"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:36:36 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 21:44:37 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
news On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:57:02 +0100, The Other John
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Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

What ****es me off is they wrap each one
separately. Why?

To make them child proof 'cos idiot kids think they're sweets!
Trouble
is they are not only child proof they're adult proof as well! With
arthritic hands I have a hell of a job getting them unwrapped.

There's nothing on god's earth which is more child proof than adult
proof.

Plenty that uses the fact that adults have much bigger and stronger
hands is.

Everything like pills requires more dexterity, not strength.

That's not true of the bigger caps that are used on plastic
bottles of metho, acetone, white spirit, bleach etc that
you have to squeeze before you can turn the cap.

Rubbish, you don't have to squeeze those very hard.

Too hard for the youngest kids that shove almost anything in
their mouths to be able to do tho given the size of the caps.

The trick is to squeeze and turn in one motion,

And the little kids that shove anything into their mouths can't do that.

something that larger hands are rubbish at.

Bull****. Works fine for me.

Adults have larger hands so less dexterity.

That's wrong with women particularly.

Maybe so, but men use white spirit.

And can get the caps off those fine.

It's been proven in studies adults are worse at undoing those caps.

Like hell it has.

It has.
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/16/s...n-ignored.html

That's not talking about what is harder for adults than kids,
its saying that the downside with those caps is that some
adults don't put the lid on again with stuff like pills where
it works fine to leave the cap off.

It's all a load of ********. There's nothing that will fool a child and
not an adult.

It isnt about fooling, its about stuff that requires more strength
and bigger hands than those very young kids have.

Same with the cupboard door catches where you put your
finger thru a hole in the door that need longer fingers.

Besides, shouldn't it be up to the parents to keep the tablets away
from their kids?

Easier said than done quite a bit of the time
with stuff that's used most days. Few want to
fart around locking stuff like that up and the
kids will soon work out where the key is anyway.

Well that's the parents' problem.

Not a solvable one;

You educate your kids

Thanks for that completely superfluous proof that
you have never tried that with a sub 2 year old.

or keep the stuff where they don't know it is

Have fun with that with stuff you use every day.

or can't reach it

The worst of the little monkeys can get anywhere
an adult can with stuff used every day.

or don't have a key.

Have fun ensuring that the kid doesn't know
where the key is with stuff used every day.

I never had a problem drinking bleach as a child....

But plenty of other kids did.