His mother said last night: 'Nobody warned us about button batteries. I didn't even know what they were but they're in everything. I was more worried about bleach, falling down stairs and bumping heads.'
Oh, please! There's been so many cases. Just how thick are you?
The VTech Swing & Sing monkey teddy is described as being 'specifically designed to promote sensory awareness'. Instructions for the plush animal toy available online say the battery compartment has a screw which is supposed to keep the top in place unless undone by a screwdriver.
Does no-one wonder where that screw went?
They also feature the warning: 'This product contains a button or coin cell battery. A swallowed button or coin cell battery can cause internal chemical burns in as little as two hours and lead to death.
'Dispose of used batteries immediately. Keep new and used batteries away from children. If you think batteries might have been swallowed or placed inside any part of the body, seek immediate medical attention.'
RTFM, parents!
Hughie's parents now want the law to be changed to stop the tiny batteries from being sold. Mr McMahon added: 'They've ruined our life and we want to make sure nobody else goes through what we have.'
Wait, what? Because of the results of your utter carelessness, you now demand that everyone else must suffer?
Well, at least no-one's going to back you here, with such an obvious non-starter of a campai...
Oh!
Local SNP MSP Clare Adam has supported the couple and say she will be raising the issue in Parliament.
SNP. Who's surprised?
Good Lord! Those batteries are in so many things, it's unbelieveable. You'd have to be a complete moron to even consider suggesting they should be banned
ReplyDeleteI remember a time when grief used to be private and people who had lost a loved one did not feel the need to embark on some public crusade to ensure 'this never happens again'.
On well. It's back to waistcoat watch chains and big turnip pocket watches with a few AAAs inside.
ReplyDeleteBut always looks much more impressive pulling one of those from your pocket, flipping it open and studying the hands, compared with glancing at the tiny thing on your wrist and squinting at the miniscule date window.
No metal implements for them, as even plastic cutlery would be a danger to people like these. (But, they most likely eat without using any.)
ReplyDeleteThe inevitable result from decades of infantilisation of the populace** (We must keep the élite in power; they alone can keep us safe). Collateral damage is likely, but it re-inforces the concept.
ReplyDelete**Usually - but not exclusively - the province of the left.
To seek to find ‘someone/something else’ to blame is, to an extent, normal (we all, in our wishful-thinking, less than honest, moments do it). What we, increasingly, see now is the deliberate intent to deflect blame away, verging on malignant narcissistic levels (the re-writing of an occurrence completely to always portray themselves in the best, and usually as a victim, light), from someone who (as does everyone else) ‘knows’ they are guilty.
ReplyDelete‘We’ all tend to make judgements based on others being ‘like us’ (having base levels of knowledge, understanding, morals and ethics that ‘everyone has’, yet patently don’t). We all will (daily) be exposed to situations we view with disbelief, people believing, saying, acting in manners we ‘know’ that even the most immoral, uninformed idiot ‘knows’ they shouldn’t, yet so many do.
Now turn that perspective about. ‘They’ are stupid, uninformed, immoral, lazy and often criminal and … they ‘know’ the rest of us are just like them, and they judge, speak and act accordingly.
Then look to how people react to, and demand punishments for, specific types of crime. A crime which someone feels (knows) ‘they’ could (even in extremis) commit is one which they call for ‘nuanced’ punishments, leniency and ‘rehabilitation’. A crime which someone knows they never (under any, and all possible, circumstances) could commit is one they demand harsh punishments for.
The issue here isn’t, so much, that some inadequate breeder (only having children, at everyone else’s expense, to get as many freebies as she can) is acting this way, but that ‘the authorities’ go along with it (yet again). This tells you all you need to know about ‘our betters’.
" Those batteries are in so many things, it's unbelieveable. You'd have to be a complete moron to even consider suggesting they should be banned"
ReplyDeleteThe one thing we never have a shortage of is complete morons..!
"It's back to waistcoat watch chains and big turnip pocket watches with a few AAAs inside."
😂
"No metal implements for them, as even plastic cutlery would be a danger to people like these. (But, they most likely eat without using any.)"
Spot on!
"The inevitable result from decades of infantilisation of the populace"
Not to mention the 24/7/365 news cycle which gives people like this the attention they don't deserve...
"To seek to find ‘someone/something else’ to blame is, to an extent, normal (we all, in our wishful-thinking, less than honest, moments do it). What we, increasingly, see now is the deliberate intent to deflect blame away, verging on malignant narcissistic levels..."
Compo culture and grievance campaigns are here to stay, sadly.