First off, the video that I've shared is just to try and demonstrate the sound that these suckers make when the handles are squeezed. It almost totally sounds like they go, "slice," lol. It sounds better in person of course, but I think it can be heard pretty well in the video. Anyway, in my household, we have always had a pair of scissors that lay on a certain spot on the kitchen countertop at all times. And not too long ago I got these awesome scissors from Slice, and I thought that they would be the perfect as our countertop scissors. So I switched the old scissors to these without saying anything to my fiancée... Well, she wound up loving them as much as I do, and we continue to be plenty happy with them.