@nolrak
I want an ingestiable Bluetooth speaker then you would know exactly how long food really takes to pass through the chute, also, if you are dead inside would it hurt?
Asking for a friend.
@shahnm
The color of the boxes reminds me of the Panama papers… also how many would you eat for MFP? Would you buy this to encourage Meh you are for real about buying product or abstain in totally solidarity with meh sisterin (let’s face it more products on here are for women).
I still have a bunch of Buckyballs, so I was curious…
What makes Speks different from Buckyballs?
Lots! For starters, Speks are 2.5mm, and Buckyballs clocked in at 5mm. Another really important difference is that the magnetic strength of Speks meets all safety compliance standards. Plus, Speks is more than just magnetic balls — we’re changing the game in magnetic desk toys.
Via the Speks FAQ page. They mention the size difference on the Meh writeup, but not the strength difference.
@The_Tim What fun are they if they can not potentially kill you? They are teeny tiny. I have 10 unopened packs of BuckyBall, 125 per pack, and it looks like they take up that same one inch cube per pack.
@ponagathos@The_Tim Same here - I have a stash from when Buckyballs were dumping their stock so they could fight the ban.
Sadly, these halfling buckies are too small to use in a BB-gun. Imagine having target practice with a metal backstop/base. Shoot… Collect magnetic BBs from stand… shoot again.
@djslack@The_Tim I would think less strength would be good- how well do you really want them to stick together? Especially since they’re half the size. I bought a set of blue magnetic balls (blue balls-hehe) from some place in China and was disappointed. But it looks like this is a bigger set.
I enjoyed Buckyballs tremendously before they were the object of mass hysteria. Thinking about splurging and dropping my trivia prize towards a set of these.
@sammydog01 - Nah, I didn’t buy them. I still have Bucky Balls from Woot. I even have some tiny tubes of replacement magnets. Some of them are holding the calendar on my refrigerator.
These do look JOKER! POKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME! though.
Hmm dangerous to kids, and I’d say off hand cats (and likely dogs). The problem with small children and animals putting the in their mouths is if they swallow them. There can be a lot of intestinal damage done due to the fact that they are magnetic.
At 1/10th of an each each in diameter these are really, really tiny. Maybe too tiny? One of the reviews said they all fit in a 1" by 1" by 1" box.
Might be fun to play with if I didn’t have cats that would micromanage me doing this. And am not sure they aren’t too small to easily mess with.
@Kidsandliz The whole idea of the reduced size is that the attractive force is also dropped substantially - supposedly to the point that the intestinal threat goes away.
@mehcuda67@unksol Never mind, Speks is their “compliance” website. I found the real thing. They are selling the Triumph set to celebrate their victory.
@mehcuda67@rpstrong@sammydog01@unksol Being somewhat metrically challenged I went looking for a measuring tool… Golf balls are 42.7mm. Well, that’s a relief.
Since when is meh about buy one at retail price and get one free? Shouldn’t these be around 2 for $15 or something? After all, most of this crap is crap we don’t need, but we are sometimes convinced because of deep discounts. This isn’t deep.
Um… The Zen magnets guy launched speks. As a workaround and let the buckeyballs guys join. Considering they kept threating to sue him originally. And considering he was the only one to really stand up to the CPSC’s bullshit. And he won so you can buy the real thing again instead of these tiny useless ones. I wouldn’t give buckeyballs credit for crap
Man, the 5mm ones are hard enough to manipulate, I can’t imagine 2.5mm magnets would be fun at all… I would pounce on a deal for larger ones in a heartbeat!
So we decide to take a vacation to Chicago, taking the train from Michigan. Get there, catch a bus to the Museum of Science and Industry, buy some things at the gift shop, and head back to the hotel. Nice day so far!
My 4 year old son decides to play “crocodile swamp” in the hotel room, which means jumping from sofa to chair without touching the floor, aka the crocodile swamp. Big leap over to the coffee table cube and oh no, a bad miss, gash on the back of his head that is bleeding PROFUSELY. There’s an urgent care nearby and hotel staff helps us get there. A couple of staples later, he’s right as rain and we’re eating deep dish pizza.
