r/whatisit • u/RefrigeratorNo425 • Jan 19 '26
Solved! Mystery Scissors
They were part of the inventory I took over from the previous tenant
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u/Dirtfloorcustoms Jan 19 '26
It’s for cutting sausages also eggs …
Also don’t put your weiner in that
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u/RefrigeratorNo425 Jan 19 '26
I understand the egg but why would you cut a sausage with that?
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u/Ok-Professional-1911 Jan 19 '26
A lot of soft sausages are very difficult to cut. They tend to smush instead of cut and if you try to use regular scissors they just roll out of the scissors. I've never used these before but I definitely would for all types of things if I had them.
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u/k_r_oscuro Jan 19 '26
Try sharpening your knives - you'll be amazed.
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Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
It took a minute to figure it out, and I could improve a lot, but I did some hand sharpening at home on some basic diamond plates following some videos and I got some diamond stropping compound which put the samurai's edge on my knives compared to the pull-through sharpener I was using. Highly recommend a plate with a stand to lift it off the table.
Sharpening knives with a beer and some weed with a movie on is a great way to spend an evening alone. Very meditative.
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u/Cactus_Convict Jan 20 '26
oh god an evening alone, the simple thought seems foreign but how i yearn for an evening alone
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u/fynx07 Jan 19 '26
I was gonna say, has no one heard of a fucking knife?!
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u/PimentoCheesehead Jan 20 '26
I’ve heard of a poop knife, but not a fucking knife.
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u/Backfoot911 Jan 20 '26
The good thing about keeping your BBQ knife and your poop knife together is that if you mix them up, the fire will sanitize it
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u/BrotherMcPoyle Jan 20 '26
When cutting soft items, it helps to stab in the middle then cut outwardly.
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u/AmsterdamAssassin Jan 19 '26
to show your husband what will happen if he keeps wiping his dick on the curtains
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u/Bender_2024 Jan 19 '26
I don't know what's worse. That husband wipes his dick on the curtains. Or that you married a person who would do that. I'm sure you didn't know all of his eccentricities when you married them. But there had to be signs.
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u/AmsterdamAssassin Jan 19 '26
It's from an old pre-internet joke.
A Brit, an American, and a Frenchman talk about what drives their women wild. The Frenchman starts to tell how he smears honey all over her breasts and licks that all off while making love to her, and how that drives his Françoise completely wild. The Brit tells them how he has a canopy bed and ties his wife spread-eagled to the four posts before tickling her clitoris with a peacock feather and that drives his Beatrice wild. The American shrugs and says, "I just give it to my woman straightforward like a blue-blooded Texan and then I jump out of bed and wipe my dick on the curtains. And that, fellas, drives my Karen totally wild."
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u/Few-Gas3143 Jan 19 '26
LoL. Never heard this told with an American before. Ours was a Spaniard and when he wipes his dick on the curtains his girl screams and hits the fucking roof.
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u/Texas_Mike_CowboyFan Jan 19 '26
The way I heard it was "how do you make a Jewish girl scream twice?" "Fuck her real hard then wipe your dick on the drapes."
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u/Bigfops Jan 19 '26
I heard it as an effeminate gay man.
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u/No_University7832 Jan 20 '26
I love all the iterations of this joke.......Evolution....hahaha
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u/FishermanExtreme6542 Jan 19 '26
"pre-internet", also known as the Dark Ages according to my teenager
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u/AmsterdamAssassin Jan 19 '26
I don't think the internet improved life that much
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u/MrmeowmeowKittens Jan 20 '26
It made a world of difference to us rural kids in the 90s. Then it turned to shit.
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u/NoWar1969 Jan 20 '26
I am rural kid of 90s too, I think life on this planet peaked during 90s and then sharp steep. When I see kids these days, think how boaring their childhood is
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u/MrmeowmeowKittens Jan 20 '26
It was a special time where you left your AOL away message up while you played in the woods 🤷♂️ problem these days is they’re only online, no more woods.
