pencil sharpener

[joseph42]

pencil sharpener / the other day i was sitting in my van at the bottom of dog kennel hill opposite shauns diy shop with a pencil and a sharpener doing what most people with these objects would do , yes your right i was sharpening my pencil .

i know its really shocking and now im full of remorse but its 100% true .

a woman rudley approached me from a nearby house waearing sandals and resembled a bulldog chewing a bee hive .

she told me to pick up the shavings to which i declined explaining its only tiny wood shavings and biodegradable , she then threatened me with the met police and a parking fine as she said she ownes the road .

please lady get a life there are some terrible things going on in this world more than enough to worry about tiny bits of wood , pine cones , conkers , branches and other debris fall from trees all the time in London did you know !

did you also know that pencils are made from trees ?

i look foward to your comments about my awful wrong doing

[uncleglen]

Are you some kind of carpenter chappy?

[intexasatthe moment]

Or chippy even .

[Seabag]

Did you hear the one about the constipated matematician ?

He worked it out with a pencil

[moondancer]

Seabag that is half the punchline : he worked it all out with a pencil and paper - the old ones are the best

[phobic3000]

You didn't just leave the tiny little wood shavings on the floor did you? You scuzz bucket, you should be ashamed...

[TheArtfulDogger]

Is sharpening your pencil some sort of euphemism ?

If so you really are a very very naughty boy, no wonder she came over to have a closer look 🤓

[KalamityKel]

Artful!!!

I nearly drop me cuppa!

[ruffers]

Were you following best practice?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005D7VJX2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

[malumbu]

I thought that this was going to be a thread in why you can't get a decent sharpener any more. In the days of Sheffield steel they were great. Now they chew up your pencil, snap the lead, or in the case of plastic ones just break. And less and less decent Cumberland pencils around as we buy cheap shiite from abroad.

Same can be said about other items of stationary.

It all went down hill when we lost our empire.

To put things into context we've lost most of our manufacturing industry as it can be done better/cheaper abroad. But there are still wholesalers who must be specifying to the Chinese manufacturers they want cheap poor quality products, that due to the price tag people seem to still buy.