Lather, rinse, repeat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Let’s break this down into a flowchart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you see the problem here? Nowhere does it state when you should stop shampooing. In other words there’s no “stop condition” in this set of instructions — it doesn’t say “repeat if your hair is still dirty,” it simply says “repeat.” Always. Forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you follow these instructions, you will be in the shower for the rest of your life<\/strong>! I hope you’ve stocked up on enough shampoo to last until you starve to death in your shower of doom, lest you run out and be unable to follow directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But at least you’ll be clean when the coroner arrives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No, the only choice you have is to NOT follow directions. You simply must disobey your shampoo bottle if you wish to live. It’s that important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This conundrum calls into question many other instructions that you may follow blindly. If shampoo has misguided us, should we trust other directions? Maybe you should<\/em> operate heavy machinery after taking NyQuil. Maybe you should<\/em> let babies fall into plastic buckets. Maybe our pets should<\/em> go in the microwave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If we’re ever to trust product directions again, they’re going to have to change. As a first step, the shampoo manufacturers need to admit that we do not need to spend our lives trapped in the shower, lathering and rinsing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shampoo manufacturers, take heed: you need to add a stop condition to the directions to tell us when to stop and get out of the shower. Our lives are at stake. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You’re in the shower, and it’s time to shampoo. You flip the bottle around to read the instructions, and inevitably find the following: Lather, rinse, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Never follow the instructions on a bottle of shampoo - MrEricSir.com","description":"You're in the shower, and it's time to shampoo. You flip the bottle around to read the instructions, and inevitably find the following: Lather, rinse, repeat. L"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15,129,128],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-humor","tag-logic","tag-shampoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10511,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/10511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/pics\/blog\/shampoo_flowchart.png\")
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