The next morning, I’m heading to a conference while my wife is taking son and 6 year old daughter to American Girl. Daughter sheepishly says “you know those magnets we bought at the museum yesterday? I swallowed one.” WHAT? “How many?” “Two?” And now googling the horror stories of magnets detaching in intestine, re-attaching across intestinal walls, and perforating the intestine.
Back to urgent care we go! While the staff debates calling child support services, they try to get her to vomit the magnets. Apparently she swallowed them earlier, and they’re out of her stomach. “To be safe, we should hospitalize her”. HOORAY! Each day – scan, little progress, wait. The hospital, unlike the urgent care, is 10 miles from the hotel. So now we take shifts, one of us sleeping at the hospital while the other tries to show Chicago to our son. Lots of “High School Musical” is watched. Finally, day 4, the magnets still haven’t passed. Surgeon says she’d like to do a laparoscopic procedure (little did I know that, while perhaps medically advised, it also was a way for the hospital to bill for something significant). Magnets ushered out of her digestive tract, and she’s ready to be released. What a lovely time in Chicago!
My kids are now teens, and I thought “Wow, these Speks magnets look cool”. Not to mention my therapist has a set – you know, the therapist I talk to about how awful a parent I am. I am about to hit “Buy” and I think… no, do not tempt fate. So today, Meh, it’s just a meh click.
These magnets look really cool. But they are NOT for children. At least my children.
@RedOak I remember going to Field museum in a daze… we did get back on our Chicago horse about 8 years later and the trip went much smoother . And Shedd was great.
@lehigh@sammydog01@wickhameh I’m not sure what it is about that phrase and giphy results. Really, I think it’s the word “rampant” that does it. But I’m not up for testing the theory.
@hafner@troy@jsh139@sammydog01 The pathetic part about it was that she was old enough to understand the dangers. I specified the dangers. I was VERY. M(#*$&#($ING. CLEAR. about the dangers. And when she came to me to tell me that she swallowed it, I thought she was joking since I was SO VERY CLEAR. But apparently, she was trying very hard to get two balls apart and couldn’t, so she bit down in between to separate them and SOMEHOW one ended up down her throat. (The girl who couldn’t swallow an aspirin to save her life.) My co-workers still make fun of me because they literally heard me yell, “Are you retarded?!” Which, granted, wasn’t my finest moment. We rushed to an Urgent Care clinic. They found it and said we just have to keep checking until it comes out. And, yes, it would have required surgery had she swallowed more than one. Apparently the real danger is if two lodge together with a piece of your intestines (or anything else) stuck between. It took nearly a week for her to pass. And a lot of unappealing “digging”. Ugh. Terrible experience. I wouldn’t recommend it.
@hafner@jsh139@marcee@troy One of the articles linked above mentioned some were swallowed by teenagers using them as fake lip piercings. So you’re not alone.
Not for places with kids or any type of pet that might swallow them. Or drunk, or stoned. Or fools that might take a dare to swallow them. So if you are a logical adult with no fool friends or animals or kids…have fun!
I really want these… but i have a 2 year old. Is it child abuse if i get these knowing the probable outcome? Or is it actually masochism since i’ll be the one dealing and paying for it…?
@RiotDemon unfortunately just not being given something is not a significant barrier to tiny growing self destructive maniacs… neither are doors, cabinets, tables, or drawers. and while one may be plenty disciplined, no one can make insaneomatic tinyboys make good decisions all the time or 100% always keep them from pulling a fast one. So I have to plan for a certain amount of failure and minimize risk by making some things safer and avoiding other things, like these.
@hisgrossness Too bad DHS would take a dim view of putting those creatures in a cage while you played with your toys, liberating them only after you put said toy in a safe.
@Kidsandliz truly a sad day for freedom. lol really the only difference between these and my projectile propulsion collection which operates essentially how you described… ish… is the size, swallowability, and shininess but those factors combine to make these a far larger threat than even the same number of fully automatic pews equipped with the shoulder thing that goes up.