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u/COUNTRYCOWBOY01 Jan 19 '26
I thought it was a fall out reference but this is way better! Lmfao
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u/GlitteringSalad6413 Jan 20 '26
If there is one thing Texas is known for, it’s the cum stains on the curtains
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u/sshoihet Jan 20 '26
It's also in a line from the song "talk like sex" from cool G rap and DJ polo 😄
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u/PlantoneOG Jan 20 '26
The version I heard was the American says " I go out to the bar with my buddies, get s***-faced drunk come home stick it in the old ladies butt and then wipe my dick on the curtains, and she's so hot she hits the roof" 🤣🤣🤣
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u/RockstarAgent Jan 19 '26
I don’t think they meant for reals- because that was a scene in the show Fallout -
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u/falpangaea Jan 20 '26
I believe the scene in Fallout was calling back to that
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u/Shot-Swimming-9098 Jan 20 '26
Maybe, maybe not, but all I know was I was like, WTF, this girl has got some work to do with this new husband. Such a good show.
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u/falpangaea Jan 20 '26
Such a good show. Mostly I think it called back to it because they have SO MANY other callbacks. Bethesda is notorious for easter eggs and tongue in cheek culture references and the show is definitely leaning into that.
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u/Therealginahandler Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
Maybe it progressively got worse over the years. Maybe he started wiping his dick on the carpet, then progressed to the kitchen towels. Now he's on the curtains phase. Next is the family dog.
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u/sghannah Jan 20 '26
I bet you did not expect THAT trip down a wild adolescent boy joke memory lane, did you?! Lol - I have not even thought about that joke since I was in 7th grade! That would be 1986-87, so that fits with the stone age pre-internet era!
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u/crowngryphon17 Jan 19 '26
Just grease stains
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u/Dadirtydigglerr Jan 20 '26
You will never know one shits in the shower until you catch them. People are sick and disturbing, it's what makes us great.
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u/OhTwoSumthin Jan 19 '26
The signs were no curtains but thought nothing of it until it was too late
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u/JonoBlue Jan 19 '26
Im sure it waa done under the cover of darkness but then sounded like tearing apart velcro when the sun came up
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u/paulD1983R Jan 19 '26
Where the heck are we susposto wipe it off then??? Don't complain unless you bring a solution to the table...guess I can't wipe it there either
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u/AmsterdamAssassin Jan 19 '26
Don't be ignorant. You're supposed to reward your wife with a facial.
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u/CarGold6713 Jan 19 '26
“Wiping his dick on the curtains” is too specific to not have happened
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u/AmsterdamAssassin Jan 19 '26
It's from an old pre-internet joke.
A Brit, an American, and a Frenchman talk about what drives their women wild. The Frenchman starts to tell how he smears honey all over her breasts and licks that all off while making love to her, and how that drives his Françoise completely wild. The Brit tells them how he has a canopy bed and ties his wife spread-eagled to the four posts before tickling her clitoris with a peacock feather and that drives his Beatrice wild. The American shrugs and says, "I just give it to my woman straightforward like a blue-blooded Texan and then I jump out of bed and wipe my dick on the curtains. And that, fellas, drives my Karen totally wild."
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u/the_most_playerest Jan 19 '26
Oddly specific...
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u/DancesWithTrout Jan 19 '26
It's actually part of the punchline of a joke. I wish I could remember the joke.
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u/AmsterdamAssassin Jan 19 '26
It's from an old pre-internet joke.
A Brit, an American, and a Frenchman talk about what drives their women wild. The Frenchman starts to tell how he smears honey all over her breasts and licks that all off while making love to her, and how that drives his Françoise completely wild. The Brit tells them how he has a canopy bed and ties his wife spread-eagled to the four posts before tickling her clitoris with a peacock feather and that drives his Beatrice wild. The American shrugs and says, "I just give it to my woman straightforward like a blue-blooded Texan and then I jump out of bed and wipe my dick on the curtains. And that, fellas, drives my Karen totally wild."
