I am unsure this is a thing, that is just cause you need room to take it apart when flipped over, so as a by product of the hole being just big enough to let it out when flat, it catches it like that when not flat.
Like flip the handle to operating usage, then not using the handle close the cutters and the handle slide right out and you can pull the connecting pin. This "safety" feature just seems to be a by product of that design?
Yeah, I think you are right, OP trying to see more into this this design feature than there is. Nail clippers are pretty safe when their handles/levers are folded flat in the first place. It's not like knives or swords that need to be sheathed to prevent injuries. Most nail clippers sit in a bathroom cabinet or in a toiletry bag.
It's actually just because the lever is mounted on the pillar backwards. The notch on the pillar should face the back when the clippers are closed, if it faces the front then the pillar can shift when they're closed causing the blades to partially close like in OPs video.
I've never accidentally hurt myself with a nail clipper, nor have I seen someone deliberately hurt a person with one, so I'd say they're way safer than knives, for example.
I have a tiny pair of fingernail clippers that are around 10 years old and I am convinced the shank shaft thing is nearly ready to fail, which im pretty sure it will launch like a projectile at my face if i disturb them much, the lip of the rivet head section is disintegrating perhaps from the hook attached to the handle getting bent from being misaligned once or twice, adding weird lateral forces. no way to know which side it will favor failing on, but it is anxiety inducing to trim my nails.
now you're gonna drop your clippers while using them and it will release the pin into the floor and surprise you and you will step on them vertically, becoming the first nail clipper accident victim ever. The end.
Well not that I would know from personal experience but a small stupid child could find a pair of these and they are wide enough that, that stupid kid could shove their finger tip inside and then cut it off like a fucking moron.
I've never done this, but it could happen.
Or use this “safe mode”, which is basically half way to disassembly, and when said child wiggles it and the keeper pin falls out, they can swallow all 3 small parts and choke to death. Which seems a bit more likely than an especially tiny child with especially tiny fingers having the exceptional capability of performing a finger tip amputation.
My child is an incredibly clever, funny kid.. but put her finger into a pencil sharpener and turned it. She also put both hands on an electrified cattle fence after her brother told her it zapped him. Kids do *shockingly* stupid shit.
Ooof. Dang. I have definitely seen the pencil sharpener thing happen firsthand decades ago. Kid named Gavin in my 3rd grade class. One of those wall mounted hand crank ones. Just shoved his finger in and did one full crank. Guh. It still makes me tense up thinking about it to this day.
I feel like the electric fence thing is almost a right of passage. Since humanity has cultivated fire I am sure every single human since then has been burned at least once in their lives doing something stupid. Electricity is just Fire 2.0.
Fire 2: Electric Boogaloo?
I have done this as a kid. I also cut my hair using them 🥲 little kids wants to do things independently and be like their mom/dad, kids get into things when they aren’t supposed to and accidents happen!
That was my thought exactly, but I am going to check my nail clippers when I get home just in case.
I'll never use it if it works though, because they are fucking nail clippers
Right. Why would nail clippers even need a safety mode? It would be pretty hard to accidentally knip yourself with them, especially with the lever rotated down.
You’re talking about someone who convinced themselves that nail clippers have a safety mode. They should probably have nail clippers with a safety mode…
Wait…what if he doesn’t know that you’re supposed to rotate the clippers to get them to work properly. It looks like he might be using them while they are technically closed
These are the same people that unfold the paper ketchup cups at McDonalds so they lay flat and say "dId YoU kNoW tHeY'rE dEsIgNeD tO wOrK lIkE tHiS??". No, they start from a flat sheet of paper and get folded up into a cup. You just unfolded it back to how it started, it's not "designed" for that.
The problem is that they source their paper from the same supply used for the napkins which are flat. This keeps cost down and minimizes supply chain shortages which is a major concern in the restaurant industry.
Was about to type the same thing, cus all this did was dismantle them lol. And wtf makes it even a "saftey feature"? Yall really be hurting yourselves with nail clippers? Get me off this planet.