@RiotDemon@sammydog01 alas in order to shorten the wait period I guess i’ll just have to hope for sterile children… though my current track record of good decisions with magnets is not boding well for my hopes for my childrens unfit reproductive future…
@hisgrossness@RiotDemon Can confirm. A three legged table is apparently just beckoning to the aforementioned maniacs to be stood on…A frantic call from the wife to me while at work, and an ER visit later got our daughter her first cast…(and hopefully last).
ARG!!! The math doesn’t add up! The maker claims these are as exact as technology will allow, and each sphere in the set is said to be 2.5mm in diameter. This means that there should be 10 spheres per inch (an inch being 25.4mm). Selling these in a 1" cube should be at least 10x10x10 spheres = 1000 spheres per cubic inch.
AND YET - The “one inch cube” that these are sold in only holds 8 spheres per inch, where 8x8x8 = 512 spheres per cubic inch.
WE ARE BEING ROBBED!!! Each set is missing 488 spheres in their one inch cube. Hey, math doesn’t lie - or does it???
@blaineg I don’t know…typical fridge magnets ain’t very powerful… find it hard to believe that it would have enough force to stick the rodent to the cage through the cheek tissues and all…
@blaineg@medz Yeah… Maybe it was an OG Buckyball or something, and they were abusing the term “fridge magnet.”
But yeah, I don’t find this story particularly believable, but I try not to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
If I hadn’t had original Buckyballs these would be amazing, but having had the original these are just pretty neat. Don’t get me wrong, they are going to be a great desk gadget.
When I got them I broke out a set and played with them. Trying to get them back into the original cube was pretty frustrating. Once I got good enough to not completely screw it up by like the third or fourth layer I always wound up with one layer that wanted to sightly offset in the middle. They still have a little shift in the middle on one side I couldn’t work out, but I had to settle for good enough and go to bed that night.
What is the shipping time on these varmint management systems? I placed the order on March 5th and they have not arrived. I got me a passel o’ rodents what needs stickin on the side of the shed.
Maybe there is a mailman somewhere? Maybe he is tugging against the unyielding force of a package that inexplicably pinned his hand to the van? Are any of these items actually getting to customers? How many mail carriers need to suffer before something is done about this?
Specs
What’s in the Box?
2x Sets of 512 rare earth magnetic balls (1024 total)
2x Metal building base
2x Plastic splitter card
2x 16-page starter guide
2x Carrying case
Price Comparison
$49.90 (for 2) at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Tuesday, July 21st - Monday, July 27th
Double double
sweet, bucky balls
That’s positively negative!
Oh God yes but oh God no MUST KEEP MEH STREAK ALIVE HEY WIFE WHERE YOU AT
Caution: not for internal use
/that’s what she said
@nolrak
I want an ingestiable Bluetooth speaker then you would know exactly how long food really takes to pass through the chute, also, if you are dead inside would it hurt?
Asking for a friend.
@sippinndippin just eat some corn.
These are not good eats.
@shahnm
The color of the boxes reminds me of the Panama papers… also how many would you eat for MFP? Would you buy this to encourage Meh you are for real about buying product or abstain in totally solidarity with meh sisterin (let’s face it more products on here are for women).
@sippinndippin Wha??
Another 2 for tuesday let down
@deathbynoodlez facts
I’m glad that buckyballs are legal to sell again. I missed them.
@vinuash where they really illegal? i thought fade just waned
@vinuash Zen magnets fought against the ban and won, which is why I’m passing on this sale, if I buy any, I’ll buy from Zen.
@username @vinuash As I recall, the CPSC issued a ban specifically against the Bucky Ball brand, but it didn’t include the zillions of knockoffs.
Those are some tiny balls.
@ruouttaurmind TWSS
@mike808 You’re welcome.
I still have a bunch of Buckyballs, so I was curious…
Via the Speks FAQ page. They mention the size difference on the Meh writeup, but not the strength difference.
