So at work someone just brought up the Tide Pod thing as proof that kids these days are dumb and I pointed out the fact that the fad in the 1920′s was to swallow whole live goldfish (look it up, my grandparents told me about it years ago, it was a Thing.)
And of course some kids choked to death on live goldfish.
He didn’t believe me until he looked it up on his phone. And then he was just quiet for a minute and said “Ok maybe people have just always done dumb shit” and the glow of victory is going to carry me until lunch.
I admire the patience. I’d get really salty or silent
The look of dawning realization when they figure out that it just turns out that humans are dipshits, have always been dipshits, and will likely always be dipshits is Great I highly recommend using this bit of history to point this out to people.
People used to drink mercury, thinking it stopped aging.
I mean, they were right, but still.
Fuck that, people used to drink radium and shit on the premise that “radioactivity does stuff and that’s good right”.
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of TimeIn thirty thousand notes this is the best comment thank you.
Simply put: Every generation has done the most stupidest things.
us millennial planked on top of mcdonalds signs and jumped across buildings yelling parkour. Gen y played chicken with moving cars and bloody knuckles. baby boomers would stuff themself in phonebooths and risk suffocation.
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