Hot Water Challenge

[Khalisako]

You are very confused person, me thinks.


This is a very strange concept.

Burning napalm is an underrated shower gel, it removes even the most stubborn dirt.

I shudder to imagine the ircumstances in which that'd be a proper solution to one's dirt problem.

[AiliailiA]

Burning napalm is an underrated shower gel, it removes even the most stubborn dirt.

I shudder to imagine the ircumstances in which that'd be a proper solution to one's dirt problem.

Never kept a Tardigrade as a pet then?
Well they aren't very good pets, but you don't have to worry about them dying just because you left them in a car on a hot day.

It is actually cute, imo. However it makes a poor pet due to being easy to lose. It's less than 1 mm long.

[AiliailiA]

Links to challenge videos or else this is just a poorly written article about dumb people doing various things with boiling water. Seriously they cite threes cases and all three are different. Two of which never had any mention of a challenge when they first went through the news cycle. The third one I hadn't heard of.

Oh you're no fun.

Stupid people who do stupid things bring joy to all the net, we don't want to hear that maybe they were people just like us who had a horrible disfiguring accident. Leave us to our small minded pleasures will ya?

[Ifreann]

Links to challenge videos or else this is just a poorly written article about dumb people doing various things with boiling water. Seriously they cite threes cases and all three are different. Two of which never had any mention of a challenge when they first went through the news cycle. The third one I hadn't heard of.

Oh you're no fun.

Stupid people who do stupid things bring joy to all the net, we don't want to hear that maybe they were people just like us who had a horrible disfiguring accident. Leave us to our small minded pleasures will ya?

What's the point in kids if we aren't going to pretend that every stupid thing one or two of them do is some terrifying new trend sweeping the globe?

[Khalisako]

I shudder to imagine the ircumstances in which that'd be a proper solution to one's dirt problem.

Never kept a Tardigrade as a pet then?
Well they aren't very good pets, but you don't have to worry about them dying just because you left them in a car on a hot day.

It is actually cute, imo. However it makes a poor pet due to being easy to lose. It's less than 1 mm long.

Water Bear, yes?

They are oddly cute indeed, I agree.

[AiliailiA]

Oh you're no fun.

Stupid people who do stupid things bring joy to all the net, we don't want to hear that maybe they were people just like us who had a horrible disfiguring accident. Leave us to our small minded pleasures will ya?

What's the point in kids if we aren't going to pretend that every stupid thing one or two of them do is some terrifying new trend sweeping the globe?

That moment when you say "we never did that when I was a kid" then realize that's not actually a good thing.

"Don't take it so hard Uncle Ailia, I'm sure you'll do many interesting things when you're older" doesn't help.

[AiliailiA]

Never kept a Tardigrade as a pet then?
Well they aren't very good pets, but you don't have to worry about them dying just because you left them in a car on a hot day.

It is actually cute, imo. However it makes a poor pet due to being easy to lose. It's less than 1 mm long.

Water Bear, yes?

They are oddly cute indeed, I agree.

If only they were bigger. What's a DIY genetic engineering kit cost?

[Risottia]

It is rather unbelievable that a person who has had boiling water poured on them as a child would be so cavalier about it, considering the rather gruesome damage that would inflict. And by gruesome, we're talking second degree burns. "Wasn't too bad" is simply an unrealistic response.

So, due to a skint-of-exact-detail throw away line of text tacked onto a post to make it more substantial than "that sucks", you want me to shave my head to show you, (a rando I don't know or have any intention of meeting), an age old scar from some thing that me and my mother laugh about when we talk about it these days?

Uhh, no.

I'm rather apathic to the spreaders of dangerous bullshit. Like the bullshitty idea that pouring boiling water on a person doesn't cause third-degree-plus burns and consequent scars. And yes, I will contend against such bullshitty claims aggressively to prevent further damage to other people.

Yeah, don't ever talk to me again.

You avoid spreading dangerous bullshit around - like the barbaric idea that pouring boiling water on kids is a normal way to discipline them, or that it doesn't hurt that much - and I won't have to call your posts out. Not to mention your personal anecdotes for whom you refuse adamantly to provide proof.
If you don't want to see my answers, use the forum functions to hide my posts. I won't be blocking you. I prefer to see what you post. You don't get to tell me not to answer your posts.

[Khalisako]

Water Bear, yes?

They are oddly cute indeed, I agree.

If only they were bigger. What's a DIY genetic engineering kit cost?

I haven't the slightest idea how much. A giant water bear to fight godzilla would be summat.

Idiots injuring and killing themselves over stupid internet "challenges" isn't such a bad thing, because that makes a few idiots less to contaminate the human genepool with their stupidity.

Perhaps the solution lays not in condemning them to their stupidity, but instead guiding them out of it to avoid such things?

Bad Parenting

[Sovaal]

You are very confused person, me thinks.


This is a very strange concept.

Burning napalm is an underrated shower gel, it removes even the most stubborn dirt.

Also works on sand, which otherwise is coarse and gets everywhere.

[Unstoppable Empire of Doom]

Oh you're no fun.

Stupid people who do stupid things bring joy to all the net, we don't want to hear that maybe they were people just like us who had a horrible disfiguring accident. Leave us to our small minded pleasures will ya?

What's the point in kids if we aren't going to pretend that every stupid thing one or two of them do is some terrifying new trend sweeping the globe?

