Interesting, I simply searched for "channel-lock wrench" and only pictures of the wrench above came up

Your picture is a crescent wrench. maybe call it adjustable crescent wrench. (I had a lot of time while watching holes to also watch wrenches).

this is a channel lock wrench: 

![](https://m.stacker.news/98068)

Scoresby

Here in Portugal, we call that tool a 'english wrench' (monkey wrench?). Don’t ask me why!

![](https://m.stacker.news/98070)

0xbitcoiner

well, you can't buy much of a wrench any more, but if I was to use a wrench to bash someone, I would use a pipe wrench.

teemupleb

One day I was asked to go get a channel lock wrench from the tool trailer. I did not know what a channel-lock wrench was. I still remember the expression on the journeyman's face when I asked him if he could tell me what it looked like. Keep in mind, while he was in the vessel, he was relying on me to watch out for his safety. He concluded that his safety was not in good hands. Obviously, any non-retard knows what a channel lock wrench is.

In case anybody else now wanted to know what a channel-lock wrench is:

Heuristics are great at hints about whether a person is knowledgeable or not, but perhaps should be given slightly less weight in our evaluations than a person's arguments or actions. Mr Bunney may be capable of producing useful podcast insights even while being ignorant -- but how will we know?

Good point, we might be smart in some specific way, but how smart are we really in determining someone else's smartness? Being smart is a very specific thing. Dumb is a more a general thing.

AskSN

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denlillaapan

> One day I was asked to go get a channel lock wrench from the tool trailer. I did not know what a channel-lock wrench was. I still remember the expression on the journeyman's face when I asked him if he could tell me what it looked like. Keep in mind, while he was in the vessel, he was relying on me to watch out for his safety. He concluded that his safety was not in good hands. Obviously, any non-retard knows what a channel lock wrench is.

In case anybody else now wanted to know what a channel-lock wrench is:

![](https://m.stacker.news/98065)

> Heuristics are great at hints about whether a person is knowledgeable or not, but perhaps should be given slightly less weight in our evaluations than a person's arguments or actions. Mr Bunney may be capable of producing useful podcast insights even while being ignorant -- but how will we know?

Good point, we might be smart in some specific way, but how smart are we really in determining someone else's smartness? Being smart is a very specific thing. Dumb is a more a general thing.