HappyCamper said: We now have young people putting Tide detergent pods in their mouths as a social media game.
It's been a good 2000 years. We had a pretty good run. But, it's time for this experiment to end.
...what? I don't...I can't... WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT EVEN?
This image pretty much sums it up. pretty much it has bright colors like a fruit, smells sweet, and looks shiny implying a good fat content. In other words, even with the knowledge that it's poison people are claiming they have the urge to eat it because of their more primitive instincts telling them "this is a tasty food stuff" https://imgur.com/gallery/5N0Su
HappyCamper said: We now have young people putting Tide detergent pods in their mouths as a social media game.
It's been a good 2000 years. We had a pretty good run. But, it's time for this experiment to end.
...what? I don't...I can't... WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT EVEN?
This image pretty much sums it up. pretty much it has bright colors like a fruit, smells sweet, and looks shiny implying a good fat content. In other words, even with the knowledge that it's poison people are claiming they have the urge to eat it because of their more primitive instincts telling them "this is a tasty food stuff" https://imgur.com/gallery/5N0Su
I'm currently forcing myself to eat a disgusting looking bowl of brown mush (oatmeal with protein powder in it) that I know is good for me. A tide pod actually looks kinda tasty by comparison.
I don't know if it's just a bug or if I finally pissed off MM with my "jokes," but the location field under the username isn't showing the change I just made on my profile page .... so I guess I'll be stuck with "Tide Pod Champion" forever!
Something about this coming up on a WAM forum made me smile. I mean, so many of us are about taking things that are meant to be eaten and doing exactly what you're not meant to do with them. It's like a weird opposite to that...
Potatoman-J said: The difference being, you know the brown mush isn't designed to make you dishes clean.
True but looking at it makes me want to puke cause my brain is probably subconsciously thinking "don't eat that bowl of dirt that someone else puked up!" Knowing something is good for you and having a biological urge to eat it are two different things.
Yes eating tide pods is stupid because people are knowingly consuming poison but people do the same thing with alcohol. While there is a long social history of alcohol consumption in human society there is also a biological reason why we are attracted to ethanol. Ethanol is in higher concentrations in ripe fruit with is more nutritious than unripe fruit. Other primates and other species like fruit flies are attracted to ethanol for this reason. The idea that some people may be eating tide pods because the colors, smells, and overall look and feel resemble a nutritious food makes some sense, at least in children who lack impulse control and are more susceptible to doing what they are biologically programmed to do.
Potatoman-J said: The difference being, you know the brown mush isn't designed to make you dishes clean.
True but looking at it makes me want to puke cause my brain is probably subconsciously thinking "don't eat that bowl of dirt that someone else puked up!" Knowing something is good for you and having a biological urge to eat it are two different things.
Yes eating tide pods is stupid because people are knowingly consuming poison but people do the same thing with alcohol. While there is a long social history of alcohol consumption in human society there is also a biological reason why we are attracted to ethanol. Ethanol is in higher concentrations in ripe fruit with is more nutritious than unripe fruit. Other primates and other species like fruit flies are attracted to ethanol for this reason. The idea that some people may be eating tide pods because the colors, smells, and overall look and feel resemble a nutritious food makes some sense, at least in children who lack impulse control and are more susceptible to doing what they are biologically programmed to do.
It's a compelling argument but it seems like these are mostly teenagers that should have the ability to 'reason'. I'm expecting too much of humanity I guess. I mean I was a kid too and I DID do a lot of dumb shit... Also, I get the alcohol thing too. With such bad Crohn's I don't touch it often, but I occasionally like a glass of Jameson.
The first part makes sense too, for whatever reason oatmeal makes me feel queasy if I even look at it. No idea why though, as it's not like other reactions where you eat too much of something and then your body produces a reaction from then on when you see it that says "NOOOO"!