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ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
I don’t get it. I was never this stupid as a kid.
I used to be a teacher in the 2010s. I remember boys having this ghost pepper challenge they would do that would put them in literal tears.
I never stopped them. Some just have to learn through experience that being an idiot to impress your buds isn’t going to result in a good time for you.
That’s, like, a normal logical one. It’s actually food, it’s spicy. It makes sense to compete to see who can handle the spicy food.
Stealing faucets from public bathrooms? That’s not a normal logical one. That’s a devious lick, and something invented to be highly memetic and propelled by a highly optimized algorithm that incentivizes recency, novelty, and dopamine hacking. It even had a marketing/brand name!
Eating a spicy pepper is just harmless fun. I’d join in that activity today.
Yeah, but some of that stuff isn’t just a spicy pepper. One kid died because of extreme capsaicin revealing a heart issue: nbcnews.com/…/death-teen-ate-spicy-chip-experts-r…
I don’t think anyone should be living their lives in fear of being killed by zestiness
I was pretty stupid
Same, but I had classmates who were.
Ditto. I grew up helping fix VCR by replacing displaced bands and gears. I knew to be careful not the let the magic smoke come out. Bad genie!
You didn’t have the same social and monetary incentives TikTok provides.
I was. When the bell would ring and the halls were hectic I would put popcorn in the communal microwave and put like 20 min and leave and sometimes nobody would notice till it catches fire
I almost burned down the school a couple times
Hopefully you’re less of a piece of shit now
Woah
I feel you. I suppose a lot of people can’t imagine what it was like.
Dude, Sounds like you were old enough to understand that almost burning down your school intentionally, multiple times, was bad. Bullies or not. I’m not sure why you’re taken aback by someone thinking a little arsonist in training isn’t a good kid.
Some of my shenanigans definitely involved breaking electronics
WhiteRice@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
Are you sure? Kids are pretty stupid.
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
I never intentionally destroyed expensive electronics to “try to impress” anyone in real life, let alone online (although that didn’t quite exist yet).
So, yeah, I’m sure.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
My buddy stuck a paper clip in an electrical socket while we were in the cafeteria. Because his cousin had told him it would shoot sparks across the room. All it did was make him scream real loud, then the power to half of the cafeteria went out when the breaker blew.
Another friend “accidentally” stapled his homework to his hand, to try and get out of going to music class. Apparently his plan was to ham it up and go to the nurse instead. The teacher laughed, called him an idiot, and sent him to music class with a band-aid.
Kids have always been fucking stupid. The only difference is that now every kid has an internet-connected camera in their pocket, so their stupidity is more visible.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
In second grade I remember a kid stapled his tongue lol
peregrin5@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
When I was a kid schools didn’t have expensive electronics to destroy. But we sure drew a ton of penises in expensive textbooks.
Ulrich@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Those textbooks cost pennies. It’s the licenses that were expensive.