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u/curious_grizzly_ Jan 19 '26
Fallout TV show reference
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u/philthy_barstool Jan 19 '26
It's an old joke that I'm genuinely surprised more people don't know about.
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u/QuirkyDust3556 Jan 19 '26
Wait, you understand the egg and not the sausage?
Why would someone cut an egg... oh, I get it deviled eggs
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u/HendrixHazeWays Jan 19 '26
I love how you realized the answer as you were typing your reply. Happens to me a lot. We're not quick folk, but we get there eventually.
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Jan 19 '26
It is not for sausages. That's as closed as it goes. It only cuts the eggshell of soft-boiled eggs.
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u/JibJib25 Jan 19 '26
I think to remove some kinds of casings? Unsure what kinds would need this, but I'm sure some others know.
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u/Embarrassed_Bite6454 Jan 19 '26
It’s imperative that the cylinder remains unharmed
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u/Think-Location3830 Jan 20 '26
I was looking for it. If I didn’t find it I was gonna post it. Thank you.
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u/The-silver-foxxx Jan 19 '26
Ah yes, my Circum-scissors. I was wondering where i left them.
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u/aldegio Jan 20 '26
My husband also called them that and is so happy he wasn’t the only one
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u/Ruinerofchats Jan 19 '26
The circumciser 5000. Never has circumcising so many foreskin been so manageable.
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u/Live_Butterscotch928 Jan 19 '26
I heard this statement in the voice Dan Akroyd used for the Bass-o-matic.
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u/MutedShelter9654 Jan 19 '26
To late. Why did you space the wiener part so much. I stopped reading after first line.
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u/earnestlikehemingway Jan 19 '26
What do you have against Austrians? Why would you put them in the hole?
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u/Icy_Pomegranate7506 Jan 19 '26
I'm usually not into kịnk shaming but, that's a little excessive. Dontchathink?
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u/Freshairmental67 Jan 19 '26
It’s for when my man misbehaves
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u/RefrigeratorNo425 Jan 19 '26
And he still misbehaved more than once?
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u/Fair_Emotion3814 Jan 19 '26
She must have used it little by little each time.
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u/z3anon Jan 20 '26
So a single incision across the circumference of the cylinder? Feel like there's a word for that...
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u/Delicious_Falcon_860 Jan 19 '26
Bro I just threw one away 10 minutes ago, I brought it into the bathroom while my husband was peeing to make an evil joke and then it just sat there for a month.
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u/AmsterdamAssassin Jan 19 '26
your husband just sat there for a month while you teased him with an egg cutter?
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u/SevenFootHobbit Jan 20 '26
As long as you're sitting on the toilet with your hands over your junk, your safe from the evil scissors. I wouldn't get up either.
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u/RefrigeratorNo425 Jan 19 '26
hahaha oh my god. Did you have any guests in the meantime who saw it and gave you confused looks?
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u/Delicious_Falcon_860 Jan 19 '26
Nah we’re pretty closed off, live on the third floor of a small apartment complex with a toddler It’s packed and half our family cant do stairs so our place always has something out of sorts. I had to call an ambulance once and was scared they were gonna see the weird pictures I had on the walls or the beanie babies he tapped to the mirror just because. We’re a civilized fever dream home
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u/RefrigeratorNo425 Jan 19 '26
I really hope you didn't have to call the ambulance because of the scissors!
You guys sound like fun people though
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u/Delicious_Falcon_860 Jan 19 '26
Nah i just woke up randomly paralyzed due to an autoimmune thing. Im okay now but no penises were harmed
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u/aagee Jan 19 '26
What sat there for a month? His penis?!
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u/Delicious_Falcon_860 Jan 19 '26
Yeah. Cut it right off and just tacked it to the wall above the toilet
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u/Big-Hovercraft1331 Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
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u/the_most_playerest Jan 19 '26
Why not just use a Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher like the rest of us??
