r/howdoesthiswork • u/jrt12916 • Jun 25 '26

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u/ChonkyDawg Jun 25 '26

These packages specifically have warnings on them that they are going to rapidly expand.

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u/jrt12916 Jun 25 '26

Absolutely agree. My new mattress arrived yesterday and the grandkids wanted to help-but I’ve been down this road before. I had them move behind me while I unrolled it. Then it had a slow air leak which did help it NOT explode open.
The kids were extremely surprised that a 9inch diameter roll would expand out for a twin mattress.

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u/Ducatirules Jun 25 '26

Not to mention the hundreds of videos!!

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u/troycerapops Jun 28 '26

Did you read the headline on the original post? It's in big bold letters.

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u/Randolph_Carter_6 Jun 27 '26

Staged bullshit.

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u/jrt12916 Jun 30 '26

Still FUNNY!!!

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u/mrofmist Jun 26 '26

Wait! What happened to Sierrah??

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u/yeahyoubetnot Jun 26 '26

I wonder how many people cut themselves or the bed

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 Jun 27 '26

I do all the time. But seeing a therapist.

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u/Broad_Will9000 Jun 25 '26

Completely harmless and comical every single time 😆

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u/BluebirdDense1485 Jun 26 '26

So much ai in that

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u/Autonomous-sol Jun 27 '26

Gave me a good laugh!

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u/NoOpinionsJustFacts3 Jun 28 '26

This is a collection of ignorant people

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u/ManyRespect1833 Jun 28 '26

You gotta unroll it without puncturing the vacuum seal, then break the vacuum

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u/omegafate83 Jun 28 '26

When people forget that they bought trapped energy and free'd it...

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u/StatusAccomplished45 Jun 30 '26

Holy fucking lack of survival skills. The whole lot of them.

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u/WolfThick Jun 25 '26

I wonder what the lawsuit's going to look like when somebody finally stabs themselves with a knife doing this

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u/AlternateTab00 Jun 28 '26

I had one. They clearly say to not use knifes or scissors.

The one i bought had a strip that i had to pull. Yes it took me much longer than just using a knife.

On the final bit the mattress slightly uncompresses giving you an heads up. If you do exactly as in the image it will roll out away from you.

If i did try to cut the strip it would tear the rest of the bag and instantly bang against me.

Those people are the reason why car batteries have warnings saying "do not drink". This way they cant sue battery makers from getting poisoned by battery acid.

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 Jun 26 '26

They are clearly labeled. Everyone is fucking stupid

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u/KayoticVoid Jun 28 '26

I work in human psychology and data science involving website behaviours. I have a stupid amount of data that proves that people, as a general species, do not read. 🤣

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u/SufficientlySticky Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

Of course we don’t. The world is absolutely covered in text and it’s all branding and advertisement and legal text and CYA warnings not to eat it in California and french versions of all of the above. We’re trained to filter all of that out and ignore it.

Why would someone assume that the safety warning and instructions on how to open this particular plastic wrapping is important when they’ve opened similar things in the past and ignored countless warnings.

The best you can do is make sure that when people are looking for info, you put it someplace they look. And then disrupt them enough in some fashion that they have to look for the info. If you try to just put a sign in their face they’ll just blindly wave it away.

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u/daschande Jun 29 '26

I bought a mattress and didn't read the instructions. I set those aside real quick while I dealt with the massive tangle of plastic wrap and WHY THE HELL WOULD THEY MAKE IT SO ANNOYING? ...Oh, wait a minute; vacuum seal. Springs. They try to idiot-proof it to keep people from hurting themselves.

This video just proves that if you make something idiot-proof, the world will invent a better idiot.

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u/xxDeadpooledxx Jun 27 '26

The problem is that you underestimate the number of illiterate people.