pincers

That feeling you feel is the same as when the tapeworm hooks its jaw pincers into the inside of your gut.

Chelicerates are an ancient lineage represented best (or, famously) by spiders: chelicerae meaning pincers/fangs.

Like the stuff over a crabs pincers is still shell but only the stuff that surrounds the main body is the carapace.

I've consider myself fairly proficient with chopsticks, but this got me thinking: would reverse pincers be an improvement?

Extra points if it waves around its pincers in a grabbing motion.

I cannot feel sympathy when the pincers of capitalism deflate the ego of a web denizen.

Chopsticks are cheap, easy to clean, versatile, able to be made from materials like bamboo, and more elegant than pincers.

I used pincers and fished out massive piece of navel lint the other day.

With these pincers you lose multiple degrees of freedom v.

I would assume that if you presented people unfamiliar with eating using both implements a meal, the pincers would be selected more often.

We can make the butt of a rocket with 27% more payload capacity than Saturn V fall out of the sky and slot itself into giant mechanical pincers.

Here's when chopsticks are more useful than pincers.

But always, giant robots flailing their pincers and shouting "does not compute!!" were also cautionary tropes against silly conceits of perfection.

> no way it's "easier" to use chopsticks than pincers Once you are practiced, yes it is easier.

But cooperation between Chrome and Firefox is already happening on both asm.js and WebGL, so between these "coopetition" pincers, I bet we'll prevail.

I think that your tool is squeezed between the "it's a vitamin" and "lots of good free options exist" pincers.

Pincers have a lower learning curve but chopsticks are so much more versatile if you're skilled with it.

Pincers are an opportunity to learn to stuff the face in a new way.

Pincers don't threaten chopsticks, nor will they replace them.