• MIDItheKID
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    2 years ago

    “The plastic knife toy, which is shaped like a carrot”

    They got some real weird shaped carrots in South Korea.

    • Son_of_dad
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      2 years ago

      Tbf my yak bak was probably pretty annoying to my parents

  • fubo
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    2 years ago

    It’s a … plastic fidget toy shaped like a cartoon switchblade?

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      2 years ago

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

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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        Will at least their unhinged dictator isn’t running the capital like we’ve experienced recently.

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          2 years ago

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

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              2 years ago

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

  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

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

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    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.

      • CaptFeather@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        Yeah at first I thought about how I had a toy army knife growing up, then realized that’s a very American toy to have lmao. I do think though that making this a big deal is just adding to its popularity. Kids only think it’s cooler since their parents are freaking out.

  • sleisl@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years 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.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years 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?

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        2 years ago

        Well, that makes them like the edge of a freezie pop. Those are dangerous.

        I don’t think plastic would cut so well as it does in the article’s video, but maybe it’s not the only schematic.

      • Otter@lemmy.ca
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        2 years ago

        Looks like the toy is plastic, but you can print and make ones out of paper (or cardstock?)

        Seems about as violent as foam noodle swords?

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        Ah your right I didn’t have audio at the time I first watched the video.

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      2 years ago

      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.

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

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    2 years 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.