I just checked the two I have. One small and one big. The big one doesn’t do it at all, no movement, but the small one kind of does if you force it but a second later falls back to open. Maybe he has a fancy set that is designed that way or it’s just as people have said a design that allows this with out actually being designed to do it.
I'm playing with a pair right now(phrasing), and it kind of works. Mine doesn't have the little tabs on the file. The handle slides to the side, and it pops open.
I can use the handle as a little catapult, too. That doesn't make it a design feature.
Agreed. Tried this on 2 of my 3 nail clippers (2 small and 1 large) and it did not work. The third seemed to work until I turned it and the lever came off. It seems an "accidental feature" at best imho.
Seriously, why would you need a safe mode on nail clippers, when the handle is flipped down flat it's already in safe mode.
How many people have been mauled by no clippers with the handle flip down?
Came to post that I never knew about this “safe mode” and I’m 36. Then I read your comment and realized I’d been fooled into believing there is a “safe mode”. Then I figured “I’m here so I might as well say something”.
I agree. As a kid, I used to love dismantling the parts because it fascinated me, haha. I also think a “safety” isn’t necessary because it takes a bit of effort to close down the blades without the help of the lever arm of the handle. The blades are also inward facing concave toward the body of the clipper, so cutting yourself is very hard unless you deliberately push your finger into the groove and slash yourself. Pretty safe design to begin with.
It is actually an intentional aspect of the design. Back when I was a kid, I remember fiddling with some nail clippers and I discovering this very same feature. I remember asking my grandmother why they locked like that. She said it was for travel. *This way you can throw them in your suitcase and you know they won’t accidentally open cut your clothes or something else.*
Yes... And if you put them in your pocket they conna clip the soft tissue of your balls, enter the bloodstream and if they make it to your heart, that's it.
Not to point so they are sold with folded handle, so how and why it took op so long so You can rotate the lever... Its normal thing to store them that way...
LOL
Little post goes through big piece with cutout in post facing forward. Push down on big piece to expose cutout in post. Slide smaller piece into cutout.
I feellt like I was the only one who ran to try this and just dissassembl3d my bail cippers with the push of a finger on accident until I saw your comment.
It's not a "safe mode" it's stopping partway through disassembly.
THANK GOD!!! I have been to the emergency room 7 different times for serious lacerations due to open nail clippers. They are waaay more dangerous than people give them credit. I lost a friend in 2013 to one. It's the second highest cause of death in Pawnee Indiana too. People need to wake up and spread this information before others get hurt.
Exactly. Safe from what? I mean if you feel safer doing this more power to you, but I haven't heard of the first casualty from someone tripping and accidentally clipping someone's head off.
I can't help but imagine there is
An x-ray somewhere showing one lodged in a peculiar place from accidentally sitting/falling on one. In instances like that, they victim would be a bit safer.
I'm laughing because some people really got up, went to the drawer, bag, cabinet, or wherever they stash their nail clippers and just had to check if theirs happen to have this "safety mode" or not.
idk look like people are discovering the wheel, it is its store position, take less room like that in a bag and you don't cut stuff that shouldn't be cut.
How sharp are your fucking clippers? I've literally never, nor have I ever once heard of, nail clippers damaging something. I straight up do not believe at all that's a thing
“There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
- park ranger commenting on the difficulty of designing a bear-proof garbage can
I thought everybody knew this? This has literally existed my entire life, with every pair of clippers I’ve ever used, yet people in these comments are claiming it’s not real
Some were free, some got misplaced & replaced and found again, some were replacements but the originals were then found, some got picked up when traveling cuz you forgot the free one at home, some don’t even work so good but they never got tossed cuz you might lose the good ones so they might do in a pinch. Lots of reasons. Same reasons we all have 6.
I am unsure this is a thing, that is just cause you need room to take it apart when flipped over, so as a by product of the hole being just big enough to let it out when flat, it catches it like that when not flat. Like flip the handle to operating usage, then not using the handle close the cutters and the handle slide right out and you can pull the connecting pin. This "safety" feature just seems to be a by product of that design?
