AI6YR BenAha! Found the perfect replacement adjustment arm for this bicycle trainer! #BikeTooter #repair #kludge
Andrew HenryMother-in-law has a bunch of vise-grips she is trying to give away.
You make me think I can’t have too many vise-grips.
Roger Moore@AndrewHenry @ai6yr
Vise-grips are like duct tape: seductive but usually wrong. They can solve some immediate problems, but at the cost of long-term problems. That's fine if you're going to throw away the stuff you used them on when you're done, but you'll curse them later if you aren't.
Vise-grips are like duct tape: seductive but usually wrong. They can solve some immediate problems, but at the cost of long-term problems. That's fine if you're going to throw away the stuff you used them on when you're done, but you'll curse them later if you aren't.
Gabriel NJoe walks down the aisle of a hardware store, and cover his ears before passing by the duct tape section.
— Hey handsome! Let’s go repair something together.
Croons a particularly large roll of tape.
The siren sounds of duct tape
Luring people in
Make them want to wrap stuff up
Leading to a life of sin
Strapping stuff together
With cloth, plastic, glue
It's all fine and dandy
You can even fix your shoe
It all seems to be working
No need for bolts or screws
Til you have a sudden failure
And your shoes you lose
Now I hear you can duct tape
Your broken bumper now
Still one day in the future
It'll still fall off, POW!
Their seductive rolls beckon
Fix everything thing with me
Alas another year in the sun
And it's broken again, see!
Paul_IPv6@ai6yr @wtrmt @VATVSLPR @AndrewHenry
for years, i used duct tape for anything *except* ducting work.
then, i was running ducting out to a work space in the garage from the main house. i was *so* disappointed to learn that duct tape was no longer code for taping ducts... there is sometimes no justice in this life.
@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr @wtrmt @AndrewHenry
My understanding is that it's properly "duck" tape after the cotton duck fabric used to reinforce it, not "duct" tape.
My understanding is that it's properly "duck" tape after the cotton duck fabric used to reinforce it, not "duct" tape.
stib@VATVSLPR @paul_ipv6 @ai6yr @wtrmt @AndrewHenry Interestingly the duct tape in Australia is pvc tape without cloth, basically like wider electrical tape, it's stretchy and not super adhesive.
Cloth tape is called gaffer tape, which comes from the film industry. Gaffers are the people responsible for lighting on a set and they use cloth-reinforced tape (just not on the gels or the light stands unless you want a booting) that is very adhesive, and very expensive.
The hardware store version is a pale imitation but is about a fifth of the price.
Cloth tape is called gaffer tape, which comes from the film industry. Gaffers are the people responsible for lighting on a set and they use cloth-reinforced tape (just not on the gels or the light stands unless you want a booting) that is very adhesive, and very expensive.
The hardware store version is a pale imitation but is about a fifth of the price.
@stib @VATVSLPR @paul_ipv6 @wtrmt @AndrewHenry Australia has its own nouns... Like... "CBD" in Australia is very different from "CBD" in the United States. 😂
I was very confused about reading about the Sydney CBD one day until I finally figured out it stands for "Central Business District" and not the California "Cannabidiol", the ever popular near relative of marijuana everyone seems to want to cram into everything.
Lauren Weinstein@ai6yr @stib @VATVSLPR @paul_ipv6 @wtrmt @AndrewHenry "CBD" for "Central Business District" is a common urban-related term in the U.S.
@lauren @stib @VATVSLPR @paul_ipv6 @wtrmt @AndrewHenry LOL, apparently I have lived in SoCal too long, CBD only means "not marijuana but close" in my brain wiring. 🤪
@ai6yr @stib @VATVSLPR @paul_ipv6 @wtrmt @AndrewHenry Well, OK. I'm here too, but CBD always has meant Central Business District to me, all the way back to UCLA and earlier.