I thought the biggest threat to young kids was chest of drawers not being bolted to the wall and the drawers used as a climbing ladder
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Daily Wail wants EU to save children from window blind cords...
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hmmm - we had blinds when my kids were young and somehow they managed not to randomly kill themselves.....
think Darwin is at work here...Comment
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Originally posted by doodab View Post
Yours hasn't reached the "experiment with auto-asphyxiation" age yet, has he?Comment
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Originally posted by SupremeSpod View PostYou could always tell your kids not to jump off the window ledge or ***** about with the blinds.
Just saying, like.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by Troll View PostI thought the biggest threat to young kids was chest of drawers not being bolted to the wall and the drawers used as a climbing ladder“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
Yep, it's real; now they want the EU to legislate on window blind cord safety regulations!
Erm, but I thought the Daily Wail hated the EU!??!?!?!?!?!?
How my four-year-old was nearly strangled by a window blind cord | Mail OnlineWork in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Originally posted by SupremeSpod View PostYou could always tell your kids not to jump off the window ledge or ***** about with the blinds.
Just saying, like.
Same as with knives. And expensive lipsticks.
Madness.Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
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One of my mates is an ENT surgeon and cut the cord in his own blinds because he has had to fix up a lot of kids after being caught in them (he also won't let his own kids have lollipops after having to fix kids who have fallen with them in their mouths)
So, it's a potential danger but we certainly don't need any more legislation to fix it FFS.Back at the coal faceComment
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Originally posted by al_cam View PostSo, it's a potential danger but we certainly don't need any more legislation to fix it FFS.
Many people don't.
This is a simple design flaw that can be removed easily."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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