Also, here’s more info on what ever happened to the original Buckyballs: https://neoballs.com/pages/what-happened-to-buckyballs
@The_Tim wait, so these are not as strong as Buckyballs… Hmmm.
@The_Tim “we’re changing the game in magnetic desk toys.” hmmmm
but yea twice as small and weaker sounds like a rip off
@The_Tim @username So Speks really are meh Buckyballs.
@The_Tim What fun are they if they can not potentially kill you? They are teeny tiny. I have 10 unopened packs of BuckyBall, 125 per pack, and it looks like they take up that same one inch cube per pack.
went down the rabbit hole
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/shihan-qu-zen-magnets-cpsc_us_599216a4e4b08a247276b0ea
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imgur bug
looks like these are from ex CEO of Buckyballz, he just had to make them “safer”
@ponagathos @The_Tim Same here - I have a stash from when Buckyballs were dumping their stock so they could fight the ban.
Sadly, these halfling buckies are too small to use in a BB-gun. Imagine having target practice with a metal backstop/base. Shoot… Collect magnetic BBs from stand… shoot again.
@djslack @The_Tim I would think less strength would be good- how well do you really want them to stick together? Especially since they’re half the size. I bought a set of blue magnetic balls (blue balls-hehe) from some place in China and was disappointed. But it looks like this is a bigger set.
@The_Tim Thanks for that link- here’s one of the videos from the Zen site. It made me laugh.
I enjoyed Buckyballs tremendously before they were the object of mass hysteria. Thinking about splurging and dropping my trivia prize towards a set of these.
@djslack Ditto.
@djslack I enjoyed selling them on ebay during the hysteria.
Thank you for the scale coins.
I love these things.
@kdemo Are you using your coupon too?
@sammydog01 - Nah, I didn’t buy them. I still have Bucky Balls from Woot. I even have some tiny tubes of replacement magnets. Some of them are holding the calendar on my refrigerator.
These do look JOKER! POKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME! though.
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
All negative reviews mention how tiny they are. Might be good for someone with small hands like a child but the label says no child should touch it.
@spiciernoodles
Yup… I saw the same thing… teeny tiny teensy weensy itsy bitsy … infinitesimal…
@spiciernoodles Is this the wrong time to say “TWSS”…? Asking for a friend.
@shahnm @spiciernoodles Yes- definitely wrong.
@mcemanuel @spiciernoodles But it’s a pile of teeny tiny balls that stick together- it’s not like you’re going to be picking them up one at a time.
@shahnm @spiciernoodles
“That’s”
- She
/giphy lax-flustered-word
How much experience handling balls must one have? #askingforafriend
@mehgrl Hmm I’d say depending on
whosethe balls… and then based on the miniature size of these…umm well you draw the conclusions…(snicker)@mehgrl Does your “friend” happen to be Robert Kraft?
The government doesn’t allow me to have any more of these after I used my last set to build a railgun.
@ShotgunX
/youtube ElectroBoom railgun
i bought a dozen sets of these from woot back in teh good ole days. all the different available colors, same as flying monkeys.
meh needs something like a flying monkey as well. maybe octopus??
@username Purple goats, obviously.
/giphy purple goat
@Kawa fucktopus is a start. just needs a meh face
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3026607
/giphy fucktopus
I’m drawn to this.
Just not seeing a deal here.
Put up some Meh Face Popsockets
#Day151
/buy
@rand3y It worked! Your order number is: minuscule-fastidious-hen
/image minuscule fastidious hen
Hmm dangerous to kids, and I’d say off hand cats (and likely dogs). The problem with small children and animals putting the in their mouths is if they swallow them. There can be a lot of intestinal damage done due to the fact that they are magnetic.
At 1/10th of an each each in diameter these are really, really tiny. Maybe too tiny? One of the reviews said they all fit in a 1" by 1" by 1" box.
Might be fun to play with if I didn’t have cats that would micromanage me doing this. And am not sure they aren’t too small to easily mess with.
