Two things:

[anguadelphine@mk.absturztau.be]

@BrokkoliMuskel@chaos.social

I have always had a love hate relationship with coiled cables.
Relieved i'm not the only one even if the term is rather WTF.

[revk@toot.me.uk]

@BrokkoliMuskel @ChrisWarwick there is a generation or two that have no idea what you mean by “telephone handset cord”

[mabande@mastodon.social]

@2ruth @BrokkoliMuskel and if it's got an apologetic disclaimer about not being the "tendril perversion" we might be looking for

[ungenannter@norden.social]

@skeptator mal wieder was gelernt.

[skeptator@mastodon.social]

@ungenannter So richtig verstanden habe ich es noch nicht.

[androcat@toot.cat]

@BrokkoliMuskel
Amaze amaze amaze

Thank you!

[ungenannter@norden.social]

@skeptator ich meinte in erster Linie, dass es ein grundsätzliches Problem sowohl bei biologischen als auch bei mechanischen Systemen ist. Was habe ich mich früher über verdrehte Tekefonkabel geärgert. Ich dachte immer, dass da jemand Mist gebaut und es verdreht hat.

[skeptator@mastodon.social]

@ungenannter Ja, ich habe das Tab mal offen gelassen. Vielleicht finde ich noch ein Paper dazu.

[kestral@masto.hackers.town]

@BrokkoliMuskel FINALLY a word for why my old telephone cords did that! And also why searching it also brought up porn.

[philbarker@mastodon.scot]

@Mabande @2ruth @BrokkoliMuskel I did. It does.

[mabande@mastodon.social]

@philbarker @2ruth @BrokkoliMuskel Hero!

[cmdrmoto@hachyderm.io]

@BrokkoliMuskel @BigJackBrass and of course because all things must balance, the complementary disclaimer

[raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest]

@BrokkoliMuskel@chaos.social
Fun fact, with some work you can fix it in the telephone wires.

[walrus@toot.wales]

@Karhutar @BrokkoliMuskel

It's how the tendrils shorten themselves, to pull the plant towards what's supporting it.

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@BrokkoliMuskel I HATED that on telephone cords, oooooh it made me SICK. thank you for saying the devil's name, we banish thee, tendril perversion

[gcvsa@mstdn.plus]

@BrokkoliMuskel *intrigued*

[miguelpergamon@kolektiva.social]

@BrokkoliMuskel

Gardening tips with Urotsukidoji.

[paulatothepeople@climatejustice.social]

@BrokkoliMuskel

'Tendril perversion perversion' describes a research phenomenon where you look up something on Wikipedia and one thing leads to the next and you spiral down a vortex of interesting information until suddenly the spiral turns and the vortex sucks you deeper and deeper into useless bullshit.
Its funnier than the interesting information, thats why it sucks harder.

[ticho@mas.to]

@philbetts @BrokkoliMuskel Even The King sang about it - "Love me tendril, love me true, all my dreams fulfill".

[wfk@social.v.st]

@BrokkoliMuskel I'm confused, though. Why would a clever engineering trick (avoid torsion upon stretching) be hugely annoying?