Heinz Beanz advert banned for health and safety reasons

[Richard S2Participant @richards2]

You will only ever hear the voice of the minority on these points that seem so pathetic.

The majority (the sensible) will never be heard, and their offspring will grow up with a good base of common sense and hopefully only a few minor abrasions.

The Legal Parasites will still live off the backs of the losers of quite ridiculous scenarios. We will still pay for them one way or the other.

There will always be innumerable Quangos to ensure it continues.

I need to sit on my hands in order to prevent myself from tying what I shouldn't.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Just as a matter of interest, a quick poll is in order. How many of you:

1. have actually seen the advert?
2. aren't aware that opened cans have a razor sharp edge?
3. think that an opened tin can is a safe toy?

Dave

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Given that the advert is on the BBC News page, which was linked … I would have hoped the answer to Q1. would be 100%.

MichaelG.

[Martin WParticipant @martinw]

We used to make string telephones with tin cans, amongst other things, and those cans had been opened using the old stab and lever openers. They left a good ragged and sharp edge to the can but I am glad to say that I have both my ears and a full set of fingers and thumbs; maybe with the odd nick or two. If it bled you let it, if it was a deep cut then perhaps a plaster but never even thought about it much and A&E was never mentioned, hell's teeth you would have to walked a mile or two to the nearest red phone box by which time it would have stopped bleeding or you would have passed out from loss of blood .

If you can get a good rhythm from a cam then good luck to them its better than mindless videos or some games.

Martin W

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

It seems amazing to me that an advertisement which must have been seen by millions of people should be withdrawn because of complaints by nine "Moaning Minnies", as my mum would have called them. It's time folks like this found something positive to do rather than spoil other people's fun. If they can't get proper jobs, I suggest they volunteer for a worthwhile charity rather than moan and groan.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 23/11/2016 16:34:45:

Given that the advert is on the BBC News page, which was linked … I would have hoped the answer to Q1. would be 100%.

MichaelG.

I would hope so too Michael. I certainly did. Call me risk averse if you like but I wouldn't want any of the kiddies in my family copying that.

Dave

[mark costello 1Participant @markcostello1]

Playing with gasoline, making gunpowder,playing with Magnesium,slingshots, fast cars, loose girls,and failed electrical experiments. Can still count to 21 despite a few hits with a new electric drill. must mean I have had a full life.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 23/11/2016 16:34:45:

Given that the advert is on the BBC News page, which was linked … I would have hoped the answer to Q1. would be 100%.

Quite apart from the rights and wrongs, is it not perplexing that the BBC say "Advert banned! – View it here."

In my day they used to censor washing up bottles on Play School (the joyous days when a risk assessment meant use round-nosed scissors).

Neil

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 23/11/2016 17:46:02:

Quite apart from the rights and wrongs, is it not perplexing that the BBC say "Advert banned! – View it here."

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One can only assume that Aunty's values differ from Nanny's **LINK**

http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/whoweare/publicpurposes

MichaelG.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by mark costello 1 on 23/11/2016 17:28:22:

Playing with gasoline, making gunpowder,playing with Magnesium,slingshots, fast cars, loose girls,and failed electrical experiments. Can still count to 21 despite a few hits with a new electric drill. must mean I have had a full life.

I think Mark has put his finger on what we really want to see covered in MEW!

(I'm not being sarcastic – assuming a slingshot to be a catapult, I've done all those things in my youth apart from fast cars.)

One of Mark's previous posts planted an idea in my head I can't get rid of. I can't go out of my front-door on a misty morning without listening in the hope of hearing a deer cough. That's the danger of advertising!

Dave

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

Yes, Dave, as a youngster I made gunpowder, set light to magnesium, gave myself more shocks than I can remember from the mains and spark plug leads, shot crappy old guns with pitted barrels, went rock climbing, rode motorbikes, and delighted in my first 100mph car. At the age of 75, I hope I never grow up!

[Steve WithnellParticipant @stevewithnell34426]

Posted by Michael Walters on 23/11/2016 11:32:26:

just bonkers really, can't get my head around how hypocritical the UK has come to be. I was probably using razor blades on plastic model kits at 8 years old, they just called you daft if you had a (minor) accident then.

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Michael W

Edited By Michael Walters on 23/11/2016 11:40:17

It always made my Dad swear when I put the razor blade back in his razor after I'd trimmed the sprue of my latest kit. Funny he didn't bleed to death to be honest.

