From which side of the paper do you remove a staple?

Spot In The Sky

Even wikipedia is unclear but I believe that you do it from the back of the paper, where the staple is bent when using a staple remover.
Surprisingly, some people call it a staplER remover, which would be the act of removing the stapler, not the staple- ask around at work, see for yourself what people call it. Anyway, my boss says you do it from the front, the flat side, but to me the pointy parts of the remover are the same width apart as the bends in the staple.

What are your thoughts?

mickeyrat

ok, I'll bite. Just like the TP roll is from the top , you remove the staple from the front. One quick motion , the staple is removed.

Tell me how its done from the back. Open the bent over parts, then turn the pages over and remove the staple? Wasted motion of you ask me.

From the front , you get the teeth under the staple , press the teeth together and the staple should be removed.

catefrances

mickeyrat wrote:

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Tell me how its done from the back. Open the bent over parts, then turn the pages over and remove the staple? Wasted motion of you ask me.
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thats how i do it. that way you get two little holes instead of one big gash.

81

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=139717

Spot In The Sky

81 wrote:

http://forums.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=139717

That was one of the best threads Ive read on here! Cant believe I didnt catch it as it was happening.

rollings

staples the store

catefrances

Half Full wrote:

I am eagerly waiting for the reply from Catefrances when she reports back on her astonishment regarding the ability to (neatly--no gashes) remove a staple from the front of a paper without having to first unfold the tines/spokes/points from the back.

"why didn't anybody ever tell me this sooner! Thank God once again for the PJ forum"

wouldnt hold your breath on that if i were you, which thank donnie darko im not.

StillHere

how do you go about removing the staple from the front without straightening the little arms in the back first? If you do that, you'd might as well just tear off the corner of the papers cuz it leaves a big ugly gash in the corner.
I always use the staple remover to first straighten the folded tines in the back (that's why I thought it had 2 pincers) and then turn it over and use the remover to pinch it out...that makes a nice neat finished paper. Otherwise you'd (in my office at least) have to reprint the whole document and re-staple it, cuz we're not sending out a document with giant ugly holes and tears in the top right corner. What's the point of that?

GEEZUzzz I think I just realized just how much I need a LIFE! :wtf: :? :oops: OMG who puts that much thought into staple removal? :problem:

81

they key is good staple remover tool. i go from the front.

gearboy

just use papper clips and call it a day

81

gearboy wrote:

just use papper clips and call it a day

unlost dogs

StillHere wrote:

how do you go about removing the staple from the front without straightening the little arms in the back first? If you do that, you'd might as well just tear off the corner of the papers cuz it leaves a big ugly gash in the corner.
I always use the staple remover to first straighten the folded tines in the back (that's why I thought it had 2 pincers) and then turn it over and use the remover to pinch it out...that makes a nice neat finished paper. Otherwise you'd (in my office at least) have to reprint the whole document and re-staple it, cuz we're not sending out a document with giant ugly holes and tears in the top right corner. What's the point of that?

GEEZUzzz I think I just realized just how much I need a LIFE! :wtf: :? :oops: OMG who puts that much thought into staple removal? :problem:

I do... that's how I do it...
:oops:

chadwick

i tear it out of there
removing most of the corner
sloppy and stuff but a great paper

Dissidentman

I will shelf my opinion until I learn how the Greeks do it.

D?

StillHere

unlost dogs wrote:

StillHere wrote:

how do you go about removing the staple from the front without straightening the little arms in the back first? If you do that, you'd might as well just tear off the corner of the papers cuz it leaves a big ugly gash in the corner.
I always use the staple remover to first straighten the folded tines in the back (that's why I thought it had 2 pincers) and then turn it over and use the remover to pinch it out...that makes a nice neat finished paper. Otherwise you'd (in my office at least) have to reprint the whole document and re-staple it, cuz we're not sending out a document with giant ugly holes and tears in the top right corner. What's the point of that?

GEEZUzzz I think I just realized just how much I need a LIFE! :wtf: :? :oops: OMG who puts that much thought into staple removal? :problem:

I do... that's how I do it...
:oops:

chime

StillHere wrote:

how do you go about removing the staple from the front without straightening the little arms in the back first? If you do that, you'd might as well just tear off the corner of the papers cuz it leaves a big ugly gash in the corner.

:oops: it doesn't when I do it. I go from the front and am just left with the two holes :?

StillHere

chime wrote:

StillHere wrote:

how do you go about removing the staple from the front without straightening the little arms in the back first? If you do that, you'd might as well just tear off the corner of the papers cuz it leaves a big ugly gash in the corner.

