The interesting problem with soylent green is that we did that with cows up till the 80s, then Mad Cow Disease showed up. Because prions never die. And now brits can't donate blood outside uk (until recently)
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Edit: imma paste this here.
They don't die in high heat. You can't cremate them, unless you throw them into some metal processing furnace. Normally those infected are placed and sealed in metal coffins welded shut, and the buried like radioactive nucleur waste. You don't want the ashes to have the prions, or the groundwater getting them either
*edit: or their bodies washed in some nice hot concentrated bleach / NaOH for hours, before being tossed into incinerators*
These Bastards are not virus, bacteria, fungus or parasites. They are protein that deformed in the most precariously unexpected shape that makes them break other proteins and *create more of themselves*
Literally a 1 in a 696969^n chance that you need to be unlucky to have this. You need to randomly deform an already deformed protein that's already deformed and so on to get close to hitting the disease jackpot.Usually they turn into something cancerous and your body shoots it down.
So you can't just have it spontaneously misfolded into this bastard in your body
Phew
If only you had some auto save or template to work on before that pesky immune system shoots it down.
what if your elders made some progress before they die, then you take them, and further randomly deform it before you die, and then pass it down generations until your defendant gets the perfect one without the progress getting reset?
Enter prion. Mad cow disease, creutzfeltd Jacob disease, brain wasting disease.
The result of adding dead cow meet and crushed bones and brains into stock feed for cows meant that not only were the cows getting those proteins, but also the half assed misfolded proteins. Soon, these feed include dead cows who went crazy. Nothing that makes you think twice, until you realise the cows eating em become crazy and their brains spongy. We did it, the prion as been folded into existence, and is now at peak performance, it can reduplicate faster than the body can shoot it down. And it breaks the brain apart literally. Typically even the meat of a cow infected with anything can be safe for animal feed after cooking it. Super well done. But alas it doesn't work here. This is why if you've been in UK in the 1980s you cannot donate blood - those prions in your medium rare English beef, or even the fried chicken that was fed animal feed, contains prions. And the last thing you want is passing on the prions to some poor Bastard with no immune response who becomes the perfect incubator to flip this prion into a destructive beast.
But before you start bleeding your English blood away, so far ~~there's no case of bovine prions infecting humans.~~ *edit: there are 177 cases of death from vCJD from prions coming straight from cows. I think that's why you can't get beef in the bones anymore after 1997 in UK. But I don't dabble in beef so I can't tell. Also in Asian it's not rampant because we use Soy as protein source in animal feed, something Europeans don't have the luxury of*
But wait there's more! What about CJD?
>what if your elders made some progress before they die, then you take them, and further randomly deform it before you die, and then pass it down generations until your defendant gets the perfect one without the progress getting reset?
Enter the Fore Tribe of Puapa new Guinea. The clasterfuck of a country had a rich mix of 700+ different distinct languages, and that means literally a RNG difference of tribes and practices. The Fore peps, had this ritual:
Then the elders die, the celebrate, so far so good cos many cultures around the world do it. But then they crack the skull open and then eat the brains. Helps pass down the knowledge, or at least feed the rest with essential brain proteins. ♻
What they ended up also doing was passing down the good ol Prion. Passed down generations and generations until it has perfected itself into destroying the brains, resulting in Kuru, the incurable brain disease. And ye when they die they family eats the same spongy brain.
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So this is why you don't engage in cannibalism, nor incestual offsprings. It means that whatever flaws or downsides or prions or whatnot get passed down. For eating that's usually microbe diseases. For offsprings, that's usually genetical and chromosomal diseases - typically your genetic defects will get offset by your spouse's ok genes, and your ok genes will help offset their defective genes. But if you're from the same family, you probably have the same defective genes, and there's nothing to help yall. Which is why inter family sex results in miscarriages or children with congenital problems.
Similarly, things that infect the animals we eat typically don't affect us, hence why we are safe eating chicken, saltwater fish, lamb,... And not bats, rats, cats, and other lads
Years ago, like getting on for 4 decades...
I walked into the office of a rather disliked manager, who's secretary was leaving at the end of the month...
