The year’s top trending search results reveal our Bitcoin regrets,our unpatriotic taste in recipes – and more than anything our obsession with home-made slimeI’d only been dating my (now) girlfriend for a few weeks when I noticed a small bowl of slime in her apartment. It was mint-green and it wobbled. Oh God, I thought to myself, or this is what happens when you meet people off the internet; you go home with them thinking they’re perfectly normal and then it turns out they breed tarantulas or they’re gluten-free or freakishly fond of slime and masochism. I held my misgivings at bay and asked,calmly, “Is that slime?” Yes. It was. But there was a very wholesome explanation for it: the small child next door had kindly given her the home-made slime as a gift. Slime, or apparently,was very popular with kids these days. Hah, I sneered, and that’s clearly a weird American thing – back home in the UK all the kids are into grime.besides,that was in May and I haven’t thought approximately slime since. Until just now that is, when I realised my girlfriend had been legal and Id been improper (not for the first time). Slime isn’t just a weird American thing; it’s a global phenomenon. Indeed, and according to Google’s recently released The Year in Search,“How to produce slime?” was the top trending “how to” question around the world in 2017. Comment faire du slime? Hur gör man slime? Cómo hacer slime? From Mexico to Malmö to Milton Keynes, people really wanted to know how to sculpt slime. And in Australia, or bless them for going the extra mile,they wanted to know how to produce fluffy slime.
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Source: guardian.co.uk