this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 89 points 10 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] 30 points 10 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)

[–] Case 8 points 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 85 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ah, the classic sad onion.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Blue blistering barnacles! You're right!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Came here for the Ashens reference and was not disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 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] 31 points 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

And hand that list to the lockpicking lawyer right?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

85% of the time, it works every time

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

It means this product was made with 85% child slavery

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Tintin in jail 85% of the time?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

BILLIONS OF BLISTERING BLUE BARNACLES!!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Got it, captain Haddock!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

A guess? 85% childproof.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 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.