Same energy
Foreskins and pizza crusts is eternal. A cure for phimosis, and hunger!
I always thought they were tornados
it’s my trapper keeper
Mmm, foreskin… that’s where my tongue goes…
Putting those in doctor’s offices never made sense to me. Yes, let’s have sick kids put their fingers all over something that’s made of porous wood and impossible to fully sanitize.
Both the wood and metal are thoroughly painted and easy to spray/wipe down, with simple shapes you can move to get the crevices. And it’s quiet. Better than 🧸 ⚽🦖 🦄 🚜🚗🧩🪆🚛 🔫 📚
Nobody is cleaning this though
Unless you have an insanely negligent doctor, people are absolutely cleaning this.
Every place I’ve gone that has these, are absolutely filthy.
That can totally happen within an hour at a pediatrician’s office though.
Snot makes it easier to slide the beads
How else would a good doctor get repeat business? 🤷♂️
Wood is naturally antimicrobial. Also, a spray with lysol is more than enough to clean it.
Wood is definitely not antimicrobial. That’s why they use plastic cutting boards in restaurants, especially for meat.
Yes, wood absolutely is. The idea that plastic cutting boards are safer is far outdated science and was marketing pushed by the plastic industry. Wood cutting boards are easier to sanitize because the wood is naturally antimicrobial, while plastic gets deep cuts in it from knives that are harder to clean.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000741
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/public-health/even-treated-wood-prevents-bacterial-transmission-hand
Hell, back in the early 90s, studies were showing plastic holds onto bacteria more than wood, even after sanitization, and that wooden cutting boards were more hygienic than plastic.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31113021/
Plastic cutting boards also introduce a shit ton of microplastics directly into food.
I stand corrected on wood’s antiseptic properties, though I’ve never seen a butcher or fish monger use anything other than HDPE boards.
But I still think having a toy that’s designed for kids to touch in a doctors office is a bad idea. It’s almost as bad as a ball pit.
Consider that, perhaps, restaurant owners are mostly morons.
This means Costco is a bunch of morons because they use plastic cutting boards in their butcher shop.
This means Costco is a bunch of morons
Correct, but also, plastic is cheaper.
Wood absorbs Lysol spray. It’s fine.
The OG: The Anatex Industries Bead Maze:
https://www.86vintage.com/products/vintage-rollercoaster-by-anatex-industries-bead-maze
Still available, but with a less heavy base: https://www.madisonartshop.com/anatex-classic-bead-maze.html
What did they do with all that money after becoming a staple of a generation?
They dreamed bigger.
https://www.madisonartshop.com/anatex-the-ultimate-fleur-rollercoaster.html
Crazy that the second one is much cheaper.
You can still buy the original one relatively inexpensively, but the first link is to a collector’s website that has the older model.
I only know about this stuff because I once wrote a well-reasoned and sincere tiered ranking of each of the bead tracks.
spoiler
Green track: S-tier
Even this day and age, $50 for that seems a little ridiculous
Me: So are you sure you think I might be autistic?
Friend: you sent me a link to the Rollercoaster table asking me if it was normal to want to buy one of these so you can spend a couple of hours unwinding moving the beads around; you’re wanting to spend silly money on a visual and tactile stim to relax, you’re probably autistic, get tested.
no… i just, um, wanted to fundraise one for my wife’s classroom. yeah. that’s it. i can play with it after school and on weekends. totally.
Genuine question - isn’t she a little old for that? I thought it was aimed at toddlers learning how to grasp and move things? Not like 7-8 year olds.
I’m over forty and still like those.
Look at what she’s wearing and consider
They still got Mozart in the 24th century too!
