Never buy Morrisons value-brand stationery.
To misquote Humphrey Lyttelton; How do you fuck up a pencil?
(costas, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 17:06, 4 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I suspect you bought the wrong hardness.
If you're right that they fucked up a pencil it probably cost them more than you payed for it.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 19:25, Reply)

payed?

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 31 Aug 2011, 0:42, Reply)

In cheap pencils
the lead isn't always in the dead centre, so that when you sharpen them, the wood isn't trimmed back far enough
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 31 Aug 2011, 0:43, Reply)

Aha!
That could be it. I suspect it also doesn't help that the wood in question is the mankiest disease-ridden rot-infested garbage that someone could find in a skip somewhere. Sharpening it is like sharpening a sausage.

Apologies for the above image which, if taken a bit further, is utterly harrowing.
(costas, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 13:28, Reply)