• mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours 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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          4 hours 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.

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            4 hours 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.