Marcus Impudite Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 Did all the world suddenly turn into an episode of MTV's Jackass while I was asleep some night? It's one thing for small children to do something this dumb because they're... Well, they're small children and really need to have competent adult supervision. But honestly, once you're 8 years or older you're supposed to know better than to eat a packet of concentrated laundry soap. Some days if I didn't laugh, I'd cry. Cassandra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 Every generation has its 'detergent pod eaters'. Times have not become more violent. They've just become more televised. - Marilyn Manson DasBroot and Christopher 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pariah Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 This is the Universe's punishment to our society for being too lazy and/or stupid to measure our own laundry detergent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 Especially when most loads hardly need a full measure of detergent to begin with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 I admit, I find the pods quite convenient. I used to get the Purex pods because they were generally cheaper, but they stopped making those. Hopefully the makers of Tide won't cave in to the bad publicity generated by the massive stupidity of--well, the massively stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 I imagine the bright and colorful packaging of Tide pods doesn't help to distinguish them from candy and other desserts when the person perceiving the packaging is relatively ignorant (and I mean that in the most neutral sense of the word). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 37 minutes ago, Ragitsu said: I imagine the bright and colorful packaging of Tide pods doesn't help to distinguish them from candy and other desserts when the person perceiving the packaging is relatively ignorant (and I mean that in the most neutral sense of the word). The pods are in a package that looks pretty much like any other Tide detergent package. Tide has been making the packaging progressively harder to open. There's a slide zipper that requires *just* the right mount of pressure on the very top while it's sliding, or the bag doesn't open (I'm betting that it's pretty much impossible if a person has arthritis in their hands). That's to prevent small kids from being able to open the bag, but it's obviously not there for some teenager who's too stupid to avoid peer pressure, or trying to show off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 3 hours ago, wcw43921 said: I admit, I find the pods quite convenient. We get liquid detergent in the large jug with the spigot and park it on the washer, over the detergent drawer. Slide out the drawer, pop the measuring cup off the spigot, ignore the measuring cup, and dispense the detergent directly into the drawer. The only way it could be more convenient is if the washer had a built in detergent tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 I'm afraid I don't have my own washer and dryer. I need to take my clothes to a laundromat. So for me, the pods are more convenient--perhaps not as convenient as your setup, but still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 Our laundry setup resembles Old Man's. For the dishwasher we use prewrapped tabs, and the contents of those is more caustic tha laundry stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Trent Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 I remember when they started requiring ID to buy spray paint on account of those nimrods who were huffing it to get high. It wouldn't surprise me if the same happen with the Tide Pods due to all the "Tide Pod Challenge" idiocy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 39 minutes ago, Mister Trent said: I remember when they started requiring ID to buy spray paint on account of those nimrods who were huffing it to get high. Ah, yes. I found that out when I tried to pick up some acrylic black spray paint for a DIY sound shield project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 49 minutes ago, Mister Trent said: I remember when they started requiring ID to buy spray paint on account of those nimrods who were huffing it to get high. It wouldn't surprise me if the same happen with the Tide Pods due to all the "Tide Pod Challenge" idiocy. Good point. I guess every generation has to do some stupid. Geez, it's getting beyond "this is why we can't have nice things" and moving into "This is why we can't even have meh things" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 This is why we can;t have things. I'd rather not have to go back to liquid detergent. I always ended up losing some to spillage and having it make a bit of a mess. Not for the first time, I wonder whether giving the general public access to DARPA was such a good idea after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 11 hours ago, Starlord said: Every generation has its 'detergent pod eaters'. Times have not become more violent. They've just become more televised. - Marilyn Manson Well, you always hear about how violent kids are today. But, then, if you look you'll find some 12-year old boy in the 1890s wiping out his family because he didn't want to do his chores or something crazy like that. (well, I don't know of any specific cases off the top of my head-but I've come across now and again of cases back in those days of children killing their parents and thinking the TV news would losing their poop rrunning that story 24 hours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 8 hours ago, Old Man said: Especially when most loads hardly need a full measure of detergent to begin with. Reminds me of the one 3rd shift guy at work who overloaded the breakroom's dishwasher one time. A fun day was had, according to legend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 5 hours ago, Ternaugh said: The pods are in a package that looks pretty much like any other Tide detergent package. Tide has been making the packaging progressively harder to open. There's a slide zipper that requires *just* the right mount of pressure on the very top while it's sliding, or the bag doesn't open (I'm betting that it's pretty much impossible if a person has arthritis in their hands). That's to prevent small kids from being able to open the bag, but it's obviously not there for some teenager who's too stupid to avoid peer pressure, or trying to show off. Probably explains why my mother doesn't use them (several of her finger joints are frozen from arthritis, and I do occasionally tell her that when they say child-proof they mean her too, enter the mama glare of doom) Edit: Not to mention, she has been waqshing clothes for 60 years, so she doesn't think she needs them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Impudite Posted January 26, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 My folks buy the big fishbowl-shaped containers they come in at Sam's and I break the safety tabs off the lid for them. They don't have any small children or idiot teenagers in the house, so it's not an issue. They have their little dog, Misty, but thankfully the one and only time one of those pods got dropped on the garage floor she turned her nose up at it. How sad that a household pet is smarter than so many teens and twenty-somethings out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 My brother wrote on Facebook today: When I was a kid, we had to go find a spoon and eat Tide right out of the box. Ternaugh and wcw43921 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 27, 2018 Report Share Posted January 27, 2018 Heh, well my mother likes to tell me, that when she was a kid, her mother had to use a scrub-board. Not sure what they'd eat there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted January 27, 2018 Report Share Posted January 27, 2018 Question: does the consumption of soap truly cause one to burp out bubbles like some meaty children's toy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 27, 2018 Report Share Posted January 27, 2018 Detergent-scented projectile vomiting, more likely. Ragitsu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted January 27, 2018 Report Share Posted January 27, 2018 Never underestimate human stupidity. According the William L. Shire's "The Collapse of the Third Republic" in January of 1940 instead of attacking Germany across the Rhine they tried to convince the British to bomb the Soviet Union's oil fields thinking it would cut off Germany's oil and prevent an invasion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted January 27, 2018 Report Share Posted January 27, 2018 17 hours ago, Badger said: Heh, well my mother likes to tell me, that when she was a kid, her mother had to use a scrub-board. Not sure what they'd eat there. I used to use one for my socks while growing up. Though the soap my grandmother made had a decent lye component, so that would probably cause worse internal issues than a tide pod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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