Don’t want to hear about Fidget Spinners no more – IOTW Report

Don’t want to hear about Fidget Spinners no more

Gee, what happened to Pokeman Go? It’s Pokeman Gone.

Or planking, mood rings, pet rocks, Cabbage Patch Kids, or any other fad that comes and goes.

How these things take off and effect massive amounts of people, all at the same time, for a short time, is not much of a compliment to human beings.

Suddenly, everywhere you turn you hear about fidget spinners.

At first I thought it was about dwarf strippers, which eventually grows one weary. Don’t ask me how I know.

Turns out it’s a toy that spins-

I’m already bored.

Youtube has dozens and dozens of  “cool tricks you can do with a fidget spinner” videos and all of them seem to be making fun of the fact that the fidget spinner just spins. There are no tricks you can do with it.

This is a trend that seems to be simultaneously making fun of the trend as the very same people buy them. They have to. It’s the trend.

Idiocracy is pretty much here, is it not?

29 Comments on Don’t want to hear about Fidget Spinners no more

  1. I played with one of these for the first time this past Saturday. Nearly trashed a table setting by trying to balance it on the end of a finger.

    First thing I thought was “a coil, some magnets, a USB port, instant phone charger.”

  2. I guess yo-yos proved to be too much stress on todays’ yoots. This must mean Pokemon Go has finally fizzled out.

    O.T. but new Intellectual Froglegs vid out. And hey, does Diane Feinstein look like Marty McFlys’ older mom or what?!

  3. These are marketed supposedly for children with ADD or ADHD. Instead of giving your child a fidget spinner, have them do something that is actually physical. We don’t need more kids sitting on the couch!

  4. >Have you ever heard of fingerboarding?

    Hey, now, let’s leave the fingerboards out of this! 🙂

    Sincerely,

    Guy who had one in the mid-80s who STILL flips his damned TV remove around when he has idle hands. As Peter Cetera crooned, it’s a hard habit to break.

  5. Saw them for the first time last week in an ice cream shop in Surf City, NC. I couldn’t figure out why anone would want to fiddle with one more than 30 seconds. Nor why anyone would pay $10 for one.

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