# They do Things Differently in China

They do things differently in China.

My office-mate, Tao, is originally from China, and he has a Chinese
stapler.

You know how on some staplers, the little metal plate that bends the
staple around is reversible, so that you can bend the staples either
inward or outward? Well, Chinese staplers have the same feature, but
mechanism is, er, [somewhat
different](http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~mjs/archive/wacky-stapler/)!