I vaguely remember these but forgot what they were for

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• 0ops@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dang I can confidently say that I haven’t seen one of these since grade school

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• UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These are for keeping your 200 page film script together as you shove it through the crack of the rapidly rolling-up window of a hollywood producers car.

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• AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pins that teach curious children about the dangers of electrical sockets…

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  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Learn by doing

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  brass fastener / split pin (wiki link)

  They can be used in place of staples or treasury tags to join paperwork together, but they’re mainly for making things where cardboard needs to rotate on some other cardboard, like cool 2D puppets or secret-code-wheels or toy clocks or whatever.

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• yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You use a paper hole punch to punch a hole in several papers. Then you put the tines through the hole, and then bend them in opposite directions fastening the papers together. Old manilla envelopes have then built into the envelope to keep the flap shut.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lol at Mr Fancy pants over here with a hole puncher! We used to just shove 'em through.

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    • yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Definately an option. Hard when there’s more than like 5 pieces of paper.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There were binders that had these sort of things built in that could hold a lot of paper with a long metal band.

    Really useful for shimming door latches.

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    • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We called those duotangs.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Another kind of paperclip.

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• Akh@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We called them brads

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  • qualia@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s just tgeir sland name. Their full scientific name is bradley.

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  • Klear@piefed.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Who the fuck is Brad?

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    • bradhd@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hello

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That is what rich people are talking about when they refer to cuff links. They are fancy jewelry that keeps your sleeves closed after you cut a slot in them to fit your beefy hands through but don’t use elastics or wizard sleeves.

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To add to what others are saying, you stick this through the corner of a stack of papers, and it then acts as a hinge so you can swivel the top half of the stack to expose a lower page, whilst still holding the whole stack together.

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  • el_muerte@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have a theory that 4 out of 5 people on the Internet who use “whilst” are Americans who think it makes them look smarter, rather than Brits who grew up using it as convention.

    Which are you?

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s in the same family as staples and those H-shaped string things.

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    • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That ones called a string tag but theyre quite rare nowadays.

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• residentoflaniakea@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Paper rivets, maybe?

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  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    More or less. Nominally they were for quickly binding paper that had been through a 2- or 3-hole punch.

    Really, they were for making badass clocks in kindergarten.

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    • Tahl_eN@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Technically, the paper doesn’t need to have been punched, that’s why they’re pointy. You can just jam them through the paper and open the veins.

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    • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, decoder wheels and shit.

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• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• ollie@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ah, thats what you get for defeating Inner Agent 3

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  • Jagarico@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One day…

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I only remember using these in school to connect two pieces of paper together to make shit like cardboard skeletons.

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• chocrates@piefed.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They are for putting sheets of paper together like staples I think

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Those are sounding brads, to hear you scream when you can’t remove them from your urethra…

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Puppet pin, for making puppets.

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• ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Split pins.

  For splitting.

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• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cotter pins?

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