Unbreakable rulers (so they claimed)

telecinesk

Dunno if this is the place to post this but however>

Was it me or did anyone else go through a phase of breaking your mates "unbreakable" ruler in primary school and getting turfed out of class ,because it splintered all over the place and made a crack sound as you bent it under the wooden desk.

U know the sort of lime green/orange tasteless 80s colour rulers youd rather shove into your enemy than actually use it cos it looked naff....

Setun

Shatter resistant... Well we proved Helix wrong.

The new thing is metal rulers apparently. Painful.

roberteboot

Daddio wrote:

Shatter resistant... Well we proved Helix wrong.

The new thing is metal rulers apparently. Painful.

The moment that it shattered-orgasmic.Well.Almost.We were probably a little too young to feel orgasmic.But it came close.
Metal rulers came in while i was in secondary school a good few years back.Very painful.Very.

Pigman II

Yeah I seem to remember they were in clear plastic had 'shatter proof' written on in jagged lettering.

Stupid really as any kid who saw that 'claim' would immediately put it to the test.

Tho maybe that was that what Helix were hoping for all along, as 1 broken ruler = buy another ruler.

Bamboozled

I still have half of one hanging around somewhere - the bit with the shattered "shatterproof" as mentioned above. :rolleyes:

Easy money for Helix anyway.

BLITZ_Molloy

The best rulers in the universe were the wooden ones with the metal tips at the end. Incredibly painful in the right hands. I was in class one day and a nerd was at the front with his fat arse hanging over the back of the science lab stool.

The kid behind him gave him a crack of it on the backside and it was priceless. He ran over to the wall and started rubbing his arse up and down on it. The teacher was the only one in the school who gave huge amounts of lines too. Must have taken the nerd 3 hours to get them done.

whiskeyman

I remember the guy I sat next to in school had a big shatterproof ruler.
He was told to stand up for speaking out of turn, and my teacher went over to him... grabbed his ruler off the table and smacked him across the backside with it.
On impact, it snapped it two!
He demanded a new ruler of the teacher, but he wouldnt give him one!
I think he told his parents and then he had to give him a new ruler....
Ah, those were the days

MrJoeSoap

I think Hundred Reasons' second album was called "Shatterproof is not a Challenge".

I've shattered a few in my time.

seamus

Steel rulers should never had been sold to under-16s. It was bad enough that people used the corners of plastic rulers to hit eachother across the arse with, but once someone had a metal ruler, there were ripped pants and bloody gashes everywhere....

landser

http://www.ryman.co.uk/Helix-30cm-Shatterproof-Ruler-0812016161.asp#

the thing about them was not that they could not be broken, but that when they were broken they wouldn't shatter and leave potentially dangerous points which you could use to stab your classmates with. they were designed to break evenly(for want of a better phrase). we also have shatterproof glass which is designed similarly

Ruu_Old

shatter resistant me arse i remember getting this rubbery type ruler in Maddam Tussauds in London, it was very thick and very hard, so could be used for a ruler but also soft and bendy. My mates used to borrow it to beat the shiete out of the person next to them because it was like a whip when you hit someone with it
We had steel rulers in metalwork but only used them again to smack people with. We had a crazy technical graphics teacher who, if he saw you wisper or anything to your mates he'd come chasing down the room and smash one of them t-squares right in front of you! and i mean smash, one day it broke in front of someone, that was a laugh

Catsmokinpot

technically it was shatter resistant, in that it didnt actually shatter it snapped, remember the ones that did shatter and you could imagine a couple of hundred kids had their eyes taken out with one

Larianne

I still have me red shatterproof ruler somewhere. We used to always slide them under each other's arses to make one another jump outta our seats when the teacher was asking us a question.

_Kaiser_

I have one lyin around here too somewhere. Miss my metal ruler tho.. my sister stole it years ago Have looked around on and off for a new one if I'm in a shop but can only find the regular plastic/wooden ones