I'm playing with Zen Magnets at my desk right now so I'm really getting a kick...

/Buckyballs suck
//I wish Zen Magnets made gold/black colors

Why would you swallow magnets? I just don't see what the attraction is.

Sounds like bukkie balls to me

That happened to my cousin when he was three. They took him to the hospital to get x-rays. They determined that the magnets came together without pinching anything, but my aunt had to call the doctor back when the magnets passed.

Don't let your little kids play with magnets small enough to put in their mouths.

So, will they help you find your way?

Magneto calls your bluff. Puny Homosapiens!

baronvonzipper: So, will they help you find your way?

If you lay on an inflatable tube in a pool, your butt will point north.

baronvonzipper: So, will they help you find your way?

I dunno, but things went south pretty quickly.

I wonder what would happen if you got an MRI while you had a couple of ball magnets pinching your intestines. Someone should test this out on one of the kids for the good of science and the gene pool.

Grobbley: I'm playing with Zen Magnets at my desk right now so I'm really getting a kick...

/Buckyballs suck
//I wish Zen Magnets made gold/black colors

Kinda hard to beat the toofers at woot. 432 balls for 30 bucks!
I don't crush my balls for stress relief, so they hard holding up quite nicely, thank you very much!

The problem isn't swallowing more than one. It is swallowing more than one not at the same time. You swallow them at the same time or very close to each other, then they stick together and you fire them out the next day as you ride the porceline bus. You swallow them at two separate times sufficently far enough apart to allow the first one to pass through the pyloric sphyncter into the duodenum before the other one, then it would be possible that one will be on the other side of some tissue as it attracts the other and then it is a show stopper. Having your small intestine magnetically attached to the bottom of your stomach is going to cause a problem especially as the two magnets grind down the tissues between them.

Hell, we shot magnets down the throats of our cows to help grab nails and whatnot and have it fire out the other end.

Feed your kids if they're hungry so they don't eat the toys.

Bucky Lawlz!

So far this year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has received 14 reports of problems with the magnets

Stop the presses.

BurnShrike: Why would you swallow magnets? I just don't see what the attraction is.

I could tell you, but it wouldn't be my domain.

It'd send the thread into a state of flux, and I wouldn't want to gauss where it'd end up.

But I would be a little curie-ous. We could take a straw pole.

These will really stick to your ribs.

Benjimin_Dover: The problem isn't swallowing more than one. It is swallowing more than one not at the same time. You swallow them at the same time or very close to each other, then they stick together and you fire them out the next day as you ride the porceline bus. You swallow them at two separate times sufficently far enough apart to allow the first one to pass through the pyloric sphyncter into the duodenum before the other one, then it would be possible that one will be on the other side of some tissue as it attracts the other and then it is a show stopper. Having your small intestine magnetically attached to the bottom of your stomach is going to cause a problem especially as the two magnets grind down the tissues between them.

Hell, we shot magnets down the throats of our cows to help grab nails and whatnot and have it fire out the other end.

Dude, that had to be the most painful bowel movement that cow ever had

They're good on your wrist. Better around your neck. So best in your stomach?

Grobbley: I wonder what would happen if you got an MRI while you had a couple of ball magnets pinching your intestines. Someone should test this out on one of the kids for the good of science and the gene pool.

they'd probably just rotate to align their magnetic moments (?). Now little pieces of iron or some other ferromagnetic material? ouch.

Pray for Omarion: Grobbley: I'm playing with Zen Magnets at my desk right now so I'm really getting a kick...

/Buckyballs suck
//I wish Zen Magnets made gold/black colors

Kinda hard to beat the toofers at woot. 432 balls for 30 bucks!
I don't crush my balls for stress relief, so they hard holding up quite nicely, thank you very much!

I would probably take that deal if they were for the Black/Gold executive sets, just because some things look really cool when you contrast certain parts with different colors and Zen Magnets don't offer anything but the plain silver. However, for just regular Buckyballs, I would probably pass on such a deal. They are garbage compared to Zen Magnets, and their owner/creator is a douche. Link (new window)

Huck Chaser: Sybarite: The children involved ranged in age from 18 months to 15 years old.

I really want the hear the story on the that latter one.

Fake tongue piercing, swallowed accidentally, per tfa.

