[ExI] please don't eat the wallpaper

[William Flynn Wallace]

Every tube of skin ointment I have has 'Do not put in eyes' on it.  There
is a place in the delta here where pregnant women travel to to eat the clay
there.  I wonder if anyone has analyzed it.   bill w



On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 10:41 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat
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> >…That's the biggest fruit rollup I've ever seen. You only labelled it
> like that because you don't wanna share.
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> >…Fine then,  I'm keeping all the Tide Pods for myself.
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> Go ahead Mike, I have my own tide pods which I shall devour with great
> relish!
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> Oh wait, retract, that package also says it is harmful to swallow, damn.
> It even has a symbol for it, a new one: no devouring the tide pods.  I am
> so disappointed that now I shall need to find something else for dinner, an
> alternative form of toxic food, such as Marie Calendar’s pot pies.  (Full
> disclosure: I loooove Marie Calendar pot pies and eat them regularly.)
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> Please, what kind of world have we created?  In the old days, if someone
> had pica or other odd compulsion to eat weird things, it was their own damn
> responsibility to find a way to overpower the urge or live with the
> consequences if they chose to succumb to that harmful or fatal obsession.
> When did companies decide to take it upon themselves to urge consumers to
> merely purchase rather than literally “consume” their non-edible products?
> Do they really need to remind us that tide pods really are not
> comestibles?  Do we suppose they have all these absurd warnings on products
> sold in macho places like… Afghanistan or Brazil?  I think they do not.
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> Don’t we feel stupid for having invented such a society?  I kinda do.  I
> hope at some point we can drop this goofiness before some marketeer figures
> out a way to make actual edible tide pods, sheesh.
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> Heeeeey, wait a minute.  That’s a GREAT idea!  That they need a warning
> and even an illiterate graphic code is indication that apparently it is a
> problem that kids eat tide pods.  So… let’s make edible ones!  There are
> detergents that are non-toxic.  Note that I am not claiming they would be
> terribly effective in cleaning clothes, but think about it: edible tide
> pods, regular price of course, but cheap to make, packaged in those clever
> squishy water soluble packets!  Oh we could make a buttload.
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> spike
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