not written for you, or your friends, or co-workers (the educated working class). They were written for the uneducated masses.
As the population has become more affluent, the marketplace has also grown. In the past, newspapers, television, and other "luxury items" like the ones these warnings were written for, were solely marketed to the small percentage of educated, affluent people who could afford them. The marketplace has since expanded to the point that the majority of the market consists of the lower, uneducated masses. Hence the "dumbing down" of television and newspapers.
Now for the Techwr-l tie-in... Keeping your audience in mind (the general audience at any professional wrestling, or big truck show) would you have written these warnings any differently?
No offense intended to The Rock or Governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura.
Just some fun thoughts for a Friday!
Happy Allhallowmas!!!
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