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== Film ==
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** From another perspective, someone talks about the manual and says that "You must ''really'' hate your customers", describing how poorly-written the manual was.
* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', there's a strip where the two try to put together a model airplane. They (or, at least Calvin) ignore the instructions completely, and end up with the newspaper glued to the floor, and a wrecked airplane.
** In a Sunday strip, said airplane was
** However, there is another strip where Hobbes is surprised because the instructions apparently start in English, but then go into Spanish and French. ]
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* RTFM is commonly used by engineering lecturers/advisers when asked a particularly stupid question. Also common is ATFQ, used in longer reports.
* Ask anyone in the tech field - especially tech support or customer service. A lot of people are guilty of this. Not only do the customers not read the manual, but oftentimes, ''the staff doesn't either''. Many people assume that because they already know how to use it that they don't need to read the manual.
* There are apparently [https://www.flickr.com/photos/arenamontanus/6126809588/ warning signs on some heavy machinery] for this.
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', Elf initially appears to be a savant at the fabber, but it turns out that, while still incredibly advanced and far beyond the level one would expect from a grunt who hadn't completed high school... she'd been using the fabber's manual and assist options, which Kevyn calls cheating.
** Sergeant Schlock (then a corporal) discovers in mid fall that he doesn't know the exact difference between a plasma rocket and a plasma cannon. Solution
* As shown above, ''[[Xkcd]]'' has covered this topic.
* ''Truck Bearing Kibble''
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