There is a new Persil advert for some sort of washing machine tablet and at the end it says "Keep away from children." Now if they said "Keep these tablets away from children" it would make more sense, but the general exhortation to avoid children seems a bit OTT -and always makes us chuckle.
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That sort of gel soap powder has had a bad press with children eating them 
but I can't quite get my head round the way they've worded the advert.
It always makes me think of the regulation re escalators that "dogs must be carried" and I wonder about those poor people who don't have a dog. 
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