This might be the best ‘dull’ thing anyone has ever done. Hear us out…
We’ve all been there. You’re sitting at a table and you’re bored. Maybe you’ve got a deck of cards handy and you do the old ‘how many can I stack on top of each other before it falls?’
You might even pull out the coins for a game of tiddlywinks or, if things are getting really desperate, resort to a round of eye spy.
But not this guy. Andy Whitson and his daughter have taken the concept of curing boredom with creativity to a whole new level, with the help of Pringles.
No, it’s not shoving them in your mouth and pretending to be a duck.
Enter a new era for the Pringle, thanks to Andy, who stacked them, one on top of another several times over to make an edible wheel that is nothing short of a work of art.
He even gave it a name: The Ringle.
Indeed the ‘masterpiece’ has won criticial acclaim in the popular Facebook group Dull Men’s Club, racking up more than 38,000 likes and 3,000 comments.
Andy wrote: ‘I was contemplating the packaging and shape of a certain crisp as opposed to regular packets and form.
‘I was having a dull conversation about this with my daughter. We wondered if they could be stacked or positioned in any other arrangement.
‘Behold… The Ringle.’
Andy and his little girl might just have invented an incredible pastime and people were quick to flood the comments section with admiration for their handiwork.
‘Majestic,’ one person said. ‘I’m going to be snickering at “ringle” for the whole weekend.’
Another wrote: ‘That’s it, you’ve peaked. Never will you create anything as inspiring as this ever again. It’s all downhill from now. You’re simply treading water until the reaper arrives.’
Some joked that it was the ‘Lord of the Ringles’ and someone said: ‘That is a bloody masterpiece.’
One man simply replied: ‘Respect.’
Pringles’ iconic shape was created by chemist Fredric Baur and is technically known as the ‘hyperbolic paraboloid’, according to a food science article on the geometry of Pringles.
‘The saddle shape allowed for easier stacking of chips,’ it says.
‘This also minimized the possibility of broken chips during transport. Since it is a saddle, there is no predictable way to break it up.
‘This increases the crunchy feeling and hence that weird satisfaction.’
We’re now all living in the age of the Ringle and that can only be a good thing.
In other boring news, do you remember this Christmas mix-up when a man said he’d bought a Dyson hand dryer for his fiancee?
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