A Conversation for h2g2 Caption Challenge: More Useless Technology
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Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. Started conversation Jan 22, 2018
Molly: I preferred the red one with the blinking LEDs. Much better to pounce on...
On a different note: "To purr" translates into Dutch as "spinnen" (which also means "spiders") So you can have your cat and the fidget thing spinning at the same time. (The cat probably wins)
Anyway, the fidget cat has been in existence for much longer than the spinner....
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jan 22, 2018
I believe it - the fidget 
has been across this desk, and between me and the screen, three times in the last 15 minutes...
Thanks for teaching me a new Dutch word! In German,'spinnen' can also mean 'to have nutty ideas' or 'to be crazy'. So I wonder what they're calling fidget spinners...
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Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. Posted Jan 23, 2018
At amazon.de they sell "SuperGeiler Fidget Spinner mit 9 Zahnrädern" So I suppose they kept the name.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jan 23, 2018
And it's 'supergeil', on top of it...toll...
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jan 27, 2018
"That thing looks more intelligent than most humans. I wonder if it is alien"
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Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. Posted Jan 29, 2018
Shouldn't that be: I wonder if it's alien too?
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jan 29, 2018
Perhaps. It would certainly explain a thing or two 
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- 1: Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. (Jan 22, 2018)
- 2: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Jan 22, 2018)
- 3: Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. (Jan 23, 2018)
- 4: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Jan 23, 2018)
- 5: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Jan 27, 2018)
- 6: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Jan 27, 2018)
- 7: Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. (Jan 29, 2018)
- 8: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Jan 29, 2018)
- 9: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Jan 29, 2018)
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