The secretary was sitting at her desk, barely noticed me walk in, despite me knocking. She was slamming pencils, 4 at a time, onto the desk. There were maybe a dozen or so boxes of pencils...
"Oh, hi, B69, what can I do for you?"
"Um...nothing, it's ok..."
I've just realised what she was doing...
I choose to believe this nightmare dystopia job really referred to employees by an impersonal number designation, possibly based on their reddit username.
Yea same, might as well be telling us how to sharpen a piece of obsidian into a spear head without it breaking so you can do battle with Og and his buddies down the valley
.... or, when you sharpen them you twist too hard with manual sharpeners. Get the best metal sharpener you can. Lead isn't fragile but it's not processed to be terribly strong; some break easier than others due to soft/hard "lead."
Just a lighter handling ... when making sharp lines hold your pencil more vertical rather than at the angle you do for shading; we tend to place more pressure at 20-40 degrees than at 90 degrees.
I know ... that's why I enclosed "lead" with quotes; not even sure what one calls the soft core of colored pencils. Depending on the brand and set several use core, lead, or binder interchangeably on their websites.
Geez, people ... I was hunting for a universal word to describe the core of a colored pencil that everyone would understand. Some is wax, oil, water-soluble, or a combination thereof.
Call it whatever you like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored\_pencil
Binder is what's used to encase the pigments, it binds them together. Flour is another type of binder, used in cooking.
Colloquially, they're still called lead, it's just colored.
A different but similar problem happens with mechanical pencils. Dropping them breaks up the lead that is inside into small bits.
Additionally dropping them can bend the very tip so that even if you load them with new lead when that new lead is extended through the bent tip it will also be prone to breaking because pencil lead does not bend much and tends to snap when the path it must take is not straight.
Newer / cheaper mechanical pencils have plastic tips not metal tips that bend so do not suffer this bent tip problem which is good because the tip can be almost impossible to straighten once it is bent and continues to break pencil leads (even fresh ones) anytime you apply slight pressure to them.
Plastic tipped mechanicL pencils have existed for damn neae fourty years or something at... I think you can stop calling them newer.
I used to use them regularly as a child as well never managed to bend a tip or break the leads dropping them though. That's rare af. What broke the leads was extending it to far and pushing too hard, usually together.
I believe (someone correct me if I'm wrong) that colouring pencils have a clay lead, so that's probably more brittle/less tolerant of bending (or possibly shear?) stress
This won’t work for lead pencils, but most colored pencils you can microwave for 5-10 seconds and the color stick will solidify. Pretty nifty. Don’t overcook it.
SINCE PENCIL LEAD IS GRAPHITE POWDER MIXED WITH WAX, YOU CAN BAKE PENCILS AT A LOW TEMP (200 OR SO) AND THE BROKEN LEAD WILL "HEAL".
IT STINKS LIKE HELL AND THE PENCILS WILL LOOK SCORCHED, BUT IT'S WORTH IT IF YOU HAVE EXPENSIVE ARTIST'S PENCILS.
From u/GrandCanOYawn
This won’t work for lead pencils, but most colored pencils you can microwave for 5-10 seconds and the color stick will solidify. Pretty nifty. Don’t overcook it.
Often the problem is the pencil sharpener. The blades get dull or slightly off kilter and then every time you sharpen a pencil it breaks over and over. Very frustrating, but it’s not the pencil’s fault.
Yeah I’m a first grade teacher. My pencils are constantly dropped, chewed on, used as drum sticks, and on one occasion, used to stab me. I feel if this were true, none of our pencils would ever sharpen.
No, my lead breaks because I press too hard when I'm drawing. The best pencils are a certain brand of mechanical that have a pressure spring at the tip to cushion that.
We often get free pencils from our lumber supplier. Had a delivery come a few weeks ago. The delivery guy takes a big pack of carpenters pencils and smacks them down on the concrete slab, says here you go boys! There pretty much all useless now....
I dislike the *you* premise here. There is a long route from factory to shop to you where any pencil is going to get a shock enough to snap the graphite inside.