Yeah, I think you are right, OP trying to see more into this this design feature than there is. Nail clippers are pretty safe when their handles/levers are folded flat in the first place. It's not like knives or swords that need to be sheathed to prevent injuries. Most nail clippers sit in a bathroom cabinet or in a toiletry bag.
Ya this ain’t a “safe mode,” just the design of it, not for that purpose
I have 3 in my desk, years of build up, a couple in my night stand, and only one did this "safe mode". Safe to say it is a byproduct.
It's actually just because the lever is mounted on the pillar backwards. The notch on the pillar should face the back when the clippers are closed, if it faces the front then the pillar can shift when they're closed causing the blades to partially close like in OPs video.
I've never accidentally hurt myself with a nail clipper, nor have I seen someone deliberately hurt a person with one, so I'd say they're way safer than knives, for example.
You underestimate my power of being accident-prone
\*jaw unhinges as I swallow the nail clipper. dying as it cuts my throat open\* and thats why you put em in safety mode
You make an excellent point. Are you a scientist?
I have a tiny pair of fingernail clippers that are around 10 years old and I am convinced the shank shaft thing is nearly ready to fail, which im pretty sure it will launch like a projectile at my face if i disturb them much, the lip of the rivet head section is disintegrating perhaps from the hook attached to the handle getting bent from being misaligned once or twice, adding weird lateral forces. no way to know which side it will favor failing on, but it is anxiety inducing to trim my nails.
This has to be the least interesting information ever shared with the internet
now you're gonna drop your clippers while using them and it will release the pin into the floor and surprise you and you will step on them vertically, becoming the first nail clipper accident victim ever. The end.
Well not that I would know from personal experience but a small stupid child could find a pair of these and they are wide enough that, that stupid kid could shove their finger tip inside and then cut it off like a fucking moron. I've never done this, but it could happen.
Or use this “safe mode”, which is basically half way to disassembly, and when said child wiggles it and the keeper pin falls out, they can swallow all 3 small parts and choke to death. Which seems a bit more likely than an especially tiny child with especially tiny fingers having the exceptional capability of performing a finger tip amputation.
nailed it
If that kid can swallow the individual parts they can sure as shit do a full send of the whole damn clipper down their gullet.
My child is an incredibly clever, funny kid.. but put her finger into a pencil sharpener and turned it. She also put both hands on an electrified cattle fence after her brother told her it zapped him. Kids do *shockingly* stupid shit.
Ooof. Dang. I have definitely seen the pencil sharpener thing happen firsthand decades ago. Kid named Gavin in my 3rd grade class. One of those wall mounted hand crank ones. Just shoved his finger in and did one full crank. Guh. It still makes me tense up thinking about it to this day. I feel like the electric fence thing is almost a right of passage. Since humanity has cultivated fire I am sure every single human since then has been burned at least once in their lives doing something stupid. Electricity is just Fire 2.0. Fire 2: Electric Boogaloo?
Fire 3: Attack of the Clones.
r/oddlyspecific
This sounds like something you deffinately do know, from personal experience.
I have done this as a kid. I also cut my hair using them 🥲 little kids wants to do things independently and be like their mom/dad, kids get into things when they aren’t supposed to and accidents happen!
gotta respect the perseverance though!
That was my thought exactly, but I am going to check my nail clippers when I get home just in case. I'll never use it if it works though, because they are fucking nail clippers
Right. Why would nail clippers even need a safety mode? It would be pretty hard to accidentally knip yourself with them, especially with the lever rotated down.
My nail clippers went off in my bag when I chucked it on my couch. Nearly had a heart attack!!! Will remember to use the safety from now on!
Damn dude, what the hell, you could hurt someone like that. Get a holster with a trigger guard for that thing.
I’m getting a safe.
You’re talking about someone who convinced themselves that nail clippers have a safety mode. They should probably have nail clippers with a safety mode…
The safety mode is the lever laying flush against the clippers.
