Pins that teach curious children about the dangers of electrical sockets…
I only remember using these in school to connect two pieces of paper together to make shit like cardboard skeletons.
Paper rivets, maybe?
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.
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.
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.
Which are you?
