People Are Eating Tide Pods

[AGBF]

People are eating Tide pods...only I didn't know it and I thought perhaps you might not have known it, either. Therefore, I am including some information I just read about it. I had had no idea! It seems insane!

Link to article from "The New York Times:...https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/...allenge.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

AGBF

 

[whitewave]

"I can't even..."

I can't believe this is true, though I have read it is.

*shakes head*

 

[LLJsmom]

Remember the Darwin Awards? I think they were real...

 

[monarch64]

All the students are joking about tide pods in my town. I don’t get it. Mostly it seems like something to laugh about like swallowing goldfish on a dare. In other words I don’t think everyone’s doing it. Kids these days...

 

[Arcadian]

we need to clean the gene pool I guess......

 

[arkieb1]

I had to google it because we don't have the brand Tide washing liquid here and we don't call those things pods - pods here are a biscuit with chocolate or caramel inside them.

When I saw what they were doing I was like wow that is right up there with planking on the balcony rails of apartments several floors above the ground (that was a thing here).....

 

[Matata]

Natural selection at its finest.

 

[Dee*Jay]

I highly suggest those people wash them down with a shot of Drano just to be sure they win the Darwin Awards.

 

[PintoBean]

The latest cleanse craze

 

[redwood66]

Is it bad of me to say that eating one hopefully causes instant sterilization in anyone over 5 years old?

 

[Snowdrop13]

This is a genuine worry, it’s all over the internet and my kids (young teens) have been talking about it. Seems to be one of those things you get “dared” to do.

 

[Bron357]

Quote from my teen
“Yeah, well I’ve got typical teen angst, often bow to peer pressure and have the desire to rebel against authority but jeez, I’m not that stupid!l

 

[House Cat]

Last night, My twelve year old said to me, “that meme is dead.”

I think that maybe kids won’t be eating Tide Pods for much longer.

 

[missy]

Are these the same people who are texting while driving?

All joking aside there are little children ingesting this poison. Really not the best packaging if small children get their hands (and mouths) on it.

 

[AGBF]

All joking aside there are little children ingesting this poison. Really not the best packaging if small children get their hands (and mouths) on it.

Yes, from the beginning, apparently, there have been incidents of children under five poisoned by these...and obviously not due to any fad! The article I posted said that Senator Schumer found them tempting and asked why they were made to look so delicious. We are lucky that he has a functioning ego and did not fall prey to the call to pop one in his mouth. Otherwise, we would have no one to lead the opposition in the Senate to the Republicans now. If they were pink and red* I would if the president would have had similar ego strength. It might be a test of how stable a genius he is.

*http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/15/politics/kevin-mccarthy-trump-starbursts-candies-gop/index.html

 

[Gussie]

I just read that proctor & gamble is doing damage control for the bad publicity. Really? Why do they even need to address stupid teen stunts? Makes me crazy that anyone would hold it against a company.
I am not speaking of the young kiddos btw.

 

[Arcadian]

Oh jeez @ceg, really? I love tide pods. I hate liquid detergents and I hate powders. Let those idiots eat cake. These are TEENS doing this silliness. Yes lock it away from little kids, that I get, but teens are NOT little kids. SOme of these idiots will do anything for clicks. You know, I wish just once they would dare each other to do their homework, or some chores, or hell, dare each other to be decent human beings.

 

[Gussie]

Gonna try that with my teen and preteen! I dare you to clean your room!

 

[sonnyjane]

Oh jeez @ceg, really? I love tide pods. I hate liquid detergents and I hate powders. Let those idiots eat cake. These are TEENS doing this silliness. Yes lock it away from little kids, that I get, but teens are NOT little kids. SOme of these idiots will do anything for clicks. You know, I wish just once they would dare each other to do their homework, or some chores, or hell, dare each other to be decent human beings.

I love "pods", both for laundry and for dishwashing! If these idiots ruin pods for me, I'll be pissed!

 

[kenny]

How stupid!
Let em die.
Good riddance.

I had never heard of Tide pods; I had to google it.

 

[stracci2000]

They do look delicious.... like little squishy juice filled gummy treats.
And the container looks like a candy jar.
But, yeah, they are idiots. I don't feel sorry for them

 

[Arcadian]

people eating tide pods =

 

[Maria D]

Gonna try that with my teen and preteen! I dare you to clean your room!

I heard some of my students talking about it, not to actually do it, but that it was a thing. My reaction was, "Why don't they take a real Tide Pod Challenge and do their own laundry?!"

 

[Madam Bijoux]

Did the stores run out of Ex-Lax?

 

[LAJennifer]

 

[sonnyjane]

Trump Tower serves THE BEST Tide Pods.

 

[GliderPoss]

This confirms my suspicion that most people are d*ckheads....

 

[kenny]

It is easy to deterladies from eating Tide Pods.

It is harder to detergents.

 

[KristinTech]

Moms of teens on this thread seem to have the same vibe going.... it’s an issue at my kids’ junior high right now, and the teachers are ON IT.

 

[Arcadian]

@KristinTech Its not just teens but college age adults who should know better. but we're in the anything for clicks age. That little bit of common sense that some of them have gets shut off in order to be looked at. The crazier the "challenge" the more these 'kids' want to do it.

I talked to my neice yesterday, and yes even at her level of college its talked about and some idiots think its cool (WTF??) Then she was like "But they're the dummies if they do it,auntie" She's got that right!