Another foamer in the morgue. Tag em, bag em, then try and sweep up the bubbles. Yes, the youth are now eating soap balls for sport, and the Grinsane Police Department is scrambling to make sure “Generation T” doesn’t wash itself off the map while participating in the Tide Pod Challenge.
What is the challenge exactly? Eat a packet of laundry detergent, then post the pictures on the internet. Ostensibly the goal is to raise awareness for rabies, another condition that causes one to foam at the mouth.
Woman with rabies rides elevator.
Like so many public health initiatives, the one to expose the danger of Tide Pods is completely misguided, placing the blame for toxic laundry disasters on society’s eternal scapegoat, the wayward teen. Consider this:
Washing your clothes in toxic chemicals: acceptable use, perfectly cool!
Sending those same toxic chemicals down the drain: right on, no problem!
Allowing idiots to eat yummy soap balls and in the process extinguish themselves from society before they can grow up to be air traffic controllers, train engineers, medical imaging technicians, or simply contribute to the gene pool: bad idea, public health crisis, red alert!
This cartoonist doesn’t want your foaming face wheeling him around the nursing home someday.
And of course the whole thing begs the question – are people so lazy they can’t even measure their own detergent anymore? This is coming from a guy who grew up with powdered soap – there was NEVER a problem with that stuff.
Powdered soap a safe alternative.
Okay, I’ll admit it’s a little sad to see teens tweeting to the Tide Corporation to ask what to do about their burning insides, but, um, really? How did you make it this far in life already?
Check in end of week for another Grinsane cartoon!
p.s. Technical question – is the cartoon clear? My wife says my Tide Pod looks like a smooshed Pepsi Can.
2 Comments
It kinda sorta looks like a sideways Pepsi logo, but based on reading the text (and having a conversation with a coworker about the phenomenon, something of which I’d been happily ignorant prior) it was pretty easy to figure out what it was supposed to be.
I’ve never actually seen a Tide pod… didn’t really know they existed, though it kinda makes sense due to dishwasher pods.
I still use liquid soap and seperate fabric softener.
I’m glad it was clear enough! I have actually used a Tide Pod before. I think someone was handing them out at the supermarket a while back (not in the candy aisle, though). One good thing I can say about them is that they probably create less of a mess than when a cat knocks over an entire jug of liquid soap on the floor – trust me, that is no small job to clean up!
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It kinda sorta looks like a sideways Pepsi logo, but based on reading the text (and having a conversation with a coworker about the phenomenon, something of which I’d been happily ignorant prior) it was pretty easy to figure out what it was supposed to be.
I’ve never actually seen a Tide pod… didn’t really know they existed, though it kinda makes sense due to dishwasher pods.
I still use liquid soap and seperate fabric softener.
I’m glad it was clear enough! I have actually used a Tide Pod before. I think someone was handing them out at the supermarket a while back (not in the candy aisle, though). One good thing I can say about them is that they probably create less of a mess than when a cat knocks over an entire jug of liquid soap on the floor – trust me, that is no small job to clean up!