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[–] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Scissor Sisters.

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

A pair of pair of scissors

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Transparent_knoll@awful.systems 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Transparent_knoll@awful.systems 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Rock > flush of scissors > toilet is the hip new game from Hasbro.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Mind was blown when I was learning about an xray-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.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 hours ago

That's clearly four scissors.

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 11 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

What do you mean why?

So we can have games named like this

spoilerPVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

EDIT: so you would have 2 half pair of scissors? A pair of half pair of scissors?

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] PostProcess@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

A group of bankers is known as a 'wunch'...

[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 25 points 16 hours ago

2 pairs of scissors

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

Scissorses... those pesky scissorses...

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Those aren't scissors. They're shears.

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 218 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Also a pair of a pair of scissors.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I see three pairs of a kind, I win.

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 4 points 15 hours ago

☝️You, probably

[–] Kenny2999@lemmy.world 131 points 1 day ago
[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Scissor Sisters

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Homo_Erectus@lemmy.zip 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nullify3112@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

A square of scissors

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 17 hours ago

Exactly like playing cards

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] cowdoy@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Scissor me timbers!

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Pair of pairs of scissors.

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 77 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] 69420@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Scissor me timbers

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[–] fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SoyaSuki@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

A square of scissors

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A pair of pairs of scissors.

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[–] FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

Scissii duh

[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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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