:oops: it doesn't when I do it. I go from the front and am just left with the two holes :?

chime, you must have been born with innate staple removing skills and talent

Dissidentman

So staple removing skills - nature or nuture?

StillHere

Dissidentman wrote:

So staple removing skills - nature or nuture?

Dissidentman

Now on the off chance you staple your own flesh, there is only the "from the front" method available, unless Chadwick knows different...

rollings

Removing a staple twice....first from the back and then from the front is nature. It just SEEMS like the way to do it.

However, if carefully nurtured, you will during your lifetime be kindly shown or told, that doing it only once, from just the front unloading position, also yields just those same two smalls holes.

I was shown this about 14 years ago, and I haven't learned nothing quite as amazing since.

(its good when the paper is flat on surface when removing the staple. A staple removed "mid-air" style will yield unstable results)

StillHere

A staple removed "mid-air" style will yield unstable results)

rollings

StillHere wrote:

A staple removed "mid-air" style will yield unstable results)

you mean you haven't tried it yet? CMON! I want you to come back and Say "OMG! The totality of hours I have wasted doing it twice as long, plus the "turn over". Forgive me. And thank you PJ Forum for saving me and CateFrances once again"

rollings

StillHere wrote:

A staple removed "mid-air" style will yield unstable results)

damnit. I missed the opportunity to say "unstaple results"

StillHere

Half Full wrote:

StillHere wrote:

A staple removed "mid-air" style will yield unstable results)

you mean you haven't tried it yet? CMON! I want you to come back and Say "OMG! The totality of hours I have wasted doing it twice as long, plus the "turn over". Forgive me. And thank you PJ Forum for saving me and CateFrances once again"

OHHHHhhhhhhh....all right, i confess..i have spent tireless nights trying to get those damned staples out from the front only, and completely tearing up my documents, which is totally unacceptable, so that I've stayed up till the wee early pre-dawn hours pointlessly re-printing, rearranging and re-stapling them since I've ruined them all time after time again. And then when I pry them from the back, and then have to pull them from the front anyway, well, you're absolutely right. I hate to admit it, but that's just an uncalled for misuse of my valuable time.

So, I suppose, OH this is Sooooo hard....what i really want to say is Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, 10Club and Half Full and Dissedentman and all the others here for making me realize the error of my ways. Never shall I use a staple remover from behind again. (That just sounds WRONG! lol!) If not for the lot of you I might have spent the remainder of my days unnecessarily doubling the time and trouble I actually need to accomplish this simplest of tasks, when the answer was right in front of my eyes, among my revered PJ friends the entire time, if I'd only been meek enough to ask for and accept help that was so generously offered, for my plight.

Oh thank you dear friends.

No more mid-air removal unstaple results shall I suffer. Oh the time and distress you have saved me now. Never shall I doubt your collective wisdom again, O great and respected 10C Friends.

OMG I'm so thankful and so relieved that I have finally realized the error of my ways and have become open to your teachings O Great 10C Member.

Life is forever altered for me now.





(And I'll humbly accept thanks for catefrances as well, cuz she'll just tell you to stick it where the sun don't shine ROFL!!) Am I right CF? heheheheeeee

rollings

That's better.

Now go my child, staple staple staple away.

And when that time comes when you MUST.....unstaple... you will lay your paper FLAT, top UP. That whole long side of the flat staple will be looking back at you, all neat & shit.

Youl will bless yourself AFUCKINGCHOO
and you will remove once, flawlessly.

Amen

catefrances

StillHere wrote:

(And I'll humbly accept thanks for catefrances as well, cuz she'll just tell you to stick it where the sun don't shine ROFL!!) Am I right CF? heheheheeeee

just deal with your own thanks thanks. if i had anything to be thankful for id let you all know.

mbangel10

It will depend greatly on the staple remover you are using.

The jaws of death staple remover = Front, one swift bite and jerk it back. Kind of like jaws ripping off a swimmers leg.

The stabbing sword of mayhem staple remover = Back then Front... two back flips, one slide and a flick of the wrist. Imagine Inigo Montoya finding the man who killed his father, and do it like that.

Your fingers = too darn lazy to search through your desk drawer for a staple remover. Don't prick yourself.

Lizard

I take it from the front and 50% of the time I get 2 nice pin holes and the other half i rip off the corner of the paper.


Oh....my oddball boss calls it a "depleter"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spot In The Sky

i think i need training in removing from the front without tearing the pages.

chadwick

never hand in neat paperwork
they will expect that type of precision every time
always leave shitty paperwork everywhere you go