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Ghoulish Delight · 01-26-2009, 10:53 AM

If you compare left handed scissors to right, they're flipped. The top blade passes on the outside (when held in the hand it's designed for) of the bottom blade. If you use the wrong hand, the lateral force exerted by your fingers as you squeeze will cause the blades to want to separate.

On a really well put together pair, that really won't matter and you can use it with either hand since the joint is probably solid enough that the slight lateral force isn't enough to really separate the blades any. But that still leaves one other disadvantage. If you're using righty scissors with your left hand, the top blade will be on the inside, obscuring your line of sight, so you won't be able to see exactly what you're cutting.

I think way too much about scissors apparentyl

Alex · 01-26-2009, 10:58 AM

Yes, now I'm at my desk playing with my work scissors. I use them once a year or so as scissors -- the rest of the time they are essentially a box cutter for opening packages -- so their right-handedness is something I can cope with. I had just never tried but they do cut reasonably well when used upside-down and left handed.

When the eco-Nazis come knocking down my door over the many post-its I've just wasted I will be sending them to your house next (and while there they may collect your extra shoes).

Ghoulish Delight · 01-26-2009, 12:09 PM

As I suspected, the "no earmarks" stipulation on the new stimulus package is turning out to be a purely symbolic move. I've already read articles about how it's just shifted where the favors are done.

Perhaps it is just the beginning, and if Obama keeps it up, maybe there will be fewer and fewer dark corners for the greedy to scurry into when the light is show. But I'm not holding my breath.

I'm still not convinced earmarking is as evil as everyone makes it out to be. Even vocal anti-earmarkers have said, "At least if there are earmarks in the stimulus package we know where the money's going."

Whether it happens in the bill itself or down the line, money is going to be given to people asking for it. The issue isn't earmarks, the issue is questionable favor-doing. Getting rid of earmarks doesn't solve that problem, it just delays it until a later date.

Alex · 01-26-2009, 12:17 PM

Matt Taibbi, in his book The Great Derangement has a chapter that pretty effectively put to lie any claims about doing away with earmarks or significantly regulating them.

He pretty effectively shows examples of unlabeled earmarks sitting in plain sight but completely indistinguishable and therefore pretty much impossible to do anything about.

Ghoulish Delight · 01-30-2009, 12:29 PM

No love for Ms. Bouvier Kennedy Onassis?

Snowflake · 01-30-2009, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

No love for Ms. Bouvier Kennedy Onassis?

Not unless your a necrophiliac.

SacTown Chronic · 01-30-2009, 12:32 PM

Or Babs Bush?

Moonliner · 01-30-2009, 12:36 PM

Mary Todd was kinda hot in a sightly offbeat sorta way.

bewitched · 01-30-2009, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Moonliner

Mary Todd was kinda hot in a sightly offbeat sorta way.

If by "offbeat" you mean "whack job".

Strangler Lewis · 01-30-2009, 12:33 PM

Dolly Madison sounds pretty hot. And there's always Eleanor and the girls.

01-26-2009, 10:53 AM	#1
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	If you compare left handed scissors to right, they're flipped. The top blade passes on the outside (when held in the hand it's designed for) of the bottom blade. If you use the wrong hand, the lateral force exerted by your fingers as you squeeze will cause the blades to want to separate. On a really well put together pair, that really won't matter and you can use it with either hand since the joint is probably solid enough that the slight lateral force isn't enough to really separate the blades any. But that still leaves one other disadvantage. If you're using righty scissors with your left hand, the top blade will be on the inside, obscuring your line of sight, so you won't be able to see exactly what you're cutting. I think way too much about scissors apparentyl __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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01-26-2009, 10:58 AM	#2
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Yes, now I'm at my desk playing with my work scissors. I use them once a year or so as scissors -- the rest of the time they are essentially a box cutter for opening packages -- so their right-handedness is something I can cope with. I had just never tried but they do cut reasonably well when used upside-down and left handed. When the eco-Nazis come knocking down my door over the many post-its I've just wasted I will be sending them to your house next (and while there they may collect your extra shoes).
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01-26-2009, 12:09 PM	#3
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	As I suspected, the "no earmarks" stipulation on the new stimulus package is turning out to be a purely symbolic move. I've already read articles about how it's just shifted where the favors are done. Perhaps it is just the beginning, and if Obama keeps it up, maybe there will be fewer and fewer dark corners for the greedy to scurry into when the light is show. But I'm not holding my breath. I'm still not convinced earmarking is as evil as everyone makes it out to be. Even vocal anti-earmarkers have said, "At least if there are earmarks in the stimulus package we know where the money's going." Whether it happens in the bill itself or down the line, money is going to be given to people asking for it. The issue isn't earmarks, the issue is questionable favor-doing. Getting rid of earmarks doesn't solve that problem, it just delays it until a later date. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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01-26-2009, 12:17 PM	#4
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Matt Taibbi, in his book The Great Derangement has a chapter that pretty effectively put to lie any claims about doing away with earmarks or significantly regulating them. He pretty effectively shows examples of unlabeled earmarks sitting in plain sight but completely indistinguishable and therefore pretty much impossible to do anything about.
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01-30-2009, 12:29 PM	#5
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	No love for Ms. Bouvier Kennedy Onassis? __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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01-30-2009, 12:32 PM	#7
SacTown Chronic the myth of the dream Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,217	Or Babs Bush? __________________ Is it the fingers, or the brain that you're teaching a lesson?
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01-30-2009, 12:36 PM	#8
Moonliner 8/30/14 - Disneyland -10k or Bust. Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 9,022	Mary Todd was kinda hot in a sightly offbeat sorta way. __________________ - Taking it one step at a time.
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01-30-2009, 12:33 PM	#10
Strangler Lewis Doing The Job Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In a state Posts: 3,956	Dolly Madison sounds pretty hot. And there's always Eleanor and the girls. __________________ Live now-pay later. Diner's Club!
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