Illustrazione del tagliaunghie da Giorgio Credaro
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mercoledì 9 gennaio 2013
lunedì 7 gennaio 2013
Affilare il tagliaunghie
"Nail clippers are
a common grooming tool found in most households. Unfortunately, nail clippers
easily become dull through normal use. After the blades have dulled, they can
crush nails rather than cut them. Instead of purchasing a replacement pair,
sharpen your nail clippers at home. Sharpening can be done quickly and spares
you the expense of purchasing a new set.
Step 1
Rotate the
actuating lever of the nail clippers 90 degrees, until it no longer sits on top
of the two pieces that make up the jaws of the clippers. Squeeze the jaws
together tightly using your fingers or a set of pliers. Hold the clippers on a
horizontal plane. The pin holding the actuating lever should fall away from the
clippers, allowing you to easily remove the actuating lever.
Step 2
Insert a screw
into the hole that the actuating lever has fallen from. Tighten the screw with
a nut until the two jaws of the clippers are touching or nearly touching. If
you're using pliers, remove them from the clippers at this time.
Step 3
Hold the sharpening
stone, or a handheld rotary tool equipped with an aluminum oxide grinding stone
accessory against the edge of the jaws of the nail clippers. Move the
sharpening stone across the surface of the jaws until all nicks, scratches and
dents have been removed from the metal surface.
Step 4
Remove the nut
and screw from the clippers. Reinsert the pin that held the actuating lever.
Squeeze the jaws together using the pliers or your fingers, and reattach the
actuating lever.
Step 5
Wash any filings
away from the nail clippers by rinsing them under running water. "
"Do it Yourself: Sharpening Nail Clippers". BUSSE, Melissa. 2011
"Do it Yourself: Sharpening Nail Clippers". BUSSE, Melissa. 2011
Il tagliaunghie come prodotto Mac
Vizio capitale
Volendo...se il tagliaunghe fosse un vizio(peccato) capitale, sarebbe:
SUPERBIA: VANITÀ
Quando tagliarsi le unghie diventa un impegno più per sentirsi superiore che pulito
"Vanità, dal lat. vanitas,-atis', astr. divanus". Vano: vuoto, ma anche inutile, futile, inconsistente, fugace, inane. Più apparenza che sostanza. Quindi la connotazione del termine e dei suoi derivati è negativa.
- Assenza di corporeità, mancanza di consistenza materiale.
- Mancanza di efficacia o di utilità. Inconsistenza; fugacità.
Nel linguaggio
comune, il termine vanità indica un'eccessiva credenza nelle proprie capacità e
attrazione verso gli altri. Prima del XIV Secolo non aveva alcun significato
narcisistico, ma era considerata una futilità. Il relativo termine vanagloria
oggi è visto come un sinonimo arcaico della vanità, un'ingustificata vanteria;
sebbene il termine gloria oggi ha assunto un significato prevalentemente
positivo, in latino il termine gloria (dal quale deriva la parola in italiano)
significa approssimativamente vanteria, ed aveva spesso un significato
negativo. In molte religioni la vanità, nel suo significato più moderno, è
considerata come una forma di auto-idolatria, nel quale l'individuo rifiuta Dio
per la sua propria immagine, e di conseguenza non gli viene più concessa la
grazia divina.
Negli
insegnamenti Cristiani la vanità è vista come un esempio della superbia, una
dei sette peccati capitali. Questo elenco si è allargato ultimamente con
l'aggiunta della vanagloria, considerata un peccato indipendente dalla
superbia, e quindi non riconducibile ad essa.
Alla fine, noi tagliamoci le unghie per farsi vedere belli, perché crediamo che, a certo punto, le unghie sono bruti.
Fonte 1. Cattolici
Fonte 2 WIKIPEDIA.
domenica 6 gennaio 2013
"We've been trimming our nails wrong for more than 100 years"
"Trimming your nails sucks, and it's not your digits' fault. Technology is to blame. Nail clippers. Blech. With a one size fits all design, it's impossible to get your whole nail in one clip. And curling over the bathroom bin doesn't make us any more likely to keep the floor clean of our cast offs.
And yet, for more than a century, we've been keeping our nails under control using the same little imperfect machine. How is it that this crummy design won us over?
The device started wriggling its way into our hands and hearts in the late 19th century. Early clippers looked like fat tweezers and worked when you squeezed them. Well that sounds convenient! Inventors started improving: in a patent from 1881, the mechanical nail-biter gets a lever to add vim to your trim. Fancy! This same device also worked as a glove-buttoner and was designed to be dangled from a belt or watch chain as if clipping your nails was something that didn't gross out other people.
But the nail
clippers didn't go gangbusters at the time. Part of the reason was that
manufacturing them was expensive. So production never really got far off the
ground.
Today they're so cheap
they're almost disposable. Bassett's TRIM clippers—or some other nearly
identical model—will set you back only about a buck or two. Perhaps our
problems with nail clippers pass with the action, or perhaps they're so cheap
that we don't feel like we have the right to complain. Whatever it is, the nail
clipper could still stand to do a better job.
Maniera più comune di tagliarsi le unghie.
In questo modo, le unghie vano in giro per tutta la stanza
Instead of
spraying shards of cast off nail, they should trap the shrapnel, or deposit it
neatly somewhere. According to Andrew Johnston, the owner of Klhip, a company
that recently reimagined nail clipper, the key to proper cutting is sharpness.
The cutting edge of the traditional model "crushes and snaps" the
nail. He likens the process to chopping carrots. "If you apply pressure
with a dull blade, the carrot goes flying," says Johnston. "But if
you have a sharp knife, the carrot slices either stick to the knife or fall on
the cutting board." Storing the average clipper next to the sink or at the
bottom of a makeup bag will cause its blade to quickly dull.
Johnston has
solved this problem by making his nail clipper out of injection-molded
stainless steel that's been heat treated to make it extra hard. The blade on
his clipper stays sharper for longer and it doesn't have nearly as much bend.
But in order to get better performance, you're going to have to shell out $50.
Sure, Johnston's model is a better ergonomic design, with the arm connection
kicked to the back and extending forward, but the price point is too high for
most of us to even consider.
What we really need is the 2012 version of a Bassett
moment—give us all the nail-cutting good stuff, but at a price that will work
for the masses.”"
ABCdario
- A- Acciaio (inox)
- B- Basico
- C- Cambio (D’immagine)
- D- Denti
- E- Ergonomico
- F- Forbice
- G- Grammi
- I- Igiene
- L- Lacerante
- M- Meccanismo
- N- Necessario
- O- Oggetto
- P- Piccolo
- R- Radere/raccorciare
- S- Salutabile
- T- Tagliare
- U- Unghie
- V- Vanità
- W- Western
- Z- Zizzania
Brevissima storia del tagliaunghie
L’evoluzione
dell’uomo ha fatto le unghie diventare più noiosi che utile, per l’uomo moderno
le unghie non sono già uno strumento di defensa, e sono appena uno strumento
per graffiare.
Prima
dell’invenzione del tagliaunghie moderno e prima del concetto dell’igiene
personale, esistevano alcuni strumenti per tagliarsi le unghie per comodità, ma
alla fine le persone preferivano farlo utilizzando la sua bocca, mordendo le
unghie.
