The Joy of Vibrating
January 4, 2017 1:55 PM Subscribe
Ever since we got electrical power, there have been weight-loss gadgets that depend on vibration. They don't work; you can't vibrate fat away. That doesn't mean these gadgets can't be fun. Two little boys found one out for demonstration in a store and decided to try it out.
More of twins Kenneth and Kenzo: Instagram, Facebook.
More of twins Kenneth and Kenzo: Instagram, Facebook.
Dad: "WHAT IS THIS GARBAGE YOU'RE WATCHING? I WANT TO WATCH THE NEWS!"
*switches channel*
Teen: "THIS IS THE NEWS!"
*switches channel back to jigglin' twins*
posted by Atom Eyes at 2:14 PM on January 4, 2017 [3 favorites]
*switches channel*
Teen: "THIS IS THE NEWS!"
*switches channel back to jigglin' twins*
posted by Atom Eyes at 2:14 PM on January 4, 2017 [3 favorites]
These twins, they vibrate?
posted by Kabanos at 2:18 PM on January 4, 2017 [11 favorites]
posted by Kabanos at 2:18 PM on January 4, 2017 [11 favorites]
Pure joy throughout, but be sure to stick around for the last half-second.
posted by gurple at 3:12 PM on January 4, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by gurple at 3:12 PM on January 4, 2017 [1 favorite]
The one is white is having the BEST laugh! I love it.
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 4:41 PM on January 4, 2017
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 4:41 PM on January 4, 2017
OMG, the matching Spider-Man shoes! I did not think human beings could be so cute.
BRB, watching it 19 more times.
posted by palmcorder_yajna at 4:42 PM on January 4, 2017
BRB, watching it 19 more times.
posted by palmcorder_yajna at 4:42 PM on January 4, 2017
Are these the two remaining members of the Shakers?
posted by adept256 at 4:44 PM on January 4, 2017 [9 favorites]
posted by adept256 at 4:44 PM on January 4, 2017 [9 favorites]
Via the same site: This kitty, it vibrates?
posted by sebastienbailard at 5:12 PM on January 4, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by sebastienbailard at 5:12 PM on January 4, 2017 [2 favorites]
I guess my dad stayed in some sketch places when he worked for the government. Mom would bring us deep South and we'd always wind up in these motels with a placard between the beds promising "Magic Fingers."
I had dimes and this thing took quarters. Dad's telling my mom about getting run off the road and shot at and I'm stealing a quarter while he shows mom bullet holes in the Ambassador.
My sister immediately saw what I was up to and suggested we be ill so they'd leave us alone and go eat. Lunch was awful. This was a huge sacrifice.
What I think I know now is that they really jumped at the opportunity to eat without us. Different era, the only helicopters were the ones with my dad's friends in them being shot down on the news. People left their kids.
So they went and I dropped the quarter somewhere behind the bed. No problem. Sister is small. She starts throwing things out from under there. I didn't know what a condom was but I did know that the bunny was really weird.
It was a perfectly molded foam bunny covered in tan felt. The felt was coming off its scalp and you could see this was no stuffed animal. This would have been a horrific below the bed find at any age but at 6 and 3 it was more than we could deal with. We'd stuck long pins through beads into that kind of foam to make ornaments for the tree. This was not right.
"I don't think it's a toy." No, I don't think so. You're dirty. You need to go fix that before they get back. "But the fingers?!" I'll find the quarter.
I did not want to go under that bed. This was one of the things I had a younger sibling for. An 11 lbs dog had demonstrated that a bookcase full could be wedged out of a doorway so I got between the wall and the headboard and expanded and I found the quarter.
Sis could set up a shower and just stand there. I'd asked for a brother but she was bright and I dealt and it it was normal but not quite for our parents to open the door and find that we were having the "Magic Fingers" experience and she was wet and in her pajamas and the bed was off the wall.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 5:34 PM on January 4, 2017 [15 favorites]
I had dimes and this thing took quarters. Dad's telling my mom about getting run off the road and shot at and I'm stealing a quarter while he shows mom bullet holes in the Ambassador.
