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The Tide Challenge

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Newbian said:
This is why we can't have nice things such as whipped cream from cans in some areas without a age check.
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39 related calls were made to poison control centers in the first 15 days of 2018:

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/17/health/tide-laundry-pod-challenge-poison-control/index.html
"The 'laundry packet challenge' is neither funny nor without serious health implications," Stephen Kaminski, the association's CEO and executive director, said in a statement Tuesday. "We have seen a large spike in single-load laundry packet exposures among teenagers since these videos have been uploaded."
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So, I'm not sure how to approach this. Like, if you have little kids, you keep your cleaning supplies out of reach, like on a shelf or something. By the time you're a teenager, you should know enough not to touch a hot burner or, you know, eat a laundry detergent. The idea is funny & the memes are cracking me up, but the fact that like 40 kids have actually done this makes me fear the future of our planet. Arguing on the opposite side, it was pretty dumb of Tide to develop, market, and sell laundry pods that look like candy, at least from the perspective of being super appealing to little kids who think anything shiny is edible. I remember reading news articles when they first came out about small children would get their hands on them & eat them thinking they were candy. I would initially argue that you shouldn't keep your detergent within a child's reach, but kids have ways of figuring out how to get into trouble regardless of the safety precautions put in place, so maybe it wasn't the greatest idea ever to design a laundry pod that looked, well, delicious haha.
 
LOL, those images are hilarious (the cotton candy one was especially great).

I guess they should've made these laundry pods the color of feces, and maybe given them a fece-like smell. You'd still have a couple of intrepids that would've eaten them, but maybe that would've stopped most from it.

(Honestly though if you're stupid enough to eat a laundry pod then you deserve the consequences; remove warning label and let itself sort out)
 
Man, when I was a kid getting your mouth washed out with soap for saying something nasty was a punishment. For little kids, you'd think one little bite and they'd run screaming to mommy for help. For teenagers, I have no sympathy. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
 
ultimatebob said:
No, but I do vaguely remember a friend and I trying to smash an old TV into pieces with a baseball bat without any eye or electrical protection. That wasn't exactly bright.
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I once threw a long fluorescent (typical office ceiling size if not a tad longer) high up in the air in my garage (all alone to boot) and then high-tailed it so I was clear when it landed (I threw it straight up...) It crashed, I escaped injury, and then I had to invent a story. lmao

I did dumber things with groups - children in groups are a feedback loop into the obscene depths of stupidity.

Fun fact: the human brain does not fully mature until roughly age 25 - most of the brain matures early, while the most critical portion of the human brain, the prefrontal cortex, matures last. This explains two things: first is why maturity is a rare concept, because we tend to be right around peak when the brain finishes maturing and so it helps set in stone whatever helped us survive to that point, becomes less malleable; the second is that teenagers and young adults are still among the most susceptible to the worst impulses, as the prefrontal cortex is responsible for decision making.
 
Ns1 said:
Fuck can't kids these days just take ecstasy or qualuudes or something.
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That's the problem with today's youth: they are doing less drugs and alcohol.

So they have to go the extra step to invent ways to put lives in jeopardy. lol

And worse, they aren't learning anything in the process. At least with drugs you get introspection, and if it gets bad, perhaps an intervention where you feel you were saved from something, but at least you got to enjoy it at some point. This shit, if you survive you'll be retching, likely in great pain, and think back saying, "wtf... that wasn't even fun."

Unless you have a serious masochism thing going on, then, well... carry on with your mutilation.
 
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PottedMeat said:
i could see some totally high hungry teenagers wandering into costco challenging each other at that cart
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Teenagers? I could see some older shoppers sampling them, then moving on to the guy with the cocktail franks and then the woman with the little pizza squares. Then leave the store empty handed, just having had a very large lunch.
 
preCRT said:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...c7ee4b0dc592a09abc2?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

A Utah State University student, should be a former.... too damn stupid to be in any school.
Hope to hell he wasn't getting any financial aid.
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I can't wrap my head around this. At least YouTube is taking the videos down. I did plenty of stupid stuff as a kid, but it mostly involved trying to ramp my bike off of things or trying to build/deconstruct stuff. I remember a few of us getting hold of a chunk of iron, some gasoline, and a hammer and trying to make a sword. 😛

At least if we had died, it would have been in pursuit of something cool. Eating detergent is just stupid.
 
Chaotic42 said:
I can't wrap my head around this. At least YouTube is taking the videos down. I did plenty of stupid stuff as a kid, but it mostly involved trying to ramp my bike off of things or trying to build/deconstruct stuff. I remember a few of us getting hold of a chunk of iron, some gasoline, and a hammer and trying to make a sword. 😛

At least if we had died, it would have been in pursuit of something cool. Eating detergent is just stupid.
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Seriously.

This is social darwinism at work, and let's let it work itself out I say. As a teenager, you're supposed to risk life and limb doing stupid but entertaining shit. Eating detergent is neither entertainment, hilarious, or smart.
 
I like how the headline in the news screenshot says "Tide pod overdose". Like it's ok if you have a bit of it, but clearly this guy took too much!
 
I haven't been paying much attention to this over the last...week?

Has this been going on for a while? Is this actually responsible for the increase in hospitalizations, and not the flu? Are hospitals reporting it as flu illnesses instead of tide pod ingestion in deference to the idiots, and in simple embarrassment that American children are literally this stupid?
 
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