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107 sats \ 9 replies \ @ek 18h \ parent \ on: Why Are Bitcoiners Idiots? AskSN

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.

111 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 18h

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:

17 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 18h

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

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 18h

yes, i too searched for wrenches (in my capacity as a hole watcher) and came up with many wrong wrenches. Wrench enthusiasts will probably correct us both here.

Channel locks are cool because they are faster to adjust than a crescent wrench. Also you can kind of open them up a bit and slide around the nut whereas with a crescent you have to pull the wrench off the nut and getting it back on can be difficult--however, you don't have to squeeze a crescent wrench...so you can probably exert more torque.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 17h

Now that I think about it, they are probably called "channel lock pliers."

My retardation raises its ugly head, yet again.

17 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 17h

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

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 17h

ek's wrench or my pliers?

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 17h

17 sats \ 1 reply \ @teemupleb 18h

It’s the famous $5 wrench!

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 18h

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.