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bearded clamorer [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 10:23:14 PM  
Dr. Zoidberg (Futurama) - my pet Slinky
Youtube U3YKR_5j6-c
 
recondite cetacean
2023-01-28 1:09:14 AM  
Is it the guy that YouTube recommended to everyone this week?

Yes, it is in fact the guy that YouTube recommended to everyone this week.
 
skyotter
2023-01-28 1:10:19 AM  
Slinky Josh can't legally sell Slinkys, but I have one of his Hypersprings.

/that's an ad
 
Capo Del Bandito
2023-01-28 3:19:38 AM  
Oh wow. I need coffee. I misread that as "Stinky Manipulation Community" and was excited for a second. Now I am sad.
 
RoLleRKoaSTeR
2023-01-28 7:59:37 AM  
Plastic "slinky" - meh

Old school metal or gtfo.
 
LesserEvil [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-28 8:44:33 AM  
I see stuff like this and wonder... whatever happened to Farker Augie Fash?
 
Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion
2023-01-28 9:45:04 AM  
That guy is way too into Slinkies.
 
Oakenshield
2023-01-28 10:15:56 AM  

RoLleRKoaSTeR: Plastic "slinky" - meh

Old school metal or gtfo.


Yes, until you do a single trick and it's bent completely out of shape because it's, you know, metal; a feature he highlights in the linked video. It can be hard to accept, but there are a few parts of the human experience that have evolved since the 40s.
 
skyotter
2023-01-28 11:08:16 AM  

skyotter: Slinky Josh can't legally sell Slinkys, but I have one of his Hypersprings.

/that's an ad


Sorry for cellphone footage.
HyperSpring on stairs
Youtube y9ArE8dXq5w
 
austerity101
2023-01-28 3:03:56 PM  

Oakenshield: RoLleRKoaSTeR: Plastic "slinky" - meh

Old school metal or gtfo.

Yes, until you do a single trick and it's bent completely out of shape because it's, you know, metal; a feature he highlights in the linked video. It can be hard to accept, but there are a few parts of the human experience that have evolved since the 40s.


If you can't do it with a metal slinky, nature neve rintended for it to be done!!
 
talkertopc [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 3:55:13 PM  

RoLleRKoaSTeR: Plastic "slinky" - meh

Old school metal or gtfo.


I was ready to make that kind of comment until I watched the video. I grew up with metal slinkies and vaguely remember the new plastic ones my younger cousins got not being that good, i.e. not going down stairs as well. It could be that the stairs were slightly different at my cousin's place (I think the house was build by their granddad) or that the kind of plastic used got better with time.

In any case, I'm a convert to the  "new" plastic slinkys now. It might be something I'd buy for my godson's brand new daughter when she's a little bit older.
 
E.S.Q.
2023-01-28 9:29:32 PM  
'Springtime for Hitler?'

/DNRTFA, obvs
 
Birnone
2023-01-28 10:27:47 PM  
At night you could place the metal slinkies around your home like razor wire and keep burglars at bay. Try that with plastic slinkies and you'll wake up one morning to find all your Christmas presents have been stolen.
 
clkeagle [BareFark]
2023-01-29 10:20:10 AM  

Oakenshield: RoLleRKoaSTeR: Plastic "slinky" - meh

Old school metal or gtfo.

Yes, until you do a single trick and it's bent completely out of shape because it's, you know, metal; a feature he highlights in the linked video. It can be hard to accept, but there are a few parts of the human experience that have evolved since the 40s.


Yep. My 9-year-old had some of the generic plastic gumball machine mini slinkies as fidgets. He saw a metal name brand one at Target and asked for it. I warned him. He didn't believe me. It lasted less than three days before it was bent beyond usability.

I had a full-size plastic one back in the 80s, and it lasted years. It didn't work nearly as well on stairs, but it would occasionally make it down the entire flight.
 
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