What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[WinterDeere]

Well, ill keep calling it a flat head.

This video is for you.

 

[Runner]

I remembered! People who refer to slotted screws or screwdrivers as “flat heads”. A round head slotted screws is not a “flat head screw”, nor is a slotted pan head, and there is no such thing as a “flat head screwdriver”.

Somebody better tell Snap-on about this....

 

[BackRoad]

Generally it requires either a "plus" or "minus" screw driver!

 

[Runner]

Pet Peeve - FEMA encourages development in hazard areas by offering "participating communities" disaster insurance at reduced rates. If people in flood/hurricane/wildfire areas had to pay insurance rates commensurate with the actual risk, they couldn't afford to live there.

This guy does a masterful job of explaining it:

 

[WinterDeere]

Somebody better tell Snap-on about this....
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There are at least a few very stupid people working in the Marketing department of nearly every company.

 

[Oaktree]

I remembered! People who refer to slotted screws or screwdrivers as “flat heads”. A round head slotted screws is not a “flat head screw”, nor is a slotted pan head, and there is no such thing as a “flat head screwdriver”.

That doesn't bother me as much as the often shallow slots in the screw itself, easy for the screwdriver to slip. Some can be miserable to remove.
This is nothing new, in fact newer ones are often better in that regard than the old ones.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

My uncle had Downs Syndrome. He called a screwdriver a "goose grinder". That what we call it now.

 

[WinterDeere]

That doesn't bother me as much as the often shallow slots in the screw itself, easy for the screwdriver to slip. Some can be miserable to remove.
This is nothing new, in fact newer ones are often better in that regard than the old ones.

There are standards that define and control this, mosty from ANSI. From approximately WW2 until we started moving everything offshore, the manufacture of most hardware adhered to these standards, and it was all great. But then when most hardware manufacture moved overseas, it got pretty bad for awhile, with these new manufacturers making their own estimations on dimensions, or carrying things like screwdriver slot width and depth over from other international standards.

It has all gotten a lot better in recent years, as these offshore fabricators have improved, but I still see a lot of garbage on the consumer market. I buy a lot of screws (more than $19,000 worth of stainless screws last week, alone!), and most of my material is now coming from Taiwan or Thailand. They're much better than 10 or 15 years ago, but of course we may never see the type of consistency that was 1970's American-made hardware.

That said, I would be out of business if I had to buy the same $19k worth of screws from American manufacturers. That'd probably cost me $60k - $100k, based on the present pricing I see for "Made In USA" stainless hardware.

I do have to buy USA screws sometimes, I just got a big project that is government-funded, where they want to see a Country of Origin statement for each component. But my God... the prices they pay are many, many times higher than any commercial requirement would ever allow. When you wonder about the prices paid for toilet seats in the White House, this must be at least part of the reason.

 

[WinterDeere]

My uncle had Downs Syndrome. He called a screwdriver a "goose grinder". That what we call it now.

My first boss called them "scrivers", and I still fall back on that, sometimes. Hex wrenches were "Henches".

 

[lman]

My point though is, how does a voting age adult not realize what county they live in, and that they don't get a say in the neighboring county or city? I mean, isnt that something you probably should know?

Those people probably don't know which direction is N,S,E or W also.