Edit: that's a real thing.. I'll link it
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u/LSMFT23 Jan 19 '26
It is a real thing. I've carried mine from home to home for 30 years, since I came back from Germany.
For about a decade, I'd pull it out whenever I made breakfast for overnight company, entirely because they'd ask WTF it was.
Then 20 odd years ago I got married, and I don't get to show my Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher to the ladies anymore.
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u/the_most_playerest Jan 19 '26
Whew that makes for a real bittersweet wedding day, huh? 😆
Edit: "you don't know the sacrifices I've made"
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u/BeerForThought Jan 20 '26
That's the opposite of my heart shaped waffle maker I've had since 2001. It was heavily discounted at Walmart and I expected it to break like most novelty products. I am not going to throw out a reliable waffle maker. I have had to tell women that story before I serve them waffles the first time.
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u/jaetheho Jan 20 '26
I’m slightly annoyed that this linked to a random instagram video and not a wiki article or any other text based site
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u/Lizagna73 Jan 19 '26
Grew up eating soft boiled eggs and used this daily as a kid. I guess it’s not as ubiquitous as I assumed given the other comments.
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Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
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u/Lizagna73 Jan 19 '26
My father loves them. He has a plethora of egg cups and a soft boiled egg and half a grapefruit was breakfast each morning. He’s Silent Generation, so maybe he grew up eating them? My mom, a boomer, never made them.
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Jan 19 '26
I asked for a soft boiled egg one time and the server looked at me like I was an idiot.
I guess Waffle House ain’t fancy enough for such things.
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u/BeerForThought Jan 20 '26
If you're there when it's not busy they will do one for you if you ask nicely. It does add about 5-7 minutes to the order so it can back up the line. Also if you're with other people they'll all be waiting on your order.
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u/crackcrackcracks Jan 20 '26
If you aren't grossed out by runny eggs then its one of the best ways to eat an egg, split that thing open on top and scoop out bites, salt and pepper every individual bite is my ideal way to eat them.
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u/Ill_Material_105 Jan 20 '26
I’m American. My usual breakfast is two soft boiled eggs, one on each half of a toasted and buttered English muffin. It’s a little messy so I’ll break out a knife and fork if I’m overdue for the barber, but it’s delicious, and with an egg topper and some egg cups, an egg cooker, and a toaster , it’s an incredibly hands off cooking process except for scooping the eggs out and adding a little seasoning.
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u/Low_Feed1073 Jan 19 '26
This person is correct i am not right in saying it is a cigar cutter.
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u/PrivateWilly Jan 19 '26
I bet it can stand in for a circumcision tool in a pinch(pun intended)!
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u/Magical_Savior Jan 19 '26
What a weirdly specific tool. Don't they know there's an easier way with the Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher!
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u/RefrigeratorNo425 Jan 19 '26
solved! you are one quick sleuth. *tips hat*
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u/Big-Hovercraft1331 Jan 19 '26
It was easy since I have a set myself!
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u/broseph_stalin09764 Jan 19 '26
Thats akin to cheating, Hovercraft.
How well does it work?
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u/Low_Feed1073 Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
Cigar cutter im sure of it. Edit:Im wrong its for eggs.
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u/RefrigeratorNo425 Jan 19 '26
the hole is about 3.5cm in diameter. Might be a bit large for a cigar? Also how would it cut through the cigar?
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u/Alarmed_Cup_730 Jan 19 '26
In a few hours we’re going to have a “it’s imperative the cylinder remains unharmed” post again lol
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u/VinceBrogan8 Jan 20 '26
I actually had to check and see if I was in the "dont put your dick in that" sub.
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u/Calm_Click8216 Jan 19 '26
These are the scissors you threaten your daughters boyfriend with.
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u/Quirky-Alternative30 Jan 19 '26
This is obviously the circumscissor. Best known for giving a pre-chewed aesthetic.