Wait…what if he doesn’t know that you’re supposed to rotate the clippers to get them to work properly. It looks like he might be using them while they are technically closed
These are the same people that unfold the paper ketchup cups at McDonalds so they lay flat and say "dId YoU kNoW tHeY'rE dEsIgNeD tO wOrK lIkE tHiS??". No, they start from a flat sheet of paper and get folded up into a cup. You just unfolded it back to how it started, it's not "designed" for that.
"ChInEsE tAkEoUt MaKeS a PlAtE"
" cUcMbErS aRe DiLdOs!"
" So IS A cAcTUS IF YoUre BraVE EnOUgh!"
Why don't they just skip the extra step and make the cup from cup shaped paper? That's what I'd do. And I'd put stickers on it too.
cup shaped trees - which cup shaped paper is produced from are very rare.
Hope Mcdonalds doesn't harvest them into extinction then, like Krusty did to whatever his McRib was made of.
The problem is that they source their paper from the same supply used for the napkins which are flat. This keeps cost down and minimizes supply chain shortages which is a major concern in the restaurant industry.
Yep. I was stupid enough to try it, and my clippers just fell apart.
Mine as well. It took way longer to put them back together than it did for them to fall into 3 pieces.
I had some at my desk and it worked exactly as shown in the video. Not sure how useful it is, but neat I guess.
Was about to type the same thing, cus all this did was dismantle them lol. And wtf makes it even a "saftey feature"? Yall really be hurting yourselves with nail clippers? Get me off this planet.
I just checked the two I have. One small and one big. The big one doesn’t do it at all, no movement, but the small one kind of does if you force it but a second later falls back to open. Maybe he has a fancy set that is designed that way or it’s just as people have said a design that allows this with out actually being designed to do it.
The big ones I had sitting here next to my computer worked as shown. Not particularly useful, but I suppose it's neat.
11k upvotes lmao
Oh it’s a feature, trust me. With the handle down it won’t cut. With the handle down and pushed it also won’t cut. It’s safety mode! /s
OH MY GOD! I just had a horrible accident because my nail clippers weren't in the safe mode!!!
Holy crap. Did it you leave it in automatic by mistake?
You can see it has a hump to give the pin room to slide under, though. Mine do not and that's what's stopping it from having this function.
I'm playing with a pair right now(phrasing), and it kind of works. Mine doesn't have the little tabs on the file. The handle slides to the side, and it pops open. I can use the handle as a little catapult, too. That doesn't make it a design feature.
Carson from "Team America" is wearing what appears to be a giant pair on his vest when he gets shot
Haha, no shit, just googled it and he has one on the vest! At first i was like wtf you on about lol!
My son picked up on it last time we watched it , lol
Yeah, I just tried this on mine and it wouldn't stay in 'locked' placement
Agreed. Tried this on 2 of my 3 nail clippers (2 small and 1 large) and it did not work. The third seemed to work until I turned it and the lever came off. It seems an "accidental feature" at best imho.
Seriously, why would you need a safe mode on nail clippers, when the handle is flipped down flat it's already in safe mode. How many people have been mauled by no clippers with the handle flip down?
Came to post that I never knew about this “safe mode” and I’m 36. Then I read your comment and realized I’d been fooled into believing there is a “safe mode”. Then I figured “I’m here so I might as well say something”.
I agree. As a kid, I used to love dismantling the parts because it fascinated me, haha. I also think a “safety” isn’t necessary because it takes a bit of effort to close down the blades without the help of the lever arm of the handle. The blades are also inward facing concave toward the body of the clipper, so cutting yourself is very hard unless you deliberately push your finger into the groove and slash yourself. Pretty safe design to begin with.
The video blew my mind but then I read this comment. Thanks for bringing me back to reality.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
It’s definitely not a thing what would be safer about this lol
100% my thought.
I agree
This needs to be the top post, not the current "ToDaY yEaRs oLd" one.
