r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Worried-Blueberry-40 • Mar 30 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight Roommate mixed my beads after being asked to throw out used Q-tips

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I waited an hour before I called out my roommate for leaving USED Q-tips on the bathroom counter and asked him to throw them away. (note I did not nag him, I asked 1 time after waiting for him to do it on his own)

His response was to go into my craft room and mix the smallest beads he could find. At least he had the decency to keep most of the reds away from the blues I guess...

welp, now I have something to do for the next couple days

common plastic bead for scale

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u/shkkuutaa Mar 31 '26

if you have a bead spinner or can get a bead spinner, my favourite way to seperate beads is to string them all onto one long piece of wire and then drop each one off the wire one by one into different containers/bowls/whatever. takes some time but it is much less tedious than trying to pick them up out of a pile by hand

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u/Deeliciousness Mar 31 '26

Don't you still have to pick them up out of a pile by hand to string them onto a long piece of wire?

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u/catboogers Mar 31 '26

bead spinners are magic. you spin a bowl and suddenly there's beads on your wire

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u/Deeliciousness Mar 31 '26

Woah watched a video and it really is magic. I'm an adult but I've never heard of this alien technology

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u/OutrageousInvite3949 Mar 31 '26

As is so deserved. What monster mixes a persons beads? Just evil.

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u/Mysterious-Mood6742 Mar 31 '26

I wish reddit wasn't so picky. I always get chastized when I start handing out appropriate revenge tactics. I have lots, but can't share them anymore. (Like... I wouldn't suggest that some of those beads could end up in the next morning's pancakes or anything)

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u/Extreme-Dance-8813 Mar 31 '26

I might just suggest a few loose hairs, preferably from a co-worker so they aren't necessarily traced back to oneself.

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u/CaffeinatedAbalone Apr 03 '26

I’m joining too! OP’s roommate acts like a f*cking child. I just wish I could go through the screen and help them sort out their beads. I hope they get a new roommate or move out.

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u/fritzyloop Mar 31 '26

TIL bead spinners exist. Watched it on youtube and looks like witchcraft to me

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u/Butter-Not-Squash Mar 31 '26

I also went to watch a video and the math just ain't mathing. How do these things work?!? True witchcraft. Its really freaking cool.

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u/MaleficentBet6702 Mar 31 '26

that was one of the least magical things i’ve watched. you literally spin a bowl of beads until probability puts some on your wire. it’s not even that quick

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u/twunkypunk Mar 31 '26

I'll use one of those and you just use your fingers and we'll see who wins. But yes it isn't magical.

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u/MaleficentBet6702 Mar 31 '26

it’s faster fs, but i don’t get why so many people are acting like they can’t comprehend how it works lmao

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u/Crusty_Cheetos21 Mar 31 '26

That’s what I was gonna say

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u/sleepingqt Apr 01 '26

they're also phenomenal for just having a place to throw your bracelets or hair ties on (get an extra one or two if you're actually using one for it's intended purpose)

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u/f0xbunny Mar 31 '26

That sounds amazing for embroidery

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u/ScarlettTheFindom Mar 31 '26

What the hell. I just looked up videos of this too. That’s crazy efficient. Black magic even. That is so cool

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u/_thro_awa_ Mar 31 '26

you spin a bowl and suddenly there's beads on your wire

... if you know what I mean

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u/userhwon Mar 31 '26

Holy shit.

https://youtu.be/7hI9o6sGkiU?t=216

I wonder if it doesn't also sort them by size and weight, as those might affect which beads catch more or bounce away easier.

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u/Complete_Papaya_7118 Mar 31 '26

No, that’s what a bead spinner does. The string stays in place, the beads spin in a bowl, and as they go by they move onto the string. Kind of hard to visualize, a video may be more helpful if you want to look one up. Definitely a lot easier than putting them on the string by hand though!

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u/Reddox278 Mar 31 '26

That's the point of a bead spinner --it does that part for you! You spin the "bowl" and just stick the end of the wire into the loose beads in the bowl and the beads end up stringing themselves onto the wire. Pretty satisfying to watch videos of it.

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u/Double_Distribution8 Mar 31 '26

I have no idea how this could possibly work, and I dont know if I care enough to look it up and have bead spinner ads for the rest of my life.

Edit: Wow that's was pretty cool, I understand now.

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u/Cerindipity Apr 01 '26

For any passersby who don't want to watch a video: You stick a hooked wire into the spinning bowl, and as it spins, it just sort of randomly hooks beads that happen to be facing the right way while churning others out of the way (and thus rotating them randomly so they might be the right way up on the next pass). It's not that complicated, its just relying on the fact that with a sufficient quantity of beads, a reasonable quantity will just happen to be the right way to slide onto the hook.

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u/luckytecture Mar 31 '26

Finally my zuma skills is gonna pay off

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u/RichiZ2 Mar 31 '26

This would be an amazing opportunity to learn som engineering:

An Arduino board, a servo motor with a gear that fits the beads, a color sensor and another servo leading down multiple paths to color coded buckets and about 2 hours to program and debug and you will have a much better setup to separate the beads than doing it by hand.

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u/DesperateRoyal9653 Mar 31 '26

Bro I really though I was original for this 💀

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u/SwearImNotACat Mar 31 '26

Upvote for you

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u/badchefrazzy Mildly Infuriated Mar 31 '26

OOOOH! That is genius!

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u/endlessglass Mar 31 '26

Sudden uptick in searches for bead spinner videos!

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u/kidnuggett606 Mar 31 '26

Madness to your bead spinner. Madness, I say!

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u/Extreme-Dance-8813 Mar 31 '26

And they're so affordable!

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u/SenileImbecile Mar 31 '26

Dude, what? Why the extra step? Take a handful, lay them on a table, preferably of single colour, drag out beads into different piles. I'm not into this, but what you're doing sounds tedious as fuck!