Jan 26 2009FunSlides: Damn You And Your Spaceage Plastic, Where Were You When I Was A Kid?
When I was a kid there were no FunSlides, we rode down the basement stairs on a baking sheet. And, goddammit, we hit the wall at the bottom and loved it.
Thanks to Patrick, who glides across berber and shag with equal dexterity. Ladies?
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Reader Comments
1. Roman - January 26, 2009 10:01 PM
I used a cardboard box as a kid. Parents are spoiling their children with this stupid crap.
2. DestreasLust - January 26, 2009 10:03 PM
wayyyy lameeee
but at least the announcer is so excited about it
3. FIRST1 - January 26, 2009 10:03 PM
FIRST
4. Top Ten Guy - January 26, 2009 10:09 PM
Wohoo!!
Top 5!!
5. Hunter - January 26, 2009 10:10 PM
Hahahahaha the 0:36 had me laughing so hard, hahahahahahahaha!!!
Even your dog can FunSlide!!! ...maybe not.
6. Hunter - January 26, 2009 10:10 PM
the girl at*
7. PEng - January 26, 2009 10:17 PM
Best line:
"Bonus footage of pro and semi-pro fun sliders..."
Man, I'm getting these for my kids and lets hope they go pro.
8. jaymcgrew - January 26, 2009 10:23 PM
* I like to fun slide on your mom's carpet.*
9. Hannukah Montana - January 26, 2009 10:25 PM
Ooh that is so exciting. I don't look like a fag anymore because this stuff is awesome. I can slide all day and not having my parents scream at me. Ooh...
I can just imagine the static shock those kids are gonna get. Specially in the winter.
Usually, I don't really pick on kids. But if I do see any kid playing these stuff, I'm gonna steal it from them.
10. Rachel - January 26, 2009 10:25 PM
Ah, another contraption that is sure increase the number of kids who come into the emergency room. Well, I guess as long these things stay in the house, I don't care. I'm just tired of having kids nearly run into me at the store because of those awful "Heelys" that only the most retarded of parents buy.
11. WQ - January 26, 2009 10:30 PM
@ 9
The static shock doesn't work because of the SUPER SMOOTH PLASTIC that doesnt conduct electricity.
Anyways this looks a bit dangerous. You can fall and smash your face into a sharp table.
12. QUASIMODEM - January 26, 2009 10:40 PM
There are going to be SO MANY LAWSUITS
13. Daisy (TRO) - January 26, 2009 10:42 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max gets banned from singles figure skating, and later figures out his ban doesn't cover pairs skating and comes back with a partner.
14. john wayne was a nazi - January 26, 2009 10:43 PM
hahaha
"you can fun slide across the house...then Back!
but you walk down the stairs"
is that their legal teams desperate attempt to avoid the thousands of law suits coming from parents of crippled kids?
i hope so
see you on local news, funslide
15. naas - January 26, 2009 10:50 PM
eeeh it's training for fruit bootin (inline skating) or for owning a pair of these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o091EpFTVn0
16. Carlito - January 26, 2009 10:50 PM
LOL, the only house i know with that much carpet is my grandmas house, but its full of antiquites, shit i bet if i try those there all my savings will be gonne,
17. ciej - January 26, 2009 10:57 PM
even comes with a dvd with tips from pro and semi-pro funsliders?!
18. Pew mobile - January 26, 2009 10:59 PM
I like turtles.
19. mudkipzfan - January 27, 2009 12:42 AM
Who is *your* favorite pro-funslider?
20. emily - January 27, 2009 1:17 AM
i about died when i saw this commercial on tv. they're just furniture sliders with velcro attached!
21. gizmoduck - January 27, 2009 1:21 AM
hmmm. i don't know how i feel about this.
it makes me feel like that stupid lesbo that wants to attack you in double dragon.
LAME
22. supernova_hq - January 27, 2009 1:32 AM
#11 Do your socks conduct electricity? No, so why would these be any different?
23. jer - January 27, 2009 1:37 AM
i used a sleeping bag down the stairs. that shit was slick!
