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Someday, when society goes fully paperless, paper cuts will be a thing of the past
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Are the cuts from packaging different then?
Never heard of cardboard cuts.....
if a papercut is like being cut with a switchblade, a cardboard cut is like being cut with a saw.
Cardboard cuts are absolutely a thing, like a paper cut on steroids.
I used to work in a warehouse and spent most of my day opening, resealing, making, and breaking down boxes. Spend enough time around them and the boxes will get you.
Yeah but does anyone call them that? I'd still call that kind of fine cut a paper cut.
Never heard anyone say "ow I've got a cardboard cut"
My friend and I call it a box cut because they’re often worse than a normal paper cut due to fibers that can cause additional irritation unless cleaned out.
We definitely called them cardboard cuts, can't say how universal it is but every job I've where I've handled a lot of boxes it seems to be in pretty common use
We do at my warehouse. They are usually worse than a standard papercut so the distinction does say something
I call it "box attack"
Don’t forget the extreme dryness ptsd_dog.png
Definitely, normally my skin is pretty resilient, never really been someone who needs to spend money on moisturizers and such, I could probably just about wash my hands with acetone and steel wool and be none the worse for it.
But there were a few times when I worked there that my hands were getting noticeably dryer than usual, pretty sure if my skin were any more delicate I would have been in pretty rough shape.