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We bought a Dyson fan when we had very small children that liked to stick their fingers into moving fan blades. It works really well for that purpose.
by alasdair_ 6y ago
We bought a Dyson fan when we had very small children that liked to stick their fingers into moving fan blades. It works really well for that purpose.
- fossuser 6y agoNice - yeah that sounds like a great use case for it.
- WiseWeasel 6y agoThey’d probably only do it once. It builds character, similar to == in JS or PHP.
- IgorPartola 6y agostrcpy() has entered the chat.
- froh 6y agomalloc, free and their little pointers snicker from behind a curtain.
- IgorPartola 6y agoI haven’t had as much trouble with those as they mostly do what it says on the tin. strcpy(), sprintf(), etc. all have slightly different semantics and even their “n” versions will do funky things if you don’t very carefully account for null termination. I find it way harder to use those because I have to keep remembering which of them does what regarding \0 at the end. And I guess now we have strlcpy() which is supposed to fix those issues but isn’t available on all platforms I use.
- dwaite 6y agoThey'd probably do it no more than ten times.
- Cerium 6y agoI sure did it more than ten times, but quickly learned to be careful and insert the finger slowly into the moving fan.
- edelans 6y agoI'm afraid you missed the joke here =)
- jodrellblank 6y agoI can't tell if they missed the joke about losing 10 fingers and having to stop there, or if you missed their joke that you can insert the same finger multiple times as long as you only lose a bit of a finger each time.
- adolph 6y agoAll the above forgot toes
- abiogenesis 6y agoThose are not fingers (at least not in English).
- jb1991 6y agoSays no one who has ever raised kids.
- Judgmentality 6y agoPlenty of people raise their kids this way. When I see parents laugh when their kids fall down instead of panic, I smile. And the best part? The kids smile too, because they're actually looking to their parents for how to react. I'd rather raise daredevils than anxious wrecks. My best friend has a kid who's always climbing on stuff, falling down, getting hurt. That kid is going to grow up to be awesome.
- VRay 6y agoYeah, if the kid grows up he'll be awesome for sure
- Judgmentality 6y agoWould you rather take a chance at greatness, or a certainty at mediocrity? No guts no glory.
- catmanjan 6y agoSurely laughing when your child falls over leads to them enjoying others misfortunes
- Judgmentality 6y agoI think you're assuming the laughter is at the child, not with the child. It's laughing about a mistake because that's what makes us human.
- catmanjan 6y agoDo children understand that nuance? I would have thought they would associate people falling with laughing
- sroussey 6y agoWe have parrots, and don’t want them to die the first time. We need a fan, and optional air filter. Not sure what other options there are...
- SamBam 6y agoWe have two cheap, basic standing fans with the standard wire guard around them. At various ages we wondered if the kids could put their fingers in and touch the blades, and so prompted them to (while the fans were off, of course). At no point could the kids' fingers get to the blades. Either their fingers were too short, or, eventually, too fat.
- itsoktocry 6y agoYeah, I'm skeptical that any reasonably new fan under modern safety standards could a) allow children's fingers to reach in to the blade, or b) do any real damage if they can reach it. The idea that it's a Dyson or fingers get chopped off is funny. But I guess people have to justify spending $500 on a fan.
- treeman79 6y agoGrandma had an old metal fan. I learned the hard way a few of the protective wires were missing. Not so fun times.
- Angostura 6y agoI bet they could get pencils in there though. I Know I did.
- toast0 6y agonewer fans have much tighter spacing on the guards. Of course, plastic is still plastic, so 10 year old fans that had tighter spacing are going to have lots of broken off sections so you can make cool noises with the fan and [other objects]