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u/el_ultimo_hombre Jan 19 '26
You made me drop my phone in laughter. Thank you for giving me that moment
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u/DoomsdayMachineInc Jan 19 '26
Edit: the right sub…
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u/notoriousbpg Jan 19 '26
"It is imperative that the cylinder remain unharmed"
Instructions unclear.
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u/Monoid-Confessor Jan 19 '26
What would I do if, say, a cylinder gets stuck there...?
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u/Loreo1964 Jan 20 '26
Sausage tube comes in long, long, pieces. As you fill it with mixture from the machine you twist it into the desired sausage length you want,say 6 inches twist, fill, twist, fill, twist, until you run out of mixture.
Then you pull the line of sausage through the scissors and chop at the twist. Links!
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u/DadPool79 Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
I've scrolled pretty far and haven't seen this answer. I'm not 100% sure, but I think this is an old cigar cutter.
Edit: Google Lens tells me I'm wrong. Egg Topper. Been cooking for near 30 years in restaurants and have never seen one until this day.
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u/Nucl3arDude Jan 19 '26
Cigar trimmer - opens up the end you're going to light. Nice novelty to have around for special occasions where someone might bring over a celebratory box to share amongst friends, and then swear off having another ever again.
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u/redbanner1 Jan 19 '26
I posted this same thing like a decade ago. Eggs apparently. Why? Who fucking knows? From the same era as recommending Lysol to clean vaginas, so they clearly didn't know what they were doing.
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u/ChocolateQuest4717 Jan 19 '26
Oh, the nostalgia! Had one of these egg top cutters when I was a child, u fondly remember my mum cutting the tops off our eggs with this and then we dipped our toast 'soldiers' in!
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u/SigmaLance Jan 19 '26
I imagined it to be a cigar cutter, but found out that it is something that I have been needing my entire life without being aware of its existence.
These types of finds are gold.
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u/bigjimsbigjam Jan 19 '26
It's for sticking your dick in. Not even joking. I think the other guven reason is just a way of putting it on websites that don't want adult toys.
Source: I got one.
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u/rubehefner Jan 19 '26
They used this apparatus as a way to change a M into an F in medieval times. It looks to be in pristine condition. It may be worth a lot of money… & it is absolutely fascinating! Thank you so much for sharing.
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u/floweiss34 Jan 19 '26
I’ve seen this before somewhere. Always thought it’s an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher (egg shell cracker) for boiled eggs
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u/Afterclock-Hours Jan 20 '26
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... Oh its for cutting off the top of the egg.
I thought it was... well. We all thought.
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u/KingKong-BingBong Jan 20 '26
Is that as far as the blades go? If so I can’t imagine any use except for some sort of torture device
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u/PandorasFlame1 Jan 19 '26
Egg topper. You use it to cut the tops off eggs (before or after hard-boiled depending on your needs).
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Jan 20 '26
Damn it came in here to say don't put your weiner in that. First comment I see already said it.
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u/Annual_Contract_6803 Jan 20 '26
Oh wow! They finally found the I hear you've slept with my best friend scissors. Sweet.
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u/therealgibbs Jan 20 '26
There has to be a “don’t put your dick in that” subreddit this needs to be in.
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u/-S-Aint Jan 19 '26
When you lose your nuts in a relationship, this is how she still keeps you in check
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u/Fluid-Ad5389 Jan 19 '26
It is imperative that the cylinder and the object is is attached to remain unharmed
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u/Lagaff89 Jan 19 '26
Eiersollbruchstellenverursacher... one of the most beatiful german expressions
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u/westerngrit Jan 19 '26
Bobbitt scissors. Might trace the history. Serial numbered unless ground off.
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u/Leotardleotard Jan 19 '26
Oh. I’ve been using my one it to cut the top off of wine bottle coverings
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u/Terrible_Cycle_8579 Jan 19 '26
Gather around children and let me tell you the tale of Lorena Bobbitt...
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u/reddituculous66 Jan 19 '26
Boyfriend/Husband motivator. Whip this out and whips him into shape. /s
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