While I like stix, I HATE some of the inconsiderate boneheads using them. Granted, I like to watch a true Glow God/Goddess (especially while on Euro time); occasionally, I still bring some stix myself. Nevertheless, I HATE stix during the following circumstances: 1)Someone flails them about with such wild abandon that they hit someone (Even saw some girl get it in the eye once!). 2)Someone swings them on strings in a club that's so overcrowded that every square foot of space is at a premium (Everyone usually backs away from the dunce not because of admiration, but because of the possibility of the following circumstance). 3)Someone who's swinging the stix doesn't ensure that the string is tied securely enough (I wish I had a $ for every time I'd seen some poor kid across the floor get a glowing missile in the head!). I don't mind that many of the people with stix have no idea what they're doing. Everyone else also had to learn how to do it somewhere.