this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago (3 children)

May be something related to child resistant packaging. From the CPSC FAQ on the Poison Prevention Packaging ACT "For a package to be child-resistant, at least 85% of tested children must not be able to open the package during the first 5 minutes of the test".https://www.cpsc.gov/FAQ/PPPA

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

The bad news is your home is gone and your child with it in the massive flameball. The good news is, while we can’t quite say your kid was gifted

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists (in reference to why the Yosemite garbage cans are difficult to use)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Worked in Yellowstone.

The bears are smarter than the majority of tourists.

Humans, being able to read and having signs posted in multiple languages for them, choose to ignore the various hazards and blunder through them.

Bears, only rarely, if ever, find themselves in trouble with natural features. And they can't read the warning signs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Design a camp ground so that people who don't read the rules naturally fall in a pit that the rules warned about. Clear out the pit about sunset, and bus the pit folk to a motel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Is that pit lined with mattresses so that those peeps will just isolate themselves for a day? I read the first sentence and nodded in approval: let the natural selection take the wheel but the second sentence made it much more humane.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I remember my wife asking our kid to open some "child-proof" packaging for her.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ah, the classic sad onion.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You guys are way off, that's mostly TinTin on lockdown.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Blue blistering barnacles! You're right!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Came here for the Ashens reference and was not disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I believe it is indicating that the child lock is only 85% effective.

How the hell they arrived at that number we may never know, but I'll bet you it's buried on page 4,987,253 in clause 6, subsection 8 of European Union Product Safety Report 156.421a. Or something.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They just had a hundred babies try to pick the lock. Most of 'em couldn't do it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

... but those 15. We've gotta put them on some sort of watchlist.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

And hand that list to the lockpicking lawyer right?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

85% of the time, it works every time

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

It means this product was made with 85% child slavery

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

85% of the child laborers who made this product were unable to escape.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Tintin in jail 85% of the time?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

BILLIONS OF BLISTERING BLUE BARNACLES!!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Got it, captain Haddock!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He's lucky he didn't get the electric chair for what he did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's no death sentence in France

Edit: oops he's Belgian. But still.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

A guess? 85% childproof.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

85% baby in every lock

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Could be 85% alcohol and to keep locked away from children

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

That baby icon clearly doesn't like fire very much. Or maybe it's mourning that it only has a 15%, per attempt, at stealing fire from the gods.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Where did you find this? What is the graphic to the left?

I don't think it's related, but there is a brand of sewing/embrodery machines called Baby Lock (as in smaller, home use version of an industrial overlocker sewing machine). Its logo is just the words Baby Lock inside an oval, nothing with babies or locks.