24. Moose Knuckle - January 27, 2009 2:05 AM
@21 Please don't attack, I'll will be forced to defend myself with a reverse elbow followed by a jump kick.
25. Jamerz - January 27, 2009 3:03 AM
scooby doo??!!!?!!!!?!?!?!
26. Spam Artist - January 27, 2009 3:29 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene from the movie Tender Dracula where Dracula wears some frictionless shoes and after taking a step slides forever.
At the end of infinity he ponders the age old question of what rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, and over your neighbour's dog.
27. MrHappy - January 27, 2009 3:55 AM
This is OLD....I am sorry but the standards seem to be dropping. This has even been on geekologie before. Check out the link to the Geekologie post back in May 16, 2007.
http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=carpet+slide&IncludeBlogs=&IncludeBlogs=1&x=0&y=0
28. blp - January 27, 2009 4:10 AM
Damn, all my floors are laminated wood! If I knew these were coming out. Dammmmmmn. That's ruined my day : (
29. Matt - January 27, 2009 4:11 AM
Anyone play Curling? Aren't these just the sliders you wear on the ice.
Anyways, agree with the mucho injury potential, but that won't stop me from trying to go pro.
30. ClaMs - January 27, 2009 4:14 AM
Did I hear correctly?
"More fun than sex on a polished floor" ???
31. bust it - January 27, 2009 5:16 AM
hmm i feel like i tried something similar as a child with knee-pads and getting a concussion...
this is for the douches that got too cool for soap shoeing and Heelies.
32. lewis - January 27, 2009 6:15 AM
Wow that was lame, why did i watch it all :(
33. random man - January 27, 2009 6:31 AM
I used to do that as a kid but with tissue boxes on my feet
34. softlicious - January 27, 2009 7:14 AM
I hope the Slide accidents will be as fun to watch as the Wii accidents. I hope theese kids end up in Whacked Out Sports!
35. Spikey DaPikey - January 27, 2009 8:01 AM
Lame :o\
36. Thumperchica - January 27, 2009 8:49 AM
To all of you who are hoping for injury lawsuits- wtf?
Kids are supposed to do stupid things, and collect a few scars in the process, why should there be a lawsuit? I saw nothing in that lame commercial advocating sliding down the banister, jumping over your sister's head and out the front door - but I'm willing to bet someone will do it... then sue the company for creating the "shoes"?
These look like fun for a kid.
37. Bigguy707 - January 27, 2009 8:53 AM
I wonder how long before they are sued by the Furniture Glider people, and the "hook & loop strap" people, and the parents, and the landlord, and my mom.
38. Amaranth - January 27, 2009 9:41 AM
yea-yuh~~~ now you can crack your skull open at home and have your parents watch you get crippled live
39. Cameron - January 27, 2009 9:46 AM
@36. Thumperchica - I fully agree with you, it's pathetic how everyone is so quick to jump to suing for things like this. Grow some f***ing balls, stop crying about everything, and take responsibility for your own actions, you pathetic f***tards.
Oh, btw, did anyone else watch 0:36 7-8 times like I did?
40. Cysefin - January 27, 2009 10:26 AM
They've had these for YEARS... to move furniture.
41. James17930 - January 27, 2009 11:09 AM
"Fun slide around tables and chairs"
So many lawsuits just waiting to happen.
42. Tupil - January 27, 2009 11:41 AM
@39. You're preaching to the wrong choir.
It's not that are looking for an excuse to file a lawsuit at a drop of the hat. It's that we KNOW FOR A FACT that stupid people WILL become paraplegic and demand compensation as a result of their stupidity.
43. Thumperchica - January 27, 2009 11:59 AM
Okay, share time! As a kid of about 5 or so, my sister and I were playing. It was Thanksgiving, we were at my uncle's house. in the far corner of his office was a glass chandelier he was planning to hang the next day. In the middle of the room there was an office chair. the chair spun and was on rollers... See where this is about to go?
