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I don’t care about reposts at all, but stolen jokes on Twitter irk me when their main contribution is to add more exclamation points and question marks.
Bonus meme reply thread:
https://imgur.com/gallery/still-upset-about-that-wooden-ball-you-got-avocado-steven-KOu9KeD
Yeah! Stealing jokes sucks!! Why do they have to add so many exclamation and question marks anyway?!?
Good find
Yeah!!! Stealing jokes sucks!!!1!!!1! Why do they have to add so many exclamation and question marks anyway???1?/!/!!/1!?
Back in the 90s when the computer mouse was malfunctioning we would use the avocado’s wooden ball when we were out of hard boiled egg yolks
This is a much more humane option than the standard mouse balls.
Vegan computer mouse balls are better for the environment too
Wow, I didn’t think it was possible for my soul to cringe, but congrats
At least it’s satisfying how perfectly they fit in there. Almost like they were made for each other.
Really makes you wonder how they managed to do that.
Fit in where? Where did you put the ball??
😉
but at least its not forbidden in the USA like the Surprise Egg
At least it’s not forbidden in the USA yet.
I’d honestly be surprised if there were more kinder egg injuries than avocado pit related injuries, given how frequently people stab themselves in the hand trying to remove them. I get that those are mostly adults instead of kids and less likely to be deadly.
AFAIK the number of fatal incidents involving kinder eggs is in the single digits in the last 35 years and they were caused by the toys inside of the egg not the plastic egg itself.
You can just break the chocolate egg with a table or your hand, you do not have to cut the toy out!
Not that I feel a need to defend the USA, but afaik the ban is a general ban on putting non-edible items in food, and not a ban on surprise eggs specifically.
Should avocado’s be banned then?
Only if they put non edible items in them.
I never considered the oversized wooden marbles as edible
I don’t think they are, but also nobody put them in there.
You are not trying hard enough.
Anyone wanna guess number of accidental deaths avoided by that ban?
Or additional deaths if it had unforeseen consequences!
We don’t have to guess! There’s apparently been 10 reported deaths worldwide since they were introduced 51 years ago.
For context, 12 children die each day from gun violence in the US alone.
But you can’t ban guns in US, because “mah freedom!”
Only have to interpolate then!
Thanks for that. Wouldn’t have checked myself this time, so appreciate it.
Out of curiosity…
Would you personally keep the ban? (No one wants dead kids, but we do want kids to e.g. ride bikes even though at scale bicycle fatalities are essentially inevitable, making it an honest question I hope.)
“What did it cost” they say
Well, UK Parliament did discuss the matter and concluded that because the choking was a result of playing with a toy with small parts, not to do with the fact that it was in an egg originally, that a ban would naturally extend to any toy with small parts.
None of the kids accidentally ingested the toys while eating the eggs - if you’ve ever had one you’ll know why that would be impossible.
So I’d get rid of the ban. That law was not put in place to stop Kinder Surprise Eggs - it’s an unforeseen side effect of a law that was genuinely intended to protect people when it was written.
it’s nature’s gobstoppers!
It makes more avocadoes. Just add water!
Reminder: put the avocado half DOWN on the table before whacking the pit with the knife. What’s the matter, no cutting board? Afraid you’ll accidentally whack the knife into the table? Let that sink in…
dont use a sharp knife for it tbh. avocados have no structural integrity.
I use a butter knife just fine to cut and pit an avocado
I’ve heard of this before, and I don’t understand… How far back do people bring their knife to whack the pit?
I bring my knife a couple of centimeters up. I don’t think I bring it down hard enough to do any serious harm to my hand… But the way people talk about this, it seems everyone is doing an anime stance of pulling a sword from their sheath, going as far back as they can, and scream while trying to cut the pit in half with their oversized sword. Obviously missing and cutting off their hand in the process.
The problem as I understand it is that people try to dig/slide the pit out of the avocado with the knife and their hand slips. The safer way is what you described - choose a knife with a bit of weight, draw it back a few cms and give it a nice whack, then with the knife firmly embedded, twist to release the pit.
Sounds like you’re describing surgical failure in Rimworld “alright just removing the infect finger… And…ah shit I accidentally stabbed him in the face 25 times and killed him”
Or just use a spoon
But my hand heals. The table doesn’t.
You can get a new table
My toddler absolutely loves it when the avacado ball pops out.
Avocado is classed as an S tier “peekaboo food” in our household
I wonder if anyone makes sculptures or toys outta them avocado pits
