Why did anyone ever like fidget spinners?
7I picked one up from a discount bin at walmart once and tried it. I found it wholly unsatisfying. @Polksaladannie did the same with the same result.
As far as “fidgets” go, I think two metal bottle caps are far superior to a spinner. You can manipulate them in all sorts of ways, there are a variety of textures and edges, and they make a pleasing sound.
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I like the little blocks on strings or stress balls.
My autistic nephew loves the sound, the vibrations and the repetition of motion. If he’s starting to feel a bit unhinged, we can sit and “play spinners” and this will capture his attention away from whatever was starting to creep up in him.
I find one useful for phone conferences, to keep from falling asleep. Keeping one going requires just enough motion and attention to stay awake without really distracting me from listening. When I have real figets, I walk a quarter across my knuckles
@kaighintze Weirdly enough, ever since I read the dark tower series in high school, I’ve always wanted to walk a quarter across my knuckles. Not enough to actually learn how, but enough to think wistfully about the idea from time to time.
Even as a kid (50+ yrs ago), I had a large ball bearing that I played with. I’d oil it & clean it to see how long it would spin & pack it around in my pocket along with my pocket knife. I just loved mechanical things. Even my bicycle was disassembled, greased, oiled and reassembled on a regular basis.
Maybe that’s why some like them?
@daveinwarsh You were just way ahead of your time. But I agree, a finely tuned -anything- is a joy in its own right. And all of my toys were well maintained- bicycles, BB guns, slot cars, pocket knives, model planes, anything with a bushing, bearing or slide. At least until marriage, kids, career, etc distracted me from my mission of mechanical excellence. I’ve been largely mediocre ever since.
The kids at halloween loved them. As did the college students who won them from me. Nieces and nephews mostly wanted them.
/giphy dog spinner
@gregormehndel Wow, you’re awesome at this.
@gregormehndel Thanks.
@gregormehndel Oh well, here’s what I was trying to post: https://imgur.com/xVVPkJN
@gregormehndel
so something changed at imgur and or meh and or the way it works on meh… anyway drop the S from the https and it should work.
here is your gif in a nice compact youtube:
@gregormehndel @thismyusername That was AWESOME!
@gregormehndel ok, that was cool.
@thismyusername Thank you, superhero! Now that you bring it up, I remember the “s” issue being a thing. I guess the coders around here are busy with more important stuff…
@gregormehndel @thismyusername now watching something like this is more satisfying to me than spinning something. I could watch rube Goldberg styled machines all day.
@thismyusername That was great. Now I just need to find a place that sells 30 fidget spinners cheap!
@gregormehndel @ninjaemilee @thismyusername Sunday, I refereed a Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at White Plains High School in NY. Only the third year I’ve done it, but the contest has been running for 30 years. This year’s task is Pour A Bowl of Cereal and the finals are in Chicago this weekend (April 21-22).
See here for more info.
@baqui63 @gregormehndel @ninjaemilee @thismyusername
There was literally a thread dedicated this past March to Rube Goldberg machines.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/march-6th-goat-topic---rube-goldberg-machines
I’m saving my fidget spinners for the apocalypse.
@Barney My 89 year old mother loves the light-up spinner I gave her so I dropped off a box for all her friends at the old people’s home. (I like mine too. So flashy!)
I just click a pen. Or crochet.
@lseeber crocheting is fun, but I can only make scarves and tube-like hats. I guess I could make a tube too. A turtleneck with just the neck?
@Seeds Just make a really wide scarf and call it a throw! lol… or a blanket!
@lseeber lol that could work
@lseeber I drive people insane when I have a clicky pen. I also used to have a slinky that I annoyed people with many, many times.
@mehbee Oh yeah… it’ll drive people nuts. They now make clicky pens that don’t make a noise just for that reason.
/giphy really stressed
This reminds me. Wasn’t @RiotDemon going to build a Plinko board from the spinner surplus which flooded the warehouse back in October? Whatever happened with that??
/giphy plinko
@ruouttaurmind I’ve got supplies sitting in my garage, unfortunately, life got in the way.
@RiotDemon As life is wont to do…
@ruouttaurmind it will happen. I just have stuff happening that is completely out of my control.
I spin them for my cats and they have a fascination for them. Though once they stop spinning they lose interest.
@ninjaemilee I have that same sensation when I’m sitting in my office chair. As soon as it stops spinning I kinda lose interest in work.
@ruouttaurmind
/image a spinning brain is a working brain
@Seeds Notice how when the brain stops spinning it swiftly transforms into a colon? This is my biggest fear. If I stop spinning I get feces for brains.
@ruouttaurmind @Seeds
Don’t we already have these as equivalencies?
/image “what me worry”
