When NFL superstar Rob Gronkowski has to be brought in to urge kids to resist eating laundry detergent I seriously wonder if our species is going to survive long enough for a natural disaster to wipe us all out. I’m serious man, these ‘trendy’ challenges are getting out of hand. It’s almost as though the next generation doesn’t want to grow up and are determined to self-destruct under the illusion of having fun and being spontaneous. I’ll give Gronk a lot of credit for stepping up to the plate since some folks, a lot of those that don’t like the Patriots, might think he’s just a big dumb ox that can play football. I don’t like the Patriots, I’ll say that loud and clear, but I do give Gronk props for standing up and speaking out against this new trend.
Why is this even a thing? I thought the ice challenge was bad enough, and the hyperventilating challenge, and the other numerous challenges that are bordering on the insane and self-destructive. But now kids actually want to eat laundry soap? I can recall when my parents thought I was nuts for wanting to do stuff like the ice bucket challenge, which was tame as could be next to sinking your teeth into a Tide pod like it’s a fruit gusher. Do kids think it will taste good or something? Or are they so zoned out these days that anything dangerous sounds like fun?
Self-harm doesn’t seem to carry the same sense of fear or caution that it used to. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want people to live in fear, but living with the idea that there are consequences for the things you do is something very different. Part of me hopes that this challenge is one giant hoax and someone will come online asking if people really believed that anyone would do this. IF that happens then we can all calm the heck down and breathe a little easier. But so far no one’s popped up like demented Nelson from the Simpsons to yell “Ha-Ha!” as we might want, so yeah, it’s okay to be worried about the lack of intelligence we’re seeing from people that might think that this is a good idea.
As much as I don’t like the Patriots I can respect Gronk for standing up to say no, multiple times, to this challenge. The kind of chemicals that we clean our clothes with, whether its the Tide pods, which work really great by the way, or something else don’t belong in our bodies. The moment they start to interact with your body the likelihood of getting to an ER to get your stomach pumped in time goes down by every minute or less before you’re vomiting and possibly feeling the ill effects of your stupidity. That’s a very dramatic guess to be honest but I’m not going to test it out just to see if I’m right. Just listen to Gronk, and anyone with half a brain stem when we say DON’T EAT THE TIDE PODS.
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