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What the gently caress is going on with people? Everyone now has some piece of junk that is centered around a ball bearing that spins for "up to X minutes" and its the greatest thing ever. Now they are sold at every gas station and corner shop I see like some magic cure. Look at this Pay $10-20 for some chunk of plastic and now its the hot new trend? It was almost better when smartphones were going to be the one and only device anyone ever needed. I miss the days when the only stuff you could impulse buy at the gas station register were fake boner pills or deep discount "baked" foods they were trying to unload.
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I just jerk it op
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May 7, 2017 11:45
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yeah i've been asked if we sell them where i work at least 10 times this week, had no idea what they were till now
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May 7, 2017 11:50
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These are popular in Taiwan too. I did not know it was a global thing.
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May 7, 2017 11:51
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lmao if you buy $10 fidget spinners like some kind of cheap skate poor, get on my level nooblets http://www.torqbar.com/products $170
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May 7, 2017 11:53
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we just had a thread on this but also evreyone is autistic now, didn't you get the memo? https://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/
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May 7, 2017 11:55
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Xaris posted:lmao if you buy $10 fidget spinners like some kind of cheap skate poor, get on my level nooblets Lol, nerds can't even figure out conspicuous comsumption without looking like nerds. I guess that's why they're nerds. nerds.
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May 7, 2017 11:56
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One of those can spin for minutes but if I get restless I load up meat spin dot com and that goes for hours.
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May 7, 2017 12:02
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Back in my day, we made our own "fidget spinners" by learning to spin a pen or pencil around your thumb while in class. The difference is that our "spinners" took SKILL to master.
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May 7, 2017 12:00
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Bip Roberts posted:One of those can spin for minutes but if I get restless I load up meat spin dot com and that goes for hours. i mean thats some skill, what exactly are these things, they just spin around a long time? the fun is in timing it? at least hacky sacks required movement. dumb, gay movement, but still movement
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May 7, 2017 12:05
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You mean there are people who aren't satisfied with coins or ball bearings? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlV3oQ3pLA0
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May 7, 2017 12:13
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pentyne posted:Pay $10-20 for some chunk of plastic and now its the hot new trend? These are like three bucks from AliExpress, haha.
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May 7, 2017 12:18
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*flips a bottle*
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May 7, 2017 12:30
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I see a lot of people complain about how distracting or annoying they are. Yall don't even know autism i have a friend who uses those plastic ball clacker noisemakers to self-stim. The moor uncomfortable he gets the faster the clack like some kind of social anxiety geiger counter
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May 7, 2017 12:35
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I just flip my balisong. 
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May 7, 2017 12:38
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SeXReX posted:I see a lot of people complain about how distracting or annoying they are. Yall don't even know autism i have a friend who uses those plastic ball clacker noisemakers to self-stim. They don't really annoy me too much but that's probably because it hasn't hit full-on fad level with my students yet. I think they're less annoying than Tech Decks/fingerboards were, mostly because you can mess with a fidget spinner and still pay attention in class.
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May 7, 2017 12:44
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Those popped up last week among the first graders at the school I work at. Kids were selling them on to other kids for double the original price which caused no end of drama, on top of the annoying crap they are in a classroom. We blanket banned that poo poo real loving quick.
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May 7, 2017 12:48
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ADHD my loving rear end a bane of my 7th grade classroom like I need another loving poo poo to deal with for 7th graders to actually do anything god DAMMIT
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May 7, 2017 12:53
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Deal Extreme has the correct labeling for them.
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May 7, 2017 13:05
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I bought one of those off Aliexpress like a month ago, and using it was addictive for like the first few days but I haven't really touched it since. Guess I'm not a 'tistic!
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May 7, 2017 13:16
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I babysit an autistic boy and if him playing with his fidget spinner is what it takes to keep him from shrieking during minecraft time, well then god bless fidget spinners 
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May 7, 2017 13:33
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so you work from home etc etc
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May 7, 2017 13:43
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drat kids, I remember back in my day we had _________ . A much better fad!!!!!!
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May 7, 2017 13:46
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i use mine to do carpal tunnel stretches so i'm pro this fad
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May 7, 2017 14:00
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zaepg posted:drat kids, I remember back in my day we had _________ . A much better fad!!!!!! Yomega yo-yos, brains and fireballs. Then there was the fabled silver bullet.
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May 7, 2017 14:01
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Are there ninja star versions yet? Those would be pretty cool.
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May 7, 2017 14:04
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I want one
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May 7, 2017 14:06
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thats last months fidget toy, get with the times gramps now its all about MOONDROP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA1iCq3tOuM
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May 7, 2017 14:06
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Kickstarter is a loving cancer
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May 7, 2017 14:23
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all these successful campaigns and no one wants to fund my toilet seat coated with the color changing stuff from mood rings so you ca tell if the seat is till warm from someone else without sitting the problem is the end users who will benefit from them have no need at home and store owners wouldnt be assed to buy them
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May 7, 2017 15:28
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B.H. Facials posted:Yomega yo-yos, brains and fireballs. Then there was the fabled silver bullet. Yo-Yos were the poo poo. My school had a big assembly for Yo-Yos, got all the kids to buy one then a week later they banned them. lol what a loving scam that was.
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May 7, 2017 15:34
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These kids got Fidget Spinners, we had Pogs.
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May 7, 2017 15:35
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Yo-Yos were the poo poo. My school had a big assembly for Yo-Yos, got all the kids to buy one then a week later they banned them. lol what a loving scam that was. we had this exact assembly. the traveling yo-yo salestroupe must have been a hell of a gig, going town to town working primary schools and pounding strange in the motel 6, living off fast food
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May 7, 2017 15:49
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B.H. Facials posted:Yomega yo-yos, brains and fireballs. Then there was the fabled silver bullet.  except instead of a gun it's a yoyo
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May 7, 2017 15:51
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3d printer nerds have been doing this for a while. Really took off at the start of the year though. http://www.thingiverse.com/glitchpudding/collections/fidget Print them and give them away to people, keep using them after a week to know they are on the spectrum somewhere.
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May 7, 2017 15:51
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My coworker has one and will fidget with it all day. Hell my other coworkers have fidget cubes. Plastic box with buttons and a playstation analog stick glued to it.
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May 7, 2017 15:57
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BlueBlazer posted:3d printer nerds have been doing this for a while. I ordered a 3d printed one with ball bearings in it and it exploded into shrapnel when I spun it with an air gun.
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May 7, 2017 16:01
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ElectricSheep posted:They don't really annoy me too much but that's probably because it hasn't hit full-on fad level with my students yet. I think they're less annoying than Tech Decks/fingerboards were, mostly because you can mess with a fidget spinner and still pay attention in class. I came in third in freestyle finger boarding in the 2004 x games.
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May 7, 2017 16:11
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There's another one that's just a box with switches levers and buttons that don't do anything
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Remember devil sticks? Now there was a horrible fad.
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