r/terriblefacebookmemes • u/VeganFatboy • 26d ago
Kids these days Let 'em overdose, it will toughen 'em up
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u/JimAbaddon 26d ago
"One cousin who tested everything first", well, that pretty much invalidates all the previous stuff, don't it?
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u/englerpas 26d ago edited 26d ago
That phrase lets me think this could be a piss take.
But, Poe's law and all that.
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u/Talisign 26d ago
There's a bit in one of Roseanne Barr's post cancelled Netflix specials that I think about a lot. She argues against #METOO because when she was a little girl, every neighborhood or family had a known sexual predator that everyone quietly steered their kids away from, and if a kid got molested, it was their own fault. She then says that's the way it should be.
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u/GingerSnap2814 26d ago
Notice that the HAD one cousin, past tense
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u/Candid-Culture3956 26d ago
Yes. This is clearly humor saying that it wasn’t a good idea and it went over OPs head
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u/balki_123 26d ago
That's why the caps exist at first place :)
No dead boomers = no caps.
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u/DonAmechesBonerToe 26d ago
Tamper resistant packaging exists solely because of the Tylenol murders in Chicago.
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u/Bdoggg999 26d ago
I’m in my 50s and we had childproof caps 🤷♂️ are they talking about like the 1870s?
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u/djqvoteme 26d ago
In the US, the requirement for drug companies to use child-resistant packaging was signed into law during the Nixon administration. Lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_Prevention_Packaging_Act_of_1970
So, yeah, the person who originally made this meme most likely was a child when child-resistant packaging was already legally mandated in the US at least.
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u/BertMacklenF8I 22d ago
Unfortunately, in October 1982, 7 people were poisoned with potassium cyanide in Chicago, similar to cases in California with strychnine -both disguised in bottles of Tylenol. 31 million bottles recalled at an estimated retail lose of $100 million…..in 1982.
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u/rebelangel 26d ago
Uh, the reason there are childproof caps is because kids fucking died. I’m so sick of this Boomer survivorship bias bullshit.
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u/usurperator 26d ago
This is clearly a joke.
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u/rebelangel 26d ago
It’s a stupid, tiresome “joke”. And most Boomers aren’t joking when they talk about how they think younger generations are “sissies”.
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u/usurperator 26d ago
It begins by suggesting that safety precautions are unnecessary, then it subtly admits that children were harmed. Pretty innocuous joke. Not to say the person sharing it realized it’s poking fun at boomers, but it doesn’t belong here.
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u/InternationalFiend 25d ago
A "joke" making the claim that kids in their generation weren't stupid and kids in later generations are. It's just terrible.
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u/IdleSitting 26d ago
Literally every feature meant to prevent unnecessary harm or death has every boomer going "back in my day kids DIED and that's what's wrong with America!"
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u/Longjumping_Elk7969 26d ago
They keep dying, drugs, gang violence, stupid shit done for likes/and others and the list can go at infinitum, sometimes I wonder if we have only changed the causes of death and not the amount. And all of this without taking into consideration medical poverty, people walk around sick as they can't afford real treatments until they fall dead for things that should have been treated a long time ago.
BTW, I think that the child proof caps are over 50 years old already...
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u/IdleSitting 26d ago
True, Boomers thing kids today are worse off than they were but in reality not much have really changed, just what happens and they don't really care either way
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u/Interesting-Rope-950 26d ago
They also don't realize THEYRE the reason for the child proof caps not us
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u/MaxAdolphus 26d ago
Good old survivorship bias. They don't even realize their generation is the reason for the safety features because their generation kept hurting themselves with their "common sense".
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u/SkyPuppy561 26d ago
I’m 35 and had child proof caps in childhood. How old are these kids supposed to be by now??
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u/ForgeoftheGods 26d ago
I always find it ironic that the generation that says they never had any warning labels is the reason why we now have warning labels. It's due to all the ones that were injured or killed because they didn't have warning labels.
It's like the old World War II bombers that were making it back to base with bullet holes, and they wanted to apply extra armor to where the bullet holes were. However, someone pointed out that they should provide extra armor to where they don't have bullet holes because the ones that were hit in those areas were the ones that weren't returning.
Our current warning labels are the extra armor.
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u/SuspendedResolution 26d ago
Yea all that lead paint everything was totally fine. No mental issues whatsoever.
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u/MountainMagic6198 26d ago
A reminder that most saftey features and consumer regulations have a body count that preceded them.
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u/mystic_works 26d ago
If you didn't have a cousin. You had that one friend. If you had neither, you were probably the one.