My sister immediately saw what I was up to and suggested we be ill so they'd leave us alone and go eat. Lunch was awful. This was a huge sacrifice.
What I think I know now is that they really jumped at the opportunity to eat without us. Different era, the only helicopters were the ones with my dad's friends in them being shot down on the news. People left their kids.
So they went and I dropped the quarter somewhere behind the bed. No problem. Sister is small. She starts throwing things out from under there. I didn't know what a condom was but I did know that the bunny was really weird.
It was a perfectly molded foam bunny covered in tan felt. The felt was coming off its scalp and you could see this was no stuffed animal. This would have been a horrific below the bed find at any age but at 6 and 3 it was more than we could deal with. We'd stuck long pins through beads into that kind of foam to make ornaments for the tree. This was not right.
"I don't think it's a toy." No, I don't think so. You're dirty. You need to go fix that before they get back. "But the fingers?!" I'll find the quarter.
I did not want to go under that bed. This was one of the things I had a younger sibling for. An 11 lbs dog had demonstrated that a bookcase full could be wedged out of a doorway so I got between the wall and the headboard and expanded and I found the quarter.
Sis could set up a shower and just stand there. I'd asked for a brother but she was bright and I dealt and it it was normal but not quite for our parents to open the door and find that we were having the "Magic Fingers" experience and she was wet and in her pajamas and the bed was off the wall.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 5:34 PM on January 4, 2017 [15 favorites]
I have seen some vibrating things that look like you could lose a lot of weight using them.
However, I'm on my work computer, so I can't go to those sites to link to them.
posted by MtDewd at 5:48 PM on January 4, 2017 [4 favorites]
However, I'm on my work computer, so I can't go to those sites to link to them.
posted by MtDewd at 5:48 PM on January 4, 2017 [4 favorites]
An 11 lbs dog had demonstrated that a bookcase full could be wedged out of a doorway
This is bending my brain! What?
posted by bonaldi at 4:13 AM on January 5, 2017
This is bending my brain! What?
posted by bonaldi at 4:13 AM on January 5, 2017
That's not a weight loss gadget, it's a machine for improving bone density.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0065867/
posted by surenoproblem at 5:25 AM on January 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0065867/
posted by surenoproblem at 5:25 AM on January 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
We had a puppy and if we left the house we'd leave her in the bathroom with the tile floor. Closing the door just didn't seem right so my dad would push this low bookcase that had the entire 11th Encyclopædia Britannica set across the doorway. The dog could move the bookcase. It made a huge impression on little me about what I might be able to physically do.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 9:44 AM on January 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Mr. Yuck at 9:44 AM on January 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
Mr. Yuck: It was a perfectly molded foam bunny covered in tan felt. The felt was coming off its scalp and you could see this was no stuffed animal.
Am I the only one who doesn't know what it really was?
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 10:06 AM on January 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
Am I the only one who doesn't know what it really was?
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 10:06 AM on January 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
Perfect use of the internet: video of cute kid laughing hysterically at something completely ridiculous, which then makes me laugh hysterically. This is as good as squeaky shoes girl, or Sheltie puppy baby.
posted by chainsofreedom at 10:30 AM on January 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by chainsofreedom at 10:30 AM on January 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
Mr. Yuck: It was a perfectly molded foam bunny covered in tan felt. The felt was coming off its scalp and you could see this was no stuffed animal.
Am I the only one who doesn't know what it really was?
The only conclusion I could come to was that it was real dead bunny rabbit.
posted by e1c at 12:35 PM on January 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
Am I the only one who doesn't know what it really was?
The only conclusion I could come to was that it was real dead bunny rabbit.
posted by e1c at 12:35 PM on January 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
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