If we want to get pedantic here it didn’t technically “shatter”, it just broke cleanly in half… at least that’s what they’ll say when you try to return it lol
That’s not being pedantic. If it wasn’t shatterproof it would have shattered.
Yeah it is basically a safety ruler. Plastic ones that shatter can have a lot of sharp jagged edges, which isn’t great for kids.
Is that similar to when I buy no more tears shampoo but I still cry myself to bed?
It’s not “tear-free” as in it won’t make you cry; it’s “tear-free” as in it won’t knot your hair and tear it when you brush it.
It’s already been said, but shatterproof does not mean it’s indestructible. It means that when it does break it won’t shatter into a hundred jagged edged pieces that go flying into the air and lodge themselves into some kid’s eyeball.
This one broke cleanly in twain and did not shatter. The packaging’s claim is accurate.
Upvoted for being factual and logical, and also for the use of twain.
But I missed a trick by not also using ergo.
Exceptional for sure.
See, now there is a Dwight Schrute fan fiction origin story if I ever saw one.
I think it’s really brilliant marketing. If it didn’t say shatterproof, I never would have contemplated how shatterable my ruler is. Ruler durability was never even on my radar.
Since it did, I broke mine on the first day of first grade while testing it, and I needed a replacement.
When I was in school I went through so many of those cheap rulers because I’d leave them in my backpack until needed and theyd get bent through the forces of a child running around school with an overstuffed backpack of crap. So eventually my parents spent a few dollars on a flexible ruler which lasted multiple school years instead
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Shatterproof is a big claim, shatter resistant perhaps.
Well, you could make one out of polycarbonate. Even PE or PA would probably put up a good fight before you could claim it’s (non technically) shattered.