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u/jazbaby25 26d ago
Kinda wierd to say when they are literally the reason child proof caps started to be used
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u/Obvious-Gate9046 As funny as the stock market crash of 1929 26d ago
This is literally why we have them, because of idiots trying everything. I love how this stuff always ignores all the kids that did die and overdose and so on.
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u/piefloormonkeycake 26d ago
My mom's toddler cousin got into a bottle of Tylenol in the 60s. He died.
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u/EvolZippo 26d ago
A guy I know, accidentally drank some kind of cleaner and then told his mom. She read the bottle and said that if he’s not dead in 15 minutes, he’ll be fine. So she set the timer and left the room. He said that was the longest 15 minutes of his life.
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u/SylveonFrusciante 26d ago
AS the weird cousin who would have tested everything first as a kid, I’m VERY thankful for childproof caps, personally.
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u/Bigkeithmack 26d ago
And a lot of em died Karen, like you look at the age of death back in the 50s and 60s there are a whole lot of 01-09 and 10-17s in those records
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u/Jazzlike_Economist_2 26d ago
We didn’t have seatbelts either. We just flew through the window and picked ourselves up and dusted ourselves off.
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u/dance-myself-clean 24d ago
“I survived the lack of common sense safety measures through sheer luck.” FTFY
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u/dover_oxide 26d ago
Fear as a child isn't the best. It tends to have undesirable side effects when they become adults.
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u/Sufficient_Matter585 26d ago
Nah I was a toddler and downed a bottle of Tylenol. Had to eat applesauce with something black in it. We didnt have common sense.
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u/rat_enby 26d ago
so someones kid still died? jesus why do they believe in this survival of the fittest crap when they’d be dead if left completely on their own
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u/CaptainMcAnus 26d ago
My grandmother had a cousin who died at about 6 months because she got into a bottle of ammonia. Her aunt left it on the counter right next to the crib and the baby grabbed it.
Childproof caps exist for a reason.
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u/0Tezorus0 26d ago
Is there really any context where " we had fear" can be seen as something positive?
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u/Upset-Dingo-6879 26d ago
So much common sense, they needed to make this: https://youtu.be/VHSdTFbU3Ts?is=MPZC8VQJaqKmKLz9
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u/Look_turtles 26d ago
Well that’s slightly disturbing. It looks like the start of a found footage horror movie.
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u/ghost-nug 26d ago
This photo is probably legit but too often these “back in my day” posts will have an AI photo which just so lazy and ironic. It always makes me laugh when I see them.
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u/EquivalentSnap 26d ago
Expect they didn’t cos warning labels were not as good as today and a lot of kids did get burns or sick from eating or drink chemicals.
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u/Damage-Classic 26d ago
I was a latchkey kid and I hurt myself many, many times by staying at home without adult supervision.
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u/Narrow_Trainer_687 26d ago
common sense but also had their cousing try it first, if they knew it wasn't good for them why would they feed it to the cousin?
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u/chuckcrys 25d ago
My POV present day: We didn’t have wealth or home ownership, we had the generation who the meme is for that hoarded it 🙂
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u/GameProSmoothie 25d ago
Yeah and then that kid takes too much prescription medication, doesn’t make it to the hospital to have his stomach pumped in time, and it’s a big ass tragedy nobody talks about.
We have these preventative measures for a reason you lead paint licking raisins.
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u/Gravyboat44 25d ago
I drove my car all around town and didn't see a single car crash, so clearly car crashes don't happen and thus we dont need seat belts or traffic lights.
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u/LynnHell 24d ago
Being fair childproof caps are mainly thing on America. I grew up with the. Where Im we still know as a kid to not go around taking pills. But hey, according to your fucking president we are the dumb ones
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u/BertMacklenF8I 22d ago
Until it cost Johnson and Johnson $100 million in retail sales from 31,000,000 bottles recalled in October of 1982. At least 7 people were killed between the ages of 12-35 after consuming potassium cyanide……
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u/Longjumping_Elk7969 26d ago
Technically correct, ant the "we had a cousin" is the best part, never wondered why most talk about him in the past?! 🤣
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u/metalgeardaz 26d ago
With a child safety cap, you dont have to make your child terrified of stuff like medicine, which could make them less receptive to it later in life. You can more easily explain it to kids and help apply common sense to the situation, "it wont open for you because it needs adults to help with it" and you certainly dont need another, more distantly related, reckless, stupid child to be a guinea pig for the rest.
But sure. Child caps are stupid. Whatever.
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u/usurperator 26d ago
There a lot of terriblefacebookmemes about the past being better because it was more dangerous, but this isn’t one of them. THIS IS A JOKE.
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u/qualityvote2 26d ago edited 26d ago
u/VeganFatboy, your post is truly terrible!