Despite what you may have been taught from 1980s factory-based cartoon Bertha, working in a factory can be hard graft.

And this is made clear with today's Slackerjack, Factory Balls. All you need to do is take a ball and make it look like the ball on the box, with paint and bands and clamps and pumps and goggles, and it should be easy. But Factory Balls is hard, and has given us a sense of just how hard the ball-manufacturing game is.

And there was us thinking that you just paid a six-year-old Taiwanese orphan to sew them up for you.

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