2331: Hamster Ball 2

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Hamster Ball 2

Title text: The worst is being teased by responsible, mask-wearing teens. They even spritz the hamster ball with disinfectant before rolling it, carefully avoiding the filter vents.

Explanation

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A hamster ball is a small, transparent sphere in which a hamster or other pet rodent can run around (reasonably) safely, without being in its cage. Cueball has obtained a "human-sized hamster ball" for himself.

Cueball relates that, once upon a time, he was teased for this seemingly-frivolous pursuit, but he feels that now, in the midst of a worldwide coronavirus pandemic, having his own bubble to be inside is a smart move. He is contrasted to White Hat, who is wearing a facemask for protection.

"Who's laughing now" is a common phrase that you know better than others who originally laughed at you. However, as White Hat notes, there are literally still people laughing at Cueball for rolling along in a hamster ball, and they still want to cause trouble for him. In the title text, Cueball says that he gets "disinfected" by mask-wearing teens before being "rolled around" by them.

As the title indicates, this is the second comic specifically devoted to hamster balls; the first was 152: Hamster Ball. Hamster balls also featured prominently in several other comics.

Transcript

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[Cueball is inside a transparent human-sized sphere, evidently walking. Ahead of him is White Hat, wearing a facemask.]

Cueball: They laughed at me, all those years ago, when I got this human-sized hamster ball.

[Panel with just Cueball.]

Cueball: But who's laughing now?!?

[White Hat in frame again, pointing into distance.]

White Hat: Sounds like the same people.

White Hat: See? There's some of them over there.

Cueball: Yeah, neighborhood kids.

Cueball: At least they've stopped trying to roll me into soccer goals.

Cueball: No, here they come.

[He turns around.]

Cueball: Run!

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Discussion

Whoa. Hamster balls are more popular than I thought ... also, surprisingly, not recommended for guinea pigs. -- Hkmaly (talk) 22:24, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

The Avengers (not those Avengers, though, that I know) used Human Hamster-Balls to cross a lake. Trying to google-fu a clip of it while excluding the other upstarts from a search has so far been impossible, though. 162.158.159.76 23:53, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

A two second Google search got me https://primaryimmune.org/story-david who I recall as 'bubble boy' and living in a plastic bubble. I note that the bubble did not contain a toilet or kitchen and this was most likely his transpo and not his life. Perhaps the article says. BTW, this is a covid19 entry. 108.162.216.112 05:21, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Should we point out explicitly that the original hamster ball was 14 years ago, so the "same people" cannot be neighborhood kids? Physicalattraction (talk) 10:35, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

that could still be their collective identity from Cueball's perspective. ocæon (talk) 20:35, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

true, that is a valid point. Physicalattraction (talk) 21:07, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

i wonder if Randall's been zorbing yet⸮ ocæon (talk) 20:35, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Hmm... would this work to stop COVID? Give everyone a hamster ball. Solves the antimaskers. 172.69.62.124 17:53, 31 July 2020 (UTC)