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flosofl posted:I've only seem them used for drafting. They use 2mm leads and you still need to sharpen them, usually with a strip of sandpaper. They do make the leads in different hardness, so I suppose they could be used for traditional pencil drawings. Yes they can. I do photorealistic drawings and I primarily use a mechanical pencil. I've literally never used a knife to sharpen a traditional pencil -- a cheapo tiny metal manual sharpener can get an amazingly sharp point.
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tacodaemon posted:Sapporo Ichiban Kitsune Udon is my instant-ramen pick Where do you get that? My main source is http://www.tokyocentral.com/p-550-toyo-maruchan-cup-noodle-akai-kitsune-udon-34oz.aspx but I want to try that one.
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electricHyena posted:Yes they can. I do photorealistic drawings and I primarily use a mechanical pencil. I've literally never used a knife to sharpen a traditional pencil -- a cheapo tiny metal manual sharpener can get an amazingly sharp point.  I still have a collection of drawing pencils from high school but my favourite has always been a fat mechanical pencil with the clicker on the side that I've had for over 8 years. I used it for a lot of photorealistic drawings.  I do most sketches with it, too. And I like the small sharpeners, they usually work well. I like the ones that make a shorter cut portion and a smaller tip.
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In elementary school pencil sharpeners were banned because people kept taking the blades out and making shanks, so we had to lifehack and sharpen pencils against the concrete during recess.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:In elementary school pencil sharpeners were banned because people kept taking the blades out and making shanks, so we had to lifehack and sharpen pencils against the concrete during recess. If you want to make a real loving shank you take a Pringles can, bend the bottom in half and boom. Two razor sharp pieces of metal with nice rounded handles. I used to do that at lunch all the time just because I could and honestly I should have gotten suspended or expelled for that  One of my friends didn't believe how sharp they actually were and sliced his finger wide the gently caress open on it one time too.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:In elementary school pencil sharpeners were banned because people kept taking the blades out and making shanks, so we had to lifehack and sharpen pencils against the concrete during recess.  Normally it's the shanks that are sharpened against the concrete, not the pencils.
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Sep 5, 2016 06:47
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In my elementary cigarettes were banned so we had to make do with rolled up paper tubes.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:In elementary school pencil sharpeners were banned because people kept taking the blades out and making shanks, so we had to lifehack and sharpen pencils against the concrete during recess. Well apart from the pupils who had shanks.
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Sep 5, 2016 07:47
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We didn't have much use for shanks because, you know, knives had already been invented.
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Sep 5, 2016 07:49
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We didn't have much use for shanks because, you know, why the gently caress are you shanking people in elementary school?
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Sep 5, 2016 08:33
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Maybe it's a regional thing? We made shanks in my highschool, because it was the only way to get weapons past the dogs / metal detectors. (The dogs were for drugs though.)
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Sep 5, 2016 09:18
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Why did you need weapons?
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twoday posted:Why did you need weapons? To fend off the dogs? Who knows what goes on in third-world countries 
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Croccers posted:We didn't have much use for shanks because, you know, why the gently caress are you shanking people in elementary school? Well, itīs shank or be shanked. 
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om nom nom posted:Man, when I was working in Yellowstone I had a guy working for me from China, he had brought a case of some chili garlic paste with like little bits of crispy bacon in it, and have me a jar. It was super spicy and flavorful. Holy poo poo, that was the best thing I've ever had. But he didn't speak English very well, and all of the characters on the bottle were Chinese. So I have no idea what it was and will likely never find it again. I was so sad when I finished the bottle off. Post a picture of the container if you have one and I can hook you up.
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Sep 5, 2016 13:30
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In Florida we made shanks in middle school as personal protection if you need further evidence against Florida or anything
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Our elementary school teachers already figured out that we were doing shanks out of pringles' bottoms so we made shanks out of pen springs bound together. Once you got past the dogs, the metal detectors, the barbed wire and the death strip - shanking a random guy at the right time was the only way to lure the class captains out of their watchtowers.
