The hot pepper linked to teen’s death can cause arteries in the brain to spasm.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean… the other way to learn to not do stupid challenges is to just not have stupid challenges because they’re stupid and we explain that they’re stupid.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve heard that no matter how often you tell a kid the stove is hot and will burn them, they won’t stop trying to touch it until the pain has taught them.

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        What exactly do they learn out of this? Not to eat single chips that are super spicy? I don’t get the lesson.

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          Don’t do stupid shit because the Internet tells you it’s a challenge.

          The next time it may not be a chip but a tide pod. Or “crystals” made by blowing bubbles with a straw into a bucket of bleach and vinegar (the blowing makes sure that the victim takes a deep breath of the World War 1 gas warfare recreation they just mixed up).

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      Problem is that kids start out dumb until the learn stuff.

      I talk to some of my aunts and uncles from pre-internet and I’m not sure how they survived the stupid stuff they did.

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        I’m 46. I’m pre-internet. I did stupid shit. But not as stupid as the shit kids are doing now. I did things like walk through a bunch of poison ivy and thorn bushes because they were at the edge of the field and recess was boring.

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          walk through a bunch of poison ivy and thorn bushes

          I feel like that’s more likely to kill someone than hot chip.

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      1 year ago

      I’m going to do the laying still in traffic challenge because the Russian Roulette challenge isn’t cool anymore

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      1 year ago

      I hate that a corp saw people organically having stupid fun with stupid dare fads, something humans have been doing forever, and they made a product out of it.