Eating a spicy pepper is just harmless fun. I’d join in that activity today.
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peregrin5@lemm.ee 18 hours 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 15 hours ago
catloaf@lemm.ee 12 hours 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 hour ago
I don’t think anyone should be living their lives in fear of being killed by zestiness
paraphrand@lemmy.world 18 hours 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 17 hours ago
How about pooping on top of the toilet reservoir?
SatyrSack@feddit.org 15 hours ago
My kid calls it an “upper decker”
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
We called it that in the 80s in rural Canada.