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Sep 5, 2016 14:40
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Lol, just lol at you poors and your shanks. My grandfather gave me a real knife when I was 8.
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Karate Bastard posted:GIFts from the GIF thread! I've seen this recommended before, but it was to keep one bun from getting too soggy.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:In elementary school pencil sharpeners were banned because people kept taking the blades out and making shanks, so we had to lifehack and sharpen pencils against the concrete during recess. Did you not have one of these screwed into the wall by the door?? 
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Sep 5, 2016 16:47
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Lol if Enrique doesn't shank your fellow schoolchildren for you.
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Paladinus posted:Lol, just lol at you poors and your shanks. How precious, what are you, 40? No way you'd get a real knife past the metal detectors today. So unless grandfather was Solid Snake and gave you a carbon-fiber combat knife, that's not seeing the inside of a school.
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Lol if you live somewhere where schools install metal detectors.
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DekeThornton posted:Lol if you live somewhere where schools install metal detectors. They need to, what with the constant shankings.
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Sep 5, 2016 18:47
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I know we're joking, but seriously, it was mostly just to protect yourself and not get robbed in between classes. E: It's fairly common in Los Angeles, where I grew up at least.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Lol if Enrique doesn't shank your fellow schoolchildren for you. he did until i ran out of money and then he shanked me
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Warbird posted:Post a picture of the container if you have one and I can hook you up. I appreciate it, but this is going on 5 years, and 4 moves ago. Unfortunately the container didn't make it. It is but a fond memory at this point.
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Sep 5, 2016 20:36
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My friend, a martial arts teacher, gave his son a small folding knife for his first birthday. The kid couldn't get it open until he was three, cut himself once but not badly (because how much damage can you do to yourself when you're three?) and now the kid is 12 and pretty responsible with weapons.
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Poldarn posted:My friend, a martial arts teacher, gave his son a small folding knife for his first birthday. The kid couldn't get it open until he was three, cut himself once but not badly (because how much damage can you do to yourself when you're three?) and now the kid is 12 and pretty responsible with weapons. he could also have killed himself which i guess would also instill care with weapons in a different way
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Poldarn posted:(because how much damage can you do to yourself when you're three?) Plenty, if you have a loving knife?
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om nom nom posted:I appreciate it, but this is going on 5 years, and 4 moves ago. Unfortunately the container didn't make it. It is but a fond memory at this point. Could you sketch out an artist's rendition of the container?
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Yeah, it's not hard to inflict a fatal injury on yourself with a large enough knife, and if you're THREE a large enough knife becomes 'anything sharper than a baby spoon'. Especially since very small children have almost no sense of self preservation or ability to gauge danger, since those are learned behaviors.
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Sep 5, 2016 22:27
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It was a penknife about the size of a childs pinkie.
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That kid was incredibly inept at the one task every kid seems to have. The job of a parent at that age is basically 24/7 suicide watch. Also, a pen knife isn't small for a body that physical size, and there are plenty of arteries that are unprotected and easy to hit on accident
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The kid was definitely under supervision.
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Polyseme posted:Making a disposable single-use item useable again with minimal effort? Yeah, I'd do that. I already toss plastic forks and terrible chopsticks in the dishwasher if there's space. Needs to involve more melting plastic to be a proper lifehack, I'd say. If you eat enough Chinese/Japanese/Korean food that you're keeping chopsticks, just go to your nearest Chinatown and/or Asian grocery store and buy some of those melamine ones they have in the nicer Chinese restaurants. Those you actually CAN throw in the dishwasher, no problem. Of course I had a lot more before my brother broke several pairs. 
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Isn't melamine toxic?
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I got stainless steel chopsticks but they have a terrible mouth feel so now I just use them to stir things.Poldarn posted:The kid was definitely under supervision. lol
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Subjunctive posted:Isn't melamine toxic? If you eat it, yes. Typically you don't eat the disposable wood ones, either.
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Eponine posted:If you eat it, yes. Typically you don't eat the disposable wood ones, either. Why waste free stuff?
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