19th May 2017, 5:23 AM
I've seen these things. They're like tops, but they only work in your hand, making them dumber than tops. To me, they seem like a pretty lame toy, but since they market themselves as a "health item", that seems to be why teens are buying them. Whatever...
Until you see news stories claiming they are the worst and most dangerous game, the one that will destroy us all. Come on news, not only do these things not qualify as "dangerous" by any stretch of the imagination, they aren't even the lamest fad to sweep teens. That honor goes to pet rocks. Literally rocks, with an invitation to "decorate them any way you like!", as though I couldn't do that with any rock I found on the ground. Heck, pet rocks are more dangerous than these not-quite-tops.
Until you see news stories claiming they are the worst and most dangerous game, the one that will destroy us all. Come on news, not only do these things not qualify as "dangerous" by any stretch of the imagination, they aren't even the lamest fad to sweep teens. That honor goes to pet rocks. Literally rocks, with an invitation to "decorate them any way you like!", as though I couldn't do that with any rock I found on the ground. Heck, pet rocks are more dangerous than these not-quite-tops.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)