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  • chukkaphob-6

    who's got one of these?

    • my 10 yr old, it's the new pogo ballprophetone
    • not yet, popped up on wish few weeks ago around $3-4, now it's for free...
      guess what kind of production process has this by-product?
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    • my 7 year old niece and all of her friends.utopian
    • what does this do?pango
    • ^ To keep nervous kids busyMaaku
    • My nephews love this. i don't get it.bezoar
    • My kids do, I figured its the coke/sprinte/fanta yoyo of their generation.slappy
    • What is it? some sort of mini drone? Never seen them before?sab
    • It's a "fidget spinner".ETM
    • Talking to a guy at work about these, its all the rage with kids. Wish i'd known about this trend and could have bought bulk from china and made a fortune!microkorg
    • My daughter has one but they've since banned them from school.fyoucher1
    • Banned at my kids school too, apparently the teachers have boxes full of the confiscated ones!dee-dubs
    • I don't get these things — unlike Coke Spinners or Rubiks Magic or Cubes, etc, they don't DO anything? They just ...spindetritus
    • Every wee kid in LDN here has one - I walked past a Mum and two kids last night, one of whom was spinning an LED version, the other was pointing at a shop ...detritus
    • ..window, shouting 'FIDGET SPINNER! FIDGET SPINNER! MUMMMM, FIDGET SPINNER!"detritus
    • - surprisingly, the mother didn't then take her by the hair and throw her under a bus. Parents these days!detritus
    • hahaha annoying to adults, amazing to kids... a fad, they are EVERYWHERE!!cruddlebub
    • the woman who invented these and had original patent years ago eventually could not afford to renew the patent a few years later...prophetone
    • I didn't understand these until i tried one. They are strangely calming.desmo

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