[Sovaal]

I shudder to imagine the ircumstances in which that'd be a proper solution to one's dirt problem.

Never kept a Tardigrade as a pet then?
Well they aren't very good pets, but you don't have to worry about them dying just because you left them in a car on a hot day.

It is actually cute, imo. However it makes a poor pet due to being easy to lose. It's less than 1 mm long.

Or accidentally ejected them out of your space craft.

[Scomagia]

Between SJWs and planking, and now this shit, I shutter to imagine our decendants' opening their hisatory books (or whatever the futaristic equivilant is), and commenting on how this decade (the 2010s) was the decade where stupidity ruled


My thoughts and prayers with the victims

But anyone who actually pays attention in history will realize that every decade is the one where stupidity ruled.

[-Ocelot-]

Between SJWs and planking, and now this shit, I shutter to imagine our decendants' opening their hisatory books (or whatever the futaristic equivilant is), and commenting on how this decade (the 2010s) was the decade where stupidity ruled

The most stupid part of this decade is people using SJWs as a universal boogeyman who is somehow responsible for everything bad in the world.

[New Decandsor]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/smart-living/kids-are-trying-something-called-the-hot-water-challenge-at-least-1-has-died/ar-AAq21Bv?li=AAggNb9

So basically, people tried taking the ice bucket challenge in the other direction, and several were burned and one child died as a result.

And not all of these were people who poured the hot water on themselves either. Some of them ended up burned after others poured hot water on them. Why can't the police use the IP addresses of the video uploaders to track them down?

And why after all of this are parents still letting kids use the Internet?

Also, could the ALS people be considered liable for this too or no?

Sometimes you just can't stop stupid. This is a perfect example of such. Kids need to grow some brains as well as their parents because it's clear some don't have one.

[Imperium Sidhicum]

If only they were bigger. What's a DIY genetic engineering kit cost?

I haven't the slightest idea how much. A giant water bear to fight godzilla would be summat.

Idiots injuring and killing themselves over stupid internet "challenges" isn't such a bad thing, because that makes a few idiots less to contaminate the human genepool with their stupidity.

Perhaps the solution lays not in condemning them to their stupidity, but instead guiding them out of it to avoid such things?

Bad Parenting

I don't think parenting is to blame. Every young person will occasionally do stupid and dangerous things out of curiosity or desire to prove oneself to his peers. However, at that age a human being should be (and most usually is) capable of telling the difference between acceptable and downright idiotic risks, and if he isn't or will take the idiotic ones nonetheless, then I fail to see why that person ought to be protected from the consequences of his stupidity and recklesness. Even more so if the said person in question is a supposedly-mature adult.

I certainly look at these cases of people killing themselves over some stupid trend as natural selection. Hot water will hurt you - it's an elementary fact of life, and someone incapable of realizing (or willfully ignoring) that is bound to get himself killed eventually in any case. Personally I'd rather have it happen sooner than later when the consequences of this imbecility may also result in collateral damage.

[Chiggers]

...Would it be in bad taste to say that this is natural selection at work?

[Vulgar Bulgar]

Wtf I love natural selection now

[Atrilan]

Hey guys it's ChallengeGod_88 here and today I got another amazing challenge, I'm going to shove my head into a woodchipper!

Seriously, how can people do shit this stupid? I didn't think "boiling water = very hot" was something that needs to be taught to people their age. I guess this is natural selection.

[Arumbia67]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/smart-living/kids-are-trying-something-called-the-hot-water-challenge-at-least-1-has-died/ar-AAq21Bv?li=AAggNb9

So basically, people tried taking the ice bucket challenge in the other direction, and several were burned and one child died as a result.

And not all of these were people who poured the hot water on themselves either. Some of them ended up burned after others poured hot water on them. Why can't the police use the IP addresses of the video uploaders to track them down?

And why after all of this are parents still letting kids use the Internet?
Also, could the ALS people be considered liable for this too or no?

Because idiots will always be idiots regardless of whether or not they have technology. And no, nobody is responsible for this but those involved. Anyway, I do agree the police should IP track those who poured water on other. That's just sadistic.

[Torsiedelle]

If all these kids are Feeling the Bern already, just imagine what the next election is going to look like.

That's what we have Bernie Sanders Glowsticks for.

[Eol Sha]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/smart-living/kids-are-trying-something-called-the-hot-water-challenge-at-least-1-has-died/ar-AAq21Bv?li=AAggNb9

So basically, people tried taking the ice bucket challenge in the other direction, and several were burned and one child died as a result.

And not all of these were people who poured the hot water on themselves either. Some of them ended up burned after others poured hot water on them. Why can't the police use the IP addresses of the video uploaders to track them down?

Pretty sure you'd need a warrant for that. At least, I'd hope you need one.

And why after all of this are parents still letting kids use the Internet?

Also, could the ALS people be considered liable for this too or no?

You had me until you got here. Now you're just being absurd.

[LimaUniformNovemberAlpha]

Idiots injuring and killing themselves over stupid internet "challenges" isn't such a bad thing, because that makes a few idiots less to contaminate the human genepool with their stupidity.

Sterilization could achieve the same more humanely.

[Kaboomlandia]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Kanaria]

That was stupid.

...Would it be in bad taste to say that this is natural selection at work?

Horrible taste, actually.