In China, some people are seriously into collecting pairs of big, round, nuts, and playing with them

[Video Link]. Collecting pairs of walnuts is a thing in China. The bigger and the older, the better! "Playing with these kind of nuts isn't for ordinary people," says one collector in this exquisite Reuters News video. (via Shanghaiist)

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relawson

Wouldn’t it be pretty much a DE-volution of baoding balls?
http://www.baodingballs.com/
mattmanning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
- yadayada
  
  My first thought. Second thought: That’s what happens when (some) people have too much money.
- http://twitter.com/cjporkchop cjporkchop
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beanie_babies
TheMudshark

That´s nuts.
yadayada

“Playing with these kinds of walnuts isn’t for ordinary people.”

New internet meme?
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/TGZ75URQ6DKTCNXV3RV36ZKALQ Matthew

Just look at those nuts. Just look at them!
- Bobsyeruncle
  
  Yep, there’s your internet meme right there. And I’m obviously in the wrong business. :)
http://germanwotd.com Amelia_G

Ha! I seem to recall that 1970′s/1980′s rural PA experienced a walnut “bubble,” when people were planting walnut trees to harvest their wood, as a retirement investment. Now walnuts are growing wild there in the forests.
Antinous / Moderator

I like big nuts and I cannot lie.
gumbowing

It’s the modern Chinese equivalent of Dutch tulipomania only even weirder. It will surely end in tears.
- ldobe
  
  Yep, It’s obviously a market bubble. It’s gonna pop, I think probably sooner than later. The Chinese gov’t is promoting walnuts as domestic investment into an object with little practical value, and even less historic value.
  
  It’s all a game being played with percieved goods. The only thing that makes what you have valuable is the fact that someone else doesn’t have it and wants it.
emo hex

I think some clarification is due here,
is this about collecting. . .
or
is this about playing with one’s nuts?
http://celesteagnes.blogspot.com/ Sekino

The whole thing looks so… surreal. It’s like seeing the world as if it were run by squirrels.
Ipo

Does this get filed under: “Exotic nonwhite people have over 20 words for Walnuts”?
http://profiles.google.com/westcarleton Ray Perkins

Be careful cleaning them… You don’t want to scratch your nuts.
http://twitter.com/Bent_Circuit Just Thalia

Is that Jabba in the background?