You use a paper hole punch to punch a hole in several papers. Then you put the tines through the hole, and then bend them in opposite directions fastening the papers together. Old manilla envelopes have then built into the envelope to keep the flap shut.
They can be used in place of staples or treasury tags to join paperwork together, but they're mainly for making things where cardboard needs to rotate on some other cardboard, like cool 2D puppets or secret-code-wheels or toy clocks or whatever.
These are for keeping your 200 page film script together as you shove it through the crack of the rapidly rolling-up window of a hollywood producers car.
That's just reckless! You're a maverick who doesn't play by the rules! I'm too old for this shit!
I actually do think the point is there more as an alignment guide for a potentially sloppy stack of punched paper (see also the manila envelopes with brads built in), but I would be lying if I said I never skipped the hole punch when it was just a couple of sheets.
To add to what others are saying, you stick this through the corner of a stack of papers, and it then acts as a hinge so you can swivel the top half of the stack to expose a lower page, whilst still holding the whole stack together.
I have a theory that 4 out of 5 people on the Internet who use "whilst" are Americans who think it makes them look smarter, rather than Brits who grew up using it as convention.
That is what rich people are talking about when they refer to cuff links. They are fancy jewelry that keeps your sleeves closed after you cut a slot in them to fit your beefy hands through but don't use elastics or wizard sleeves.
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yaroto98@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 71d
You use a paper hole punch to punch a hole in several papers. Then you put the tines through the hole, and then bend them in opposite directions fastening the papers together. Old manilla envelopes have then built into the envelope to keep the flap shut.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 71d
There were binders that had these sort of things built in that could hold a lot of paper with a long metal band.
Really useful for shimming door latches.
DrBob@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 71d
We called those duotangs.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 71d
Brad Duotang was so hot when I was in school.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 70d
Lol at Mr Fancy pants over here with a hole puncher! We used to just shove 'em through.
yaroto98@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 70d
Definately an option. Hard when there's more than like 5 pieces of paper.
Akh@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 71d
We called them brads
qualia@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 71d
That's just their slang name. Their full scientific name is bradley.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 70d
Klear@piefed.world · 4 pts · 70d
Who the fuck is Brad?
bradhd@programming.dev · 9 pts · 70d
Hello
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 70d
That’s just Brady Aychdee
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 20 pts · 70d
brass fastener / split pin (wiki link)
They can be used in place of staples or treasury tags to join paperwork together, but they're mainly for making things where cardboard needs to rotate on some other cardboard, like cool 2D puppets or secret-code-wheels or toy clocks or whatever.
UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 70d
These are for keeping your 200 page film script together as you shove it through the crack of the rapidly rolling-up window of a hollywood producers car.
residentoflaniakea@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 71d
Paper rivets, maybe?
wjrii@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 71d
More or less. Nominally they were for quickly binding paper that had been through a 2- or 3-hole punch.
Really, they were for making badass clocks in kindergarten.
Tahl_eN@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 70d
Technically, the paper doesn't need to have been punched, that's why they're pointy. You can just jam them through the paper and open the veins.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 70d
That's just reckless! You're a maverick who doesn't play by the rules! I'm too old for this shit!
I actually do think the point is there more as an alignment guide for a potentially sloppy stack of punched paper (see also the manila envelopes with brads built in), but I would be lying if I said I never skipped the hole punch when it was just a couple of sheets.
ace_garp@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 71d
Yeah, decoder wheels and shit.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 70d
To add to what others are saying, you stick this through the corner of a stack of papers, and it then acts as a hinge so you can swivel the top half of the stack to expose a lower page, whilst still holding the whole stack together.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 70d
It's in the same family as staples and those H-shaped string things.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 70d
That ones called a string tag but theyre quite rare nowadays.
el_muerte@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 70d
I have a theory that 4 out of 5 people on the Internet who use "whilst" are Americans who think it makes them look smarter, rather than Brits who grew up using it as convention.
Which are you?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 70d
Another kind of paperclip.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 71d
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 71d
saltesc@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 71d
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 70d
Ewwww
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 71d
I only remember using these in school to connect two pieces of paper together to make shit like cardboard skeletons.
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 70d
Pins that teach curious children about the dangers of electrical sockets…
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 70d
Learn by doing
chocrates@piefed.world · 6 pts · 71d
They are for putting sheets of paper together like staples I think
over_clox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 71d
Those are sounding brads, to hear you scream when you can't remove them from your urethra..
0ops@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 70d
Dang I can confidently say that I haven't seen one of these since grade school
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 71d
Puppet pin, for making puppets.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 70d
That is what rich people are talking about when they refer to cuff links. They are fancy jewelry that keeps your sleeves closed after you cut a slot in them to fit your beefy hands through but don't use elastics or wizard sleeves.
ollie@pawb.social · 3 pts · 70d
ah, thats what you get for defeating Inner Agent 3
Jagarico@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 70d
One day...
ace_garp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 71d
Split pins.
For splitting.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 71d
Cotter pins?