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[–] xmunk 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Parents everywhere love freaking out over the most mundane shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Tbf my yak bak was probably pretty annoying to my parents

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"The plastic knife toy, which is shaped like a carrot"

They got some real weird shaped carrots in South Korea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Watch the video, its a playskool orange butterfly knife

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a ... plastic fidget toy shaped like a cartoon switchblade?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mindbleach 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why not Zoidberg?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Until it is done

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Somebody call Tipper Gore!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know what type of carrots they have, but those do not look like carrots that I have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hah. I was going to say the same thing.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Upvoting is better than commenting "I agree!"

[–] mindbleach 1 points 1 year ago

Bugs Bunny grew these in a Little Golden Book.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'll trade our problems for South Korea's problems.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like an unhinged, impoverished dictatorship with nukes within artillery range of your capital?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will at least their unhinged dictator isn't running the capital like we've experienced recently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I must have misunderstood you - you can't mean you'd rather have Kim Jong Un running the country than Biden?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was poorly worded, but I was referring to Trump.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean Trump is almost certainly the worst president in history, but I'd still prefer him to the Kims any day.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

What about finger guns? Like using your index finger and thumb as a gun. That's violent behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If this plastic fiddle-toy dingus is a "concern," these people are going to shit absolute brick if they see what I've got in my desk drawer.

Seriously, the hand-wringing over something like this is just sheer whacking off by people whose lives are so cushy they don't actually have anything legitimate to complain about.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

anyone got a link to the file to print out? looks neat

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6165555

There are other versions with no pins required. But I found the pin ones hold up better in pla.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

thats no paper though

[–] Steamymoomilk 9 points 1 year ago

"We should also out law words. Because words can hurt peoples feelings."

This is satire

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember, kids, if someone shows up to school with a paper knife, run, hide, fight in that order.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear. Who am I supposed to fight while I'm hiding?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The thoughts in your head.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You just need to find a good guy with scissors.

[–] sleisl 5 points 1 year ago

Lmao I’ve only seen this toy in Korean memes where people print them super sized and instead of the blade it has a phone holder. I had no idea it was supposed to be a knife blade.

That is to say, the Korean youth already has the ridicule of this story covered.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For the uninitiated it's literally made of paper.

[–] sbv 16 points 1 year ago

The article says

The plastic knife toy, which is shaped like a carrot, is made of fluorescent materials and available in different colours.

Is there more to it than that?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Enough paper cuts and a human can bleed out. They have a right to be concerned. Should go back to hitting each other with sticks and rocks they find outside like I used to do as a kid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I fondly remember chanting “Sticks and stones may break my bones but paper will slit your fucking jugular.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Our daughter has two of them, but one of them has a blinking led which is so annoying in the car OMG I hate it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Like in Shoot 'em Up?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

When I was kid clackers were a fad with kids. The fad faded, which was good because clackers were annoying. I predict this fad will fade too. https://missoulian.com/clackers-original-1970s-ball-toy/youtube_6caea5e8-96bf-11e5-adaa-7b74afdb8914.html