Stilton: You know your wildlife.
Although a light shower only dampens them and makes them run in a comically soggy manner, it also renders scissors ineffective until a sunny spell. We tend to hunt them during the summer months after a winter at the grind stone to ensure our scissors are swift, silent and sharp. And of course they don't like matches, which is why only suicidal cardboard beasts smoke and are shunned by most herds.
CarrionCrow: It's a tradeoff. They're harder to slice up, but they also can't really inflict nasty cardboard cut wounds when soggy.
Think I need to borrow one of your tribe's pairs. The last set of scissors I had broke while trying to cut a
cigarette filter in half. Didn't even know that was possible.
That does make sense. Didn't list fire as a weakness, though, since I figure it's pretty much a weakness for everything.
You'll like this....
My dad used to smoke roll-ups, buying the papers, filters and tobacco whenever he needed them. One Saturday he went to his tobacconist for some filters and the weekend staff were present, in this case a teenage girl. He went to the counter and she asked him what he wanted and he pointed to a shelf behind her with artfully arranged boxes of filters, presumably in quantities of 100. He pointed to the boxes and said, "I'd like one of those, please," to which she took one of the boxes from the shelf, opened it, took out a single filter and placed it on the counter in front of him.
That's almost too sweet to be sad, don't you think?