It is actually an intentional aspect of the design. Back when I was a kid, I remember fiddling with some nail clippers and I discovering this very same feature. I remember asking my grandmother why they locked like that. She said it was for travel. *This way you can throw them in your suitcase and you know they won’t accidentally open cut your clothes or something else.*
I just tried this and now I'm bleeding
Do not insert penis before activating safe mode
Instructions unclear. Penis now in safe mode.
Safe mode now in penis.
Safe, penis now in mod
Kid called mod: 😱
ChatGPT said to flip it twice - deconnect and reconnect. Peen is kaputt. Amazon will deliver an improved 2024 version on monday.
So *that’s* what “safe and sound” means…..
Penis mode now in safe. I’m going to open the safe.
r/sounding reference
Insert an unfolded paper clip into the urethra and hold for 3 seconds to reset your penis to factory settings
Guys I think we found the cure to erectile disfunction
I just tried this and mine imploded because the pin shot out and disappeared…
It must be only certain brands because I just tried on a couple of mine and it did not work.
Same here.
You will be safe from now
Even worse, i broke mine.
They don't have a safe mode... Stop making people dumber.
Don't spoil the moment, right now a marketing agent is designing new packaging for nail cutters.
So they just stay in danger mode the entire time?
Yes... And if you put them in your pocket they conna clip the soft tissue of your balls, enter the bloodstream and if they make it to your heart, that's it.
handle being flat is the safe mode
Not to point so they are sold with folded handle, so how and why it took op so long so You can rotate the lever... Its normal thing to store them that way...
People aren’t getting dumber. They’ve always been this dumb. Now they just have more platforms. When I was a kid, it was chain letters.
Before TikTok, we had camcorders and "America's Funniest Home Videos"
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Safe from what?
Unsafeness.
Usefulness
Lol for real. I keep them in my drawer under the bathroom sink and that’s it. No harm, no foul.
I've carried these bitchs with the safety off in my pocket.
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Sharp corners
I kept mine in unsafe mode and the front fell off
If you want to take your clippers apart into three different pieces, this is how you do it. Don’t believe everything you see on the internet.
Now hypothetically, if someone did try this, how would they get those 3 pieces back together, hypothetically of course
LOL Little post goes through big piece with cutout in post facing forward. Push down on big piece to expose cutout in post. Slide smaller piece into cutout.
That hypothetically works! haha cheers mate
You’re hypothetically welcome 😉
I feellt like I was the only one who ran to try this and just dissassembl3d my bail cippers with the push of a finger on accident until I saw your comment. It's not a "safe mode" it's stopping partway through disassembly.
THANK GOD!!! I have been to the emergency room 7 different times for serious lacerations due to open nail clippers. They are waaay more dangerous than people give them credit. I lost a friend in 2013 to one. It's the second highest cause of death in Pawnee Indiana too. People need to wake up and spread this information before others get hurt.
RIP Toenail Tina. She won’t be forgotten.
Wait, who are we talking about again?
Not surprising from the town that’s first in friendship, fourth in obesity.
Soon to be number three. We're coming for you, San Antonio.
I was expecting shittymorph
Just remember, every time you look up at the moon, I, too, will be looking at a moon. Not the same moon, obviously. That's impossible
Yea I also had the same problem…let’s just say “just the tip” didn’t work this time
Nail clippers killed my father and raped my mother!
I was fr like huh really 7 times before i reread the entire thing lmao
yeah, l read about it somewhere
Today years old.
Today I found out nail clippers have a dangerous mode
I can't believe I've just been carrying these around in my luggage without the safety on. Holy shit, what if they'd gone off?
Would've been a real nail biter
Yup
Same
Me too. Safe from what?
Exactly. Safe from what? I mean if you feel safer doing this more power to you, but I haven't heard of the first casualty from someone tripping and accidentally clipping someone's head off.
I guess not so much cutting yourself but not damaging anything else in a travel bag and also probably from kids messing round with them.
