• gian
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      19 hours ago

      Children were never eating tide pods either.

      Somewaht true, back at the time we had not tide pods.

      But we did a lot of stupid shit even without social media.

    • @Auth@lemmy.world
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      116 hours ago

      Like all horrible male “beauty trends” it comes from looksmaxxing forums where it was a joke but the people were highly autistic and actually did it. The same thing happens when it gets to tiktok. A bunch of people post about it knowing its a joke and people who struggle to understand its a joke get sucked in.

      To “normal” people its like yeah obviously this is stupid, but to someone whos extremely socially inept they view it as a real path to looking like that. I’ve not met someone who has done this one exactly but ive met people who have done insanely destructive things because of what they saw on the internet.

    • @mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
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      101 day ago

      Children were never eating tide pods either

      Yes they were. Because some people really are that dumb.

      The same year, nearly 220 teens were reportedly exposed, and about 25 percent of those cases were intentional, according to data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

      So far in 2018, there have been 37 reported cases among teenagers — half of them intentional, according to the data.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/01/13/teens-are-daring-each-other-to-eat-tide-pods-we-dont-need-to-tell-you-thats-a-bad-idea/

      And that’s just reported numbers for teenagers. I can almost guarantee you the number of idiots that ate one and didn’t know how to call poison control is much higher.

      • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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        Did you see the part where only half of those ingestions were intentional?

        You would be freaking out about rainbow parties and snap bracelets in the 90s.

        • @mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
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          21 day ago

          How does one unintentionally eat a tide pod? So you tell the guy when you’re checking in at the ER “Homie and I were just playing catch with a tide pod and I was yelling at cousin Mabel to get off the dang roof and it just dropped into my mouth and I swallowed. It was a one in a million shot doc. One in a million.”

          More likely they did it intentionally and didn’t want to admit to it to avoid embarrassment. That or one of their dumb buddies thought it’d be funny based on some Tiktok they saw so they dropped one into someone’s bowl of Doritos.

          Either way all I was doing was correcting a false statement you made about children never eating tide pods. Because they surely did.

          • gian
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            29 hours ago

            How does one unintentionally eat a tide pod?

            The same way a bulb end up in someone ass…

          • Rob Bos
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            Ngl my partner put a dishwasher pod on the counter the other day and I genuinely thought it was candy for an uncomfortably long second or so.

            • @mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
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              01 day ago

              Title of your link:

              Liquid Laundry Detergent Pods Pose Lethal Risk for Adults With Dementia

              For all those teenagers with dementia XD

              • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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                11 day ago

                Did you know that cognitively delayed teenagers exist?

                Check real quick - I think “gullible” is written on your ceiling. Watch out, I hear human traffickers are putting fentanyl laced roses on car doors.

                • @mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
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                  Okay, so I posted initially to correct your false statement that:

                  Children were never eating tide pods either.

                  What you said was demonstrably false.

                  You then tried to walk that back by saying those ingestions were unintentional and posted a link to a consumer reports article about adults with dementia eating tide pods.

                  Now you are following it up by implying it applies to cognitively delayed teenagers.

                  Are you saying that your initial statement about children never eating tide pods is true based on this?

                  Because there are actual videos of (probably) non-cognitively delayed teenagers doing this.

                  I don’t understand why you’ve chosen this hill to die on. Is this one of those things where you’re so sure you’re right you can’t admit you were wrong? :o