Flock of scissors

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• edinbruh@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Two pairs of scissors

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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Three of a kind, I win.

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    • edinbruh@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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      ☝️You, probably

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Also a pair of a pair of scissors.

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    • Joeffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That would just be one pair of scissors while this is clearly two pairs of scissors

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• Kenny2999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  scissorses

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• gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A lesbian couple.

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  • 69420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Scissor me timbers

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve adopted the phrase “lip reading” to replace “scissoring.”

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  • bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A queer of scissors

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A pair of pairs of scissors.

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A pair squared of scissors

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• peetabix@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  2 pairs of scissors

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• snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  spoiler

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  ** NSFW**

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  • LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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    • square@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not a meme guy. I’ve never posted nor stolen a meme. I’m tempted to make this my first.

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    • LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ummmm… Is that duck whacking it?

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  • cowdoy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Scissor me timbers!

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Two pairs.

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  • Homo_Erectus@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A quartet

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    • nullify3112@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A square of scissors

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  • Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Exactly like playing cards

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  On the right is Two Pair, but you should know that it still gets trumped by Three of a Kind.

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  • Transparent_knoll@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    3 pair or even a flush of scissors is still beaten by a singular rock however.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I remember one time that I got a flush of scissors, and then my dad beat me for clogging the toilet.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah but if you take a bunch of Uranus and the right jokers it’s a reliable option

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• veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A pair of pair of scissors

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• hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A quartet of scissors.

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• Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I teach ESL, and this kinda shit in the English language drives me nuts. It’s impossible to explain. Just gotta know it. The worst is when you’re asking questions. “What’s this?” for single things. “What are these?” for multiples. HTF do you explain that you have to know to ask “What are these?” when you’re asking about pants or scissors. They’re literally asking what those things are. It’s bizarre.

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  • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just blame the French for things like this. Your students will be like “Oh that explains it” and move on to the next nonsensical thing they need to learn.

    Every language has it’s “you just gotta know” moments. Like German. Not too hard until you start getting into technical reading and speech. Just how many words can you glue together? And why?

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    • SavinDWhales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What do you mean why?

      So we can have games named like this

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      PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant

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  • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It is impossible to intuit, but you just introduce “pair of pants” as the singular article. Thus, two pants are “two pairs of pants.”

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    • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Which is fine for more advanced students, but for kids whose vocabulary and grammar are already very limited, it confuses things a lot.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bring a pair of kitchen scissors, and awe them by separating the halves

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    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why is a pair of scissors separated in halves? Shouldn’t a pair of scissors be separated into 2 unit scissor?

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• Epzillon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  From the recent Tom Scott upload I learned a group of ferrets are called “a business”. We need more silly names to refer to multiple items. The layered parody of a pair of a pair of scissors is indeed tickling my silly bone.

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And a group of velvet worms is called “a cuddle”. Idk who comes up with these but I like them.

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    • PostProcess@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A group of bankers is known as a ‘wunch’…

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• Bratosch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Pair of scissorses

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Pairs of scissors, obviously.

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• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Scissors^2^

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  four scissors

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• pigup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Mind was blown when I was learning about an exray-based microfabrication technique. Where the x-rays are known to scise (to cut) polymer molecules.

  It took me several years to realize that scissors are tools that scise things. They are prolific scise-ers.

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• icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s clearly four scissors.

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• CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  One time my grandmother gave me two pears. She said, “Here’s your two pears”. I said, “This is just one pair” and we went back forth a bit before she got it.

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    four candles please

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  • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Good on you for pushing the issue.

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• Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s a troupe of scissors!

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• vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Attempted murder

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• zarathustrad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Scissor Sisters.

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• fleebleneeble@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Scissi

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Scisodes.

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Pair of pairs of scissors.

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• Okokimup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Scisters

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• Prior_Industry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Scissor Sisters

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• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s like fish

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  • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One fish, two fish

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    • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Red fish, blue fish

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  • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Multiple fish of Multiple species would be fishes.

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    • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Last i checked though scissors don’t have a species attribute so I think we’re good.

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  • SavinDWhales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So, if you have a couple, would that be a school of scissors?

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    • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I would prefer it called a clip of scissors but sure.

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• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If there’s a boy paid of scissors there, and a girl pair of scissors there, then it’s a brace of pairs of scissors. Obv. English is very straightforward.

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• benderbeerman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s 2 per, as in:

  I need two per So give me two per

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• wuffah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Multi-scissor drifting!

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