• The Picard Maneuver
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    2310 months ago

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

    • SpotOP
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      710 months 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
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      610 months ago

      shhhh

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

      • @EmpathicVagrant
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        510 months ago

        Winter supplies, I guess? Something about a big log and not dying in icy conditions.

  • @Skullgrid
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    1110 months ago

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

  • @runjun
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    10 months ago

    KrrrrSCHHHHRRRRRRRRkt

    • @ummthatguy
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      610 months ago

      Reminded me of the weirdest Batman villian, Onomatopoeia.

  • originalucifer
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    510 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    10 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    310 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!

  • @EmpathicVagrant
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    210 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      710 months 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
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        410 months 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

        • SpotOP
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          210 months ago

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

  • @ghostdoggtv
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    210 months ago

    Like when the turbo kicks in