Oh, they’ll find a way. Let me tell you mylar papercuts leave nice scars.
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I can see in the future paper cuts becoming an Olympic sport, like sword fighting. People of the future will stand in a ring with two pieces of paper and will try to make a cut on their opponent’s piece of artificially grown skin, placed at the center of their chest. People will cheer as the athletes try to cut their opponent with an ancient piece of technology
Imagine the paradise slaves were living under, they could never be the victims of pay cuts.
I’m clumsy enough that I’ve got a “paper cut” from aluminum foil while preparing dinner.
Oh there’s plenty of paper and non-paper out there to do the same damage. Ever cut yourself on cardboard? How about those plastic straps they put around heavy boxes and packages? Or my personal favorite, splinters and burrs. Glass, rock, metal, sheets of plastic - anything thin will do if you hit it at just the right angle. It’s a tossup as to which bonus location is worse, under the fingernail or across the finger webbing. Or if you’re REALLY unlucky, the eye. a scratched cornea is no joke. Wear your safety glasses kids.
Don’t worry. There are still box cutter cuts.
Society will never go fully paperless. If we would have it would have been around 1998. Though I suppose depending on which apocalypse scenario gets us, there will be a time when paper cuts are a rarity only suffered by the few brave souls who scavenge the ruins of the Before Times.
-98?
How?
Mobile data connections were dogshit even here in Finland up until late 00’s.
I got a paper cut from grabbing a cornstalk this week.
That’s a cornstalk cut, duh
well what about when society goes fully cornless ?
Aren’t they already?
This post was inspired by me wondering how I got one. I’m pretty sure it was from opening junk mail, one of the few ways I interact with paper anymore.
I got my pet meds handed to me in a paper bag and somehow managed to give myself a paper cut getting the cat into the car while holding this bag. It was the first paper cut I’ve had in years, and my reaction was “I wonder if this is still recyclable.” Still better than plastic bags, I suppose.
Paper cut is just one of the way the tree ghost exact revenge, there’s plenty of opportunities.
Considering I will probably never get to own a house, cardboard cuts will always be a thing.
Cardboard cuts make papercuts look like… papercuts.
People will start cutting themselves on razorthin smartphones instead.
“I got a razorthinsmartphonecut at the office today” sounds a bit funny
Are the cuts from packaging different then?
Never heard of cardboard cuts…
if a papercut is like being cut with a switchblade, a cardboard cut is like being cut with a saw.
Cardboard cuts are absolutely a thing, like a paper cut on steroids.
I used to work in a warehouse and spent most of my day opening, resealing, making, and breaking down boxes. Spend enough time around them and the boxes will get you.
Yeah but does anyone call them that? I’d still call that kind of fine cut a paper cut.
Never heard anyone say “ow I’ve got a cardboard cut”
We definitely called them cardboard cuts, can’t say how universal it is but every job I’ve where I’ve handled a lot of boxes it seems to be in pretty common use
My friend and I call it a box cut because they’re often worse than a normal paper cut due to fibers that can cause additional irritation unless cleaned out.
We do at my warehouse. They are usually worse than a standard papercut so the distinction does say something
I call it “box attack”
Don’t forget the extreme dryness ptsd_dog.png
Definitely, normally my skin is pretty resilient, never really been someone who needs to spend money on moisturizers and such, I could probably just about wash my hands with acetone and steel wool and be none the worse for it.
But there were a few times when I worked there that my hands were getting noticeably dryer than usual, pretty sure if my skin were any more delicate I would have been in pretty rough shape.
Yeah but the PCB inside the paperless device would be as sharp as a paper, not to mention the component thin legs such as electrolytic capacitors (although the majority of electronic components are tiny blocks surface-mounted, there are components that need to be welded in a THT (through-hole) fashion because their electrical contents can’t fit the small space of a SMD).
I had to send mail to the government recently and got a freaking paper cut on my tongue as I licked the envelope glue to seal it. 😬
Use a damp sponge next time, unless you write a letter to your lover in the dragon realm. That one should contain your saliva.
unless you write a letter to your lover in the dragon realm
Tell me more! How does one acquire a lover in the dragon realm?
Most use a dating app named Cinder
I used Ember…
trust me, do not use that one
I’d personally recommend Spire
Hah… I assume you were referencing this, but just in case you’re not familiar…
