tide pod challenge

[the game]

So the latest of stupid endeavors by teenagers involves putting tide pods on their mouths and recording the results.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tide-po...tergent-risks/

A government watchdog is expressing concern over the dangerous misuse of a laundry detergent. In this latest social media fad, teenagers are putting detergent pods in their mouths in what's being called the "Tide Pod Challenge."

Ingredients in the pods include ethanol, hydrogen peroxide and polymers – a highly-toxic mix of detergent meant to wipe out dirt and grime. Manufacturers have been concerned about toddlers mistakenly ingesting them, but now teens are popping them on purpose and posting videos of the results online, reports CBS News correspondent Anna Werner.

Nineteen-year-old Marc Pagan, who did it on a dare, told CBS News he knew better but did it anyway.

"A lot of people were just saying how stupid I was or how – why would I be willing to do that," he said. "No one should be putting anything like that in their mouths, you know?"

Ann Marie Buerkle, acting chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, says ingesting any of the liquid carries a deadly risk.

"This is what started out as a joke on the internet and now it's just gone too far," Buerkle said.

The pods are bright and colorful and to children they can look like candy. At least 10 deaths have been linked to ingesting these pods. Two were toddlers, eight were seniors with dementia.

Procter & Gamble, the maker of Tide products, told CBS News: "They should not be played with... Even if meant as a joke. Safety is no laughing matter."

More than 62,000 children under the age of six were exposed to laundry and dishwasher detergents, between 2013 and 2014.

The next year, Consumer Reports said it would no longer recommend detergent packets, citing "the unique risks" while urging the "adoption of tougher safety measures."

Buerkle says her group has worked with manufacturers to make the packets less attractive to children.

"Making that laundry packet opaque, less attractive, less colorful, reducing the toxicity and the strength of laundry detergent," Buerkle said.

The CPSC also found that elderly adults with dementia were confused by the product and have also ingested it. The danger to little kids is so high that researchers have recommended the parents of children under six years old not buy these at all and instead use regular detergent only.

[Techno-Druid]

So the latest of stupid endeavors by teenagers involves putting tide pods on their mouths and recording the results.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tide-po...tergent-risks/

I'm pretty sure this is ridiculed by most teens and young adults. I mean it even became a meme.

[Mad_Murdock]

As long as there are teenagers with free will, there will be silly things they do to get themselves killed. I went surfing on the back of trucks. Natural selection weeded out the good surfers from the bad.

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Teenagers be idiots that crave attention

[Mister Cheese]

They do not know the way.

[Happy Shoplifter]

VRchat is unbearable atm because of that meme

[Vynestra]

Natural Selection at it's finest.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

When I was a kid my parents used to threaten to "wash my mouth out with soap" when I swore.

Guess that wouldn't be a good threat with kids these days.

[Mister Cheese]

When I was a kid my parents used to threaten to "wash my mouth out with soap" when I swore.

Guess that wouldn't be a good threat with kids these days.

We're gonna wash your mouth out with something that isn't a tide pod!

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

We're gonna wash your mouth out with something that isn't a tide pod!

That's like threatening a kid with peas when he wont eat his brussel sprouts.

[the game]

That's like threatening a kid with peas when he wont eat his brussel sprouts.

but brussel sprouts are delicious.

[WurstKaeseSzenario]

[klogaroth]

Tide pod chan is not for eating

[Mister Cheese]

They Clean
They Soften
They send you to the Coffin

[Saucexorzski]

Humanity will probably regret not letting nature take its course on the kids who think this is a good idea.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

but brussel sprouts are delicious.

Confirmed AI posing as human.

[derpkitteh]

i mean, for a while, people were getting in bathtubs and lighting their chests on fire with alcohol.

the stupid will continue to be stupid. they're idiots that think they're cool, and they deserve everything they get for their actions.

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They Clean
They Soften
They send you to the Coffin

that just adds to the appeal.

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darwin award contestants

[LiiLoSNK]

Fake news. They're perfectly safe to eat. Try it.

[Dr Assbandit]

I'm trying to think really hard on the stupidest shit I ever did when I was young and for the life of me I can't seem to think of anything other than bunking a few classes or skipping the mandatory evening prayers in boarding school. I'm going to go call my mum and dad and thank them for raising my siblings and I to be sane and sorted.

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Fake news. They're perfectly safe to eat. Try it.

Oh no, I'm not falling for THAT again! Fool me once shame on you, fool me 7 or 8 times shame on me.