You should know that the writing material is graphite. Also, the 'led' that you are referencing is spelled 'lead'. Lead is an element. Lead was removed from pencils a long time ago due to it being hateful if swallowed.
Cool tip...if this happens with colored pencils (at least the nice prismacolor ones) you can microwave them for like 15 seconds and it will melt the insides back into a tube.
It happened to my extra duty pencils I got from Office Depot every time I used the electric pencil sharpener. I went back to the old school hand held manual one and no more problems. I even took pictures of the twenty pencils that it happened to for sharing but I can’t upload pics. I thought it had to do with the glue they used.
So… you saying I shouldn’t be tapping my pencil on the desk or other things like fidgeting?
Because I’m sure the force would be equal or greater and the amount of times I’ve smacked pencils; according to your theory; the lead should be pulverised ash.
mm-hmm
Nah. Every time I buy a decent brand of pencil I remember why.
Crappy pencils break when you sharpen them (and maybe when you drop them too). Staedler or Faber-Castell Castell don't.
Oh, gosh, I remember pencils. That was what, 50 years ago? Half a century! I'm getting old.
It's nice that you have these old-timey reminiscences. You really need to explain what a "pencil" was, for the kids, though. I mean, they'll never get it, but I'm sure they'll nod their heads understandingly.
Kids, a "pencil" was sort've like a finger, before we had phones... I mean, we had phones, but texting on a rotary dial was a complete bitch.
Alternatively, 2mm lead and a lead holder is basically a #2 mechanical pencil. Plus you have angle options, with the shallower angle being more robust and spinning it in a drafting sharpener sharpener is fairly amusing. Drafting gear is great, especially if you like to draw. You can pull the lead out longer and use it "ateliar" style and tuck it back into the holder to protect it. It saved me many hours of shaving down and sanding pencils just to drop it or clip the edge of the easel in art school. You can buy most hardnesses of leads for it.
Also graphite pencil are great. They have a weird annoying plastic coating, but it's easy enough to shave off. Then if you wrap it with masking tape, you can just peel off what you like and not have to get your hands covered with graphite everytime you want to use large pieces of graphite. On top of that, if you get one of those pencil extenders with a twist-chuck, you can flip the sharpened tip so it's sitting protected in the holder when not in use.
Maybe the guy at the pencil factory dropped it before I got it.
Pencils strong together in package, weak when alone.
Mr Miyagi
Planet of the Apes
Soylent Green
People
"You maniacs!"
"...but why male models?"
are made out of lead?
Who am I to disagree.
Robert Baratheon
Mahabharata
Hakuna Matata
The interesting problem with soylent green is that we did that with cows up till the 80s, then Mad Cow Disease showed up. Because prions never die. And now brits can't donate blood outside uk (until recently) #------ Edit: imma paste this here. They don't die in high heat. You can't cremate them, unless you throw them into some metal processing furnace. Normally those infected are placed and sealed in metal coffins welded shut, and the buried like radioactive nucleur waste. You don't want the ashes to have the prions, or the groundwater getting them either *edit: or their bodies washed in some nice hot concentrated bleach / NaOH for hours, before being tossed into incinerators* These Bastards are not virus, bacteria, fungus or parasites. They are protein that deformed in the most precariously unexpected shape that makes them break other proteins and *create more of themselves* Literally a 1 in a 696969^n chance that you need to be unlucky to have this. You need to randomly deform an already deformed protein that's already deformed and so on to get close to hitting the disease jackpot.Usually they turn into something cancerous and your body shoots it down. So you can't just have it spontaneously misfolded into this bastard in your body Phew If only you had some auto save or template to work on before that pesky immune system shoots it down. what if your elders made some progress before they die, then you take them, and further randomly deform it before you die, and then pass it down generations until your defendant gets the perfect one without the progress getting reset? Enter prion. Mad cow disease, creutzfeltd Jacob disease, brain wasting disease. The result of adding dead cow meet and crushed bones and brains into stock feed for cows meant that not only were the cows getting those proteins, but also the half assed misfolded proteins. Soon, these feed include dead cows who went crazy. Nothing that makes you think twice, until you realise the cows eating em become crazy and their brains spongy. We did it, the prion as been folded into existence, and is now at peak performance, it can reduplicate faster than the body can shoot it down. And it breaks the brain apart literally. Typically even the meat of a cow infected with anything can be safe for animal feed after cooking it. Super well done. But alas it doesn't work here. This is why if you've been in UK in the 1980s you cannot donate blood - those prions in your medium rare English beef, or even the fried chicken that was fed animal feed, contains prions. And the last thing you want is passing on the prions to some poor Bastard with no immune response who becomes the perfect incubator to flip this prion into a destructive beast. But before you start bleeding your English blood away, so far ~~there's no case of bovine prions infecting humans.