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Flock of scissors

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨stumu415@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • edinbruh@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Two pairs of scissors

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    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Three of a kind, I win.

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      • edinbruh@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Image

        ☝️You, probably

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also a pair of a pair of scissors.

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      • Joeffect@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Kenny2999@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    scissorses

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  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A lesbian couple.

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    • 69420@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Scissor me timbers

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    • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A queer of scissors

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A pair of pairs of scissors.

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A pair squared of scissors

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  • peetabix@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    2 pairs of scissors

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  • snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    spoiler

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    ** NSFW**

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    • LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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      • square@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ummmm… Is that duck whacking it?

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    • cowdoy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Scissor me timbers!

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  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Two pairs.

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    • Homo_Erectus@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A quartet

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      • nullify3112@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A square of scissors

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    • Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly like playing cards

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A pair of pair of scissors

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  • hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A quartet of scissors.

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  • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What do you mean why?

        So we can have games named like this

        spoiler

        PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant

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    • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Bratosch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pair of scissorses

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pairs of scissors, obviously.

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  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Scissors^2^

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    four scissors

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  • pigup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s clearly four scissors.

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  • CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      four candles please

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    • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Good on you for pushing the issue.

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  • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a troupe of scissors!

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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Attempted murder

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  • zarathustrad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Scissor Sisters.

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  • fleebleneeble@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Scissi

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Scisodes.

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pair of pairs of scissors.

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  • Okokimup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Scisters

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  • Prior_Industry@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Scissor Sisters

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  • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s like fish

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    • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One fish, two fish

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      • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Red fish, blue fish

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    • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Multiple fish of Multiple species would be fishes.

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      • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s 2 per, as in:

    I need two per So give me two per

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  • wuffah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Multi-scissor drifting!

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