Baby on board

Mr. FoggPatches

How I've adored
That sign on my car's windowpane
A bounce in my step, loaded with pep
'Cause I'm driving in the carpool lane.

Call me a square, friend I don't care
'Cause that little yellow sign can't be ignored
I'm tellin' you it's mighty nice
Each trip's a trip to paradise
With my baby on board

nkav86

Ya bollix, stuck in my head now

Mr. FoggPatches

nkav86 wrote: »

Ya bollix, stuck in my head now

:pac:

nkav86

The bee sharps, what a group

Mr. FoggPatches

nkav86 wrote: »

The bee sharps, what a group

They sure are kav, they sure are






























Get the tear gas

mackeire

Something something Burt Ward

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

It should read "Permit to drive and park as I like".

the groutch

Hello! Human fly here!
C'mon, I stayed up all night dying my underwear.

Rainman16

Del2005

Solomon Swift Kicker wrote: »

It should read "Permit to drive and park as I like".

It was originally supposed to inform emergency services when you where hauling the little darling around and like L plates removed* when not. Now I just use it a warning that the driver isn't paying attention to the road as they are turned around dealing with the little darling.

*There's no actual requirement in Irish law to remove the L plate if a fully licenced person is driving.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Rainman16 wrote: »

That is one of the greatest simpsons jokes in my opinion.

anewme

Del2005 wrote: »

It was originally supposed to inform emergency services when you where hauling the little darling around and like L plates removed* when not. Now I just use it a warning that the driver isn't paying attention to the road as they are turned around dealing with the little darling.

*There's no actual requirement in Irish law to remove the L plate if a fully licenced person is driving.

The thing about the emergency services is an urban legend.

Dirty Dingus McGee

nkav86

anewme wrote:

The thing about the emergency services is an urban legend.

Was it an urban legend that if you put a contact in your phone with the marker 'I.C.E' it informed them they were your in case of emergency?

Super-Rush

Lisa still needs braces.

anewme

nkav86 wrote: »

Was it an urban legend that if you put a contact in your phone with the marker 'I.C.E' it informed them they were your in case of emergency?

I have no idea about phones?


Are we not talking about those stickers in cars, which were a marketing gimmick

In a recent piece about American parenting and its effects on marriages, Danielle and Astro Tellers semi-jokingly attribute the origin of elevating children to gods—and parenting to a religion—to one viral object: the “Baby on Board” sign.
Whether or not the sign can be used as the ultimate testimony of an unhealthy obsession with one’s children, there are a enough legends surrounding its creation and use to prompt a little record-setting.
It is common belief that the sign was created so that, in the event of an accident, the emergency workers would know to look for an infant.
“I’ve never heard that theory before,” said Paul Maxwell, a paramedics with thirty years experience who runs a child injury prevention organization. “I surveyed my crew and everyone thinks its to warn people to be extra cautious driving behind so as to not crash into them.”
And they are right.
Michael Lerner had the idea of marketing the sign in 1984, right after he drove his 18-month-old nephew home. He realized people were impatient at his driving:
“People were tailgating me and cutting me off,” he says. “For the first time, I felt like a parent feels when they have a kid in the car.”
He partnered with a couple that had been trying to promote the signs and was successful in doing so. Baby on Board became a fad, which he pivoted into a whole company, tapping into the need for well-designed and marketed products for child safety (drawer locks for instance), Lerner founded Safety 1st. The company reached $158 million in sales in 1999 and earned Lerner $38 million when it was acquired by Canadian company Dorel Industries in 2000.
It is possible that the misconceptions about the sign’s origin and purpose come from the fact that Safety 1st, the company that produces the Baby on Board signs, is a maker of other baby products with a focus on safety—from car seats to strollers. But that is not what the signs meant to be for.
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Another widely spread legend—somewhat connected with the emergency theory—that the sign was created after a tragic accident:
Years ago, I heard a story about WHY the signs were created but only once, and I wonder if it is true. The story was that a serious car accident occurred and an unconscious woman was removed from the vehicle. The front of the car was badly damaged and it wasn’t until later (vague time frame) that a car seat with a dead infant was discovered under the front dash of the passenger side.
That, too, is—thankfully for the morals of those who’d have turned the tragedy into profit—not how the sign happened.
As it is now, the sign apparently isn’t much more than a novelty item. According to some reports, the signs may end up distracting drivers (and arguably increasing the likelihood of accidents) and slowing down the emergency intervention: drivers admit to often display the signs irrespective of whether their children are on board and emergency personnel may waste time looking for little ones when they are not there, rather then succoring adults.

everlast75

nkav86 wrote: »

The bee sharps, what a group

Bigger than Jesus...

Fuzzytrooper

Can I play the piano anymore?

IvyTheTerrible

Fuzzytrooper wrote: »

Can I play the piano anymore?

Well you couldn't before...

Stigura

nkav86 wrote: »

Was it an urban legend that if you put a contact in your phone with the marker 'I.C.E' it informed them they were your in case of emergency?

anewme wrote: »

I have no idea about phones?

I have though This is why I carry a little Doro PhoneEasy phone, on my belt. It has a special section for All my ICE information (Blood Group to who to call) Best of all, it has an accessible button which sets off an emergency text message, to my neighbours.

riffmongous

Stigura wrote: »

I have though This is why I carry a little Doro PhoneEasy phone, on my belt. It has a special section for All my ICE information (Blood Group to who to call) Best of all, it has an accessible button which sets off an emergency text message, to my neighbours.

That's not a belt, it's a tactical pants retaining system

IvyTheTerrible

anewme wrote: »

I have no idea about phones?


Are we not talking about those stickers in cars, which were a marketing gimmick

In a recent piece about American parenting and its effects on marriage......

Very interesting but if you're going to cut and paste a wall of text at least give the source and don't pass it off as your own.

Blazer

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Very interesting but if you're going to cut and paste a wall of text at least give the source and don't pass it off as your own.

I think it's fairly obvious that it's a copy and paste. Any moron would cop that.

IvyTheTerrible

Blazer wrote: »

I think it's fairly obvious that it's a copy and paste. Any moron would cop that.

I did cop it, I wanted to know the source.

Nekarsulm

They are a bit like the "Tot Saver" reflective stickers (Decals!) that were popular in the US a decade or two ago.
The idea was that you stuck them on your kids bedroom windows, and then the fire department knew exactly where the kids were, and could rescue them.
They fell out of favour when the rumour went around that pedophiles could easily target your children's room, just by shining a torch at the house for a second.

And of course, if there was a fire, the firemen soon discovered that the room was empty , cause lil Jakey was now all gown up and in college a thousand miles away...

anewme

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I did cop it, I wanted to know the source.

Sorry I never intended anyone to think I composed all that and am certainly not trying to pass it off as my own ......I was sure everyone would cop it was a cut and paste job and also that everyone knew there was no dead baby story!

Original source
http://qz.com/275987/you-probably-dont-know-the-real-story-behind-baby-on-board-signs/

There are numerous references to it being a marketing tool.....here for example is snopes link saying the same thing. (Not going to put up a big text again)

Clever safety company came up with it.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/babysign.asp

Im actually surprised that some people still believe in the urban legend.

Mr. FoggPatches

Mods, I want you to use all your powers and all your skills...
*opens third page*
I don't want other uses to see it like this.
*sobs*
Look how they massacred my thread.

Super-Rush

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

Mods, I want you to use all your powers and all your skills...
*opens third page*
I don't want other uses to see it like this.
*sobs*
Look how they massacred my thread.

Third page?

Noob.