Reports are coming in that barely any women have taken up the challenge, but it's become increasingly difficult to *deter-gents*.
YouTube is removing Tide Pod Challenge videos over poisoning fears
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captaincranky
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"Consumer Reports says the pods are potentially toxic as they often contain ethanol, hydrogen peroxide and long-chain polymers, which can burn the mouth, digestive system and stomach. The AAPCC warns that swallowing them could lead to seizures, pulmonary edema, respiratory arrest, coma or, in extreme cases, even death".
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OK.let's look at this on the bright side!
"Ethanol", is potable grain alcohol, and "hydrogen peroxide". will whiten your teeth like crazy!
It's when you start hittin' the old ant-freeze, (ethylene glycol), or "Sterno", (almost pure methanol), that you can really screw yourself up.
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OK.let's look at this on the bright side!
"Ethanol", is potable grain alcohol, and "hydrogen peroxide". will whiten your teeth like crazy!
It's when you start hittin' the old ant-freeze, (ethylene glycol), or "Sterno", (almost pure methanol), that you can really screw yourself up.
Worst pun ever. I hope you're not taking credit for writing that...In fact, that smelled worse than a laundry basket full of my dirty socks. Now you've locked me in the horns of a dilemma, should I use my stash of Tide Pods to do the laundry, or sit home getting high on them while huffing socks?
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captaincranky
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In the meantime, taxonomists are wondering why we don't toss humans into the genus "Pan", with the other two species of chimps..
p51d007
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BTW, "herd" is the proper word for a group of cattle.
"Heard", is the past tense of the verb, "to hear".
Care for a Tide Pod, you?
Gotta love AUTO CORRECT don't ya
No thanks...I had a bottle of bleach with a couple shots of whiskey last night before
bed. LOL
yRaz
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captaincranky
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I would have gone with "in-FUD-dels", you're awesomeness...After all, this is the internet.
yRaz
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I don't deserve a loyal servant such as yourself. (I might also have been drunk)
captaincranky
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@Steve My monitor and keyboard will be forever grateful I didn't have a mouthful of hot coffee when I read this.
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As mentioned by others, Darwinism at its finest.
I get a chuckle out of the people here who continually claim that all corporations are evil without exception, and couldn't care less about anything other than money. These companies aren't comprised of a small group of elitist, childless, cranky (no offense, Captain) old rich guys , you know. They employ hundreds- even many thousands- of regular people who have their very own families, including stupid teenagers. Even the top execs.
To state that none of them care (other than from a financial perspective) if people get ill or die from their products is irrational and rather immature. Make sure you aren't on Darwin's list before making broad assumptions.
I get a chuckle out of the people here who continually claim that all corporations are evil without exception, and couldn't care less about anything other than money. These companies aren't comprised of a small group of elitist, childless, cranky (no offense, Captain) old rich guys , you know. They employ hundreds- even many thousands- of regular people who have their very own families, including stupid teenagers. Even the top execs.
To state that none of them care (other than from a financial perspective) if people get ill or die from their products is irrational and rather immature. Make sure you aren't on Darwin's list before making broad assumptions.
captaincranky
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Well, that's nice.
The trouble is, Dr. Sigmund Freud has been correct for some time that, "all drives are related to sex". And "alpha males", are virtually guaranteed the right to breed. Today's society has supplanted the need for "trial by ordeal", or "superiority by conquest and subjugation of other peoples and lands", with product addiction and retail ruthlessness.
Sociology tells us that those self same alpha drives, translate to an omnipresent need for, "money, power, & prestige".
Quite frankly, the jobs created in the pursuit of those goals, are something of an "accidental necessity". After all, "an army creates the need for soldiers" something which could hardly be touted as its virtue.
Besides, as I forcefully stated earlier, I still don't consider people being hired to box up Chinese goods, a "true American job". That accolade could only be granted to an American enterprise, which takes money from China and returns it to the US.
I do have what others might consider some strange views, which are, that most to all corporate CEOs are not only sociopaths, but pathological liars as well. In other words, Tim Cook actually believes himself when he's running his mouth that, "Apple is throttling your iPhone for your own good". Meanwhile, you're out in the town square shouting "hail big brother".
