Eating a spicy pepper is just harmless fun. I’d join in that activity today.
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peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 month agoI 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.
Bezier@suppo.fi 1 month ago
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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…
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I don’t think anyone should be living their lives in fear of being killed by zestiness
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Plus did you read the article? It’s whole shtick is adverting “intense pain and searing heat” as a challenge yet the lawyer is trying to make it a truth in advertising issue. While I feel for the family, I don’t see how requiring an “adult use only”has any benefit to anyone nor clarify what the product is. There so many issues with lying advertising, I don’t see focussing on “telling the truth asa challenge”
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If he died because playing soccer revealed a heart issue, would you ban soccer? At some point you need to stop overthinking all possible edge cases, stop attempting to pad yourself from all possible danger
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I defend that one, it’s just challenging yourself, no harm to anyone else or any property, almost no danger of medical harm. What’s the harm in letting them embarrass themselves for the right to claim they did something others couldn’t?
peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That’s why I let them do it. If it would have harmed them seriously or someone else I would have stopped it. But still doesn’t make it less stupid.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If so, I never learned that lesson. When I first heard about the one chip challenge, I was seriously tempted to challenge my teens to see if they could beat me
gradual@lemmings.world 1 month ago
I’ve done something similar and it was completely harmless and only served as good entertainment for everyone involved.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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!
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
How about pooping on top of the toilet reservoir?
SatyrSack@feddit.org 1 month ago
My kid calls it an “upper decker”
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
We called it that in the 80s in rural Canada.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s a typically harming someone, at least the janitor but it’s a hygiene issue and potential disease source. Yes it’s a stupid teenage prank but it does actual harm to someone else. Not cool (plus i don’t get why this would be funny: I’d groups it with the crayon eater and glue huffer , possibly complain to the school about special kids that need more assistance)