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Are scissors sharper than secateurs?

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Something around here is definitely less sharp than it should be...
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    Blunt secateurs are less sharp than a sharp turnip.
    Sharp secateurs are sharper than a blunt turnip.
    Sunny Dundee
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I must stop eating magic mushrooms.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    A turnip could take any mushroom, magic or not. :)
    Sunny Dundee
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    This is turning into rock, paper, (blunt)scissors.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    If scissors can easily cut paper, but not twigs, and secateurs can easily cut twigs, but not paper: which is sharper?
    Devon.
  • quwa475quwa475 Posts: 20
    Hostafan1 said:
    If scissors can easily cut paper, but not twigs, and secateurs can easily cut twigs, but not paper: which is sharper?
    Scissors have sharper point but blunter blade

    Secateurs have sharper blade but blunter point
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Image result for baby nail scissorsquwa475 said:
    Hostafan1 said:
    If scissors can easily cut paper, but not twigs, and secateurs can easily cut twigs, but not paper: which is sharper?
    Scissors have sharper point but blunter blade

    Secateurs have sharper blade but blunter point
    Not always
    Devon.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    I've not bothered to read 6 pages of I am sure scintillating discussion on scissors vs secateurs. I will only say that I could not cut my finger off with my scissors but I could with the secateurs and I could not cut a piece of paper with secateurs but I can with scissors.

    AND I got ID'ed last time I was in the UK and bought a spade. a standard garden spade, it is apparently classed as a edged weapon. to be honest if I wanted to hurt you with a spade I would use it as a blunt weapon rather than try to cut you with it.. but maybe I just don't sharpen mine enough!
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    In my native language, scissors, chicken scissors, secateurs, loppers and other similar tools are all called scissors. And because your native language affects how you think about things, in my brain, secateurs are a type of scissors. Now what? :D
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