As a lefty it feels extra special when I get that glide finally
Submitted 11 months ago by Spot@startrek.website to risa@startrek.website
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ummthatguy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
jayandp@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Until it stops randomly and tears at a 90° angle from the direction you were going…
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
as a clutz it feels good until I check out the angle I cut across
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 11 months ago
i gotta admit.. i thought this was going to be a play on astro glide. ..hmmmmmmmmm
porthos@startrek.website 11 months ago
It’s called going to warp, impulse is when you have to manually chop.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Are there any good left-handed scissors?
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 11 months ago
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Damn, Flanders made it online!
Spot@startrek.website 11 months ago
I found a decent pair on Amazon and I think it has helped with the regularity I am hitting that sweet spot.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I have several great ones. Got them at Walmart.
poppy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Asafum@feddit.nl 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!
the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Do you have lefty scissors? I’ve never tried them before
aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 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 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.
ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Like when the turbo kicks in
aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 11 months ago
I’m in my mid 20s and still can’t use normal scissors due to how left dominant I am lmao. Left handed, left footed, left eye dominant. Even the left side of my face is more handsome 💀
porthos@startrek.website 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 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 11 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.
orbitz@lemmy.ca 11 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@lemmy.world 11 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
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
it’s barely December. Who even thinks of wrapping presents now?
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Adults
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I take offense to this as someone who hasn’t even started shopping yet.
xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 11 months ago
shhhh
just get them fuzzy socks that’s what they truly want
Spot@startrek.website 11 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.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Shopping for what?
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Winter supplies, I guess? Something about a big log and not dying in icy conditions.