Now it's my turn - Can't find our tin opener, what to do?

This has got to be a troll thread Feek.
You're as old as me and therefore been camping a lot over the fields and you know the answer.
You just get a knife and hit it with a brick until you can just get in and then because you're now fed up you eat your cold beans with your fingers.
Camping in the 60s/70s :)
 
Maccapacca said:
Any tin of corned beef, key or not is one step away from A&E
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Especially with Feek first he busts his arm then he burns himself whats next, puts himself in A&E after slashing his wrist on the sharp edge of an open corned beef tin? :( He need wrapping up in cotton wool. :p

(To answer the question, a pair of long nosed pliars been there, done that)
 
arknor said:
[..] it looks stolen since he doesn't have the key :D
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Circling back to the earlier thread that the title of this one is referring to - maybe tinned corned beef is the only thing in the supermarket that doesn't have a oversized security tag on it :)
 
I learnt today that the tin opener was invented 45 years after the tin. Imagine the forum threads back then :D
 
goddamnit, this thread cursed me.

opening a tin of kidney beans and the pull-ring just snapped off.

don't have a can opener so had to cut the top open with a dremel and now i'm covered in bean juice.....
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Swiss engineering the same country who made the aptly named Swiss army knife Vs what appears to be a well made Chinese alternative safety tin opener.

The real test is after opening the tin could you run your finger or tongue along both the lid and tins edge and it was so smooth and blunt a 5 year old would be in safe hands?
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You're absolutely right. Couldn't be smoother, though the lack of cutting feeling is quite disorienting so it's a little bit difficult to know when the top has finished cutting.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
You're absolutely right. Couldn't be smoother, though the lack of cutting feeling is quite disorienting so it's a little bit difficult to know when the top has finished cutting.
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Good stuff. Yeah anyone I've shown mine too was shocked when I run my finger along the edge and then the other edge to show them how safe it is. I remember as a child I must have cut myself a few times on a tin of beans or custard here and there.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
You're as old as me and therefore been camping a lot over the fields and you know the answer.
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I hate camping, you'd never get me in a tent. That's a generic 'you', not just specifically you.

I didn't have spam sarnies today, I was busy at breakfast time and around mid morning, Mrs. Feek surprised me with some sausage sandwiches so I skipped lunch.
 
Feek said:
I hate camping, you'd never get me in a tent. That's a generic 'you', not just specifically you.
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Wow, back in the 60s/70s we were always buggering off in a field.
I lost my virginity in a tent at 14.

Waits for someone to put both sentences together and make 5 .......................... :)
 
Psycho Sonny said:
I showed them and subsequently I then said look no part of the tin opener gets dirty it has a gripper to grab the top and both are completely safe and ran my finger across them saying completely safe for kids to use.
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Wow.... back when we were kids, we just learned how to handle a tin opener safely.
I'm not aware of anyone ever hurting themselves on either the tools or the opened tins...

SexyGreyFox said:
Waits for someone to put both sentences together and make 5 .......................... :)
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I just put a comma before the word 'off'. That seemed the simplest solution.

In a field, you say? Did you get the sheep's number? :p
 
ttaskmaster said:
I'm not aware of anyone ever hurting themselves on either the tools or the opened tins...
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Submit a Freedom of Information request to your local A&E, I think you'll be surprised.
I sit about 20 foot from the Information Governance Team and around 5 years ago someone submitted an FOI for how many patients end up in A&E with things stuck up their bum - that year there was 58 and there was a breakdown of each thing.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Wow.... back when we were kids, we just learned how to handle a tin opener safely.
I'm not aware of anyone ever hurting themselves on either the tools or the opened tins...
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I did, so there's one. Nothing major, but I've cut a finger once or twice. The usual openers create a sharp-edged lid that has to be removed from a sharp-edged can, so there is a degree of risk.

Dup said:
I learnt today that the tin opener was invented 45 years after the tin. Imagine the forum threads back then :D
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I learnt that a few years back. It makes more sense if you look into it in a bit more detail, but it certainly sounds bizarre when you first hear it.

