Teens, Please Stop Eating Laundry Detergent

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Road-Worrier said:
Just think, in 40 years one of these folks will be President…
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We know that George Bush did plenty of stupid things when he was young and he still became president. I imagine Barrack Obama and Donald Trump did their share of stupid things as well.
 
Xanthippe_Voorhees said:
Like teens haven’t been doing stupid things forever
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Eating brightly colored laundry detergent is something you expect to have to warn toddlers against, not teenagers. I expect to have to caution my teenage kids against the evils of drugs, sexual promiscuity, and dancing, but laundry detergent…I did not see that coming.
 
Road-Worrier said:
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Xanthippe_Voorhees:
Like teens haven’t been doing stupid things forever
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Eating brightly colored laundry detergent is something you expect to have to warn toddlers against, not teenagers. I expect to have to caution my teenage kids against the evils of drugs, sexual promiscuity, and dancing, but laundry detergent…I did not see that coming.
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I don’t know. My brothers did really stupid things in their days. They did the “cinnamon challenge” the “dring a gallon of milk in one go challenge” they ate various bugs and goldfish and even a tiny snake and climbed flagpoles. They licked 9 volts They tried dog food and cat food and tried to eat an entire pack of those melty Listerine strips. they tried to light their farts on fire.

My mom sang the sesame st “Don’t put things in your mouth unless mommy says it’s OK” every time. MANY of those things you wouldn’t think you would need to tell a 13-17yo it was a dumb idea to do.
 
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What will they think of next 😋
 
They’re not eating it because they like it or they think the colors are pretty. They’re eating it because they know it’s gross and it’s a dare-like challenge.
 
Rhubarb said:
They’re not eating it because they like it or they think the colors are pretty. They’re eating it because they know it’s gross and it’s a dare-like challenge.
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EXACTLY!

It is NOT about not knowing better. It is about being stupid.
 
According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, there were 41,731,233 youth age 10-19.

“A spokesperson for the American Association of Poison Control Centers told us that in the first 11 days of 2018, there had been 40 reported exposures to liquid laundry detergent pods by 13- to 19-year-olds. That figure represents 20 percent of the total number of similar incidents in all of 2017.”


To put this in perspective, 66 teens died in 11 days from a car accident.

https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/teen_drivers/teendrivers_factsheet.html
 
Many of the videos I have seen on YouTube where someone got injured, I bet most of them wouldn’t have been so risky if a friend/friends and the camcorder was not there.
 
TrueMiracles said:
Many of the videos I have seen on YouTube where someone got injured, I bet most of them wouldn’t have been so risky if a friend/friends and the camcorder was not there.
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Fully grown adults died in innocent ice bucket challenges.

The water balloon over the head condom “challenge” scares me more than the tide pod one…
 
JoshuaIsLord said:
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Xanthippe_Voorhees:
Which, again, is something that teens do and have done for centuries. Tide Pods are not all that special in that respect.
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Just the next to do…

I just can’t wait for the “Eat the Turd” challenge.
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Uh yeah…have you never been around teen boys? I’m sure that atleast one of my brothers successfully dared someone to do that.
 
Xanthippe_Voorhees said:
Uh yeah…have you never been around teen boys? I’m sure that atleast one of my brothers successfully dared someone to do that.
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TrueMiracles said:
That already happens in certain cults.
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It has not gone viral yet as “The Thing To Do” challenge.
•Cinnamon challenge.
•Hot pepper challenge.
•ALS ice bucket challenge.
•Salt and ice challenge.
•Kylie Jenner lip challenge.
 
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JoshuaIsLord said:
It has not gone viral yet as “The Thing To Do” challenge.
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Not viral, but not really “best-kept secrets of the hidden lives of teens”, either. I’m going to bet Cain and Able dared eachother to “eat poop”.
 
Xanthippe_Voorhees said:
Not viral, but not really “best-kept secrets of the hidden lives of teens”, either. I’m going to bet Cain and Able dared eachother to “eat poop”.
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I’ll take that bet and raise you 1 million. 😁

•Cinnamon challenge.
•Hot pepper challenge.
•ALS ice bucket challenge.
•Salt and ice challenge.
•Kylie Jenner lip challenge.
 
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JoshuaIsLord said:
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Xanthippe_Voorhees:
Not viral, but not really “best-kept secrets of the hidden lives of teens”, either. I’m going to bet Cain and Able dared eachother to “eat poop”.
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I’ll take that bet and raise you 1 million. 😁

•Cinnamon challenge.
•Hot pepper challenge.
•ALS ice bucket challenge.
•Salt and ice challenge.
•Kylie Jenner lip challenge.
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Funny story about the hot pepper challenge. My brothers and cousins almost got expelled from school (a pubic school) for that.

One of my brothers grew hybrid peppers. They looked like small green peppers but were mixed with habanero. So my cousin “dared” his friend that he could eat a ton and his friend could only eat one. My cousin merrily munches down several mild peppers and the friend gets one and about dies. I think he was at the nurse’s office the rest of the day.

Mind you, this was nearly 20 years ago now…
 
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