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Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by chipaca »

benatkin wrote: post #24
Waterluvian wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes!!! I live for these completely pointless obsessions into a topic.

Profile checks out. todays.pointless.click looks good :D I started https://furious.engineering/ to add random stuff, but so far there's only one which shows the spanish equivalent of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. I think these ones could be added to awesome-falsehoods. I'd love a list that was more centered on this idea, but for now awesome-falsehoods would probably be the best place for it. Maybe a design or visual category?

why do you have male/female (primero/primera) and then female/male (1ª/1º)?

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by userbinator »

I'd never even realised that scissors could be right or left-handed, and now that I do, I checked all the (physical) scissors I have, and it turns out I have one left-handed pair and the other three are right-handed. I never used one after the other, so didn't notice the difference.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by thatsenough »

thatsenough wrote: post #25
tehlike wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could actually end up wasting more money if you get "alignment". Thats why things take a shit ton of time for the most part.

Move fast and duplicate things.

Move fast and don’t deduplicate things.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by krick »

So, not only LG is the only manufacturer of more or less usable smartphones up to this point, but it is the single place that employs that only (as it seems) graphic designer on the planet Earth that can actually draw a scissors? Huh. It's a pity their advertising department sucks.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by egypturnash »

thatsenough wrote: post #25
tehlike wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could actually end up wasting more money if you get "alignment". Thats why things take a shit ton of time for the most part.

Move fast and duplicate things.

Move fast and don’t not repeat yourself.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by tempestn »

> The handles on these collide very close to the hinge, so they barely close at all. If you could file those parts down, you could close them a lot more:

> But you couldn’t, because [edit: file emoji that HN strips out :( ] is the only file you can get in emoji, so this altered version doesn’t count.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by benatkin »

chipaca wrote: post #41
benatkin wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Profile checks out. todays.pointless.click looks good :D I started https://furious.engineering/ to add random stuff, but so far there's only one which shows the spanish equivalent of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. I think these ones could be added to awesome-falsehoods. I'd love a list that was more centered on this idea, but for now awesome-falsehoods would probably be the best place for it. Maybe a design or visual category?

why do you have male/female (primero/primera) and then female/male (1ª/1º)?

Oops, I got it backwards. I'll fix it when i get a chance. Thanks for noticing!

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by sillysaurusx »

kickscondor wrote: post #38
benatkin wrote: post #9

I really enjoyed this. It is very similar to "Please, enough with the dead butterflies!" [0] I'd like to see a list of everything like this. Similar to Awesome falsehood [1] but not quite. 0: https://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies... ( HN 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013 HN 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788356 ) 1: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

I've added these to https://href.cool/Crimes/Simple . Thank ya.

I wish more old www sites were still up. YTMND suffered a server failure. fark.com seems up, but rather a shadow of its former self. Shock sites seem to have mostly gone away or devolved into a sea of ads.

(Your site gave a sudden surge of nostalgia, and for some reason those sites were the first to jump to mind.)

https://poo.com/ is another slice of old www style. It's not a shock site, just a chat site. But it has some funny functionality like a radio you can listen to, and customizing your avatar with various multicolor schemes and blinky text, myspace-style.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by surround »

weinzierl wrote: post #40

Interesting and entertaining article, I enjoyed reading it. Now I want a "Which Emoji Weapons Shoot Real Bullets" . I'm only half joking as many emoji sets transitioned from the depiction of real weapons to some form of toy, like a colorful water pistol. It would be interesting to find out who started it and when the others followed.

Apple started it. For a time, a text like this:

> Let’s meet at the park [pistol emoji]

Would have have very different meanings between platforms.

Eventually, all platforms followed Apple and switched to the water pistol. (The ones that still show real pistols are obsolete fonts.)

https://emojipedia.org/pistol

At this point, Apple gets to decide what emojis look like, not the Unicode Consortium.

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