I just saw a report watching nbc news. Its about the laundry pods used to do laundry. They're brightly colored and look like big candies. Ergo...children love candy and these pods are very tempting. Two deaths...several comas... and a few cardiac arrests later doctors say that you should use traditional detergents, make sure the zip lock bags they come in and actually zipped and to keep all detergents out of the reach of children. My question is this......
Why the hell don't the powers that be suggest/force these companies to make then less enticing/tempting for children. Adults can read, they know what they're getting and hopefully comprehend what they're reading. But for whatever reason these things just keep on happening. When are people going to learn a little common sense. It appears that common sense may be an alien concept to them. Either that or they just don't give a damn.
Rant over
It's completely the fault of the parents. It's common sense to keep dangerous stuff away from kids. And nowadays parents get all sorts of advice from various sources, so there really isn't any excuse.
I did use paragraphs, well at least one anyway. The second one will come later.
a final sentence, period.
Because the packaging has to look enticing and attractive or we won't buy it. It has to look good in the ads whether print, tv, video, internet, etc. Because they are afraid you'll buy the one that looks the coolest cause you'll think it looks the coolest and must be better or just cause it looks cooler. Otherwise, all you have is a 'generic' product and that's not what the name brands want to be seen as.
Without knowing the full story....exactly how old were these kids? Where were the pods stored and how were they stored? Why did the kids have access to them? I honestly wouldn't put it past some parents to feed the damn things to their kids just so they can sue the companies. I don't hear about kids overdoing on Christmas tree lights?
[quote who="JuniorCrooks" reply="23" id="3632951"] my son had rolled to where the diaper was and began chowing down on it like it was ice cream.
Mine took hers off in the crib and went a bit further and finger-painted the crib and wall with it.
And there was the time she managed to cut her own hair with so-called safety scissors. AND I have heard of a lot of kids pulling that one.
Once they start crawling, it's open season on anything you leave within their reach. It can be as bad as having a puppy. Hell, our last dog ate a huge hair scrunchy. I had to force feed him hydrogen peroxide (per the vets instructions) to make him puke it up.
I think the world has just gotten so small that these kinds of stories just take on a life of their own , once they get out, and the real problem is that too many people with too many opinions (and often the wrong ones) have access to some form of technology that lets them voice those opinions and find others like themselves to bond with. League of Legends made over 4 BILLION dollars last year and it is a FREE TO PLAY game. 4 BILLION dollars! How many starving people could be fed on that and for how long? But 'doctors' chime in on soap pods and say not to use them?!?!? And this makes the news!!!!? Where the fuck were these doctors when Joe Camel was on t-shirts and the started making strawberry flavored blunts?!?!?!?
When they coat the soap pods in a candy shell and slap a couple of M's (or W's, depending on your point of view. HA!) on them, let me know.
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UGH! double post
can't get quotes to work
I apologize. I'm having a shitty day and shouldn't have even tried to post any thing. Sorry if I fucked up the thread.
We need the humor after being depressed by how dumb people are.
I blame Po'.
She probably does better art than you anyway.
I blame DrJBHL!!!
Yup, it's ALL his fault. He says it's only natural for babes/tots to eat crap, to paint walls and items of furniture with it. There's the mother "You dirty, dirty little so n' so!!! "... and the father saying "but it's only natural' - as per DrJBHL's advice - so the kid naturally does it again... and again..... AND AGAIN!!!!!!
Bloody doctors.... think they know everything! It's natural to breathe, but the world woulda been a whole lot better if a certain Germanic dictator hadn't drawn breath.
Yeah, I make my case! Bloody doctors [bloody often being the operative word] think they know everything.... like the idiot doctor who thinks he's gonna perform a successful 'head transplant'. Connecting the brain stem and the spinal cord? Good luck with that one sunshine.
Then there's the doctor who pioneered cutting off blokes willies and turning them into 'female parts' before stitching them back on. How bloody stupid! in this day and age of transplants, why not just cut off the willy and give it to a woMAN who wants one, and giver her 'female parts' to a WOman who wants some?
Case MADE!!!! Doctors don't have a bloody clue, do they... and there they are saying it's okay for kids to paint shit over furniture, walls and themselves. If that's the case, then doctors should be made to come clean it up, right?
He's gotta do some colon surgery onya to get to that head, first...pommy anatomy, dontcha know?
Nah, that's where the sun don't shine, pommy boy. And you'd need a spine too, btw.
Thought it were you wot pioneered that, Caity.
Well...we didn't want you feeling bad about your home decor, mate...but aren't the flies getting a bit thick there, down under?
Some of the safety products are pretty dangerous themselves. I remember placing plastic caps over the electrical outlets throughout the house, and my son figured out how to remove them in a matter of seconds, and then tried to put the plastic thing in his mouth.
The law of unintended consequences is universal and immutable, Borg. More reliable than the Gas Laws.
What!!!! There's laws on gas.
Oh, and Doc, I saw what you posted... I will NOT forget.... as neither would you. I will respond when I'm not so tired.
Must admit, though, I do love a bit of joshing between us... hence my post to inspire some 'retaliation'.
Indeed.
I told the cap'n to be careful with them cabbages. But alas, he loves his curry.
@Doc......your shops are out of this world.
Finally got a rise out of 'em?
That is the only way he can get a rise anymore. Hope that chair doesn't stop till it's on the Moon.
What this guy said. Parents should take the blame 100% if something like that happens to their kids at home.
Just what the moon needs...another crater.
Not the first time he's visited, though...lotsa craters there...
ZoooooooM!
That's why there are bars next to the bowl in bathrooms. Obviously starkers lost his grip.
Totally agree. Absentee, lazy parenting, is whats going on. Open house for a school in my town with 200 students saw about 50 parents show up. Most were single parents.
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