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Let your kid use scissors or they may grow up with a scissors scarcity mentality.

@futurebird can you please talk a bit more about the two very weird (but still weirdly recognizible as scissors??) scissors on the table??????

@futurebird I love cheese and so does my partner but if we run out of it we just get more. I suppose we are high rollers when it comes to cheese.

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Yeah. My parents would only let me use like two of the scissors and hid the nice ones and wouldn't buy the scissors I wanted as a gift because "you have scissors" (even told other people not to get them for me since I had them already)

They came over one day and noticed that I have a big vase and it's full of every kind of scissor, every color and size...

"so, that really was a big deal I guess" my mom said ... I hadn't even really noticed the connection. But it WAS.

@futurebird @epicdemiologist
As far as I knew, there was only one pair of scissors ever in the house I grew up in. Finding them when they were needed a frequent source of drama, sturm, und drang.

It remains a thing of family legend how my sister, who was really into sewing, assiduously saved up her babysitting money until she could buy herself a pair of proper dressmaker's shears - and then my father, unable to locate the communal family scissors, took the dressmaker's shears out of my sister's sewing box and used them to cut fiberglass cloth.

I have a pair of scissors in every room of my house, two in the kitchen, three (each for a different purpose) in my own sewing box, and one more that lives in the box of gift wrap.

Shower your kids with scissors, folks.

@Gorfram @epicdemiologist

There were four pairs of scissors in our house and it always baffled me. There were more pens and pencils than you could count... there were many books and notebooks. But the idea of having more scissors just didn't compute for my parents.

I remember being at "SAM'S Club" as a tween and there was a set of like 8 cheap, but sharp scissors for 15 bucks, which was more in the 90s but not... "so much money"

IDK.

It was strange.

@futurebird @epicdemiologist
Until my sister bought the dressmaker's shears, it had never occurred to me (I'm a few years younger) that there could be more than 1 pair of scissors in a household.

@futurebird @epicdemiologist
As far as I knew, there was only one pair of scissors ever in the house I grew up in. Finding them when they were needed a frequent source of drama, sturm, und drang.

It remains a thing of family legend how my sister, who was really into sewing, assiduously saved up her babysitting money until she could buy herself a pair of proper dressmaker's shears - and then my father, unable to locate the communal family scissors, took the dressmaker's shears out of my sister's sewing box and used them to cut fiberglass cloth.

I have a pair of scissors in every room of my house, two in the kitchen, three (each for a different purpose) in my own sewing box, and one more that lives in the box of gift wrap.

Shower your kids with scissors, folks.

@futurebird @epicdemiologist
As far as I knew, there was only one pair of scissors ever in the house I grew up in. Finding them when they were needed a frequent source of drama, sturm, und drang.

It remains a thing of family legend how my sister, who was really into sewing, assiduously saved up her babysitting money until she could buy herself a pair of proper dressmaker's shears - and then my father, unable to locate the communal family scissors, took the dressmaker's shears out of my sister's sewing box and used them to cut fiberglass cloth.

I have a pair of scissors in every room of my house, two in the kitchen, three (each for a different purpose) in my own sewing box, and one more that lives in the box of gift wrap.

Shower your kids with scissors, folks.

@epicdemiologist

Yeah. My parents would only let me use like two of the scissors and hid the nice ones and wouldn't buy the scissors I wanted as a gift because "you have scissors" (even told other people not to get them for me since I had them already)

They came over one day and noticed that I have a big vase and it's full of every kind of scissor, every color and size...

"so, that really was a big deal I guess" my mom said ... I hadn't even really noticed the connection. But it WAS.

@Gorfram @futurebird @epicdemiologist Now that you point it out I realize that yes, scissors were often the source of conflict/search/despair/hope in my family too!
We need more studies on this.

@epicdemiologist

Let your kid use scissors or they may grow up with a scissors scarcity mentality.

@futurebird @epicdemiologist

it has been a very long time since i last saw a pair of those scissors with extra finger loops. i'm not sure i ever knew what the purpose was.

@futurebird @epicdemiologist

it has been a very long time since i last saw a pair of those scissors with extra finger loops. i'm not sure i ever knew what the purpose was.

@futurebird Western multi-tools have doubtful scissors and people question Swiss Army Knives because their scissors are functional. East Asian multi-tools have more variety, larger, and much more effective scissor setups including on-the-same-scale-as-the-pliers scissors.

I can only conclude that scissors are femme-coded and that it is thus wrong to treat them like they're important.

Which is supported by the use of "shears" for anything in a trade; tailor's, pattern, etc.

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@graydon @futurebird @epicdemiologist The femme-coded scissors comment stuck with me, hadn't thought much about it before, nor in a multi-tool context.

"Western" would be the small scissors on Leatherman? Compared with some of the offerings by Roxon or Nextool?

I have a couple of pairs of electrical scissors, they are sold as KEVLAR SHEARS, which always amused me, and feeds into what you are saying. (I've never cut Kevlar with them.)

Or the adjective TACTICAL being sprinkled gaily and joyfully over decidedly mundane items to make them hard and manly.

@mediaevalfishsandwich Western would indeed be the scissors on a Leatherman (or SOG) where by default, there aren't any. (RAPTOR or PARASHEARS if you insist), and yes, compared to Roxon or Nextool where the scissors are the same scale as the pliers or if they're not they're a main secondary tool on the same scale as the knife blades.

So far as I can tell this is broadly general; better things are expected of default general purpose scissors in East Asia.

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@graydon @mediaevalfishsandwich @epicdemiologist

"parashears"

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@futurebird @mediaevalfishsandwich @epicdemiologist If you want made-in-the-USA good scissors, they won't be called scissors.

There are excellent trauma shears (presumably for EMTs though the better companies admit nurses might want some and produce a range of handle colours broader than red and black) and odd corners of trades (e.g., pattern shears) but just in general scissors are a lot worse made and worse designed than they ought to be given the prevailing constraints of technology.

@futurebird @mediaevalfishsandwich @epicdemiologist If you want made-in-the-USA good scissors, they won't be called scissors.

There are excellent trauma shears (presumably for EMTs though the better companies admit nurses might want some and produce a range of handle colours broader than red and black) and odd corners of trades (e.g., pattern shears) but just in general scissors are a lot worse made and worse designed than they ought to be given the prevailing constraints of technology.