Bottle-Flip for the Aged

January 31, 2017 5:07 AM

Portuguese senior citizens in their day center accept the bottle-flip challenge. [Previously]
posted by chavenet (32 comments total)

I am oheso, and I endorse this message.
posted by oheso at 5:36 AM on January 31, 2017

I get that I'm old now and I don't really understand things anymore, but I REALLY don't understand the Bottle Flip Challenge. I will grant you that bottles are being flipped, but it seems not-actually-challenging. I look forward to the day the Internet moves on to something that will really show everyone's ability, like the Tie Your Own Shoes Challenge or the Touch Your Nose With Your Eyes Closed Challenge.

Now, if you were gonna flip a bottle while expelling a tablespoon of cinnamon through your sinuses, THAT would be something.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 5:50 AM on January 31, 2017 [4 favorites]

I hope "dab - old person style" catches on.
posted by jazon at 6:07 AM on January 31, 2017 [6 favorites]

I look forward to the day the Internet moves on to something that will really show everyone's ability, like the Tie Your Own Shoes Challenge

There's a Tie Your Own Shoes Challenge?! I've been doing that with relative success for years!
posted by barkingpumpkin at 6:16 AM on January 31, 2017

Pics or it didn't happen.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 6:20 AM on January 31, 2017 [3 favorites]

I look forward to the day the Internet moves on to something that will really show everyone's ability, like the Tie Your Own Shoes Challenge

Ian Knot or gtfo.

It's like magic!
posted by leotrotsky at 6:25 AM on January 31, 2017 [2 favorites]

I did not expect to enjoy watching elderly people dab this much. It is puppy-grade adorable.
posted by middleclasstool at 6:25 AM on January 31, 2017 [2 favorites]

>Ian Knot or gtfo.

....what is this sorcery.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 6:28 AM on January 31, 2017 [5 favorites]

Definitely come for the bottle flipping, stay for the dabbing.
posted by He Is Only The Imposter at 6:28 AM on January 31, 2017 [4 favorites]

Ian Knot or gtfo.

I'm a bit more of a fan of the Two Loop Shoelace Knot myself.
posted by barkingpumpkin at 6:49 AM on January 31, 2017 [1 favorite]

For lots of reasons, I've always just assumed I'll be dead sometime in my mid-50s. I've never so successfully been able to imagine myself as "elderly" but this has changed my viewpoint. I now hope I live long enough that I can do whatever thing the kids are doing in 2057 that I don't really understand.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 7:02 AM on January 31, 2017 [3 favorites]

There's a Tie Your Own Shoes Challenge?! I've been doing that with relative success for years!

Really? I suspect you are not eighty years old with arthritis in your back and both hands. The reason many elderly have difficulty tying their shoe laces.
posted by notreally at 7:05 AM on January 31, 2017

Who taught these poor seniors to dab? That's not cool. No one should be dabbing.
posted by GuyZero at 7:43 AM on January 31, 2017 [3 favorites]

Probably grandkids. The 9 year olds in my life are enthusiastic evangelists of dabbing right now.
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:02 AM on January 31, 2017 [5 favorites]

I say unto you, let anyone who has dabbing in their heart be allowed to dab. An enemy of that dabbing is an enemy of freedom.
posted by middleclasstool at 8:08 AM on January 31, 2017 [3 favorites]

I say unto you, let anyone who has dabbing in their heart be allowed to dab.

The 9 year olds in my life are enthusiastic evangelists of dabbing right now

I think explains why the 16 year-old in my life nearly dislocates her eyes at the mention of dabbing.
posted by GuyZero at 8:09 AM on January 31, 2017 [4 favorites]

Headband granddad at :30 ftw

My 9-year-old started doing this again last week, and it still drives me nuts. Bottle-flipping, not dabbing, I mean. Noises that repeat intermittently shatter my ability to focus on anything, even routine stuff like washing dishes.

I sent him outside, where it was well below freezing, and he lasted about a half-hour. Landed one on the flat part of a sawn-off tree limb where squirrels sun themselves and harass my dog, so that was good.
posted by Caxton1476 at 8:30 AM on January 31, 2017 [1 favorite]

Seniors have been dabbing at the Bingo hall before you were born.
posted by Kabanos at 8:33 AM on January 31, 2017 [6 favorites]

a few of those dabs looks a little heil-y
posted by chococat at 8:53 AM on January 31, 2017 [1 favorite]

I thought dabbing had something to do with weed. I guess I just can't keep up with the kids these days.
posted by spilon at 9:12 AM on January 31, 2017 [1 favorite]

I knew Portugal had decriminalized drugs, but was unaware that they are dabbing in the old folks' homes now.
posted by thelonius at 9:15 AM on January 31, 2017 [1 favorite]

MetaFilter: had something to do with weed
posted by Fizz at 9:40 AM on January 31, 2017

Kids these days. Hrumph. Back in the good old days we had challenging, healthy activities, like Speed Stacking.
posted by Winnie the Proust at 9:56 AM on January 31, 2017 [3 favorites]

I hope "dab - old person style" catches on.

c.f. "chronic cold with much sneezing"
posted by hippybear at 10:19 AM on January 31, 2017

I prefer bouncing wine corks and trying to get them to stand on end. But I also tend to have lots more wine corks lying around than water bottles.
posted by backseatpilot at 10:29 AM on January 31, 2017

Speed stacking? When I was a yoot, all the cool kids were catching stacks of quarters off their elbow.
posted by davelog at 11:35 AM on January 31, 2017 [6 favorites]

My nephews and niece always ask me to dab and I have no idea what they're talking about. I put my hands up like they indicate and they laugh at me. That being said, this video of a kid doing a bottle flip and then dabbing while sliding on his belly is one of the best things I saw in 2016.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 2:05 PM on January 31, 2017

Speed stacking? When I was a yoot, all the cool kids were catching stacks of quarters off their elbow.

Quarters? You're either rich or young or both, there, Mr. Golden Drawers. We used nickels!
posted by middleclasstool at 6:17 PM on January 31, 2017 [1 favorite]

> Ian Knot or gtfo.

Yussss. I, too, am an Ian Knot evangelist. My old method was so slow and left the laces hanging at odd angles. No more!

As for bottle flipping, wouldn't a partially filled bottle be inclined to land correctly?

And as for dabbing, Paul Ryan was its death knell.
posted by cichlid ceilidh at 5:46 AM on February 1, 2017

This vid looks like the best cure for 10-year-olds obsessed with bottle flipping and dabbing, short of having their moms successfully flip and dab.
posted by gregoreo at 5:49 AM on February 1, 2017 [1 favorite]

Wait wait wait! You suggest this will cure the middle schoolers that are driving this substitute teacher to distraction with this Most Annoying Hobby??!!

Well then. I must try showing them this.
posted by RedEmma at 9:11 AM on February 1, 2017 [1 favorite]

> Quarters? You're either rich or young or both, there, Mr. Golden Drawers. We used nickels!

Thank you for assuming I was one of the cool kids. Pity nobody thought the same back then.
posted by davelog at 10:58 AM on February 1, 2017