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kaberettMy birthday present from my baby brother arrived today, and I promptly ended up--
-- okay, well, first of all I ended up trying to hunt down visual evidence of anyone having successfully used the bottle opener for anything, and actually found two baffling Americans attempting to provide reviews: exhibit A claims "scissors have a unique role in our lives - they offer more control and more precision than you could ever hope to get out of a knife when you need to cut something", and then goes on to explain that he only uses them in the workshop, on leather and carpet and suchlike; exhibit B tests them on a cucumber.
Anyway, then I moved on to this utterly charming short about Why They're So Expensive (if you would like an elderly Northern master putter-togetherer -- ! -- explaining craftsmanship to you, I can highly recommend it; it's very soothing) and, eventually, the short film about them that went viral.
There is [content notes: death by suicide and other illness] a lot of sad backstory from the last few years, but now, today, they're okay. They've got an increasing number of apprentices (who almost certainly made my set). And -- all of a sudden I find that I am very fondly inclined indeed.
-- okay, well, first of all I ended up trying to hunt down visual evidence of anyone having successfully used the bottle opener for anything, and actually found two baffling Americans attempting to provide reviews: exhibit A claims "scissors have a unique role in our lives - they offer more control and more precision than you could ever hope to get out of a knife when you need to cut something", and then goes on to explain that he only uses them in the workshop, on leather and carpet and suchlike; exhibit B tests them on a cucumber.
Anyway, then I moved on to this utterly charming short about Why They're So Expensive (if you would like an elderly Northern master putter-togetherer -- ! -- explaining craftsmanship to you, I can highly recommend it; it's very soothing) and, eventually, the short film about them that went viral.
There is [content notes: death by suicide and other illness] a lot of sad backstory from the last few years, but now, today, they're okay. They've got an increasing number of apprentices (who almost certainly made my set). And -- all of a sudden I find that I am very fondly inclined indeed.