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07-02-2018, 02:41 AM | #1 | |||
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New York democrats introduce bill that would require Tide Pods to look less appetizing
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07-02-2018, 03:07 AM | #2 | ||
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If people are that stupid then let them be that stupid, less idiotic genes in the gene pool.
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07-02-2018, 09:25 AM | #3 | |||
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Ah, that might explain why we get the warning on the adverts now.
Keep out of the reach of children..maybe they should also add idiots to the warning. |
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07-02-2018, 09:59 AM | #4 | |||
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I had 3 for breakfast as it goes
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07-02-2018, 10:20 AM | #5 | |||
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Is changing the colour going to stop stupidos from doing this, I don't think so
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07-02-2018, 10:20 AM | #6 | |||
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07-02-2018, 11:44 AM | #7 | |||
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Who'd have thought that in 2018, we'd be having to tell people over the age of ten not to eat tide pods? Certainly not me.
Well I say we don't tell them. Evolution and all that. Last edited by Ashley.; 07-02-2018 at 11:45 AM. |
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07-02-2018, 12:16 PM | #8 | ||
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To be fair, a lot of this is young kids doing it for dares, with no idea of the harm they could do themselves... I find it a bit... Err... Well, disgusting actually, to suggest we should just "leave these idiots to it and who cares what happens to them". You're talking about kids under 12 here.
If it was just older teens / adults then yes it's sheer idiocy. Younger kids are naive, feel invincible and are highly susceptible to peer pressure. I personally find it very questionable for anyone to say "meh whatever" about the possibility of them suffering real harm for that. Last edited by Toy Soldier; 07-02-2018 at 12:18 PM. |
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07-02-2018, 01:31 PM | #9 | |||
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I remember when parenting used to be a thing
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07-02-2018, 01:52 PM | #10 | |||
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07-02-2018, 02:31 PM | #11 | ||
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Well there was the 'ice bucket challenge' which wasn't harmful..that springs to mind. I am sure they have been more.
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07-02-2018, 02:43 PM | #12 | ||
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I'm not saying that doing it isn't completely and utterly daft - I'm just taking objection to the idea that a silly 10 or 11 year old deserves to permanently damage themselves or die "for the sake of the gene pool". I mean really. Yes an adult doing this would be totally on them, but any young person doing something stupid and accidentally harming themself or even killing themself is nothing short of a tragedy. I really can't understand any mindset that would dictate otherwise. [edited to add] I have hammered home how harmful this is to my daughter. She's 8, she's easily one of the brightest kids in her class, she's quite "grown up" for her age in many ways... And yeah I have felt the need to make the consequences of doing something like this very clear, because I can TOTALLY see her being daft enough to do it if "her friends did it" and she thought it would be just like getting soap in your mouth. Last edited by Toy Soldier; 07-02-2018 at 02:47 PM. |
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07-02-2018, 02:53 PM | #13 | |||
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And yeah, there are some kids who are just too gullible and sometimes it's just a case of their peers make a joke and not realizing just how gullible they really are... For example, at one of my husband's childhood jobs, some of his coworkers had supposedly joked with one of the others who was tasked to clean the extremely dirty bathroom that if he mixed bleach and ammonia it makes a better cleaner... they assumed he knew you couldn't mix the two. Well, one hospital trip later... he survived, but they never saw him again after that. And then of course, there's scientists like this who claim you can drink Roundup because it's so safe... Last edited by Maru; 07-02-2018 at 02:54 PM. |
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07-02-2018, 03:03 PM | #14 | ||
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My stepdaughters friends were all doing some challenge that could actually leave them with 3rd degree burns..But they didn't actually realise how dangerous it was..as they were only like 11 at the time. They thought they may get a little scab or something. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...juries-9575751 That was it^ I had warned her against it, as I had seen the stories so luckily she did not take part. She did try to tell her friends but they just wrote her off as a 'chicken' To adults its obviously mental and dangerous. But kids just don't see it that way.
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07-02-2018, 03:07 PM | #15 | |||
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The reason there are warnings in the UK is that there was an increase in young children thinking they were sweets due to the pretty colours and swallowing them, there was a news item about this not so long ago, the issue isn't the damage they do to the stomach, if they contain bleach they burn the throat on the way down and the voice box can be irreparably damaged.
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07-02-2018, 03:24 PM | #16 | |||
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I doubt the person who started this ridiculous craze was a young child. |
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07-02-2018, 02:16 PM | #17 | |||
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07-02-2018, 12:50 PM | #18 | |||
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Just let natural selection take its course tbh
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07-02-2018, 12:57 PM | #19 | |||
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clean out the gene (whirl)pool
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07-02-2018, 02:17 PM | #20 | |||
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hmmm, googled out of curiosity and found this... I only know my grandmother uses Tide Pods because she suggested them to me. But I'd never heard anything about them looking like candy.
The Strange Story Of How Tide Pod Eating Went Viral https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2.../#5f3118914932 Quote:
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07-02-2018, 02:29 PM | #21 | |||
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Let them eat Tide ... i'm sure that would have been more appropriate back in the day
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07-02-2018, 03:04 PM | #22 | |||
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if you swallow enough of anything it will kill you eventually. The question I have is how much detergent could you actually manage to swallow before you gagged it all back up. Surely that must figure into the equation too.
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07-02-2018, 04:30 PM | #23 | ||
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It's not young kids that have prompted this, it's a youtube craze with youtubers who are old enough to know better eating these things for views, it's those people I don't care about.
If someone is old enough to vote yet think eating a detergent tablet is a good idea then I have no time to feel sorry for them. Last edited by Tom4784; 07-02-2018 at 04:30 PM. |
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