Ben Gilbert: preference

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…Okay, wow, this is a deep cut. Scissors. Sometimes I get tricked by Instagram, as my wife says, where I'm scrolling through and then I find like the perfect ad hitting me at the perfect moment for some product I didn't even know I needed. This pair of scissors, the ad is great because it says, how come your scissors are like some flimsy sheet metal? And when you cut something that's hard, sometimes the scissors split sideways. And don't you hate that when it doesn't actually cut and the little screw is actually not positioned in the place to give you maximum leverage? We've just gotten so cheap in how we make scissors. Don't you miss the scissors from your grandma's house when you were growing up from the '50s that were like metal and like really solid? Well, we have brought those back, but with the highest manufacturing quality, the best metals, this amazing grip. And I'll tell you, oh, and this, the way it slides when you, when you squeeze them together to cut something is so unbelievably crisp, satisfying, smooth. And I bought them thinking like, we'll see. And they're expensive scissors. It's like $50 scissors or something. And they show up and it is everything I could have hoped for. It is the Ferrari of scissors.…

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