Anyway, those participants in Tide Pod eating, are concerned with personal notoriety, 15 seconds of fame, and somewhere, tucked away in the dark recesses of their reptile brains, they think it will get them laid.
Good chat, we'll have to do this again sometime! .
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Disappointing response from a "senior" member of this community. You've basically endorsed the notion that all-or-nothing thinking is justified. Perhaps you need a break.
captaincranky
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Perhaps you need to take this up with someone more in tune with your "reasoning".
I just deal in what I believe to be rather obvious facts about human behavior, how that interconnects with the animal behaviors which we all share, and leave popular opinion and political correctness out of the discussion.
How this leads to you suggesting "I need a break", is somewhat self serving. You don't have answers to counter some of my quite reasonable, founded in sociological and psychiatric research and observations, therefore, I should go away.
"An army creates the need for soldiers". Selling Chinese goods creates the need for an army of people to put it in boxes. There is a massive trade deficit between the US and China. Just because you don't care to face these facts. doesn't mean they don't exist.
Self preservation accompanies the animal side of our nature, while, greed, power, and status are the only foods that fuel the ego. Hell, one priest likely tries to "out pious the other", to satisfy his ego.
I saw a passage in a sociology textbook which suggested that, "when you encounter a "primitive culture", you can tell which are the most important members of the tribe by them wearing largest and most elaborate headgear! The same assessment works in "more advanced cultures" as well. After all, doesn't the pope have the most elaborate headgear in the Holy Roman Catholic Church. So, IMO, you can simplify understanding the motivations behind all human behavior, by painting with a very wide brush.
Basically what you're suggesting is, "I can't tell the forest for the trees". To which my counter observation would be, "if you're one of the trees, you can't tell your a**, from a hole in the ground". And again, this is something "rooted" in fact. <Pun intended.
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Okay... well you take care now. I hope you have family that keeps in touch. Be safe, friend.
captaincranky
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Better still, how about if we stay on point, and you skip the faux patronization and feeble ad hominem platitudes.
First let's tackle the Tide Pod issue. For generations TV has become more and more geared to the lowest intellects, and the most vulgar of tastes. So that when people watch shows like "Survivor", and very notably, "Jacka**", along with other even less refined game and challenge shows, they embrace and imitate the values presented.
Let's face it, even I had a TV as a babysitter. Although granted it was black and white, with glowing tubes. But when I watched it, Ozzie and Harriet had to have one foot on the floor, if the scene required them to be sharing a bed. In fact, twin beds often would have been pictured, and definitely preferred.
Fast forward to today, you can watch people, "coveting their brother's wife", in semi-graphic detail, from 8:00 PM onward on broadcast TV, (7:00 PM Central Time).
I've always thought it was socially criminal, to tie the humane, civil, fair, and gentle treatment of others, to the necessity for religious belief. Why not teach, "humanity", for, "humanity's sake", as a standalone virtue?
Now let's travel to mother Russia. In Siberia there has been a genetic experiment running for 50 years, to the end of producing tame foxes which can be kept as pets. What it has shown is, that if you breed calm with calm long enough, you'll get tame animals, but if you breed wild with wild, you'll get unapproachable and violent offspring.
Homo sapiens isn't immune to genetic modification, but it is amplified by poor socialization, and a host of other negative influences. So, when you breed stupid with stupid, there is a strong likelihood you'll get offspring which are stupider still. Which is then compounded with the fact that stupid parents, can't socialize those very offspring in an intelligent manner.
One theory proposes that moral knowledge can't be transmitted effectively from generation, but technological information is.
Accordingly, after a very few generations you have races of chimpanzees, that are armed with nuclear weapons. Don't believe me? I have three words for you, "Kim Jong-un", the sociopathic, pampered, spoiled, and tantrum prone offspring of a former dictator, with paranoid delusions of world domination.
So, to paraphrase the old stoner song, "don't bogart those Tide Pods, my friend, pass them over to me". Cheers! (*)
(*) Hey wait, is "Cheer" available in pods, or just powder and liquid?
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