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1: Pliers Hold Stuff Really, Really Tight Youth gripping his front teeth with a pair of pliers Wow, amazeballs. 2: They Can Also Cut Cables Pair of pliers cutting wire That is so multitaskingly cool. 3: Side-Cutters Are NOT Pliers A pair of side cutters No no no no no. 4: Neither Are Pincers A pair of pincers …

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  1. james 68
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    gripping...

    slow news day huh?

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      1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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        11.a. But only if you're in plier distance of them

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        1. Phil W
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          11.b. Alternatively within throwing distance if you just want to hit them in the head with pliers.

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      2. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: gripping...

        You mean you've never used a pair of pliers to pull back the space time continuum and re-live a precious moment, you sad person.

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      3. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: gripping...

        10a. You can, evidently, use pliers to force people to 'read garbage on the internet.' Or maybe the thing that ElReg held to your head was a gun, and not pliers?

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      4. Tom 11
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        Re: gripping...

        12. Pliers, when combined with Chaka Demus gain additional functionality of being able to twist as well as shout.

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    2. Greg D
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      Re: gripping...

      nope, just Friday!

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  2. Aaiieeee
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    Awesome article, thanks guys! Pretty amazing about never being 6ft away from pliers, I'll be on the look out from now on.

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    1. Brewster's Angle Grinder Silver badge
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      Pretty amazing about never being 6ft away from pliers...

      They're a leading dark matter candidate.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        @ Aaiieeee

        Doesn't mean you can always find them, see 5: Pliers Are Sociable. This means when you want them they are usually hidden under something else and you can't see them. No matter how many times you go over the same area, lifting things out of the way, until they want to be found, forget it.

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        1. Ivan Headache
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          Re: @ Aaiieeee

          Generally you will find them with the several 3-way 13A plug adaptors that the wife has put away so that you know where they are.

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          1. wowfood
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            Re: @ Aaiieeee

            I think the AC above is a pair of pliers in disguise.

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        2. Steve the Cynic
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          Re: @ Aaiieeee

          "This means when you want them they are usually hidden under something else"

          Ah, so pliers are the cockroach of the toolbox then?

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Yup, one is always in my backpack, under the disguise of "Stanley universal tool".

      Anonymous, so you can wonder if I am this fellow by the next desk ...

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    3. John Hughes
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      Pretty amazing about never being 6ft away from pliers,
      No so amazing to me - mine are in my pocket.

      Fumble, fumble.... BUGGER! ... of the other pair of trousers.

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  3. Dan Price

    What did I just read?

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    1. cyborg
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      A parody of BuzzFeed click-bait articles. Except this is not based off an arbitrary number of pictures of celebrities with minimal textual accompaniment it is instead an arbitrary number of pictures of pliers and almost pliers with minimal textual accompaniment.

      If you don't know what BuzzFeed is then good. No need to find out.

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      1. Amorous Cowherder
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        And with many thanks to you "cyborg" and the good people of The Reg, I'm glad I don't know and likely never will!

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  4. Peter Gordon

    Not correct!

    Actually the Arapaho term for pliers is "chaka demas"

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    1. Lester Haines (Written by Reg staff) Gold badge
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      Very good. Award yourself beer.

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    2. JaimieV
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      Aha! But that's clearly two words! *claims internet pendant award*

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      1. JimmyPage Silver badge
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        Aha! But that's clearly two words! *claims internet pendant award*

        Except the poster clearly stated "term" not "word". It's quite common for other languages to have to use more than one word for a direct translation of English, in much the same way as English sometimes has to use more than one word to express a foreign word. I give you "Schadenfreude", and take your pedant award.

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        1. aawelj
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          Re: Aha! But that's clearly two words! *claims internet pendant award*

          Aha! I put down the little known English word "epicaricacy" meaning "Rejoicing at or derivation of pleasure from the misfortunes of others."( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epicaricacy ) and take the pedantry award myself!

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          1. JimmyPage Silver badge
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            "epicaricacy"

            well played sir ! Please accept a pint with the award ;)

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            1. Captain TickTock
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              Ah, so that's our word for schadenfreude. Cheers!

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              1. Nigel 11
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                Re: "epicaricacy"

                So one can describe a person as epicaricacious ?

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                1. Hollerith 1
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                  Re: "epicaricacy"

                  And spit in his eye with the very word!

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          2. Anonymous Dutch Coward
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            Well played, sir!

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          3. Anonymous Coward
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            Re: Aha! But that's clearly two words! *claims internet pendant award*

            If epicaricacy is an English word, so surely is Schadenfreude. Because epicaricacy is a compound Greek word*, even if one made up by one of those people who did that kind of thing in the 18th century, and Schadenfreude is a German word. Teutonic is closer to English than is Greek.

            *from epi, on or around, xara, joy or happiness, and kakos, evil or bad.

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        2. Trygve Henriksen
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          Re: Aha! But that's clearly two words! *claims internet pendant award*

          You must mean 'pedant', right?

          Because 'Internet loose hanging jewellery award' sounds like something awarded to people playing with glass beads and pretending they're jewellers...

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        3. JaimieV
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          Re: Aha! But that's clearly two words! *claims internet pendant award*

          @JimmyPage "Except the poster clearly stated "term" not "word"."

          The article, however, said "word". Good day to you, sir! *bows*

          (yes of course 'pendant' was intentional, what do you take me for!)

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          1. Loyal Commenter Silver badge
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            Re: Aha! But that's clearly two words! *claims internet pendant award*

            (yes of course 'pendant' was intentional, what do you take me for!)

            I thnk you should all be less pedentic

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          Re: Aha! But that's clearly two words! *claims internet pendant award*

          But...the English for Schadenfreude is Schadenfreude. Just like the English for bungalow is bungalow and the English for tour de force is tour de force.

          Inferior languages invent. Superior languages assimilate.

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          1. Anonymous Coward
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            Re: Aha! But that's clearly two words! *claims internet pendant award*

            But what's French for 'en suite' ?

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      2. Robert Grant
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        I wouldn't touch your internet "pendant" comment with a 6 foot plier...pole?

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      3. Tim Worstal
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        And how wonderful to see pendant being used correctly* here!

        * It's a long story involving me and Polly Toynbee but yes, the above usage is indeed correct.

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      4. scrishton
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        But pliers are inherantly plural anyway. You don't get a plier, they always come in pairs.

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    3. AbelSoul
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      Re: "chaka demas"

      Bravo, sir!

      Post of the week by a country mile.

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    4. Frankee Llonnygog
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      It means "wingless iron eagle that bites metal splinters in its beak of steel"

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      1. dkjd
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        tooyo'oenoo'

        (http://www.colorado.edu/csilw/arapahoproject/language/dictionary/dic_frame2.html)

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        1. Lester Haines (Written by Reg staff) Gold badge
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          Excellent.

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        2. Peter Gordon
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          Ahh yes. I think "chaka demas" is a southern Arapaho variation.

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        3. KA1AXY
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          Word for today, right there!

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      2. Pookietoo
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        I thought it meant "nut rounder".

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        1. Fink-Nottle
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          I have it from a reliable authority that the Arapaho phrase is also used in the wilds of Borneo, the vineyards of Bordeaux and Eskimo.

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          1. Gazman
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            But only in relation to rhythm sticks

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    5. Greg D
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      So the pop artist(s), Chaka Demas and Pliers, translates to Pliers and Pliers. Every day is a school day!!

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  5. Chad H.

    Um, What?

    Someone below their article quota this week?

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