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What do you call it?

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  • #32
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    It was always a Pointer in the NW


  • #33
    Queasy Tadpole
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭Queasy Tadpole


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

    It was a parer. Holy jaysus!


  • #34
    Hand in Your Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭Hand in Your Pants


    Nut. Load. Wad. Buckshot.


  • #35
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,310 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Topper
    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.
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  • #36
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,104 ✭✭✭✭Water John


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


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  • #37
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    It's a pencil pointer.


  • #38
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users Posts: 8,535 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Sharpener
    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


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Sharpener
    A topper.


  • #40
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,265 ✭✭✭AllForIt


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


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


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


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  • #42
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,001 ✭✭✭✭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: :)

    Not your ornery onager



  • #43
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    Sharpener
    Topper.

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


  • #44
    Cherry Blossom
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 6,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cherry Blossom


    Something else?
    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.


  • #45
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,265 ✭✭✭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.


  • #46
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 12,990 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Sharpener
    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.

    To thine own self be true



  • #47
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,895 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Topper
    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.


  • #48
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,657 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • #49
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Something else?
    Sharpener.


  • #50
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭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.


  • #51
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[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.


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  • #52
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    JasonStatham wrote: »
    A hatchet?

    My Gränsfors Bruks would actually be able to.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #53
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


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


  • #54
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Something else?
    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 :confused:

    Pencil sharpener, to sharpen pencils with...

    I thought a pointer was one of those mechanical pencils.


  • #55
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »
    The thing you sharpen a pencil with.

    A good woman


  • #56
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    I always thought it was called a pencil parer


  • #57
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Something else?
    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.


  • #58
    Hello 2D Person Below
    Registered Users Posts: 13,755 ✭✭✭✭Hello 2D Person Below


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


  • #59
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,895 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Topper
    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.


  • #60
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,871 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Pencil Sharpner.


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  • #61
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Something else?
    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. :D


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