DarrinBrunner 18 points a year ago

The edge must be there, it MUST. It's not suddenly a continuous loop, there has to be an end. So you run your fingernail around the surface to try to feel it, but you don't feel it. So, you try again, more slowly. Still no. So, you go out in the kitchen turn on the bright lights hold the roll up to the light and try again, much more slowly, looking carefully. Still no edge. So, you grab the x-acto knife out of the pencil holder and cut a new edge, knowing you'll now have two or three layers that are just short pieces, but at least you have the edge now. And, you vow, that this time, THIS TIME, you WILL fold the edge over when you're done, the way dad showed you so many times. And you do. Once. But, the next time you use the tape, you forget to do it, so the edge melds into the surface of the tape, and disappears like some devilish magic trick.

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dumbass 3 points a year ago

Half way through your 10th run around the roll you think" maybe I'm going the wrong way to catch the edge", so you flip it around and do another 10 runs around the tape hoping you were just a dumbass and couldn't feel it, then you throw it at the floor, maybe that will loosen something up enough.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point a year ago

Give it to the cat, maybe the cat can find the end

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errer 2 points a year ago

I know it’s a minuscule amount of tape to fold it over, but it feels wasteful which prevents me from doing it. It’s two dad principles at conflict with one another.

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dohpaz42 2 points a year ago

👆 This person uses tape.

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JeeBaiChow 6 points a year ago

The worst are those manufacturing defects that create small nicks in the roll perimeter. So when you do find the edge, the nick runs after one diameter length and you have to start again.

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ininewcrow 6 points a year ago

After finding, ripping off, finding, ripping off, finding the edge 30 times in a row ... you finally realize that the tape was actually separated down the middle and has been rolled around a hundred times leaving two entire sections of tape of different sizes

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Ephera 3 points a year ago

I bought packing tape out of paper recently, for reasons of fuck plastic, but that might be my favorite feature of it. By virtue of the tape not being invisible, you can actually see the edge without a microscope.

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JeeBaiChow 2 points a year ago

I suspect they make decoy rolls that have small ridges that make me think I've found the edge, but in reality there is no edge, so I spend hours fiddling with it before giving up.

Or maybe Leroy doesn't want me messing with his tape.

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lnxtx 2 points a year ago

Dispenser is the solution.

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jagungal 3 points a year ago

Yeah, packing tape shouldn't be used by itself. You guys want gaffer tape

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Kolanaki 2 points a year ago

It's a trick! This is actually a four-dimensional roll of tape, and the starting point is ∞!

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Anomalocaris 1 point a year ago

then it cums xrays when exited.

those things are weird

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falidorn 1 point a year ago

Two of the greats already made a song about it

https://youtu.be/fycGFGSeKpc

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dohpaz42 1 point a year ago

I don’t mind the packing tape. It’s usually thick enough that running your finger nail across the surface will find you the edge. Scotch tape on the other hand…

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