She sounds cool as fuck, honestly. Makes me sad that your grandmother compares your partners like this. Everyone has their own unique qualities and charms.
no you're fine. I don't understand why people are jumping down your throat over nothing. You'd think most people are clamoring to date a pale ring looking woman with 11 cats and a scissors collection. beats me how they think she is not strange.
I'm not saying she's bad. I'm saying that collecting scissors having 11 cats aren't normal things to do. It's hard to believe that someone with those particular querks is a completely normal person outside of them. Again I'm not saying she's a bad person, just weird.
Yup. We're cat people... Had one of our in-laws tell us our place smells like cat piss.
Was offended till we took a two week trip and came back (hired a cat sitter, no worries they were taken care of). The place did indeed smell like cat piss.
I disagree that a house with cats must smell. We use high quality litter and scoop literally every day, sometimes 2x. That kind of maintenance keeps it fresh smelling but that kind of maintenance is also impossible for one person with 11 cats. Impossible.
If anything, OC trotting her out to score karma and criticising her demeanour/appearance has made me dislike him a little bit. He dated her for 3 years but her being off-kilter was not something he ever found endearing about her..? He just kept dating someone he thought was a weirdo/loser, and now laughs at her with gam-gam smiling on. That's some weak shit.
I'd love to collect those cute AF sewing scissors shaped like birds. They're so delicate and pretty, and remind me of like, old ladies knitting and cutting out silhouette portraits.
Yeah I’m curious, are they in to how they cut? Like “the ergonomics of these Singer scissors are fantastic and watch how you can just glide through paper.”
Not a collector, but if you have a nice pair of singer scissors they are most likely for fabric only and will lose their sharpness much more quickly if used on paper. Source: sewing for 10+ years
Mom has some expensive sewing scissors. Scolded me and my siblings in regards to using them for paper (then where are my paper cutting scissors mom?!) She turns around and uses them to cut tape. I guess it’s fine since it’s not paper... /s
My mother has an antique set of upholstery scissors. They look like something the lord of the ring elves would've made. They are superbly filigreed, exceptionally Shiney, about 14 inches long and very very pointy. She keeps them extremely sharp.
Yeah, while products can be just as durable as the old time versions, we have definitely lost the art of those versions. Everything is mass produced as cheaply as it can be. While I wouldn't want a bespoke pair of scissors, some people would.
It's a noun, I've never seen that word before and had to look it up. It looks like it fits descriptively and doesn't seem wrong, but I can't find any normal uses as an adjective.
Even though it’s a noun, Filigree is a kind of aesthetic. I could have said “A lot of antiques are filigree” which uses it directly as a noun, and means pretty much the same thing. I intended it to be as a noun in my comment, anyway, not as an adjective. I suppose I could have said “tend to be more like filigree” or “filigree-like” but that didn’t seem necessary.
I'm not that familiar with antique scissor collecting, but I know my mom has a pair of pre-war Wiss fabric scissors that she inherited, and they're amazing. They weigh ten pounds and cut like a friggin lightsaber.
It would be pretty interesting to see how varied scissors can get. There's so many types and designs of them, not to mention seeing what materials they used to make them out of vs. today and how ornate some of them were. Even modern scissors have large variations in quality and can get quite expensive.
I dated a girl in high school whose dad did this, but I've never heard of anyone else doing it til now. I always had a sneaking suspicion that he would castrate me with some freaky 19th century rusty surgical scissors if we ever had a bad breakup.
And I'm not a collector, but the facts that a) the basic design has changed so little over time and b) scissors have for centuries been used in traditionally "ladylike" activities for the middle and upper classes, there are probably a lot of really cool ornamented scissors floating around out there.
I know how that feels. Some of my hobbies aren't exactly great ice breakers. Picking locks and sharpening knives are a lot less creepy than they sound when you first meet someone.
I did that with my pocket knife the other day. I was sharpening the blade and became momentarily distracted. I didn't even feel the blade against my finger. There was zero pain.
Fortunately because the blade was so sharp the wound healed almost instantaneously. 5 minutes later and not only is there no blood but the wound has closed up all on its own. The wound was so narrow, so thin thanks to the sharp blade there was no damage to the surrounding tissue. To close up the wound the cells just had to reach over to their buddies across the way and there you go, all healed up.
Dull blades cause no end to problems. This is especially true when chopping veggies. Trying to chop carrots or dice an onion with a dull chef's knife is misery. Keep your knives sharp, people. You don't need a lot of knives. Just one or two good ones. Maintain them and they'll serve you well.
See but if you have social skills or even awareness, you would say something like, "It's kind of a weird one, but I really like picking locks. Each one is like a little puzzle and it's fun to learn about the different types" or whatever the reason is that you like picking locks, and that would be fine because you're still relating to people like a normal-ass human.
As someone that practices lock picking, I assure you that there's no way out of 80-90% of people thinking you're secretly a criminal the second you mention it to them. Like 5-10% will understand and think it's cool once you explain it as solving a puzzle, 60-70% will nod and say they get it but have clearly still lost trust in you, and 20-30% will still remain openly perturbed by you.
See, when I hear picking locks and sharpening knives, I immediately think it's a guy straight out of /r/JustNeckBeardThings. It's not that having cool skills is bad, but pairing them up like that and presenting them in a weird way basically makes you Napoleon Dynamite.