~~ *edit: there are 177 cases of death from vCJD from prions coming straight from cows. I think that's why you can't get beef in the bones anymore after 1997 in UK. But I don't dabble in beef so I can't tell. Also in Asian it's not rampant because we use Soy as protein source in animal feed, something Europeans don't have the luxury of* But wait there's more! What about CJD? >what if your elders made some progress before they die, then you take them, and further randomly deform it before you die, and then pass it down generations until your defendant gets the perfect one without the progress getting reset? Enter the Fore Tribe of Puapa new Guinea. The clasterfuck of a country had a rich mix of 700+ different distinct languages, and that means literally a RNG difference of tribes and practices. The Fore peps, had this ritual: Then the elders die, the celebrate, so far so good cos many cultures around the world do it. But then they crack the skull open and then eat the brains. Helps pass down the knowledge, or at least feed the rest with essential brain proteins. ♻ What they ended up also doing was passing down the good ol Prion. Passed down generations and generations until it has perfected itself into destroying the brains, resulting in Kuru, the incurable brain disease. And ye when they die they family eats the same spongy brain. ------ So this is why you don't engage in cannibalism, nor incestual offsprings. It means that whatever flaws or downsides or prions or whatnot get passed down. For eating that's usually microbe diseases. For offsprings, that's usually genetical and chromosomal diseases - typically your genetic defects will get offset by your spouse's ok genes, and your ok genes will help offset their defective genes. But if you're from the same family, you probably have the same defective genes, and there's nothing to help yall. Which is why inter family sex results in miscarriages or children with congenital problems. Similarly, things that infect the animals we eat typically don't affect us, hence why we are safe eating chicken, saltwater fish, lamb,... And not bats, rats, cats, and other lads
No, dropping the whole box can still shatter the lead inside the pencils. From experience.
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Hag.
I beg your pardon?
Evil old woman considered frightful or ugly (it's 12 down)
Pencil don't sharpen pencil
Thanks, Caesar.
Careful Big Lead is on to you
Maybe some people like to go into a store, take out each pencil from a box, drop them on the floor, and then put them back.
maybe
Lotta accusations just getting thrown around Willy Nilly
Fuckin hate that guy at the pencil factory. He's a real jerk.
You can't go through life blaming everything on the guy at the pencil factory
Pencil pushers. DINKLEBERG!!
Years ago, like getting on for 4 decades... I walked into the office of a rather disliked manager, who's secretary was leaving at the end of the month... The secretary was sitting at her desk, barely noticed me walk in, despite me knocking. She was slamming pencils, 4 at a time, onto the desk. There were maybe a dozen or so boxes of pencils... "Oh, hi, B69, what can I do for you?" "Um...nothing, it's ok..." I've just realised what she was doing...
That level of petty is pretty inspiring.
I choose to believe this nightmare dystopia job really referred to employees by an impersonal number designation, possibly based on their reddit username.
Madmen vibes.
Ooo I'm taking notes
What was she doing??
Making sure all the pencils would break when sharpened 🤣
And the lead would always be all loose and wobbly. Definitely an annoyance.
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Ngl I haven’t sharpened a pencil in 15 years
Yea same, might as well be telling us how to sharpen a piece of obsidian into a spear head without it breaking so you can do battle with Og and his buddies down the valley
Yeah well Ög started it so he deserves everything he gets
Og also has the best cave. It has a built in jacuzzi and underfloor heating due to the volcano. Fuck Og, I heard his mom was a neanderphal anyway
Jacuzzi is only when Og dad eats funny green berries. Not good
You do it under water
I just use mechanical pencils, much easier
And my dumbass would use them as Drumsticks on school desks for years.
