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Nostalgia

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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, I absolutely grew up with that one on the left...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think I bought the one on the left at some point in my life.

Thankfully the one on the right looks like it pre-dates the ones we used in elementary school…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The one on the right looks fancier than the ones we had in elementary school

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

They were manual sharpners that had this handle you would spin clockwise.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Definitely those were in every classroom when I was little, but my dad had one of these bad boys at home, I remember the weird ears things on top.https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/de84e279-3106-42b0-b17c-fe61283e73fb.webp

Maybe that upload didn’t work? https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5u-TAdbgVIw/TT7gIPo5ppI/AAAAAAAAAac/TYnIyahumvk/s1600/DSCN5578.JPG

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would just feed pencils into it until they were tiny stubs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That's a risk you run when making a fun pencil sharpener...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I grew up with the one on the right, and taught with the one on the left. The wall-crank one was better: it takes any size pencil, even the fat red ones, it's quieter, and it gives you a nice long break over by the coat closet rather than <5 seconds up front at the teacher's desk.