[user104658]

Originally Posted by Ashley.

It wouldn't be a described as a "challenge" if people had no idea that it could be harmful.

A lot probably think that the challenge is just that it doesn't taste good. Not that they contain harmful and corrosive substances that could cause major damage to their stomachs. They get the idea that loads of people are doing it and assume that it can't be all that dangerous.

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.

[Yuki Maru Hoshi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

A lot probably thinks that the challenge is just that it doesn't taste good. Not that they contain harmful and corrosive substances that could cause major damage to their stomachs. They get the idea that loads of people are doing it and assume that it can't be all that dangerous.

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.

I don't know that changing the coloring on a box would help though. Tide should maybe consider altering the product to look less edible. Because apparently it looks like candy... (I've never seen one)

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...

Youtube video

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

A lot probably think that the challenge is just that it doesn't taste good. Not that they contain harmful and corrosive substances that could cause major damage to their stomachs. They get the idea that loads of people are doing it and assume that it can't be all that dangerous.

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.

I agree with this. I find the 'darwin award' and such thats usually posted with stuff like this really distasteful when talking about very young kids.

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.

[Cherry Christmas]

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.

[Ashsleigh]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

A lot probably think that the challenge is just that it doesn't taste good. Not that they contain harmful and corrosive substances that could cause major damage to their stomachs. They get the idea that loads of people are doing it and assume that it can't be all that dangerous.

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.

I wasn't aiming my comment at young children. From what I've seen, several of the people who submit themselves to these challenges are people who are old enough to know better. Those are the ones that I will not give my sympathies to, and I don't think we should feel the need to warn those people what not to do, because we've never had to do so in the past and the problem has very rarely occurred.

I doubt the person who started this ridiculous craze was a young child.