Or tried to use their fabric scissors to cut paper…

Very tough stubby blades meant to cut copper wire. The Olfa ones posted by OP are not true electrician’s scissors like these:

https://www.kleintools.com/catalog/electricians-scissors/electricians-scissors-nickel-plated

Exactly. Mine live at the entrance door along with the Olfa box cutters.

William Whiteley's Wilkinsons are better and have a longer pedigree.

My Olfas have more sensible handles:

https://blog.majid.info/galleries/scissors/#&gid=1&pid=11

That said no plastic-handled anything is going to be BIFL like traditional drop-forged styles with high-chrome and nickel steel.

I find the micro-serrated blades objectionable. They have their uses in dismantling packages, which is what I mostly use them for, not for anything requiring precision.

I think that model is discontinued though. Clauss has sadly shifted a lot of production to China.

Only if they are coated inside (and those coatings often have... BPA). Aluminium is a neurotoxic.

Aluminium is also a neurotoxic, if nowhere near as bad as mercury

Aluminium is a neurotoxic

The licensed/reissued Braun analog alarm clocks, while not as good as the originals, still have the silent German movement that won't prevent you from falling asleep with an obnoxious tick-tock noise.

One model worth considering is the BNC008BK-RC. It has a world radio time signal receiver that sets it automatically almost wherever you are in the world, and is fairly compact for travel.

They won't meet your two-setting requirement, but will outperform clocks that have that but lack the radio or silent movement.

> The widow Sarah Terry gradually went insane

I’d say her behavior before suggests she had always been insane.

The one that is part of the tape measure, it's metal instead of the more usual plastic. Now, if your dad tosses it and it has the bad luck to land on the plastic release switch, that could break and he would lose the ability to lock the tape in position, but the measure would still work.

I have a bunch of these Stanley tape measures with a metal case. Seem pretty bomb-proof to me, although I am not rough with my equipment.

London Undercover, Fox, Le Cherbourg, Piganiol, Swaine Adeney Brigg.

Yes.

What's really crazy is that the good citizens of San Francisco voted for two of these scumbags' kid as DA, despite his clearly announcing he was going to stop prosecuting criminals. Fortunately he was recalled this year.

The Exergen temporal artery thermometer is basically the same one my daughter’s pediatrician or UCSF hospital uses, just without the metal construction and disposable caps for sanitary purposes a medical setting requires. That’s why it costs $30 instead of $200 for the professional version.