Steve

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Ah, spark plug leads.

My first car was a Vauxhall Victor and I decided it would go better if I fitted it with a kit built Capacitive Discharge electronic ignition. It put 200V into the coil rather than 12. Later on the engine started misfiring on one cylinder. To find out which I pulled the spark lead off plug number one, the idea being to see if it was getting a spark. It certainly was! Apart from electrocuting me through the insulated lead and a glove, the spark jumped about 4" to the block. It hurt like hell!

I quite liked the Victor but above 80mph the steering went light and it preferred not to go round corners: I never risked it flat out – too scary. Only later did I exceed 100mph, quite by accident. I was used to judging speed by the rattles of my old banger, and didn't realise how fast I was going in a nice new hire car.

Dave

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

The trick with spark plug leads is to hold them firmly , plus hold the person standing next to you firmly. Then the current flows harmlessly through you & they get the shock. As shown to me by my father when i was young !!!!

[nigel jones 5Participant @nigeljones5]

I grew up on a farm and we would see who could hold on to the electric fence the longest, you soon learn not to try it with wet hands though!

[Richard S2Participant @richards2]

Maybe we old moaners have to accept that what we considered the pains of experience in growing up in our time, is no longer possible or acceptable. So the young of today will never be able to enjoy their youth as we did.

For my experiences, I did exactly as you gents have described, some foolish ones as well. I'm still complete and with all my marbles (are they banned now?). I survive my workshop sessions undamaged. I put that down to having learnt to be fully aware of my surroundings and what can bite you back if you're not.

The BBC is really getting into 'Product Placement' now in a big way. As mentioned, it was verboten in the past!. Maybe they get revenue from it, maybe not?.

Enjoy your life the way you want to!.

Regards

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

My favourite Victorian adage is 'Never meddle with gunpowder by candlelight.'

[Old ElanParticipant @oldelan]

Posted by Richard S2 on 23/11/2016 20:41:14:

Enjoy your life the way you want to!.

Regards

Trying all the time!

Sadly, it seems youngsters (and others less well informed) won't be able to….

I still haven't seen the ad. So, no. Not 100%

[Richard S2Participant @richards2]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 23/11/2016 20:51:11:

My favourite Victorian adage is 'Never meddle with gunpowder by candlelight.'

In the absence of a 'LIKE' button on here…………….LIKE!.

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

My can opener leaves the can completely safe and the lid, the ring pull type cans that Heinz use leave a very sharp lid and a sharp edge inside the can. As we now have the technology to open a can safely perhaps all other methods should be banned to protect the incompetent from those dangerous cans. I bet corned beef cans have cut more people than any other type of can they are a totally crap design.

Mike

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Old Elan on 23/11/2016 20:57:28:

I still haven't seen the ad. So, no. Not 100%

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Is that because you feel you can comment more wisely without having seen it … or because you can't be bothered looking at the BBC page ?

[note: I don't care either way … just wondering]

MichaelG.

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Meanwhile, eating the sugar and chemical-laden contents of most tinned foods contributes to more deaths annually from obesity, diabetes etc than a century's worth of deaths due to cutting an artery on a sharp tin lid.

Twits.

[NishkaParticipant @nishka]

Really?

Is the world a safer place now? I doubt it!

Pathetic.

Just remember the old proverb:

All mushrooms are edible…

Some only once!

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

I grew up on a farm and we would see who could hold on to the electric fence the longest, you soon learn not to try it with wet hands though!

I tried to get over one while hillwalking one day many years ago and it blew me off my feet, bang-bang-BANG

Took me a few minutes before I could even stand up

Then I realised there were cows in the field, not sheep. I presume that these fences have more juice going through them when there's a ton or two of beefy bovine to keep at bay.

[Geoff TheasbyParticipant @geofftheasby]

Michael Poole, I grew up with the type of can opener consisting of a sharp blade with which you pierced the can, and then proceeded to lever the can lid apart by nibbling your way round, using the sharp edge to cut upwards through the steel from within, at great risk to fingers, until you could peel back the lid. Lethally sharp edges remained, even to threaten the dustbin men in later days and months. As for corned beef tins, the secret is to cut off both ends and just push out the contents. The design is fine, just use the right technique.

Geoff

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