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?
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.”
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?!
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!
You need to get the one with the razor blades attached.
Saw a meme this afternoon, it was a Wine opener and they called it Mommy’s Spinner.
What happened to bouncing your one leg really fast if you felt antsy? You can do that for free and has been proven effective for decades.
@Illustr8r: The nuns used to smack us for doing that. Something about the devil’s work. 🙂
My kids have them, both ruined. It started with a clamp and the motorcycle exhaust and ended with 150psi from the air compressor.
No way! How can they operate their I phones? It’s not possible!
You think these spinners are lame? Have you ever heard of fingerboarding?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=USebeqkPQQs
I thought we peaked with the pet rock and chia pets.
Do people still play farmville?
Is Second Life still a thing?
Who cares about the stock market? I invested everything in beanie babies.
Go away. Spinnin’….
Looks like Selfie sticks have taken a nosedive in coolness. I think Barky started that plunge.
I have yet to see a spinner is person but I know I don’t want one.
Nobody plays with matches anymore. It’s a lost art.
>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.
“You’re going to get so tired of spinning!”
Jonald T. Drump, November, 2016
One of the elementary schools in my district has banned them, just on general principle. Good.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Srj14LU_6Ys
They don’t help ADHD
If Anthony Weiner had one of these things to fidget with perhaps he wouldn’t have gotten himself into so much trouble.
This is what happens when you take away cigarettes.
My fidget spinner holds 50 rounds of .45 ACP and hangs from the bottom of my Thompson Model 1927.
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.
A waste of time and a distraction. Also, a form of idolatry. Hopefully, this is a trend that doesn’t last.
They’ve got them here now, kid asked for one and we threw
it back in the bowl.
Lighten up you old farts. The concept of this toy is no different that the “tops” we all played with as kids.