Comments on: Slap Bracelets

By: ClariPossum

ClariPossum — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:00:16 +0000

They actually marketed that. As Hairagami. I’m too lazy to find a link right now, but I’m sure google will show you. I had a couple of those. It is basically the same thing, only a lot stronger than I remember slap bracelets being.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:32:55 +0000

I remember everyone at my school had this except me.

By: llc

llc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:41:41 +0000

never heard of these things, maybe i’m glad that this is the first time i’ve heard of them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:13:14 +0000

i had a watch slap bracelet. i loved to put it on my friends over and over and over and over…..

By: Malaya

Malaya — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:19:53 +0000

My aunt (who is a mere 7 yrs. older than me), had these first… I saw how cool they were when she had them, so when mom took me to Eckerd one day, I saw this HUGE bin of them, and had to try one for myself. I uncoiled it, and got ready to slap it across my wrist… Made sure no one was looking… And *SLAP*. OWWWWW! True to the myth, I actually slit my wrist with one of these things. The metal slid out of the fabric, and there I stood, screaming and bleeding all over the place in the middle of Eckerd.

I remember my mom rushing me to the bathroom, and then rushing home to call my grandma to tell her to confiscate my aunt’s slap bracelets. I’m pretty sure this was when she started refering to me as her “stupid niece.” LOL

By: Morna

Morna — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:07:05 +0000

Just one more way to annoy the teacher who thought classroom bullies could be used as bouncers.

By: Sedge

Sedge — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:25:24 +0000

I seem to remember these being banned around my place due to the fact that they would introduce the chilluns to the wonderful world of BDSM. Did I mention I was in kindergarten when these were cool? Way to sexualize children under the guise of protecting them, adults!

Also: how is it that I can go to Australia and frolic through a field of man-eating kangaroos (TRUE STORY)… but slap bracelets– that’s going too far? I used to think you were COOL, Australia!

By: Nina

Nina — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:37:50 +0000

Tehe, I used to have one. I ended up taking it apart. Just a tape measure, psh.
But still, they were cool

By: Katy

Katy — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:34:25 +0000

I have 2 slap bracelet WATCHES, one red and one brown, because I am too cool for school (mostly just too old, but whatever).

By: meredith

meredith — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:33:40 +0000

See above post for ULTIMATE WIN.

By: Smily

Smily — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:20:31 +0000

They still sell these, just more advanced versions that don’t work quite so well. I got a slap bracelet gift card.

By: aw2662

aw2662 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:18:24 +0000

What about pogs? I’m not clever enough to create a post worthy but I feel pogs deserve a win.

By: Goob

Goob — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:49:15 +0000

Did anyone else used to see how many you could snap at once? Line three or four of them balanced open on your wrist, then try to snap them all on at once in one toss?

I used to do it with both arms, three up each arm.

By: darklord044

darklord044 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:51:19 +0000

Taken off the market?? They still sell these…

By: RetroFad

RetroFad — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:57:41 +0000

I had one or two. It seems like they were taken off the market pretty quickly, though it doesn’t look like it was because of regulations. The cloth covering would wear off and a metal edge would show. It wasn’t cut from a tape measure though. If the metal edge wasn’t dulled then it can be very dangerous, dulled, it would only be dangerous.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:39:48 +0000

My mom never bought me any trend while it was still trendy. She only got me stuff like that after the fad was done and the discount stores sold it cheap.
My slap bracelet she found on the counter at the post office!
Man, I was such a nerd!

By: Lilly

Lilly — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:26:24 +0000

Factoid: You could also use a pair of slap bracelets as hair ornaments–made getting your hair into a bun pretty simple, and it’d stay fixed.

By: JerSar

JerSar — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:04:53 +0000

Man, I used to wear my slap braclets with my Skidz pants and my hypercolor shirts (and sometimes by body glove shirts too!).

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:10:10 +0000

I had a few of these. They hurt sometimes. Loved ‘em though.

By: Teachergal

Teachergal — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:49:58 +0000

They are back now. I teach third grade and this week we had a book fair that sold them. I confiscated about 10 of them from students playing with them during work time.

By: Read my blog

Read my blog — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:46:03 +0000

Circumcision.

By: Read my blog

Read my blog — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:44:52 +0000

Hermaphrodites, of course, got away with murder….

