Non-Folders Reactions to Your Origami

HankSimon · Post by **HankSimon** » December 28th, 2009, 7:25 pm

Nashma ... Could you borrow your gifts back from your family, and post pictures ?

Thanks,
Hank Simon

orislater · Post by **orislater** » January 7th, 2010, 1:18 am

There, i fixed my signature. Are you happy?

Brimstone · Post by **Brimstone** » January 7th, 2010, 1:42 am

orislater wrote:There, i fixed my signature. Are you happy?

No

HankSimon · Post by **HankSimon** » January 7th, 2010, 6:34 pm

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !

Are you happy, now ?

- Hank Simon

Walden · Post by **Walden** » January 19th, 2010, 4:36 am

Sometimes it seems like I get better response if it is several models together, in a theme.

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Nepfreak · Post by **Nepfreak** » January 19th, 2010, 11:34 pm

The other day I was folding my design for a sarlacc (some Star Wars monster that looked like a good subject). It had eight tentacles and a beaked tongue. My parents asked, "is that a person?"
Personally I find it frustrating to fold for hours and end up with something nobody can identify... although I wouldn't expect anyone to recognize "sarlacc."

FrumiousBandersnatch · January 20th, 2010, 11:06 pm

I seem to recall folding a kangaroo when I was about 10 years old, and someone telling me it was a nice horse...FML

redheadorigami · Post by **redheadorigami** » February 13th, 2010, 2:25 pm

I always get:
How long did that take?
Beatiful!
Cool!

The sad thing is about my Town no complex-intermediate origami books are available, most of my books that i own came from other countries.

Metangas · Post by **Metangas** » February 18th, 2010, 1:01 am

Well, I, like many others in here, mostly get possitive feedback. The only slightly negative comments, I usually get, are along the lines of "You have to much freetime!". I usually respond with: "Sure.", but that's just like my other default answers: "Do you know where X is?" "He/she/it fled", and so on.

Funny enough, I've noticed how I often get more feedback on simpler models, like the origami car by Charles Esseltine!

paperlion · Post by **paperlion** » February 25th, 2010, 2:06 am

Does anybody else get this:

Wow, you must get a lot of paper cuts!!
How many paper cuts have you gotten?

I think it's funny that people think I get tons of paper cuts. In fact, I've never gotten one. The worst I've gotten is a sore thumb. I try to explain why I don't get paper cuts, but when I start using terms like "raw edge" and what not, I usually lose them. Then I might explain with a piece of scrap paper, but that makes it even worse.

HankSimon · Post by **HankSimon** » February 26th, 2010, 12:35 am

Wait a sec.

I thought that traditional Origami used a square of paper with no cuts !

- Hank Simon

eric_son · Post by **eric_son** » March 3rd, 2010, 6:45 am

HankSimon wrote:Wait a sec.

I thought that traditional Origami used a square of paper with no cuts !

- Hank Simon

I think he meant to say I didn't get any paper cuts. Getting a paper cut is when you accidentally cut your finger by running it along the straight clean edge of a sheet of paper. It usually happens if the paper is very crisp -- like newly printed currency.

chesslo · Post by **chesslo** » March 3rd, 2010, 9:31 am

I think Hanks just joking around!

FrumiousBandersnatch · March 3rd, 2010, 4:17 pm

I knew there was going to be a translation issue with that.

HankSimon · Post by **HankSimon** » March 4th, 2010, 1:40 am

Sometimes cutting-up across a multi-lingual audience falls flat.... and sometimes even that provide a little laugh, too.

- Hank Simon