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the biggest pain in the ass

…that’s because they’re not meant for that, despite looking… uh …similar.

Joke aside, that mess sure does look annoying, and it is probably also not easy to replace parts if one of those lines snap or get twisted too much.

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Fishing line… It’s just fishing line…

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Yeah, but getting it balanced right would be a challenge.

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there’s nothing to balance you just need the right length of line, the balls are free to move along the lines

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But why are they getting tangled often enough for people to form opinions on how hard they are to untangle?

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Because they hang on strings and strings tend to get tangled.

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Are you putting it in a closed space? Strings only tangle themselves when they are not being observed.

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I guess some people put their Newton’s cradle in their pockets

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God damn. How hard are you swinging the Newton’s cradle for this to happen?

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Seriously what are people doing with these things that this entire thread seems to think this is typical? It never even occured to me that these could get tangled and I loved playing with them as a child.

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Only way I can think of is transportation, falling off a table or just not knowing it’s purpose.

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because kids are dumb af

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How’d you get your balls in a twist?

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Oh fuck that’s cruel.

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Yeah.

Use a toothpick to open up the loops in the knots. Focus on one of the outermost strings and move the ball through the loops until it’s clear. Then you only have four tangled strings and so on.

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9 points

Wait, is this a well known thing? How da fuk are people getting these tangled consistently

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9 points

Cats, kids or when moving it for cleaning. It only takes a mild swing for it to get tangled.

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