OK, this is straight from Derryl's blog, and it's freaking me out. There is a "sport" called cup stacking. Um, er, yah. You take 12 specially designed cups, and stack them into pre-determined pyramids, and then de-stack them. Er, sorry, downstack them. So would you then upstack them? I know Certain cups can help you get stacked. But I digress. What really scares me is that this cup-stacking activity is happening in schools, there are competitions, and world record holders. Which by extension means people, mostly kids, are seemingly having fun taking plastic cups and making them into pyramids and then taking them down again and then making more pyramids and then de-un-down stacking them to make more pyramids. I'm sorry, but I find this - I don't know what to call it - activity, really irritating.
Decades from now, winners proudly will tell their kids they won the 7-11 Walmart Plastic Cup Speed Stacking Championships, and point to their trophy with glee. Gosh, I'd be excited, wouldn't you? Good grief. How does one apply for a job at the factory that makes stacking cups? What kind of training do you need? Is there a stacking cup training program? What the hell is going on? And to prove that this really does exist, watch this kid stack, de-stack, re-stack, unstack, upstack and downstack these cups. The sounds she makes with the cups is really creepy - maybe Ben Burtt could use it in SWIII. Then imagine how much Ritalin she needs to come down from her stacking high.
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