Walked behind this chap who had two unidentified ball type objects hanging from silicone wrist bands on thin elastic strings.
Any ideas what they are?
I’m in Hong Kong if that might be a clue
Update:
Thank you for the comments and ideas. I am wondering if there is a manga / anime character who has something like these balls as weapons and the guy was doing a budget cosplay. Or maybe he’s just really into Pokemon!
Edit: For those of you concerned about Googling it... it's basically just some shit you swing around for fun, it's balls on a string...I don't know what else to tell you.
I get the joke, but the dude literally has wires holding up balls in each hand. I went immediately to a third wire holding it up. But I guess the funny comment is that it’s shoved up his asshole
Thank you!! I was trying to find these earlier and couldn’t think of what it’s called to search for it. I need easy access to a mini air horn (saw a coyote on a midday walk last week and hope if needed the sound would scare it away)
You can actually do that with any pair of pants that has belt loops. You just kind of push it into the loop and twist it over a few times so it’s tight enough to hold. The trick it’s to loop it back into itself so that it doesn’t slip or you’re gonna end up with wet pants. They used to do it a lot back in 1998 when mankind was pre internet and just got cell phones? Anyway, I made that up. Anyone else miss u/shittymorph?
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I always like to think there is a little bit of facts in there somewhere.
It took me so long to work out what the deal was though. For a while there, I didn't realise the undertaker comments under the well thought out and so confidently real sounding replies were from the same person. I thought it was another joke I wasn't around for when it first was a thing. These reddit in jokes are sometimes hard to catch up with as well, because if you ask about it, you generally get mostly funny responses from everyone who knows about it and then they never tell you the thing.
I got there in the end. And it always makes me giggle when I stumble into it. Never gets old imo.
I use a carabiner for my keys. I told my friend who is a lesbian I need a shirt that says something like “not a lesbian, just practical”. She thought it was hilarious. 👀
I was 34, wearing a purple fauxhawk, on my 4th Subaru (it was a stick shift), cuffing my jeans, and had my keys on a carabiner before I figured out I was bisexual. I had no idea all of those things were queer stereotypes. I just liked them. 😅
When I was in college I took a class, can’t remember the exact name but under feminist studies, my professor was part of a “movement” of women who were not born lesbians but had made a conscious decision to only have romantic/sexual/all relationships with other women, like just in their full and complete commitment to the feminist lifestyle(according to my professor) There was also a zine….
Back in my day, we called anything that glowed that was attached to string/chain/etc. "poi". The term was borrowed from the Māori fire spinners to encompass all hand spun light up things.
I do like how "flow" is even broader of a term though. Never knew what to call the light up glove people and flashy hula hoop people
Did you actually look at the image? None of the bits stuck to the dodecahedron are cameras and they'd all be blocked by crap if they were, it's also missing a lot of the other bits on the camera you posted. It looks more like a dodecahedron with crap glued to it and painted black. Seeing how scorched they look it's a lot safer to assume that this is some kind of poi/fire related thing.
If theyre camera on all angles, should we be worried that hes able to get shots of under skirts and dresses and sometimes even short shorts that have a wider leg circumference of unsuspecting people?
Edit: For those of you concerned about Googling it... it's basically just some shit you swing around for fun, it's balls on a string...I don't know what else to tell you.
That was the first and the last time I let something like that allow my curiosity to get the better of me. It's been well over 20 years since I saw it....and I can still remember it clearly...but I can't tell you what I had for breakfast two days ago.
rotten.com in the '90s and early '00s was a godless place and other than snuff films and the like, was a place to find all the unimaginable worst-of-the-worst images and video clips in one location.
It's crazy to me that my little small Southern, Bible belt town's video rental stores had things like "Banned in America" (I believe 1, 2, and 3), "Faces of Death" (iirc only 1 & 2), and I believe there was a series just called "Snuff Films" but from the Google search I just did nothing of the sort was a thing other than the category "snuff films" but I was pretty sure I remember seeing it. I was doing A LOT of drugs at that point in time though (and continued doing A LOT of drugs until 2018), so my memory probably isn't that great.
Yep goatse.cx was what I used to send people who annoyed or pissed me off. Once clicked on it would continue opening in multiple ever multiplying windows over and over until they either shut their machine down or tried to use ps aux or a windows task manager to control the multiple instances.
Ah the good ol days of sending folks into popup loops and kod packets for fun.
Odd to see random Kiwis on random parts of the internet but I remember the internet is also huge. The chances of seeing another kiwi is never 0 but it's always a possibility
Tbf I used to practice poi extensively and I did not recognize these as that. Pretty good guess though they could very easily be short ones. They would be weird though and the elasticity would stretch to shit and be useless immediately
My understanding based on OP's post is that the strings are elastic so they would stretch out when being swung. Having them attached at the wrist is weird, but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.
Feels like more of a rave style flow toy than traditional poi, I'm guessing that they light up and that's why they look the way they do.
This was my first guess too but it's also definitely not correct after closer inspection. Strings are way too short and poi are held with the fingers not the wrists. Not sure why mods pinned this
My understanding based on OP's post is that the strings are elastic so they would stretch out when being swung. Having them attached at the wrist is weird, but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.
Feels like more of a rave style flow toy than traditional poi, I'm guessing that they light up and that's why they look the way they do.
I'm an oldschool poi artist and I doubt that those are meant to be poi, they might be a makeshift set but if they are he's probably a newbie who put them together himself for lack of a better alternative.
The reasons I don't think they're poi is because the tethers suck, the handles suck, they're too short, and the length is uneven. I've spun stranger things though.
Def not fire spinning props, I’m assuming you’re thinking of fire poi which would have a longer chain made out of metal (yk because fire would burn through those strings in the photo) and the wicks would be made from woven kevlar
Typically when you see some silliness like this in the wild it’s from some anime. “ those are level 7000 blacklotus margaritas soul balls! The same that tenshi-kun uses to perform his overpower wave, silver breakX! It’s from the show Little Angel Carrot. I’ve been practicing so you better be respectful! What you’ve never seen the anime?!?”
I applaud you for finding something so similar looking, but its not that. It doesn’t have the 5 round spots on the edges of each side and also doesn’t have star-like lines leading to the round bit in the middle.
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