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.
I'm going to bully them so this statement isn't true
Good luck. Coin boys live by the coin and die by the coin, or so I'm told.
Their terms are acceptable
I’ll need to flip on this.
There's only a 50% chance of them getting affected
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.
"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.
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.
Those little rubber domes that you can flip inside out and they pop up into the air
Ah yes. The horrible bruise generators
Yoyos got supplanted by hacky sacks during my school days.
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.
Bloody knuckles was the shit. I was the asshole that brought a huge Eisenhower Dollar to the game.
slap bracelets
What is this, 1928 Boston?
Don't these fools know that with each flip they are creating new alternate timelines? This is extremely reckless...
At least it’s better than stealing cars or ripping sinks off the wall.
They must love this guy then.
Fuck Reddit and fuck Spez.
Hold on, let me flip the coin.
Okay, you're right. Fuck Spez.
How unoriginal and droll. Let us know when they can confidently predict 95% of their coin flips and then I might be interested.
If they can statistically predict 67% or above, I'm interested.
But then that's just regular decision making
You don't choose coin life. Coin life chooses you.
Harvey Dent energy.
Ah, they're adorable at that age.
I have to say, I kind of dig this.
When I was a kid all we did was wear nWo t shirts and play Pogs
You're telling me that someone who has been teaching for 10 years uses the abbreviation "s2g"?
Fuck am I that old?
power move would be to get one of those kennedy 50 cent pieces or a silver dollar and learn to do that knuckle thing
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.
Assume you've read The Dice Man? What a book.
I'll have to look into that. Never heard of it. I'm sadly one of the adults who doesn't read as much as I should from books/ebooks. I'm working on changing that, so I'll absolutely look into this.
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