Just looking them makes that pretty damned apparent. Who wouldn't realize that was a problem before buying one, or if you were the store, offering them for sale?

Just put a cork on it

scottydoesntknow: Just put a cork on it


Ruprecht?

/Not mother?

Bathia_Mapes: Just looking them makes that pretty damned apparent. Who wouldn't realize that was a problem before buying one, or if you were the store, offering them for sale?

Or during production? Or during a prototype inspection? Or during the part where someone draws the farking thing onto paper and says to a bunch of people, "What do you think about this?" Not one person stopped and thought, "Hm, those ears sure do look pokey."

What's this about sucking on Pokey?

Bathia_Mapes: Just looking them makes that pretty damned apparent. Who wouldn't realize that was a problem before buying one, or if you were the store, offering them for sale?

Exactly what I thought when I saw them on TV this morning

/how the fark could you NOT realize those ears pointing up are going to poke something?

Di Atribe: Bathia_Mapes: Just looking them makes that pretty damned apparent. Who wouldn't realize that was a problem before buying one, or if you were the store, offering them for sale?

Or during production? Or during a prototype inspection? Or during the part where someone draws the farking thing onto paper and says to a bunch of people, "What do you think about this?" Not one person stopped and thought, "Hm, those ears sure do look pokey."

Yep, then too. I'm wondering if anyone involved in the design or production of this sippy cup has any real experience with young children.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Bathia_Mapes: Just looking them makes that pretty damned apparent. Who wouldn't realize that was a problem before buying one, or if you were the store, offering them for sale?

Exactly what I thought when I saw them on TV this morning

/how the fark could you NOT realize those ears pointing up are going to poke something?

Great minds. :-)

Bathia_Mapes: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Bathia_Mapes: Just looking them makes that pretty damned apparent. Who wouldn't realize that was a problem before buying one, or if you were the store, offering them for sale?

Exactly what I thought when I saw them on TV this morning

/how the fark could you NOT realize those ears pointing up are going to poke something?

Great minds. :-)

Or ours, at any rate ;-)

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Bathia_Mapes: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Bathia_Mapes: Just looking them makes that pretty damned apparent. Who wouldn't realize that was a problem before buying one, or if you were the store, offering them for sale?

Exactly what I thought when I saw them on TV this morning

/how the fark could you NOT realize those ears pointing up are going to poke something?

Great minds. :-)

Or ours, at any rate ;-)

Heh! Most definitely not the ones who designed the sippy cup.

I'll stick with a personal favorite, thanks.

These guys know a thing or two about getting next to Pokey's cup.

What pokey cups may look like

There's a... there is a "target" joke here somewhere, and I'll be damned if it isn't way too 4:23 on a Friday when no one else showed up for work for me to find it.

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I'll stick with a personal favorite, thanks.

If only that cup had a sound chip that exclaimed "TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!" every time you sucked on the straw...

Another attack from China. They're trying to blind our children in one eye to ruin their depth perception. It'll give them an edge over us when the war starts.

"Beware the Sippy Cup, my son!
The jaws that bite, the ears that poke!"

Roook: Another attack from China. They're trying to blind our children in one eye to ruin their depth perception. It'll give them an edge over us when the war starts.

I don't know...

/considering how they drive, that may just make us even

Di Atribe: Bathia_Mapes: Just looking them makes that pretty damned apparent. Who wouldn't realize that was a problem before buying one, or if you were the store, offering them for sale?

Or during production? Or during a prototype inspection? Or during the part where someone draws the farking thing onto paper and says to a bunch of people, "What do you think about this?" Not one person stopped and thought, "Hm, those ears sure do look pokey."

And even after all that, didn't they, I dunno, quality test them? Give them to a sample batch of kids or someone and say "Try this out?" Just to make sure the damn things didn't leak or, well, poke someone's eye out?

The only thing I can POSSIBLY imagine is that they never considered kids might actually drink out of them...

In twenty years from now, just imagine how much these things are gona be worth!

/buy em all!

Gyrfalcon: Di Atribe: Bathia_Mapes: Just looking them makes that pretty damned apparent. Who wouldn't realize that was a problem before buying one, or if you were the store, offering them for sale?

Or during production? Or during a prototype inspection? Or during the part where someone draws the farking thing onto paper and says to a bunch of people, "What do you think about this?" Not one person stopped and thought, "Hm, those ears sure do look pokey."

And even after all that, didn't they, I dunno, quality test them? Give them to a sample batch of kids or someone and say "Try this out?" Just to make sure the damn things didn't leak or, well, poke someone's eye out?

The only thing I can POSSIBLY imagine is that they never considered kids might actually drink out of them...

They're probably massed produced in China where such things are not given much thought. These are the type of folks who put melamine in milk to increase its protein level. That sell fake baby formula that provides so little nutrition that the babies who drink it starve to death. That paint toys with toxic lead paint.

POKEY CUP? Pokey cup with the pokey and the cup and the thing with the guy that comes out with the face and he makes a face HAGGKLAGEHNONA HAHAHAHAHAH.

Gyrfalcon: Di Atribe: Bathia_Mapes: Just looking them makes that pretty damned apparent. Who wouldn't realize that was a problem before buying one, or if you were the store, offering them for sale?

Or during production? Or during a prototype inspection? Or during the part where someone draws the farking thing onto paper and says to a bunch of people, "What do you think about this?" Not one person stopped and thought, "Hm, those ears sure do look pokey."

And even after all that, didn't they, I dunno, quality test them? Give them to a sample batch of kids or someone and say "Try this out?" Just to make sure the damn things didn't leak or, well, poke someone's eye out?

The only thing I can POSSIBLY imagine is that they never considered kids might actually drink out of them...

The original design might have called for soft or bent ears, but somewhere between design and final manufacturing changes could have been made. The part might not have pulled out of the mold properly, or it couldn't be filled as designed. Or it could have been a crappy design to begin with.

Marketing has a big part in what goes out the door too. QA could have pointed out the flaws in the design, but if marketing wanted a cute cup then that's what's getting made. As for testing them on little kids - nope, doesn't happen. Why should a company see if a bottle works for their intended market?

/QA tech for a major bottle manufacturer
//We sell lots of bottles to Target
///So glad it's not one of ours!

skinink: So I guess my porcupine sippy cup is a no-go?
When I was in Target yesterday I swear in the Toys section I saw a Bag O Glass for sale.

Was that near the My Little Plastique display?