The hot pepper linked to teen's death can cause arteries in the brain to spasm.

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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

From my understanding, this is the first case of actually serious consequences, and I'm sure millions of these chips have been eaten by now.

We need more stupid challenges that cause only pain but no serious, long term injury. It's a good way to learn not to do stupid challenges, keeping kids away from the stupider ones that are more likely to do permanent harm.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I mean... the other way to learn to not do stupid challenges is to just not have stupid challenges because they're stupid and we explain that they're stupid.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I've heard that no matter how often you tell a kid the stove is hot and will burn them, they won't stop trying to touch it until the pain has taught them. Not sure if it's true (or true for all kids), but I would expect the other side of that ("once they've burned themselves, they learn") to be mostly reliable.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What exactly do they learn out of this? Not to eat single chips that are super spicy? I don't get the lesson.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Don't do stupid shit because the Internet tells you it's a challenge.

    The next time it may not be a chip but a tide pod. Or "crystals" made by blowing bubbles with a straw into a bucket of bleach and vinegar (the blowing makes sure that the victim takes a deep breath of the World War 1 gas warfare recreation they just mixed up).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Problem is that kids start out dumb until the learn stuff.

    I talk to some of my aunts and uncles from pre-internet and I’m not sure how they survived the stupid stuff they did.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm 46. I'm pre-internet. I did stupid shit. But not as stupid as the shit kids are doing now. I did things like walk through a bunch of poison ivy and thorn bushes because they were at the edge of the field and recess was boring.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I hate that a corp saw people organically having stupid fun with stupid dare fads, something humans have been doing forever, and they made a product out of it.

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