• @[email protected]
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    528 months ago

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

    They got some real weird shaped carrots in South Korea.

  • ArugulaZ
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    158 months ago

    I’ll trade our problems for South Korea’s problems.

  • @[email protected]
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    147 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    128 months ago

    What about finger guns? Like using your index finger and thumb as a gun. That’s violent behaviour.

  • @[email protected]
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    117 months ago

    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.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 months 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    97 months ago

    “We should also out law words. Because words can hurt peoples feelings.”

    This is satire

  • Spaghetti_Hitchens
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    68 months ago

    Remember, kids, if someone shows up to school with a paper knife, run, hide, fight in that order.

  • @[email protected]
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    47 months 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.

  • Jeena
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    38 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      148 months 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?

      • Otter
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        38 months 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?

      • Nepenthe
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        38 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      78 months 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.

      • Quokka
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        78 months ago

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