That dude running with scissors has remarkable dexterity and aim to be able to quickly target thumbs, specifically. Its impressive.
Did children not wonder why they never met anyone who was missing a thumb? Or was there some sort of bizarre plague in Germany at that time that caused many people to be missing thumbs?
Piranhas have dozens of uses. Food, bait, aesthetics/decor, pranks, weapons of surprise, scissors, evil lairs…
lets expand pranks a bit
Bucket of piranhas perched above a door.
Put a piranha in the apple bobbing barrel for a “hardcore” mode.
April fools (self explanatory).
This is just scratching the surface
Put piranha in toilet, profit
Pranks !? 💀☠️
HI, I’M KENNY ROGERS, AND THIS IZ THE PIRANHA BUCKET ON THE DOOR TRICK!
Rare mad tv reference?
Surprise scissors are my favorite kind of scissors
Then you will love the German fairy tales collection of Struwwelpeter especially the thumb-sucker Konrad.
Here is an English translation of the whole book, although parts of the original humor got lost:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12116/12116-h/12116-h.htm
Forbidden scissors
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