# Tide Challenge: How Can P&G Know...?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tide-challenge-how-can-p-g-know/807498>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 26, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tide-challenge-how-can-p-g-know/807498 "2018-01-26T01:36:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tide-challenge-how-can-p-g-know/807498/41 "2018-01-27T17:38:06Z")

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> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> I’m sure that’s exactly what it is. But there’s plenty of kids that will do stupid stuff. Not because they don’t know it’s stupid, but for their own reasons. Whether it’s for an audience or it’s because they’re not very popular and they know this will have people talking about them, or they are popular…for doing this kind of stuff and they have a reputation to keep up. Granted, this is probably more dangerous than pulling the fire alarm or swapping out the tape the teacher is going to play with a porn, but it still gets people watching them. And like most other things done in high school, even if they _know_ it’s dangerous, they’re still not thinking more than 10 minutes into the future.

I think Doug K’s point is that the actual number of people doing this is very small, compared to the amount of noise being made.

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