• Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Sorry, your parents loved you and didn’t want you to wander aimlessly for a year so they could bang the local professor.

  • 4am@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    You wanted to capture animals from the wild and make them fight? Like a cute bumfights?

  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    Somehow I feel giving children a swallowable ball that expands to the size of a softball would work out really poorly in real life.

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      6 days ago

      At 10? Only the ones who would take the tide pod challenge really. Everyone else that age and up knows better.

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        5 days ago

        For a parallel to what actually happened with the tide pods, it would be like kids putting it in their mouth to pretend they are dumb enough to eat it and not realize that even just putting it in their mouths is enough to make it expand and now their jaw is dislocated with a pokeball stuck in their mouth.

        (Some kids were hospitalized/died because, though knowing tide pods were dangerous to eat (swallow), they thought they could chew one to pretend to eat it, intending to make fake dying videos, not realizing that it was dangerous to even have the detergent in your mouth while you pretended you were going to swallow. So it was kids being dumb but in a “I can play with fire and be OK” way, not a “people on the internet say soap is candy, so I’m going to eat it”).