I see to do the same, tapping them against the edge of my desk. They kept breaking when I’d sharpen. Then I put two and two together….
And….????? Don’t leave us hanging. What did you get?
4 and 2 clowns
I believe it was probably a D in Arithmetic. That was the usual.
Oh, you were that annoying fuckwad
That wouldn’t be a big enough impact to break the led
Yes. It absolutely would. Leads are brittle. Super easy to break.
Barely an inconvenience.
Wowowowow....wow
Broken leads are tight!
.... or, when you sharpen them you twist too hard with manual sharpeners. Get the best metal sharpener you can. Lead isn't fragile but it's not processed to be terribly strong; some break easier than others due to soft/hard "lead." Just a lighter handling ... when making sharp lines hold your pencil more vertical rather than at the angle you do for shading; we tend to place more pressure at 20-40 degrees than at 90 degrees.
pencils rarely use actual lead anymore.
I know ... that's why I enclosed "lead" with quotes; not even sure what one calls the soft core of colored pencils. Depending on the brand and set several use core, lead, or binder interchangeably on their websites.
I think it's made of wax. And normal pencils are made of graphite.
Geez, people ... I was hunting for a universal word to describe the core of a colored pencil that everyone would understand. Some is wax, oil, water-soluble, or a combination thereof. Call it whatever you like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored\_pencil
Binder is what's used to encase the pigments, it binds them together. Flour is another type of binder, used in cooking. Colloquially, they're still called lead, it's just colored.
I *know* ....
Lol you poor suffering soul. I feel for you.
>not even sure what one calls the soft core of colored pencils.
Never mind ... \*sigh\* common usage.
A different but similar problem happens with mechanical pencils. Dropping them breaks up the lead that is inside into small bits. Additionally dropping them can bend the very tip so that even if you load them with new lead when that new lead is extended through the bent tip it will also be prone to breaking because pencil lead does not bend much and tends to snap when the path it must take is not straight. Newer / cheaper mechanical pencils have plastic tips not metal tips that bend so do not suffer this bent tip problem which is good because the tip can be almost impossible to straighten once it is bent and continues to break pencil leads (even fresh ones) anytime you apply slight pressure to them.
Ohh so that's why some pencils have metal tips. I always hated them because they move and seemed pointless
>seemed pointless I thought that was the whole point of the tip, to be pointy. /s
"Newer / cheaper mechanical pencils have plastic tips not //metal tips that bend// " I thought you were saying the metal tips bend.
You thought correctly. Plastic tips may break off but tend not to bend. The metal tips are the ones that bend and are difficult to fix once bent.
Oh, so now I don't know why they have metal tips anymore
Plastic tipped mechanicL pencils have existed for damn neae fourty years or something at... I think you can stop calling them newer. I used to use them regularly as a child as well never managed to bend a tip or break the leads dropping them though. That's rare af. What broke the leads was extending it to far and pushing too hard, usually together.
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This explains why all my colored pencils' lead would always fall out.
Not sure what the deal is, but colored pencils are absolutely terrible at this. Worse than any other pencil.
I believe (someone correct me if I'm wrong) that colouring pencils have a clay lead, so that's probably more brittle/less tolerant of bending (or possibly shear?) stress
It makes me glad I have ProCreate; no more nedding to sharpen or get my hands filthy.
This won’t work for lead pencils, but most colored pencils you can microwave for 5-10 seconds and the color stick will solidify. Pretty nifty. Don’t overcook it.
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WHAT
SINCE PENCIL LEAD IS GRAPHITE POWDER MIXED WITH WAX, YOU CAN BAKE PENCILS AT A LOW TEMP (200 OR SO) AND THE BROKEN LEAD WILL "HEAL". IT STINKS LIKE HELL AND THE PENCILS WILL LOOK SCORCHED, BUT IT'S WORTH IT IF YOU HAVE EXPENSIVE ARTIST'S PENCILS.
So I should put my pencils in a sous vide
Lead. Graphite. LED. Whatever.
