It's worse than tide pods somehow.

Tide pods was a challenge, a incredibly stupid and lethal one but one that was not presented as anything else than the stupidest dare ever.

This is apparently presented as a health tip (complete with the usual "detox" pseudoscience bullshit). Fuck these assholes.

What?!

WHAT!?

Facebook mom groups must be full of trolls or something. How do they come up with this garbage?

cases of two infants who developed chronic borate intoxication after their mothers repeatedly dipped their pacifiers in a honey-borax solution, thinking the borax was a safe antiseptic (it isn't).

Wtf

I for one support this trend, and I know for a fact that Charles Darwin would approve.

So basically, people don't understand chemistry and that boric acid and borax are different. Boric Acid has legitimate medical uses and is possibly less toxic than table salt.

I knew a kid in the 8th grade who, after the poor science teacher spent about an hour lecturing us on lab safety, immediately ate a bit of Borax we were using for the experiment.

Good to know he was a trendsetter I guess

A report from 1973 outlined the cases of two infants who developed chronic borate intoxication

eating borax can turn your vomit and stool a blue-green color

Interesting...

Some years ago, I saw a documentary about "exorcisms", where the performing priest, in breach of established doctrine, decided to talk about some cases with the reporters. One of the proofs he cited for "demonic possession", was the victim spraying green and blue foam from their mouth.

Makes one think, did their parents try to cure them with borax first?

BTW, al Borate containing cleaning agents are banned in the EU since 2010, so the closest thing one can find right now is some "like Borax" ones.

2 parts borax 2 parts washing soda 1 part zote and fragrance and you'll have cheap good laundry detergent that doesn't bother sensitive skin. Also how can people be so stupid.

This is why laws that stop people from being stupid should be removed. It's one thing to tell people doing something is bad, but if you stop stupid people from being themselves, you 1. Perpetuate their stupidity, and 2. They reproduce and have many stupid kids.

This was all a joke, Please don't hate me.

I've only ever purchased Borax to make slime with. I could see it being potentially bad when it's being used like that to give kids something to play with.

Musk says tweets will eventually be called Xs.

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I do still call channel 4 streaming "4OD" :P