/giphy cats micromanaging human
@Kidsandliz The whole idea of the reduced size is that the attractive force is also dropped substantially - supposedly to the point that the intestinal threat goes away.
@Kidsandliz So are these less deadly because they will make smaller holes in the intestines?
Not to self, read all comments before replying.
/buy
@jdude727 It worked! Your order number is: cordially-mundane-antelope
/image cordially mundane antelope
I’ve been eyeing these forever but never could justify the price. No kids or pets to worry about here, too.
/buy
@Kawa It worked! Your order number is: moldy-straight-cup
/image moldy straight cup
@Kawa that order number is terrible.
Just what I’ve been looking for -
Magnetic Contraband!
@mehcuda67 these were always going to be legal. The big ones are again too since Zen magnets beat the CPSC.
@mehcuda67 @unksol I checked Zen’s website- they aren’t selling any 5 mm balls. They have 2.5 and 33 mm.
@mehcuda67 @unksol Never mind, Speks is their “compliance” website. I found the real thing. They are selling the Triumph set to celebrate their victory.
@mehcuda67 @sammydog01 @unksol 33mm?
@GAReed @mehcuda67 @sammydog01 @unksol They come two to the set - watch for them on Thursday.
@GAReed @mehcuda67 @rpstrong @unksol Actually it’s 5 per set. I hate to think how adults would abuse them.
@GAReed @mehcuda67 @sammydog01 @unksol I can think of ways involving up to three, but I just couldn’t go on from there.
@GAReed @rpstrong @sammydog01 @unksol I could think of a couple of ways, but then I wouldn’t be able to unthink them.
@GAReed @mehcuda67 @rpstrong @unksol Imagine going to the ER and telling them what you did with your 33 mm magnetic balls. “It’s where???” Nope.
@mehcuda67 @rpstrong @sammydog01 @unksol Being somewhat metrically challenged I went looking for a measuring tool… Golf balls are 42.7mm. Well, that’s a relief.
I have never tried magnetic ammo in my air pump BB gun.
@hchavers you must first print a non-ferrous firing pin for your BB gun or they’ll never leave the chamber… and then there’s the barrel…
@RedOak thanks for the advice, but my air gun does not have firing pin.
Since when is meh about buy one at retail price and get one free? Shouldn’t these be around 2 for $15 or something? After all, most of this crap is crap we don’t need, but we are sometimes convinced because of deep discounts. This isn’t deep.
@goldnectar umm, what did you write?
Um… The Zen magnets guy launched speks. As a workaround and let the buckeyballs guys join. Considering they kept threating to sue him originally. And considering he was the only one to really stand up to the CPSC’s bullshit. And he won so you can buy the real thing again instead of these tiny useless ones. I wouldn’t give buckeyballs credit for crap
Man, the 5mm ones are hard enough to manipulate, I can’t imagine 2.5mm magnets would be fun at all… I would pounce on a deal for larger ones in a heartbeat!
@timothymh I feel ya, but these are a different experience. Like the difference between playing with peas and playing with quinoa.
Put both together, and you’ve got a fancy side dish.
I love magnets! Gotta get these.
/giphy legitimate toasty popcorn
/buy
@Abyssrea The card number is incorrect.
@Abyssrea @mediocrebot
/giphy you’re broke
So… can I combine Buckyballs with these little specks? four specs = 1 bucky? Wow!
They look delicious.
/giphy metal ball
{Mod edit: Original result is probably NSFW.}
Cannot resist shiny little balls!
So we decide to take a vacation to Chicago, taking the train from Michigan. Get there, catch a bus to the Museum of Science and Industry, buy some things at the gift shop, and head back to the hotel. Nice day so far!
My 4 year old son decides to play “crocodile swamp” in the hotel room, which means jumping from sofa to chair without touching the floor, aka the crocodile swamp. Big leap over to the coffee table cube and oh no, a bad miss, gash on the back of his head that is bleeding PROFUSELY. There’s an urgent care nearby and hotel staff helps us get there. A couple of staples later, he’s right as rain and we’re eating deep dish pizza.