This is directly related to christian, puritanical parents and teachers telling kids they can't have a piercing. The church mice strike again.

Pray for Omarion: Grobbley: I'm playing with Zen Magnets at my desk right now so I'm really getting a kick...

/Buckyballs suck
//I wish Zen Magnets made gold/black colors

Kinda hard to beat the toofers at woot. 432 balls for 30 bucks!
I don't crush my balls for stress relief, so they hard holding up quite nicely, thank you very much!

I enjoy my Buckyballs too. I don't crush/mash them either. I pull, push, string, and coerce them into the shapes I want. I've never had the urge to eat them though.

Definitely a fun toy.

That's repelsive!

Pray for Omarion: Kinda hard to beat the toofers at woot. 432 balls for 30 bucks!
I don't crush my balls for stress relief, so they hard holding up quite nicely, thank you very much!

BurnShrike: I enjoy my Buckyballs too. I don't crush/mash them either. I pull, push, string, and coerce them into the shapes I want. I've never had the urge to eat them though.

Definitely a fun toy.

Amateurs. Buckyball tolerances are so shiatty that there are a lot of shapes you cannot even successfully make, especially with larger sets. lrn2magnets

Eat a mouse and sit on a piece of cheese.

solokumba: Eat a mouse and sit on a piece of cheese.



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For some reason I was expecting this to be about refrigerator magnets that look like fruit...

Benjimin_Dover: The problem isn't swallowing more than one. It is swallowing more than one not at the same time. You swallow them at the same time or very close to each other, then they stick together and you fire them out the next day as you ride the porceline bus. You swallow them at two separate times sufficently far enough apart to allow the first one to pass through the pyloric sphyncter into the duodenum before the other one, then it would be possible that one will be on the other side of some tissue as it attracts the other and then it is a show stopper. Having your small intestine magnetically attached to the bottom of your stomach is going to cause a problem especially as the two magnets grind down the tissues between them.

Hell, we shot magnets down the throats of our cows to help grab nails and whatnot and have it fire out the other end.


You nailed your cows?

Darwin at work, yet we stop it. Bad for the human race to let these genes move forward...

internut scholar 2011-11-10 02:22:25 PM
BurnShrike: Why would you swallow magnets?

I developed pharmaceutical tooling for the purpose of compressing a tablet that encapsulates a magnet.

The idea is for a fatty to swallow many of these tablets, the powder dissolves, the magnets clump together, and the stomach feels full. Once they are clumped they are too large to pass. When the person is no longer obese, they run a demagnetizer over their stomachs and they pass the small magnets.


Not sure if it ever got out of testing.

I call shenanigans.

/shenanigans!

Yo dawg, I heard you liked swallowing magnets, so...

internut scholar 2011-11-10 02:58:10 PM
InstoMaticFanatic: internut scholar 2011-11-10 02:22:25 PM
BurnShrike:

I call shenanigans.

/shenanigans!

Really?

I have the prototype magnets and the drawings I made sitting right in front of me.

No, not really, just felt like being difficult and snobbish. =)

Benjimin_Dover: The problem isn't swallowing more than one. It is swallowing more than one not at the same time. You swallow them at the same time or very close to each other, then they stick together and you fire them out the next day as you ride the porceline bus. You swallow them at two separate times sufficently far enough apart to allow the first one to pass through the pyloric sphyncter into the duodenum before the other one, then it would be possible that one will be on the other side of some tissue as it attracts the other and then it is a show stopper. Having your small intestine magnetically attached to the bottom of your stomach is going to cause a problem especially as the two magnets grind down the tissues between them.

Hell, we shot magnets down the throats of our cows to help grab nails and whatnot and have it fire out the other end.

I think I read about cow magnets in an issue of 3 2 1 Contact when I was little.

It gives you super powers or something if you swallow more than one.

Whiskey Dickens: MAGNETS

NOT EVEN TWICE

Knives randomly flying off the counter and into your gut isn't normal, but on magnets it is.

Your hard drive being erased every time your laptop gets too close to your waist isn't normal, but on magnets it is.

Sixth Sense (new window) you're doing it wrong.

Seriously though. I want to have a magnet in each hand..... Not in my stomach.

Pi-Ca-Chu!

Pica!

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One website I visited even compared the noise they make to "singing."