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I have this small metal slinky like the pic and it is the best fidgit toy probably every. I be spinnin this shit between my fingers so often. it doesn't have to be used like a slinky at all, you can just sling it around. I genuinely love this slinky so much that I when I was recently away from home I kept reaching across my desk to where my slinky would be without thinking about it and then getting dissapointed when my slinky was not there. get a slinky comrades, they slap.

size is important here though, as is material. There are many plastic slinkies and they suck, get metal. Slinkies also come in a variety of sizes and which one you want depends on your use case. if you want a fidgit toy like I am recommending then you should get something that is abuot an inch in diameter.

Warning: metal slinkies have a smell and if you don't want your hands to smell like metal then get plastic.

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[โ€“] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

keeps pinching my foreskin which might be a skill issue but im done with that slinky life og

[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

its my life and i must deal w it

[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

I'm far drunker at this point

Learn to juggle gang. If no slinky then why not juggle?

[โ€“] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really fuck with slinkies

Don't put your dick in that.

[โ€“] Blakey@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I think the sharkfucker can handle a slinky.

Tankies and slinkies share most of their letters. Coincidence? I don't think so!

[โ€“] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know better than to put my dick in that

[โ€“] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Who said anything about that doggirl-shock

[โ€“] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've never been in ownership of a slinky for more than about 15 minutes without getting it super tangled up, such that it takes another 60 minutes to untangle it

[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There is a method to untangling them

[โ€“] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Dangit. I have now learned of this about twenty years too late

[โ€“] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[โ€“] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bart's dud friend got a dud slinky.

[โ€“] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Holy shit they do have a smell. They smell like the tangy taste of metal but super sharp. How do they do this???

[โ€“] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

instructions unclear, foreskin catastrophically entangled with spring toy

[โ€“] Nopeace@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

you and me both brother. call an ambulance

objectively a very cool invention tbh. a fidget spinner avant la lettre, so to say