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rob, Wed 29 Nov 2006, 16:33)
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Never buy Morrisons value-brand stationery. To misquote Humphrey Lyttelton; How do you fuck up a pencil?
(, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 17:06, 4 replies, latest was 13 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.
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payed?(
sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 31 Aug 2011, 0:42,
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In cheap pencilsthe lead isn't always in the dead centre, so that when you sharpen them, the wood isn't trimmed back far enough
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 31 Aug 2011, 0:43,
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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.
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