By: MacFluffy

MacFluffy — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:37:47 +0000

We had a few of these at a bike shop I worked at, for keeping your pants from getting shredded. At least, that’s what we used them for. Who has the weirdest use for one of these?

By: Danbala

Danbala — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:43:10 +0000

Those are still available here, but not as bracelets. You can get them as reflex bands, to use on arms or legs. Quite handy, in fact.
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Actually, I can’t really remember them ever having been a trend as bracelets here (Sweden).

By: Jessie

Jessie — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:53:15 +0000

They got banned from my school too. It was so sad because, well, most of my accessories were of the slap variety.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:25:51 +0000

I’m pretty sure in Australia these were known as Slap Bands, to rid them of the girly bracelet stigma…

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:56:06 +0000

I think these were banned worldwide! my school in australia banned them too. the rumour about the slit wrist also circulated in my town, but i think that just made them more exciting.

i just remember they freaking hurt to put on, especially the cheap ones with the wire poking out the end!

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:54:06 +0000

I think these were banned worldwide! my school in australia banned them too. the rumour about the slit wrist also circulated in my town, but i think that just made them more exciting.

i just remember they freaking hurt to put on, especially the cheap ones with the wire poking out the end!

By: Krystal

Krystal — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:17:52 +0000

AHH! Slap bracelets!! Loved them! I’d used to slap people in the head with mine. HAHA

By: Hyshion

Hyshion — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:09:09 +0000

ya, hate to see what it could do to my wrist…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:08:26 +0000

lol!
i still have mine!!!
i never use them though

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:05:22 +0000

Yikes! Yeah, those things can hurt. I remember when they were banned, too… maybe that’s why, lol.

By: Hyshion

Hyshion — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:01:14 +0000

lol

By: Hyshion

Hyshion — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:00:09 +0000

E-gad! those things!
I tore one apart, turns out is about a 10 inch segment of a tape measure with the ends rounded off…
I tried to use it as a catapult after doing that, and I failed.
Slapped the end, and it circled up, causing the other end (they’re pretty sharp actually) to cut through the skin/flesh of my left ring finger and cut me *almost* down to the bone..
bled for almost 3 days, still have the scar…

By: Read my blog

Read my blog — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:58:33 +0000

Remember: “They’ll slit your wrists!” Haha. Emo kids would love these. Do I sense a retro-comeback?

By: Raessa

Raessa — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:50:25 +0000

What about teh gay kids?

By: DeathtoDuckHuntDog

DeathtoDuckHuntDog — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:19:45 +0000

Blarg, I hated those things. And that hand is freaking creepy.

By: Brandon_ha

Brandon_ha — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:18:53 +0000

Catholic school?

By: zucchini breath

zucchini breath — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:07:03 +0000

I still HAVE some of these! Mine are animal print. I have leopard, zebra and tiger.

Neener

I think that may be Leonard Nimoy’s arm. Not sure.

By: lora_vine

lora_vine — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:54:24 +0000

If you watched the video, how many of you even noticed the slap bracelett, or were you all staring at the really really insanely creepy hand?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:52:49 +0000

freakishly long creepy fingers… *shudders*

By: Frosta

Frosta — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:55:30 +0000

I can’t bring myself to even click the video because of it. Disturbing.

By: Frosta

Frosta — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:54:05 +0000

LOL

No kidding! I remember the letter they put out to parents urging them to restrain their kids to stop bringing them to class…. Eventually, kids were receiving detention for disruption of class…

Never give a nervous OCD kid a slap bracelet.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:29:46 +0000

My school banned TOUCHING members of the opposite sex.

By: rach

rach — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:13:12 +0000

Jewelry with metal spikes was also considered a weapon. Crazy the things schools ban.
(my school also banned soda but thats irrelevant to the topic)

By: m-no

m-no — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:00:30 +0000

I’m pretty sure I still have a couple of those… but yea…. school decided they were weapons….

By: Destin

Destin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:46:18 +0000

Is that Buckethead’s hand in that video?! O.o

By: eTX

eTX — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:43:42 +0000

I didn’t know Skeletor wore slap bracelets!

By: Sven

Sven — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:36:15 +0000

Dear God, thats the strangest hand I have ever seen in that vid!

By: jmurockstar

jmurockstar — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:07:01 +0000

It probably didn’t help that we were all using them as catapults during class.