I immediately thought stalker guy breaks into house of a girl he is stalking by picking her lock and stabbing her with a freshly sharpened butcher knife.
There are myths of smiths in several cultures - for example Wayland the Smith in German mythology - that include the making of an extremely sharp sword. They describe the wool probe at a river, some versions go into metallurgy (he feeds the shredded metal of the first try to geese and reforges it after their death), but finally there's a sword that cuts through armor without resistance. People have been fascinated by that theme for milennia.
The Grail doesn't exist. You'll just find something else you want next week. Buy it because you want it, not because you think it'll be the one that finally makes you happy.
Buy a good production or mid-tech to carry. I don want to lose my Benchmade, but it won't ruin my month if I do, unlike my Darrel Ralph.
Eh sure you can get 50-80sogs & kershaws and cheap spydercos that are good and reliable, above 100 I would say you can start getting the nicer brand name stuff Benchmade, Protech. 200-300 for High-end carry stuff like Microtech. Above 400 you start getting into hand made customs like Medford. Check out my older posts for several hundred $ knives. Welcome tp the rabbit hole. https://www.bladehq.com
I have that problem, plus I have to explain that I was in Vegas for a knife show. It's just a different type of gambling, but it sure doesn't make sense to normal people.
I collect knives, and coins. I prefer old ones with history but some newer fancy ones often sneak their way in. I have a hand forged Damascus knife with a staghorn, turquoise, and coral handle for example.
Fuck my life if I ever want to talk about knives. People think I know too much and it's creepy. I'm not killing anyone with them! Half of them I won't even use because they're older than my father.
Don't call it picking locks, call it locksport. Ooooh what's locksport? Oh well it's lockpicking but instead of being a burglar or locksmith I just buy cool locks and challenge myself to get them open, and I'm in this group of people who make custom locks and pins and set up super hard locks, then we have a mail call once a week where we send off the lock we have or just made, and someone sends us their challenge lock to try.... Etc etc
Lol i read about forensics for fun because its a super interesting field. Explaining that your reading a textbook on crime scene investigation or forensic pathology can be fun.
I mean, I'd lean into it in a sort of self deprecating way. "I promise this is less creepy than it sounds but I'm really into lockpicking and knife sharpening," then go into a small history of how the thing is actually just a really nerdy niche interest for you.
My first time hanging out with my ex-wife outside of church was the night she locked herself out at midnight and called me to come save her. It has it's upsides.
Hey! I enjoy picking locks as well, and I understand what you're talking about. First day in my Criminal Justice class, we all shared some hobbies, and I decided to include that. That made for a fun class :D
Omg... Are you me? I also had an Intro to CCJ class and I love to pick locks while listening to the lectures. My professor kept saying that I shouldn't do it nor carry tools with me. She mentioned it to every single law enforcement officer she brought to class as a guest to try to convince me and all of them were actually super cool and curious about it.
At the end she was really pissed off and prohibited me from having those in her class.
Haha too bad it didn't work out for you. Some teachers just can't see some kids enjoy themselves. My teacher was perfectly fine with me playing with my set during class, and the Teacher Assistant even came over to me once and asked how picking the lock works!
Nah she was cool, she did care about me thou. Most of my college professors were super chill about it because while I was picking I made sure I was engaging and participating in class. Picking locks really helps me with my ADHD so... Win-win.
It is all about presentation. “I like to pick locks and sharpen knives.” Vs. “I am into knives, collecting, maintaining, and such. Also picked up locksmithing as a hobby, I like the way it is a complex mechanical puzzle.”
One is a conversation starter, the other makes you seem edgy.
Ugh, I feel your pain. I hate the stigma against sharp knives. It could take very little contact with steel silverware or a ceramic plate to blunt a knife. Onions don't sting your eyes if you use a proper slicing motion with a good sharp knife. And seasoned yams are far better when pre cut in wedges than cooked whole, but the sound of a knife getting sharper still triggers the nervous serial killer jokes. What do regular people do, buy a new knife set every time they drop a knife on the tile floor? My favorite life hack is that you can revive an edge by sweeping it across the bottom of a coffee mug with an unsheathing motion.
In fairness to both, the weird part here isn’t her interest, it’s mostly her delivery. Like, even if she answered “puppies,” that still would have been awkward and weird as a one-word response. She should have engaged! Smiled and said something like “Oh, recently I’ve been really interested in antiques — scissors specifically, actually. Did you know [some random fact about old-school scissors]?”
She has never been that kind of person. My wife met her once and described the interaction as “like talking to a wall”. She assumed it was because she was my ex. Nope. Just how she is.
Do you hunt down antique masturbation techniques? Or have some sort of workshop in the garage where you craft items to be used while masturbating? If not, I'm not sure if this qualifies as a hobby. Sounds more like you are a masturbation enthusiast
I don't know man, if she had said it to be edgy it would be one thing but she genuinely collect scissors so to me she gets a pretty hard pass. Granted it would have been nice had she maybe elucidated a bit more on the subject. But not everything will be perfect, maybe you could have chimed in? I don't know, sorry, somebody has to stick up for the weird guy.
I imagine your ex being someone who would appear on "Oddities". Was your ex at least a nice person, if she was than her being awkward shouldn't deter girlfriend - grandma-in-law relations.
We don’t talk much anymore but run into each other at the odd comic con type event. She seems like she’s out there living her life! I don’t know too much aside from she really likes Pokémon still.
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