Fidget Spinners

Kimbot · 03-05-2017 02:30PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

My son demanded a fidget spinner yesterday evening when I got home from work.

"I want a fidget spinner, a gold one, they are about 70 euro I think."

Yeah at christmas my niece who is about 9 told her mam she wanted a mobile phone, that was grand. Then she told her it has to be "Rose Gold" and only 2 phones available at the time in the that colour.

Just buy him a spinner and spray it gold

Irish Guitarist · 03-05-2017 02:54PM

I watched approximately 1.75 seconds of that YouTube video.

From what I can tell from the one on Twitter it looks like a spinning top you put on your finger. You'd get something as interesting in a Kinder egg.

zuutroy · 03-05-2017 04:12PM

Gyroscopic precession for the masses.

Outlaw Pete · 03-05-2017 04:14PM

Last week I was in that CEX place on Liffey St and it was packed, queues for each till to the door and all of a sudden this girl of around 11 ran in, brushed past everyone in the queues and out of breath she says "De yiz have any spinners?!?!". All ov the staff just looked at one another and then one said 'No, sorry we don't sell them'. She looked totally dejected, then glanced around at us all as if she had just realized we were there and said 'Oh, alight then, thanks anyway' and legged it out. There was silence for a few seconds and then everyone broke up laughing. Must tell Roddy Doyle, be perfect for his next book.

Was the first time I ever heard of them tbh. Have since seen a few sellers on Henry St. They're no Lolo Ball.

ScumLord · 03-05-2017 04:16PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

My son demanded a fidget spinner yesterday evening when I got home from work.

"I want a fidget spinner, a gold one, they are about 70 euro I think."

€70!!, that's some mark up. A quick look on alibaba shows they're not worth much more than a fiver. I have a heap of bearings, I'll sell him four of them and a lump of wood for €60.

Boom_Bap · 03-05-2017 04:18PM

Yeah, i'm not sure my son really understands money yet.

Kimbot · 03-05-2017 04:21PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Yeah, i'm not sure my son really understands money yet.

He understands perfectly well

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Gold-Plating-Tri-Spinner-Fidget-Toy-Hand-Spinner-For-Autism-and-ADHD-Rotation-2-Mins-Stress/32801904577.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.30.l1zeK7&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_4_10152_10065_10151_10068_436_10136_10137_10157_10060_10138_10155_10062_10156_10154_10056_10055_10054_10059_10099_10103_10102_10096_10052_10053_10142_10107_10050_10051_10171_10084_10083_10080_10082_10081_10110_10111_10112_10113_10114_10181_10183_10182_10078_10079_10073_10070_10123-10102,searchweb201603_4,ppcSwitch_5&btsid=a06de7e3-d69b-4cbb-81bc-14a9b8acdd8f&algo_expid=f6df9bec-69e1-4cae-be2f-8bb3db4dc191-3&algo_pvid=f6df9bec-69e1-4cae-be2f-8bb3db4dc191

RosieJoe · 03-05-2017 05:41PM

They were selling these on Henry Street today for €7. When asked why they were €5 the other day the seller says "cos I'm the only one that has them in town". Far better than the loom bands fad. I think I am still finding those bands in every nook and cranny in the house.

andekwarhola · 04-05-2017 11:19AM

Had to order a few online there for the kids and print out the order as proof :pac:

These things are fads (a while back it was loom bands and match attax) but I can still remember - even decades later - how excited I was when my ma managed to get me one of those spinner yoyos when I was a kid.

eamonnq · 04-05-2017 11:21AM

andekwarhola wrote: »

Had to order a few online there for the kids and print out the order as proof :pac:

These things are fads (a while back it was loom bands and match attax) but I can still remember - even decades later - how excited I was when my ma managed to get me one of those spinner yoyos when I was a kid.

When do you think you will get them ?

Will the fad be over before they arrive?

andekwarhola · 04-05-2017 11:38AM

eamonnq wrote: »

When do you think you will get them. Will the fad be over before they arrive?

Supposedly 'next week'.

By then the fad will be over and the kids will be seeing a pyschiatrist.

Four Phucs Ache · 04-05-2017 12:42PM

This is the real deal for fidget lovers :

https://www.google.ie/search?q=kickstarter+fidget+cube&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivvZb1k9bTAhVKL1AKHbggAn4Q_AUIPigB&biw=361&bih=561#imgrc=FnQDU4daTPHfjM%3A

bnt · 04-05-2017 01:12PM

I hope no-one in my office gets one of those; the noise would drive me round the bend, up the wall and over the top. At least the spinner is quiet. I still haven't seen one "in the wild", though I'm not exactly scouring Dublin for one.

IvyTheTerrible · 04-05-2017 01:15PM

bnt wrote: »

I hope no-one in my office gets one of those; the noise would drive me round the bend, up the wall and over the top. At least the spinner is quiet. I still haven't seen one "in the wild", though I'm not exactly scouring Dublin for one.

