• mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    If your “job” is to convince brainless zoomers to eat tide pods or convince them to try DIY plastic surgery with hammers, maybe burning out isn’t a bad thing. Maybe we’re just seeing nature healing itself.

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          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.

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            1 month ago

            Out of tens of millions of children, that’s nothing. It was pure fear mongering

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            1 month ago

            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.

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              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.

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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.

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                How does one unintentionally eat a tide pod?

                The same way a bulb end up in someone ass…

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                  1 month ago

                  Title of your link:

                  Liquid Laundry Detergent Pods Pose Lethal Risk for Adults With Dementia

                  For all those teenagers with dementia XD

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                    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.

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              1 month ago

              Speaking of rainbow parties - that was actually a great idea. How come we never do that?

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          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.

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          1 month 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.