The next morning, I’m heading to a conference while my wife is taking son and 6 year old daughter to American Girl. Daughter sheepishly says “you know those magnets we bought at the museum yesterday? I swallowed one.” WHAT? “How many?” “Two?” And now googling the horror stories of magnets detaching in intestine, re-attaching across intestinal walls, and perforating the intestine.
Back to urgent care we go! While the staff debates calling child support services, they try to get her to vomit the magnets. Apparently she swallowed them earlier, and they’re out of her stomach. “To be safe, we should hospitalize her”. HOORAY! Each day – scan, little progress, wait. The hospital, unlike the urgent care, is 10 miles from the hotel. So now we take shifts, one of us sleeping at the hospital while the other tries to show Chicago to our son. Lots of “High School Musical” is watched. Finally, day 4, the magnets still haven’t passed. Surgeon says she’d like to do a laparoscopic procedure (little did I know that, while perhaps medically advised, it also was a way for the hospital to bill for something significant). Magnets ushered out of her digestive tract, and she’s ready to be released. What a lovely time in Chicago!
My kids are now teens, and I thought “Wow, these Speks magnets look cool”. Not to mention my therapist has a set – you know, the therapist I talk to about how awful a parent I am. I am about to hit “Buy” and I think… no, do not tempt fate. So today, Meh, it’s just a meh click.
These magnets look really cool. But they are NOT for children. At least my children.
@lehigh Oh no. I can see why they banned them.
@lehigh I understand exactly what you’re saying: Chicago sucks.
@lehigh Bummer.
Did a couple of you at least get to see Shedd Aquarium? Cool stuff.
@RedOak I remember going to Field museum in a daze… we did get back on our Chicago horse about 8 years later and the trip went much smoother
. And Shedd was great.
@lehigh Deep Dish Pizza is child abuse.
@lehigh I thought it was going to be the magnets stuck to the staples, and causing a problem there.
OH HELL YES. FOUR PACK!
I keep asking for toys. They finally sold toys. I guess I have to buy some. At least that’s my excuse.
/giphy pointless-low-pine
@sammydog01 Ooh, that’s ominous. Should I cancel?
In for one(or is it two)
{*Mod edit: I cannot get giphy to come up with a non NSFW result for rampant-stingy-chive.
(Original was NSFW.)*}
Yes!
/buy
@ManBehindPlan It worked! Your order number is: furry-famous-sidewalk
/image furry famous sidewalk
Finally a use for my metal desk, besides freezing me out on cold days!
What’s with the NSFW giphies today??
@wickhameh Giphy’s always been a pervert.
@wickhameh I don’t need Office-level Giphy filtering but too much twerking not good for viewing meh at work(ing)
@lehigh @wickhameh I bet @Thumperchick would be willing to hide that gif.
@lehigh @sammydog01 @wickhameh Thanks for the tag.
@sammydog01 @Thumperchick @wickhameh My main question – what is it about rampantly stingy chives?
/image rampant-stingy-chive
@sammydog01 @Thumperchick @wickhameh Whoa, just got Godel-Escher-Bached
@lehigh @sammydog01 @wickhameh I’m not sure what it is about that phrase and giphy results. Really, I think it’s the word “rampant” that does it. But I’m not up for testing the theory.
@lehigh @Thumperchick @wickhameh I tested it on giphy.com. Apparently it’s the word chives. Weird.
@lehigh @sammydog01 @Thumperchick @wickhameh it’s because of thechive.com (whose headquarters I have peered through the windows of late at night - it was next door to my hotel)
/giphy big-addicted-quail
Well, this isn’t as randy as some of the ones above…
Broke down and bought some. I’ll keep them at work though, away from the kids. If any of my coworkers eat them, that’s their issue…
/giphy vocal-attractive-leopard
I had a ton of fun playing with a coworkers set before I changed offices. Time to get my own!
/buy
@TurtleTamer It worked! Your order number is: unified-excitedly-beaver
/image unified excitedly beaver
Balls!
Balls?