The spinner isn't quiet at all, actually.

jester77 · 04-05-2017 01:18PM

Four Phucs Ache wrote: »

This is the real deal for fidget lovers :

https://www.google.ie/search?q=kickstarter+fidget+cube&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivvZb1k9bTAhVKL1AKHbggAn4Q_AUIPigB&biw=361&bih=561#imgrc=FnQDU4daTPHfjM%3A

This thing is awesome, have one on my desk. The bubble popper is my favourite. Fidget spinners are only good if you get a properly built one, and the really good ones don't come cheap.

bnt · 04-05-2017 06:18PM

Interesting story in The Guardian today: the inventor of the Fidget Spinner is broke and struggling to make ends meet. She no longer has the rights to her invention, since she couldn't afford to renew the patent in 2005. I smell a GoFundMe campaign in the air ...

ablelocks · 04-05-2017 06:55PM

conversation between the kids at the table this evening :

9 yr old son: cormac got a fidget spinner today
friend of 11 yr old son : cormac needs one of those
11 yr old son : his brother got one as well

silence for a moment

11 yr old son : well that's the end of those yokes in our school then

Will I Am Not · 04-05-2017 07:09PM

My current favourite Facebook page.

IvyTheTerrible · 04-05-2017 07:21PM

ablelocks wrote: »

conversation between the kids at the table this evening :

9 yr old son: cormac got a fidget spinner today
friend of 11 yr old son : cormac needs one of those
11 yr old son : his brother got one as well

silence for a moment

11 yr old son : well that's the end of those yokes in our school then

I don't get it?

Scotty # · 04-05-2017 07:23PM

My young lad, 12, got an Amazon voucher last month from his Aunty for his confirmation. Against my advice he spent about £20 of it buying about 10 of these yokes which arrived on Monday. Today he informed us he was sold out after selling them at €10 each to his mates and he wants to order another batch.

At least they've stopped flicking them damn bottles constantly!

andekwarhola · 05-05-2017 12:32AM

eamonnq wrote: »

When do you think you will get them ?

Will the fad be over before they arrive?

Managed to get some today in a brick and mortar shop so will just give the ebay delivery to any of their pals that haven't managed to get any.

I'll give them out free in unfashionable contravention of free market principles, incidentally.

eamonnq · 05-05-2017 09:11AM

andekwarhola wrote: »

Managed to get some today in a brick and mortar shop so will just give the ebay delivery to any of their pals that haven't managed to get any.

I'll give them out free in unfashionable contravention of free market principles, incidentally.

You might want to hold on to them, in case the ones you picked up don't last long!!

Picked up 2 off adverts yesterday evening, young fella opened one in the car and the bearing fell out of one of the sockets and keeps falling out, opened the other one and the little black rings that cover the bearing keeps falling off of that one!!

Ubbquittious · 05-05-2017 10:05AM

The tommagotchi will be coming back into fashion soon as well

Boom_Bap · 05-05-2017 10:11AM

Ubbquittious wrote: »

The tommagotchi will be coming back into fashion soon as well

It did briefly!

I managed to get 3 spinners yesterday....well, when I say I, I really mean that I asked my mother to keep a lookout for some for my kids and she found some.

:D

jester77 · 05-05-2017 11:04AM

Why all of a sudden is there a bit of a craze around these in Ireland? I see there are even articles in the media about them. It's not like they just appeared out of nowhere, they have been around for a long time.

eamonnq · 05-05-2017 11:07AM

jester77 wrote: »

Why all of a sudden is there a bit of a craze around these in Ireland? I see there are even articles in the media about them. It's not like they just appeared out of nowhere, they have been around for a long time.

probably someone on youtube or something..........

bnt · 05-05-2017 11:32AM

jester77 wrote: »

Why all of a sudden is there a bit of a craze around these in Ireland? I see there are even articles in the media about them. It's not like they just appeared out of nowhere, they have been around for a long time.

Ireland's getting this fad from the USA and then the UK, of course. Here's an American perspective, from the New York Daily News. Over there they're available everywhere from Walmarts to gas stations.

Although the world seems to have just recently reached peak fidget, the spinners were actually invented in 1997, and their purpose was not to annoy, but to assuage. Marketed as a stress-relief device for people suffering from anxiety, ADHD or autism spectrum disorder, they supposedly help people deal with sensory sensitivities — like the need to touch something.

LynnGrace · 05-05-2017 11:36AM

Scotty # wrote: »

My young lad, 12, got an Amazon voucher last month from his Aunty for his confirmation. Against my advice he spent about £20 of it buying about 10 of these yokes which arrived on Monday. Today he informed us he was sold out after selling them at €10 each to his mates and he wants to order another batch.

At least they've stopped flicking them damn bottles constantly!

That young fellow will go far, well done to him!

I was in a local shopping centre last week, and kids were swarming into every shop in pursuit of fidget spinners. One little fella was saying earnestly to his mother outside one shop, 'I'm told they have them here' ...

I was picturing the rumour flying around the classroom!

One shop did have them, but was sold out in minutes!

Kimbot · 05-05-2017 11:44AM

jester77 wrote: »

Why all of a sudden is there a bit of a craze around these in Ireland? I see there are even articles in the media about them. It's not like they just appeared out of nowhere, they have been around for a long time.

iRadio ran a piece yesterday afternoon speaking to a lad from Limerick that supposedly invented these, he was saying in the last 3 weeks things just grew out of control with them.

bnt · 05-05-2017 06:49PM

Actually saw some Fidget Spinners in the shops on Parnell St. (Dublin) today, and the phone repair kiosk in the Ilac Centre had them for €8 apiece. That's some inflation they got going there ... :P

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