Imagine the rules for this forum being applied to the soldiers (tin cans were invented specifically for military use) talking about tin cans in those years. The posts would be about half asterisks :) Although maybe not. Maybe they just got on with it and overall were glad to have better food on campaign.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Wow.... back when we were kids, we just learned how to handle a tin opener safely.
I'm not aware of anyone ever hurting themselves on either the tools or the opened tins...


I just put a comma before the word 'off'. That seemed the simplest solution.

In a field, you say? Did you get the sheep's number? :p
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I'm not talking losing a finger or slicing open an artery something just slightly worse than a paper cut. A little nick on accident I wasn't actively looking to play with a sharp lid like it's a frisbee.

Next you will be telling me that you were taught how to handle paper correctly and that you have never had a skelf either in your life because you were taught how to handle wood correctly.
 
Angilion said:
I did, so there's one. Nothing major, but I've cut a finger once or twice. The usual openers create a sharp-edged lid that has to be removed from a sharp-edged can, so there is a degree of risk.
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Hmm... you should be more careful in life!!
Not sure what openers you're using, but everything since the butterfly has just smoothly cut, while everything before created an edge that you knew was sharp and so handled accordingly!
Often you can even get a smooth cut off a Swiss Army™ can opener. Use a push cut rather than the lever method.

Angilion said:
Maybe they just got on with it and overall were glad to have better food on campaign.
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I imagine they'd have been delighted to get a labour-saving device... and swearing was not all that common in history, or rather most language was not considered obscene and thus prohibited in any way. Blasphemy was more the Mod Fodder of the day, and the banhammers were more tangible, so a civil tongue was often kept.

Psycho Sonny said:
I'm not talking losing a finger or slicing open an artery something just slightly worse than a paper cut. A little nick on accident I wasn't actively looking to play with a sharp lid like it's a frisbee.
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And yet it happens to you often enough that you'd extol the virtues of a £20 can opener...

Psycho Sonny said:
Next you will be telling me that you were taught how to handle paper correctly and that you have never had a skelf either in your life because you were taught how to handle wood correctly.
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Paper isn't routinely regarded as threateningly sharp, and despite efforts to make it happen it is surprisingly difficult to actually cut someone with paper on purpose...
Handle wood, no, but handle woodworking tools yes.
But sharp tin can lids are sharp, and so you handle them like other sharp things, ie don't grip them with fingers applying pressure on the sharp edges - Hold them by the sides, like a grown-up.
 
I've never heard the word 'skelf' before so had to look it up.

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Quite appropriate :D
 
ttaskmaster said:
Hmm... you should be more careful in life!!
Not sure what openers you're using, but everything since the butterfly has just smoothly cut, while everything before created an edge that you knew was sharp and so handled accordingly!
Often you can even get a smooth cut off a Swiss Army™ can opener. Use a push cut rather than the lever method.


I imagine they'd have been delighted to get a labour-saving device... and swearing was not all that common in history, or rather most language was not considered obscene and thus prohibited in any way. Blasphemy was more the Mod Fodder of the day, and the banhammers were more tangible, so a civil tongue was often kept.


And yet it happens to you often enough that you'd extol the virtues of a £20 can opener...


Paper isn't routinely regarded as threateningly sharp, and despite efforts to make it happen it is surprisingly difficult to actually cut someone with paper on purpose...
Handle wood, no, but handle woodworking tools yes.
But sharp tin can lids are sharp, and so you handle them like other sharp things, ie don't grip them with fingers applying pressure on the sharp edges - Hold them by the sides, like a grown-up.
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When I bought my home I needed my own tin opener so I decided to buy a decent one. I think mine was £8-£12 it's not the 5 in 1 version.

I never even knew it was a safety version of only used the other stuff before and tbh I can only recall cutting myself whilst in primary school.

Anyway if I had to choose again if buy it again especially with an 8 week old who will no doubt in 8 or so years be using it.
 
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