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Oidz Magnets
by thehonesttruth
A. I find you very attractive.
My boyfriend is very hard to buy gifts for - he tends to buy movies and games for himself if he wants them, doesn't really wear aftershave much, and has little use for pointless things. However, he is something of a science geek, so generally something that appeals to this side of him is a good ... idea, and bizarrely, it's usually the little 'stocking filler' type of gifts he enjoys the most, such as these Oidz, which he was given at Christmas and which cost £2.
Essentially, Oidz are extremely powerful hematite magnets. As an example of how powerful they are, they will stick together through the palm of my hand. They are gleaming black metallic in colour, about 6cm long, with smooth curves. They're surprisingly weighty, and they feel good just to hold and fiddle with in your hand.
They are however a lot of fun to play with. If you hold one in your hand, and drop the other down towards it, they come together with a strange sort of humming buzzing sound! If you toss them from your palms into the air they make a rattling sound, rather like a rattlesnake. Be sure to catch them though, the packaging warns that they are fragile, although this set has had a few small tumbles with no detrimental effect.
Of course, as with other magnets they'll stick to plenty of things - fridges, radiators, and plenty of metal objects around the home. And of course, they stick to each other very strongly - and can also repel each other. It's a lot of fun putting these inches apart and seeing how far apart they need to be before there is no attraction or repulsion, and you can use one of these to push the other around. You can even put one on a table, and use your hand under the table holding the other magnet to push and pull it about.
These things are addictive though. Once you pick them up, be prepared to be fiddling with them for hours, even as you go about your daily business. One or the other of us is often playing with these on the sofa, fiddling around with them at our desks, and I've even caught Phill playing with them in the bath on one occasion. Being so small, they can easily fit into a pocket, so they are very portable.
As with all magnets you do need to be careful not to have them too near to electrical equipment, or items such as pacemakers, and that is even more the case with these being so strong - in fact, if you look at the product page on amazon, you'll see an unfortunate lady who has lost a laptop to these! And, being fairly small, I'd say these are unsuitable for very young children - the manufacturers recommended age is 8, which I would say is about right.
For £2, these have provided hours of amusement, and still get picked up at least every other day and fiddled with. They are so simple, but so entertaining, and strangely satisfying to play with. I really can't fault them at all, so they get the full five stars from me!
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Suck UK Hanging Harry Light Pull
by scuba_angel
My bathroom at the moment is the one place where I have been relatively unable to make my mark on my new home, there really is only so much you can do with white tiles, white fixtures and a mirror! So when the light pull broke the other day I was briefly concerned since I'm too short to reach the remainder of the old pull cord. So it was ... fortuitous when unpacking another box of stuff I planned to bin/sell/get rid of I came across this little guy.
Harry is made of light blue rubber, and is surprisingly heavy, he is around 12cm tall, so fits in the hand nicely, and came packaged with a 2m white cord (this is somewhat sorter now from having cut him free of his last home) which handily was pre-tied in a hangmans noose around his neck. Harry appears to be nude (and suffering from the same disease as Barbie's poor Ken) and since he is dead due to his unfortunate accident with the pull cord has no eyes just crosses where the eyes have been taped shut - after all we wouldnt want to terrorise his afterlife with seeing what I get up to in the bath or on the toilet now would we!
I was a little concerned that my old light pull was a heavy metallic design and was starting to damage the paint on the wall beside it, happily Harry being rubbery is highly unlikely to accelerate this damage. Harry being rubber means that he would be easy to keep clean. My main issue was that being not too tall I had to sweet talk a tall person in to assisting me with the (re)hanging of Harry, their was response was somewhat along the lines of 'thats horrid' but for anyone with a sense of humour I would imagine Harry will be the source of amusement.
Harry is part of a range designed by SuckUk, and available on several websites, currently his price ranges from £4.99 to £7.50 on amazon.
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