My daughter ate a BuckyBall once. That was SUPER FUN!
@marcee I’d be freaked out. Only good part was she only ate one?
@marcee Wow! What were the symptoms and what was the outcome?
@marcee That’s scary. Hope she was ok.
@marcee Stupid question, isn’t it only a problem if they eat 2?
@hafner @troy @jsh139 @sammydog01 The pathetic part about it was that she was old enough to understand the dangers. I specified the dangers. I was VERY. M(#*$&#($ING. CLEAR. about the dangers. And when she came to me to tell me that she swallowed it, I thought she was joking since I was SO VERY CLEAR. But apparently, she was trying very hard to get two balls apart and couldn’t, so she bit down in between to separate them and SOMEHOW one ended up down her throat. (The girl who couldn’t swallow an aspirin to save her life.) My co-workers still make fun of me because they literally heard me yell, “Are you retarded?!” Which, granted, wasn’t my finest moment. We rushed to an Urgent Care clinic. They found it and said we just have to keep checking until it comes out. And, yes, it would have required surgery had she swallowed more than one. Apparently the real danger is if two lodge together with a piece of your intestines (or anything else) stuck between. It took nearly a week for her to pass. And a lot of unappealing “digging”. Ugh. Terrible experience. I wouldn’t recommend it.
@hafner @jsh139 @marcee @troy One of the articles linked above mentioned some were swallowed by teenagers using them as fake lip piercings. So you’re not alone.
@hafner @jsh139 @marcee @sammydog01 @troy I do hope you made her do the ‘digging’.
@Chakolate @hafner @jsh139 @marcee @sammydog01 @troy
That, one would think, would be a basic requirement for the “learning experience” to take hold!
@Chakolate @hafner @jsh139 @RedOak @sammydog01 @troy Unfortunately, no. I was still having guilt over the unacceptable way of loudly and brusquely questioning her mental health.
@marcee Seems like it was a fair question at the time.
Has no one mentioned that these are beads (of a sort) offered on Mardi Gras?
I laughed at the ICP mention in the email. Isn’t that song a decade old now or something?
Not for places with kids or any type of pet that might swallow them. Or drunk, or stoned. Or fools that might take a dare to swallow them. So if you are a logical adult with no fool friends or animals or kids…have fun!
If I promise not to swallow them, can I have the bigger magnets?
Jeez. I thought they had been outlawed.
Not-legal-to-manufacture toys that hurt children?
In for two!
Now, someone find a warehouse full of Jarts!
/giphy toothsome-unknown-jackrabbit
@JaBbA64 request unclear. you know have a lifetime supply of sharts.
@hisgrossness
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31176/how-one-dad-got-lawn-darts-banned
/giphy lifetime supply of sharts
I teach high school physics. This is an obvious purchase.
/giphy budding-unbecoming-sock
@ddbelyea Most appropriate Giphy
I really want these… but i have a 2 year old. Is it child abuse if i get these knowing the probable outcome? Or is it actually masochism since i’ll be the one dealing and paying for it…?
@hisgrossness just don’t give them to your child?
@RiotDemon unfortunately just not being given something is not a significant barrier to tiny growing self destructive maniacs… neither are doors, cabinets, tables, or drawers. and while one may be plenty disciplined, no one can make insaneomatic tinyboys make good decisions all the time or 100% always keep them from pulling a fast one. So I have to plan for a certain amount of failure and minimize risk by making some things safer and avoiding other things, like these.
@hisgrossness Too bad DHS would take a dim view of putting those creatures in a cage while you played with your toys, liberating them only after you put said toy in a safe.
@hisgrossness @RiotDemon That is an appropriate plan. You can buy all the magnets you want in about 20 years. Unless grandkids come to visit.
@Kidsandliz truly a sad day for freedom. lol really the only difference between these and my projectile propulsion collection which operates essentially how you described… ish… is the size, swallowability, and shininess but those factors combine to make these a far larger threat than even the same number of fully automatic pews equipped with the shoulder thing that goes up.