So I am in the chair, spinning, when suddenly my ass launches out of the chair and lands on the chandelier, ripping my shin into shredded bits of skin and muscle ribbons. I got to hang out in the ER the rest of the night and got a few dozen stitches.
Guess what? My mom didn't sue ANYONE. She told me she would've whipped my ass for breaking the chandelier if I hadn't been in so much pain from my leg being ripped open...
BTW- whole thing got caught on tape, and now, every Turkey day during the Post game, my uncle plays the damned tape. I should sue him...
44. Amaranth - January 27, 2009 12:06 PM
@43 you WIN at LIFE want a cookie? He should play that for the rest of your life.
45. Cameron - January 27, 2009 12:09 PM
@43. Thumperchica - I would like to thank your mother for not being a f***tard and realizing that you uncle was in no way responsible for your stupidity. If more people were like you and your mother this world would be more awethumb.
46. Thumperchica - January 27, 2009 12:13 PM
45- Yeah that was a fun f***tarded moment... The scar is pretty Awethumb. wiilly wiilly awethumb. It looks like a backwards J...
44- no cookie needed, just using my own stupid moment to make the point that kids do dumb shit and there is no need to get all lawsuit happy over it.
47. nate - January 27, 2009 12:39 PM
pro and semi-pro funsliders?
48. leujin - January 27, 2009 12:40 PM
I've owned a pair of these for well over a year...
49. Chris - January 27, 2009 1:20 PM
@ 0:36
FUUUUNN SLIDESSS!!!
bwahahahahahaha
50. that guy - January 27, 2009 1:56 PM
i have a pair too...they're called socks
51. Beastman AIDS - January 27, 2009 2:54 PM
screw these. Nothing is better than the old real-estate sign sled on a grassy hill. Or a plastic fish crate if your a real pro.
52. Rev. Faux - January 27, 2009 3:07 PM
When I was little, I used a laundry basket on the wooden staircase and nearly broke my f***ing skull.
I will be purchasing these, for now my parents have carpeted stairs and have a date with destiny.
ZOOMZOOMZOOM
53. zap - January 27, 2009 7:02 PM
uhm, take plastic rub it on carpet real fast and then touch a door knob. kawamo!! electric shock. surprised no one mentioned this yet...
54. Dr. - January 27, 2009 7:08 PM
I smell CARPET BURN.
55. WQ - January 27, 2009 7:14 PM
@ 22
Well for starters, im pretty sure not all socks are good conductors. I'm thinking it is wool socks that will conduct and shock someone if you touch them after storing some electricity up. Other socks won't conduct as well and anyways plastic can barely conduct electricity. What more is there to say?
56. Wq - January 27, 2009 7:16 PM
Well anyways I'm pretty sure the people who made this crap probably would at least make sure it wouldn't conduct electricity well.
57. Jenna - January 28, 2009 12:27 AM
More fun than socks on a polish wood floor? IMPOSSIBLE, I say, IMPOSSIBLE!!
58. Marius - January 28, 2009 3:41 PM
It's amazing what crap you americans buy. Maybe you buy this crap because deep inside, you are crap yourselves.
59. trevor - January 28, 2009 7:39 PM
I never knew there were professional fun sliders.
60. haddie - January 28, 2009 7:48 PM
You know, somebody is going to get rich off of this. That pisses me off.
I was putting pledge on the damn funiture the other day, and it made my socks "FUN SLIDERS"
Chalk up another one to a product I never developed
61. Dan - January 28, 2009 11:52 PM
I used a Sled and got a running start down the stairs leading out of the 2nd story of the appartment complex i was living in. (man did ower Neighbors
hate me)
62. Simon - January 29, 2009 5:15 PM
Four words...
Ball In A Cup.
63. Madzay - January 30, 2009 4:18 AM
oh god....
we all no thats gonna end in tears!
some kid is going to try sliding down the stairs and fall and break their tiny little necks....
if they were to film it, they could get a lot of hits on youtube....
64. ashley - January 30, 2009 4:29 PM
sooooooooooooooooooooooo
lame