But they make them so tempting.
Posted on 02/01/2018 9:15:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
Call me heartless, but the kind of stupid that would eat laundry detergent on a dare... should hurt.
Why do we have to ban everything to protect the stupid?
Stupid people doing stupid things and product liability attorneys seem to have a peculiar symbiosis.
That's what I say. The job of the CEO is to protect the company. Even if the people are stupid, you don't want the public to see people dying from your product and negative attention. It was Tylenol's fault that an evil person put cyanide in their aspirin, but their proactive response is still studied in business school today. If you wait too long, these things can get out of control. If you handle it the right way, you will gain esteem in the public's eyes.
That’s an understatement.
Shape/color them like fecal pellets and coat them with bitrex with just a hint of methyl-mercaptan, fill with a nauseating gelatinous ooze, problem solved.
Laundry and Morale officer isn’t an easy job for a lowly ensign ...
But the crew is antsy and the sea is restless tonight my FRiend.
These soap pods are very cleansing of the Gene Pool. What is the problem.
Actually there are two ways to solve the problem without killing the stupids.
1. Load them with Apo Morphine. It is not a narcotic but will put them into projectile vomiting in short order.
2. Soak the outside with ghost pepper extract. They will spit it out I assure you.
Personally I think we should allow the stupid little morons to kill themselves.
How about we ban busybodies instead.
The companies are leaving themselves open to big lawsuits because it can be argued A. They knew of the risk of consumer misuse and B. The packaging itself was similar to an attractive nuisance.
Now I don’t blame the companies but they would do well to redesign the packaging and make the contents inpalatable. Mostly for the safety of younger children who are not on the stupid bandwagon but may just thing the pods look like a treat.
More elderly then kids died from these. It does look like a treat.
I had not realized that. Thanks for the information.
Trying to idiot-proof the world for the idiots.
I say, unless we want to live in a real life "Idiocracy" where the dolts have out bred the average intelligence people, we have to start removing the warning labels and let Mother Nature weed out the "too-stupid-to-breath fellow citizens.
And no, I'n NOT kidding.
>>Instead, the product has gained notoriety for the so-called “Tide Pod Challenge,” a disturbing phenomenon in which people film themselves eating the laundry detergent-filled packets.
FAKE NEWS
The majority (if not all) of those “Filming” themselves (on video) “eating” Tide Pods are pranking viewers.
There may be gullible or stoned viewers who “take” the dare but it is a minority subset of the “craze”.
It’s like the people pretending to be flat earthers or claiming to not know Paul McCartney was a Beatle.
People play dumb online for laffs and it is not a new thing.
But they make them so tempting.
>>Facebook and YouTube ban conservative videos but not videos of people making themselves ill from eating laundry detergent.
The same sort of people who’d claim with a straight face to have eaten Tide Pods will also tell you that no one in politics is more honest and trustworthy than Hillary Rotten Clinton.
Leave the “chlorine” in the gene pool where it can do some good.....
P&G is grossly irresponsible to package laundry detergent to look like candy.
But no new law is needed, just a lawsuit from a harmed party.
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