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 alas in order to shorten the wait period I guess i’ll just have to hope for sterile children… though my current track record of good decisions with magnets is not boding well for my hopes for my childrens unfit reproductive future…
@hisgrossness @RiotDemon Can confirm. A three legged table is apparently just beckoning to the aforementioned maniacs to be stood on…A frantic call from the wife to me while at work, and an ER visit later got our daughter her first cast…(and hopefully last).
@hisgrossness @RiotDemon
@blaineg @hisgrossness @RiotDemon So true.
@blaineg @RiotDemon Ahhahaha that is good.
Since they’re the 2.5mm version, they are actually Mostly Harmless
@JaBbA64 Don’t eat them.
/giphy cagey-chapped-prose
@Bumplepimp That… is literally the Cards Against Humanity card, “Pooping back and forth. Forever.”
@Bumplepimp ))<>((
ARG!!! The math doesn’t add up! The maker claims these are as exact as technology will allow, and each sphere in the set is said to be 2.5mm in diameter. This means that there should be 10 spheres per inch (an inch being 25.4mm). Selling these in a 1" cube should be at least 10x10x10 spheres = 1000 spheres per cubic inch.
AND YET - The “one inch cube” that these are sold in only holds 8 spheres per inch, where 8x8x8 = 512 spheres per cubic inch.
WE ARE BEING ROBBED!!! Each set is missing 488 spheres in their one inch cube. Hey, math doesn’t lie - or does it???
@Jon651 I think they come in a 1" cube box. The cube of spheres has to be smaller than the box to fit in there.
@sammydog01 So I guess it’s “Measure with a micrometer, mark with a chalk, cut with an axe” time…
Almost bought these to give one to my 6 year old little sister before I realized what a stupid, stupid idea that is
Since this is a toy, do I get to claim that I was influence on today’s item?
More fun with magnets:
Some dude got his finger crushed.
/giphy amicable-very-salamander
Swallow these!
Late, but relevant.
@blaineg I don’t know…typical fridge magnets ain’t very powerful… find it hard to believe that it would have enough force to stick the rodent to the cage through the cheek tissues and all…
@blaineg @medz Yeah… Maybe it was an OG Buckyball or something, and they were abusing the term “fridge magnet.”
But yeah, I don’t find this story particularly believable, but I try not to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
@blaineg @Limewater
Maybe a Neodymium Rare Earth magnets and a small breed of hamster…
I got a weird message they are all stuck to the meh towmotor.
Ship it already. It’s been 6 days
@heclem
@heclem Mine has not shipped yet. But the e-mail says that they may arrive sometime between yesterday and three days from now.
/giphy fingers crossed
Mine just got shipped. Meh service.
@Bandrik I won’t woot about it, but mine are still processing.
I shall place these upon my desk and when people come to experience them, I shall loudly ask them to stop playing with my balls.
@PocketBrain Seriously… order still “processing.”
Why The Face?
Got mine today in Phoenix, AZ. Much smaller than expected. Still fun.
@whistlingwilly TWSS
got em ballz.
small and weak as described
@username they are so tiny!
If I hadn’t had original Buckyballs these would be amazing, but having had the original these are just pretty neat. Don’t get me wrong, they are going to be a great desk gadget.
When I got them I broke out a set and played with them. Trying to get them back into the original cube was pretty frustrating. Once I got good enough to not completely screw it up by like the third or fourth layer I always wound up with one layer that wanted to sightly offset in the middle. They still have a little shift in the middle on one side I couldn’t work out, but I had to settle for good enough and go to bed that night.
What is the shipping time on these varmint management systems? I placed the order on March 5th and they have not arrived. I got me a passel o’ rodents what needs stickin on the side of the shed.
Maybe there is a mailman somewhere? Maybe he is tugging against the unyielding force of a package that inexplicably pinned his hand to the van? Are any of these items actually getting to customers? How many mail carriers need to suffer before something is done about this?
@ButIfNot this is always at the top in the specs:
Stuff I order from China gets here faster than this.
@heclem