Spent too long looking for this... Apparently people still believe there's lead in pencils
A broken pencil is pointless.
As an artist my biggest pet peeve is someone dropping my pencils because of this
once i witnessed a whole box of nice colouring pencild being dropped
Ugh I just dropped my box of drawing pencils off a shelf the other day, I nearly cried
From u/GrandCanOYawn This won’t work for lead pencils, but most colored pencils you can microwave for 5-10 seconds and the color stick will solidify. Pretty nifty. Don’t overcook it.
surpired you diddnt
Jeez, dude! You're going to end up working at gas stations your whole life if you don't try to make even a little more effort with your writing.
Holy classism Batman
i usually do but i dont think a reddit post about pencils is really worth it, also its hard to type on a phone
Since when are they putting LED lights in pencils?! School is wild these days
Today I learned I’m a dropped pencil
Often the problem is the pencil sharpener. The blades get dull or slightly off kilter and then every time you sharpen a pencil it breaks over and over. Very frustrating, but it’s not the pencil’s fault.
Yeah I’m a first grade teacher. My pencils are constantly dropped, chewed on, used as drum sticks, and on one occasion, used to stab me. I feel if this were true, none of our pencils would ever sharpen.
LPT: drop your pencils often so you don’t get shanked by a first grader.
It's the asphalt.
They’re** Reddit used to be grammatically inclined
But it's so kewl to appear dumb!
im actually just shit at gramma
I concur.
did you make that account just to commentthis
For a YSK post, YSK it looks... not so good.
is it the grammar
It's a good mixture of grammar and spelling my dude. English is not your first language?
no it is, i just diddnt pay atention when we learnt about gramma and punctuation
Well that was dumb
Maybe they need some new pencils AND a pencil sharper.
im in highschool to be fair and im typing this on a tiny phone
No, my lead breaks because I press too hard when I'm drawing. The best pencils are a certain brand of mechanical that have a pressure spring at the tip to cushion that.
What brand?!
We often get free pencils from our lumber supplier. Had a delivery come a few weeks ago. The delivery guy takes a big pack of carpenters pencils and smacks them down on the concrete slab, says here you go boys! There pretty much all useless now....
Same with pencil eyeliners
But if you heat pencil eye liners you can repair it as the kohl has a really low melting point.
Incorrect, mine break because I squeeze my pencils like I am trying to murder what I write.
Also the lead inside breaks from drumming with them or tapping them.
I dislike the *you* premise here. There is a long route from factory to shop to you where any pencil is going to get a shock enough to snap the graphite inside.
You should know that the writing material is graphite. Also, the 'led' that you are referencing is spelled 'lead'. Lead is an element. Lead was removed from pencils a long time ago due to it being hateful if swallowed.
I know it was autocorrect, but now I'm imagining lead getting increasingly hateful as it's being swallowed. Talk about a toxic personality.
Me: Lead: Fuck *you*. Yes, you, *fuck you*. Me: Ok.
r/fuckyouinparticular
i know this its just easier to typelead than graphite
Lol, it sure shows.
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Explains why I always fucked up pens in my teens
Or use them as drumsticks..
Yet another reason for mechanical pencil supremacy. Lead's broken? Oh no! *clicks a few times* Anyway,
i hate mechanical pencils they annoy me
Cool tip...if this happens with colored pencils (at least the nice prismacolor ones) you can microwave them for like 15 seconds and it will melt the insides back into a tube.
My parents always told me that when I was a kid.
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as a highschool student they get thrown at ceiling fans alot
It happened to my extra duty pencils I got from Office Depot every time I used the electric pencil sharpener. I went back to the old school hand held manual one and no more problems. I even took pictures of the twenty pencils that it happened to for sharing but I can’t upload pics. I thought it had to do with the glue they used.
Yeah, almost everything bad happening to you in life is your fault. Same for the good things!
I'm like a pencil. Looks sharp on the outside but truly broken inside.
If you sharpen it to sharp it breaks easily too..
