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What do you call it?

Eleven Benevolent Elephants

The thing you sharpen a pencil with.

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retalivity

It was always a Pointer in the NW

Queasy Tadpole

Jesus I wanna change my vote now. It's been decades since I was in school.

It was a parer. Holy jaysus!

Hand in Your Pants

Nut. Load. Wad. Buckshot.

Leg End Reject

A parer, I've never heard it called a topper.

Topper reminds me of the cartoon characters etc that we used to put on top of pencils in school. You'd think you were great with that, your fancy paper and scented rubber.

Water John

Faber Castell factory was in Fermoy Co. Cork and it's a Topper down here.
So that's official Ha.

JohnnyFlash

It's a pencil pointer.

PsychoPete

Water John wrote: »

Faber Castell factory was in Fermoy Co. Cork and it's a Topper down here.
So that's official Ha.

Everyone in school called it a Topper. Probably a culchie thing, knowing culchies it might have something to do with a topper mower or some other form of agriculture equipment

[Deleted User]

A topper.

AllForIt

If you asked me what a topper is I'd say someone who likes to be on top.

[Deleted User]

A topper obviously, why would I use something other than the correct name for an item?

Esel

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Eraser?

I asked an American secretary for some stationary supplies, including pencils and a rubber.

The filthy look I got! :eek:

BuboBubo

Topper.

I used a Swiss Army knife to sharpen my pencils though, I could get the points just perfect for my drawings.

Cherry Blossom

I’ve never heard either of the terms topper or parer before. Most people in my school called it a sharpener with just one or two calling it a pointer.

AllForIt

What's the point of this thread anyway? Boom Boom.

I think a parer is the best one because that's what you do it it - pear it like paring an apple. You take off the outside to reveal the inside. You don't really 'sharpen' it, that's what you do with a knife, though that's debatable. A pointer would be the second best and a topper is just ridiculous.

This reminds me, when I was 6 I had a pencil sword fight at school with a class mate. Unfortunately I stabbed him in the finger and the lead broke off and stayed embedded in his finger. To make things worse he was the next door neighbour of the head teacher so you can imagine I wasn't very popular that day. I wouldn't mind but he started it.

Purple Mountain

Cherry Blossom wrote: »

I’ve never heard either of the terms topper or parer before. Most people in my school called it a sharpener with just one or two calling it a pointer.

I never heard of parer or pointer.
Topper all the way.
In my primary school days, you'd go to the metal bin in the classroom to 'top' your pencil into it.

Gregor Samsa

Rothko wrote: »

Parer sounds posher to me than sharpener.

I’m from Dublin Northside. It was only ever a parer. Sharpener to me sounds like you’d need to be wearing a monocle to say it. “Pass me the sharpener, William. I am presently about to pen a missive, and my pencil is rather dull.” As opposed to “Giz de parer, ya muppet. Me bleedin pencil’s bolloxed”.

As for topper, I remember the first time my wife said it to me. She was all like “Be the hokey, my penchil is broke. I’ll put the topper to it now, so I will. And then I’ll foot the turf”. I was like “why are you making up a stupid word for a parer? And we have gas central heating, we don’t use turf”. I absolutely refuse to use the word, it’s one of my red lines. She calls the lid of a milk carton or plastic bottle a “cork” too - unacceptable!

She’s lying in bed beside me snoring her head off now. I’ll fücking topper if I can’t get to sleep.

Capt'n Midnight

sharpener/parer, but usually a knife

but sandpaper too, and rotate the pencil every so often so you don't need to do it so often

Church on Tuesday

Sharpener.

Rodney Bathgate

Esel wrote: »

I asked an American secretary for some stationary supplies, including pencils and a rubber.

The filthy look I got! :eek:

In future use the term prophylactic, less offensive.

[Deleted User]

The thing you use to pare back the layers of wood to get to the graphite so you can use the pencil?

Sure, it's a topper or whatever.

Feisar

JasonStatham wrote: »

A hatchet?

My Gränsfors Bruks would actually be able to.

Graces7

Do folk still use pencils? Not seen one for years and none here. But it was always sharpener.

Hamsterchops

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I never heard of parer or pointer.
Topper all the way.
In my primary school days, you'd go to the metal bin in the classroom to 'top' your pencil into it.

Never heard of parer, pointer, or topper

Pencil sharpener, to sharpen pencils with...

I thought a pointer was one of those mechanical pencils.

Kylta

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

The thing you sharpen a pencil with.

A good woman

Kylta

I always thought it was called a pencil parer

jimgoose

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Parer. Or if I’m feeling posh, a sharpener.

Married a culchie, though, and she and the kids call it a topper. I just can’t.

I'm a culchie, and I call it a pencil sharpener. This is a topper:

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You need to demand to see that woman's Woolyback License.

[Deleted User]

I've never heard anyone below the age of 60 using 'parer'.

Gregor Samsa

Graces7 wrote: »

Do folk still use pencils? Not seen one for years and none here. But it was always sharpener.

Young kids use them in school. And carpenters have those elliptical ones that don't roll away, but they'd sharpen them with a Stanley knife.

Lewis_Benson

Pencil Sharpner.

jimgoose

Graces7 wrote: »

Do folk still use pencils? Not seen one for years and none here. But it was always sharpener.

I usually have a couple of pencils around the place, yes. One goes behind the ear before commencing Bitsa Jobs.