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[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

They must love this guy then.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago

Don't these fools know that with each flip they are creating new alternate timelines? This is extremely reckless...

When I was a kid all we did was wear nWo t shirts and play Pogs

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 22 points 1 day ago

What is this, 1928 Boston?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Of all the silly trends this one sounds very benign. They aren't hurting anyone. No one is bullied. They don't sound particularly loud or distracting to others not interested.

Coin boys, keep doing your thing. Even if I'm not into it, be the most awesome Coin boy you can today.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm going to bully them so this statement isn't true

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Good luck. Coin boys live by the coin and die by the coin, or so I'm told.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

That means that we should be able to get about 50% of them.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Their terms are acceptable

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 4 points 1 day ago

I’ll need to flip on this.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

There's only a 50% chance of them getting affected

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Kids have always had a thing. This is not new. When I was in school 40 fucking years ago, Christ I’m old, there was a yo yo phase, a rubber band / paperclip phase, a bloody knuckles phase. I’m sure more that I’ve forgotten.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Pencil Break" was the hot shit for about a year in middle school. This was right on the edge of when mechanical pencils started to replace wooden ones in school (not completely, I'm sure kids still use wooden #2s.)

It was stupid, but so many people would take turns slapping pencils together to see which ones would break. Obviously brand new pencils out of the box snap the easiest, while worn down nubs are impossible to break. The school eventually banned it and briefly flirted with banning wooden pencils after parents and teachers complained that all the really dedicated students had no writing instruments left.

Nation of geniuses over here.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

At my school there was a group of students who would steal unattended pencils and hoard them in a huge pile in a hole in the woods behind the school. Eventually they got caught but for a while it was easy to make the excuse that you couldn't do schoolwork because the pencils were gone.

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[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Those little rubber domes that you can flip inside out and they pop up into the air

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 day ago

I miss those

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah yes. The horrible bruise generators

[–] knightly@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago

Yoyos got supplanted by hacky sacks during my school days.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Koosh balls

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I forgot about the bloody knuckles. You either got good at spinning a quarter, or you got good at taking pain.

There's a YT channel MrRebootFTW that Google fed to me where a guy goes through all of the old school tricks and how to do them. It's silly. Things like spitball guns, shooting paperclips or folded paper with rubber bands, rubber band guns with old mechanical pencils, and a bunch of other things. It's a fun nostalgia watch if you're into it.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Bloody knuckles was the shit. I was the asshole that brought a huge Eisenhower Dollar to the game.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Grade 1 in 2001 was Pokémon cards, next was Beyblades, then Yu Gi Oh. Grade four was Tamogachi, and I forget if grade 5 had anything.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck Reddit and fuck Spez.

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Hold on, let me flip the coin.

Okay, you're right. Fuck Spez.

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (10 children)

At least it’s better than stealing cars or ripping sinks off the wall.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

Just wait until the coin tells them to do both.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Ah, they're adorable at that age.

[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

power move would be to get one of those kennedy 50 cent pieces or a silver dollar and learn to do that knuckle thing

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I used to do this with a french 5-franc coin back in the 80s. inspired of course by Real Genius.

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[–] AlexLost@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How unoriginal and droll. Let us know when they can confidently predict 95% of their coin flips and then I might be interested.

[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago

If they can statistically predict 67% or above, I'm interested.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

But then that's just regular decision making

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're telling me that someone who has been teaching for 10 years uses the abbreviation "s2g"?

Fuck am I that old?

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Millennials are ~30-45 now, and we pretty much invented text abbreviations like that 🤷‍♂️

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

GenX’er laughing at the cute millennials that think we weren’t abbreviating shit on BBS forums and usenet.

[–] anomoly_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And that radio telegraph operators weren't using three letter Q-code shortcuts since the early 1900s.

Right? People have been lazy forever.

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[–] expr@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm millennial and have never heard of that one.

[–] 0x01@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

Swear to god

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[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

As someone who loves random chance, I would gladly take that over them filming themselves on social media committing crimes like the average teenage t|kt0k user loves to do from what I hear, I swear.

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

I have to say, I kind of dig this.

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