mechanical pencils are dangerous

[tandoc]

make sure never to jab yourself with a mechanical pencil.. my friend got about 1.5cm piece of grphite lodged into his hand.. pretty st00pid.. and dangerous!

 

[Jan]

A mechanical pencil?

 

[Seldimis]

I used mechanical pencils since 2 years but nothing happend. It is a good thing for injuring somebody Just humor....

 

[tandoc]

Originally posted by Jan
A mechanical pencil?

or pacer

 

[trenzterra]

surprised it didn't break. I once stabbed a 2B pencil into my hand.

 

[Jan]

Originally posted by andytandoc
or pacer

Even more confusing :confused2

Love these in depth explanations :devious2:

 

[stu]

here's better advice: make sure you don't jab yourself with anything...

 

[meow]

Hehehe! I can think of things to do with such a pencil.

 

[Dusty]

The solution would be to not jab yourself with a pencil-- or with anything, for that matter.

Jan, you have been living on Mars in a cave with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears. A mechanical pencil is like this:

You've got a hollow plastic tube. It doesn't have to be plastic, it can be wood or silver or gold, but it's most often plastic and disposable. Inside it is a spring, a little plastic sword-shaped thing, and a length of graphite just smaller than the pencil itself. Rather than having to sharpen it like you would a regular pencil, when you wear down the point you just twist out a bit more graphite.

There are also mechanical pencils that have no spring or sword but work by means of a series of tiny carriers inside the tube that are operated by a button on top, but I don't like those.

 

[anhedonia]

Who the hell calls a pacer a mechanical pencil? WTF!

 

[Bruce]

What the hell is a pacer???

Mechanical pencils are the only kind I'll use...

 

[anhedonia]

I cannot believe you call them "mechanical pencils".

 

[Canuckkev]

Mechanical pencil - a pencil that is uses mechanics to dispense graphite...makes sense to me.

This is what I use : http://www.bicworld.com/inter_en/bdd/product_express.asp?product_id=172

The 0.7 mm variety is the best, doesn't break as often.

 

[Jan]

Originally posted by Dusty
Jan, you have been living on Mars in a cave with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears. A mechanical pencil is like this:

Thank you Dusty for your explanation

While I was out I made a point of looking for these pencils and I found some!

 

[meow]

OMG! :redface2:

 

[Blank Verse]

Bruce, you have to remember Australians are slow and think that a Pacer is a mechanical pencil and not a P.O.S. car.

 

[syd]

I stabbed myself in the palm with a pencil once (in elementary school), and I still have a grey under-the-skin mark where it happened.

Perhaps the lead/graphite lodged under there and I never took it out Oh well, I'm not dead yet so I'm not gonna bother (lazy)

 

[tandoc]

argh...

i called it mechinacal pencil becuz i thought that the americans would know what i was talking about.. and then all the aussies [me, etc] are here.. and i thought they would know.. but then i had to call it a pacer.. jeez.. u ppl like to argue over nothing..

 

[anhedonia]

Someone call GC! An argument over nothing and he's missing out!

 

[tandoc]

yay! let's talk about politics.. i wanna the primi minister some day.. when he actually becomes the head of state too.. or the other one.. i dunno... :cry2: