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[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

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

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

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

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 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

A pair of pair of scissors

[-] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

Scissor Sisters.

[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 218 points 1 day ago
[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

Also a pair of a pair of scissors.

[-] Joeffect@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

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 1 day ago

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 3 points 22 hours ago

What do you mean why?

So we can have games named like this

spoilerPVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

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 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

[-] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago

2 pairs of scissors

[-] Kenny2999@lemmy.world 128 points 1 day ago
[-] Epzillon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

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 5 points 1 day ago

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 1 day ago

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

[-] icelimit@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

That's clearly four scissors.

[-] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 78 points 1 day ago
[-] 69420@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Scissor me timbers

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

I've adopted the phrase "lip reading" to replace "scissoring."

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

A queer of scissors

[-] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Exactly like playing cards

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

A pair of pairs of scissors.

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago

A pair squared of scissors

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Scissor Sisters

[-] fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago
[-] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Scissorses... those pesky scissorses...

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Those aren't scissors. They're shears.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Pair of pairs of scissors.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

A quartet of scissors.

[-] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

four candles please

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[-] SoyaSuki@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

A square of scissors

[-] Bratosch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Pair of scissorses

[-] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Scissors^2^

[-] lime@feddit.nu 9 points 1 day ago

four scissors

[-] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

It's a troupe of scissors!

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

Attempted murder

[-] normalentrance@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Just a couple about to be scissoring.

[-] FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Scissii duh

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