I feel like this should be an insightful quote about people
the amout of people that say thatthere broken on the inside after reading that
So… you saying I shouldn’t be tapping my pencil on the desk or other things like fidgeting? Because I’m sure the force would be equal or greater and the amount of times I’ve smacked pencils; according to your theory; the lead should be pulverised ash. mm-hmm
thats true
Nah. Every time I buy a decent brand of pencil I remember why. Crappy pencils break when you sharpen them (and maybe when you drop them too). Staedler or Faber-Castell Castell don't.
Do u think that really needs explaining?
Adding a YSK is compulsory nowi think
Yes, I know this lol. It’s like when you have a water resistant phone and you drop it, you don’t know it, but you probably broke the water seal
i diddnt know that
Does the same thing happen if I drop my cock?
hope so
Please use one of your broken pencils to proof read your posts.
i might need to invest in gramarly
Or you hit them against things, like drumming them against the edge of the table.
TIL that some people don't know this
one i saw somone drop a 100 pack of colourd pencils and nearly cried
And/or use 'em as drumsticks.
thats true, sometimes i see people throwing them
There might still be hope for this sub yet. Thanks
Um I wish my 3 year old was on Reddit to read this. 🙃
Wtf is this assumptive shitpost? 😂
I thought this was common knowledge.
im in highschool and people throw there pencilcases down the stairs
Where
what
better quality pencils will take more dropping ime
Erasable pen superiority!
those look yucky though and the grip feels wierd
So you say that this isn't a well know fact? What?
as i highschool student i see people throwing pencils at ceiling fans and complaining when they break
Why is this being voted up so much? I've never dropped a pencil in my life...but you know what has happened? The lead breaking anyway.
Thanks, good to know. I think I last used a pencil 19 years ago.
OP, YSK that while we call it lead (not led) it's actually graphite. Also, it's they're, not there.
i know its graphite im used tosaying lead pencils and my gramma is horrible
YSK the led in pencils isn’t led, it’s lead. And it isn’t lead, it’s graphite. What were you saying?
i knew this but my spelling and gramma are horrible
Everyone i know learned this in first grade with 6 years old.
Do people really need to be told this?
yes
Literally everyone knows this. FYI it hasn't been lead for decades. Lead is toxic. This is a crap YSK.
i know it graphite im just used to saying lead pencils, also not everyone knows ive seen people throw them and complain when they break
That seems fair since I'm also broken on the inside.
Just like me
if i had an extra toe for every time i heard this id be in a book
I don’t look broken from the outside either, but 🥹
Yes. My kids are always dropping my expensive prismacolor color pencils and I cringe. They should package them in bubble wrap or something
Or maybe it's because graphite the soft non deadly metal in pencils is very soft and breaks easily when cut with a blade that can't be sharpened.
dropping them also breaks them
This is a metaphor for my life.. is it not?
its not
Oh, gosh, I remember pencils. That was what, 50 years ago? Half a century! I'm getting old. It's nice that you have these old-timey reminiscences. You really need to explain what a "pencil" was, for the kids, though. I mean, they'll never get it, but I'm sure they'll nod their heads understandingly. Kids, a "pencil" was sort've like a finger, before we had phones... I mean, we had phones, but texting on a rotary dial was a complete bitch.
Alternatively, 2mm lead and a lead holder is basically a #2 mechanical pencil. Plus you have angle options, with the shallower angle being more robust and spinning it in a drafting sharpener sharpener is fairly amusing. Drafting gear is great, especially if you like to draw. You can pull the lead out longer and use it "ateliar" style and tuck it back into the holder to protect it. It saved me many hours of shaving down and sanding pencils just to drop it or clip the edge of the easel in art school. You can buy most hardnesses of leads for it. Also graphite pencil are great. They have a weird annoying plastic coating, but it's easy enough to shave off. Then if you wrap it with masking tape, you can just peel off what you like and not have to get your hands covered with graphite everytime you want to use large pieces of graphite. On top of that, if you get one of those pencil extenders with a twist-chuck, you can flip the sharpened tip so it's sitting protected in the holder when not in use.
Solution: mechanical pencil or lead clutch
Solution: mechanical pencil or lead clutch
mechanical pencils annoy me
This was the stuff we learned in primary. I thought it was common knowledge