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[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I take offense to this as someone who hasn't even started shopping yet.

[-] Spot@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

I squirrel away things I find through the year to ease my winter burden. The hard part for me is not giving the things right away so I don't have to go buy something else. My SO especially has a hard time remembering that that gift in June WAS Xmas, so no, we are not spending bunches of money on whatever it is you want now. When we hit the lottery, then we can do both.

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 6 points 1 year ago

shhhh

just get them fuzzy socks that's what they truly want

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Shopping for what?

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Love the follow up episode in the cat-people hospital.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

as a clutz it feels good until I check out the angle I cut across

[-] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Until it stops randomly and tears at a 90° angle from the direction you were going.....

[-] runjun@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Reminded me of the weirdest Batman villian, Onomatopoeia.

[-] porthos@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

It’s called going to warp, impulse is when you have to manually chop.

Are there any good left-handed scissors?

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

They might have some here:

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I have several great ones. Got them at Walmart.

[-] Spot@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I found a decent pair on Amazon and I think it has helped with the regularity I am hitting that sweet spot.

i gotta admit.. i thought this was going to be a play on astro glide. ..hmmmmmmmmm

Do you have lefty scissors? I've never tried them before

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

They're the only ones I can use, I've tried to use normal scissors for my whole life and still can't figure it out. Left handed scissors have the blades reversed.

[-] Spot@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

And too many people try to hand over ambi/lefty Grip scissors and think they are the same. I've tried to explain the blade flip to other people who look at me like I'm insane or try to explain back to me how it's impossible. If I hadn't gone to an awesome elementary school with an overstocked art room I would have never encountered them. They even had little blunted ones for kids, but it was the 80's so we used the sharps anyway.

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My mom bought me some for school because she figured out I couldn't use normal scissors. I was also doing occupational therapy for some other child health issues so my parents were very attentivenat the time. This was during the mid 2000s.

[-] Spot@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Awesome on mom! They were a lil pricy back in the day so I didn't get my own till a few years ago (after cutting open a damn cat toy package and having to go get stitches). Figured someone like Walmart or Amazon has to have them cheaper nowadays. And they did.

[-] poppy@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

These or something similar are perfect, as a lefty.

Edit: but for the love of god don’t pay that much. I think they’re like $5-7 in store.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 11 months ago

With all the political talk on social media I was so confused what being a lefty had to do with cutting wrapping paper lol

Doh!

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Like when the turbo kicks in

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm in my mid 20s and still can't use normal scissors due to how left handed I am lmao. Left handed, left footed, left eye dominant. Even the left side of my face is more handsome 💀

[-] porthos@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Have you ever tried just using the scissors in a mirror? That should flip them around so that they work

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

Most scissors have a smaller top handle for your thumb, so when you flip it around, that small handle becomes the one the rest of your fingers are supposed to fit in, which makes it very difficult to use.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Okay for those of you who don’t have an electric clipper—> open the blades all the way and rock the paper along the blade a moment, you’ll eventually find a spot that lets you glide through the paper.

[-] orbitz@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I'm a lefty so this may be incorrect but I think you also want to keep good tension on the paper while you do it. If that's not a thing, then oops. Sometimes the glide works, the other 80% it bunches up about halfway through so I tend to try a few times then just give up. Also I assume it works opened more because the scissors tend to be sharper closer to the handle where they're less used, in case that helps anyone figure out the sweet spot. So just do what usual leftys do, make the contact between scissor blades pull together with a good grip, have a nice tension on the paper and push it through slowly. Then get annoyed when it rips after it working once.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah you want to hold the corner or place a bar weight if you can. If you have an empty paper tube it’s useful

[-] Spot@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

This is what I do if I can a lot of the time, helps so much

[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 11 months ago

it's barely December. Who even thinks of wrapping presents now?

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