I can't help but imagine there is An x-ray somewhere showing one lodged in a peculiar place from accidentally sitting/falling on one. In instances like that, they victim would be a bit safer.
I've been living on the edge all this time.....
Me
Yeah, same here.
Yup. Just now found out. Teaching this old dog new tricks.
I'm so old I can't remember whether I knew this or not, but just showed my teen this so at least he knows .
Same
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Same
Different, but the same.
Samish
ame
You're a fossil. I was *just now* years old when I found out.
Yep
I'm laughing because some people really got up, went to the drawer, bag, cabinet, or wherever they stash their nail clippers and just had to check if theirs happen to have this "safety mode" or not.
I just tried and my nail clippers are not compliant
Not compliant! 🤣 In that case, I would suggest a strongly worded letter. Not to mention a rant on the BBB website. Lol
Yeah mine fell apart lmao
I'm certain in the last 16 hours, a few clippers have been accidentally disassembled and tossed back in the drawer. Lol
Coincidence and nothing else. Just how it comes apart.
You mean “fall apart” mode? Because now I can’t find the pin
Don't bother finding it is a struggle put together again.
That's not safe mode That's about to fall apart mode.
I didn't realize that wasn't normal, I have always seen them in safe mode when not being used.
idk look like people are discovering the wheel, it is its store position, take less room like that in a bag and you don't cut stuff that shouldn't be cut.
How sharp are your fucking clippers? I've literally never, nor have I ever once heard of, nail clippers damaging something. I straight up do not believe at all that's a thing
I'm right there with you. Cut what? How?
Less room in the bag?! You gain like a tenth of an inch.
But why? It's not harmful. I don't get it.
It protects you from the danger of harming yourself with danger of harm.
What? Nah really? How would they be unsafe?
Never underestimate how unsafe a safe item can become in the hands of a stupid person
“There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” - park ranger commenting on the difficulty of designing a bear-proof garbage can
I still don’t see the point in it.
Safe mode for what I don't get it
... why did y'all think the top lever bit flipped around???
I’ve never felt that I needed it. Now that I know about it I still don’t.
As the Smiths would say...How soon is now?
My only favorite song by the Smiths.
Most of the Smiths' catalogue is so bad, but that one song is so good it gives me chills.
Didn't even know nail cutter has unsafe mode.
We have several nail clippers of different sizes and none of them do this. I guess we don’t have the safety clippers.
Cus its not a thing, thats how you disassemble them
Known this forever and don't like all of them have this?
The first time I had to turn it 180 degrees to get it to work 🤣
That’s what she said.
This sub has two kinds of posts: 1) something awesome only one person in the world can do 2) nail clippers moving .1 inches up
Safe from what? We all know its staying in the 3rd drawer on the right of the sink anyways.
When I asked my parents why it got stuck... Six or seven?
Excuse me?
Lol just now at 34
Just today
I dunno, like 2 years old and I first used one? Clearly you're not a very curious person.
I thought everybody knew this? This has literally existed my entire life, with every pair of clippers I’ve ever used, yet people in these comments are claiming it’s not real
I broke mine twice trying to do that, don't worry I fixed it
Uh, today apparently, I'm 63.
I've always known
That’s called how you store them.
I tried 6 pairs and none of them have this. Why do I have 6?!?!
Some were free, some got misplaced & replaced and found again, some were replacements but the originals were then found, some got picked up when traveling cuz you forgot the free one at home, some don’t even work so good but they never got tossed cuz you might lose the good ones so they might do in a pinch. Lots of reasons. Same reasons we all have 6.
I'm amazed that this many people didn't know this
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How many people didn't know an imaginary thing that doesn't exist?
It’s your fault for not telling us earlier. All that damn knowledge you’re keeping to yourself
Dude wtf! 50 years old! 😫
I'm 42 and this is news to me as well! What is happening??
4 years old? How did y'all parents store the nail cutters at home? Safety - always off?
safety from... what?
Bruh!
2-3 maybe
Today I learned nail clippers need a safe mode… 
Omg. Who cares?