Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Never Quite Thought Of It That Way....

 










25 comments:

  1. I hate great memes with grammar/spelling issues. And true, once you actually know how to do things the right way with the right tools, you just want to do more and more.

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    1. Amen on both counts, MrLiberty!
      --Tennessee Budd

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  2. old man Gregor was a machinist and he built things to last. his wife that outlived him by a good 20 some years used to bitch about the shelfs he put up. he made them to fit the stuff she had on hand at the time.
    she was stuck buying the same stuff for years as nothing else fit on the damn shelfs.
    he never really said much to me as a kid, but when I came home from the 101st airborne. he gave me a beer !
    he was in the 101st back in WW2, start to finish. told me stories and always had a beer for me after that.
    really a nice guy, I do miss him. I did keep a eye on his wife for years and didn't leave philly until after she passed
    on herself. she was a riot, fun to talk too. and hell on wheels when I was a kid with her wooden spoon. all 5 foot nothing of her. the terror of the block ! I miss her as much as my own mom to tell the truth.
    what once was a solid blue collar area is now a shithole these days. a shame really.

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  3. And you never, ever, have enough tools..... I'm a 33rd degree machinist: makin' a tool to make a tool to make a tool (etc) to fix this thing I could buy new for 10 bucks....but I'll have it fixed by 2025, surely.

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    1. Your skills will be in great need, soon. Stay healthy.
      We can put this mess back together again when/after the SHTF...

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  4. It's like a grammar nazi. Once you learn the rules you can't escape the headache when someone memes and screws up. There's a difference between 'to,' 'too' and 'two' for a reason.

    Seriously, great memes destroyed by bad grammar and other assaults against the English language. Gah. My head hurts...

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  5. You guys are rite! 🙄

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  6. Machinists aren’t English majors.

    Irish

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    1. “Machinists aren’t English majors.”

      True. But maybe if they thought of grammar as a tool…? 😁

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    2. Some are, actually. I knew one, and there must be more. More money, and more job openings, in machining.
      --Tennessee Budd

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    3. Yes not English majors.

      Jack of all trades master of none here but it has served me well.

      I tire of the anal grammar nazi's. Just because you see it doesn't mean it can be changed, but if it can then change it dammit or would you rather just bitch about it and not get the entertainment value. I see them too but it's the old saying, "you know what they meant".

      Bear Claw

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  7. Blue fingers are a giveaway. And grit.

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  8. Poor grammar reflects poor education. That is all.

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    1. Not necessarily. Maybe the person who created the meme above was preoccupied with something else and didn’t catch the error. Depending on the app to add text to a photo you can’t go back and edit it. Once to create it and download it that’s it. You have to start over. More than once I’ve made an error on a post as I’m half way out of my chair trying to get to work. Then , later as I’m moderating comments I see the “complaints” and fix it. Sometimes I might catch it sooner than later. Either way, life isn’t perfect. You can be an awesome machinist and make spelling mistakes. No harm know fowl.

      Irish

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    2. “No harm know fowl”. Hehehehe! I see what you did there! And I holeheartedly agree.

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    3. Nope. Dad was well-educated, very well-read, very well-spoken, very good at math and electronics, but couldn't spell well at all. It's just the way his brain was wired because someone who found calculus "neat" and did circuit design was NOT poorly educated.

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  9. I would rather have a man who can turn a hub, wire or plumb a building, or fix a motor over some fucker who knows where to put a comma.

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    1. I prefer to be one of those who can do both. As RAH said, 'Specialization is for insects'.
      --Tennessee Budd

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  10. Agreed. I am exquisitely aware of the role of punctuation and how to properly employ it (and before you ask, yes, the Oxford comma is correct), but I would surrender it all in a second if I could have a skilled trade. The paths not taken, and all that....
    Mike in Canada

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  11. Rickvid in the Yakima ValleyDecember 22, 2022 at 10:31 AM

    I have had the privilege of working with Boeing machinists often over the 30+ years I have been in the Pacific Northwest. Lots have been young folks who are now wizened, but many have been older guys, mostly guys, whose careers began before computerized machining was common. Those guys knew how to do things, but even today it is surprising how much of an airplane is put together by hand. I always enjoyed getting into the factories and working with "the greasy rag guys."

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  12. When an uncle of mine retired and started snowbirding to warmer climes, he mentioned to a few neighbors that he'd been a "handyman" most of his life. Big mistake. He was deluged with requests to "come over an take a look..." It got so he had no time to himself. He ended up moving to a different RV park, and learned his lesson about keeping his mouth shut.

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    1. He's doin' it wrong. RIGHT answer is "sure, I charge $100 an hour to fix it; $125 if you've already tried; $150 if you watch; and $200 if you help. Plus parts. Cash." And then charge that. It's about $25 over the base rate of any handyman -funny, there are damn few handywomen- but for a leak at 9 pm, it's a deal. My policy is to offer advice free, loan tools at 100% of current replacement cost on deposit, and actually bill for work unless it was indeed just for fun or a favor. Just because I live next door doesn't mean I owe you. My shop has better'n a hundred grand worth of tools (yeah, really- it's a real machine shop, though a pretty small one) that take maintenance, use power, and require real skill to use. Friends get help free. Acquaintances are customers.

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  13. My dad was a machinist. My mom was a machinist. I'm a machinist. Out of three kids, one escaped the trade. We speak fluent machinist. Complete with grammatical errors. We are NOT PHDs. Push Here Dummy.

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  14. Being a hobby machinist (now there is an oxymoron) I know that the skills I have learned over the past 50 years of working on projects keeps me in high demand. I have a small, but complete, shop and recently got to working with a local historical group that has an old mill full of lathes, planers, and a host of other machines dating back to the early 1900's. I have been teaching some of the youngins' as I go through the machines in the place. Just finished up cleaning and bringing back from the dead a Monarch 16" x 96" lathe. It is amazing how simple the old machines were compared to today's new whiz-bangs. But the simple machine required a complex operator. Today's whiz-bangs are complex machines that require a simple operator.
    My late father-in-law was a tool and die maker. I tried to learn what I could as he had a lifetime of tricks and shortcuts from the days when being a machinist required a SOL degree in higher mathematics.
    With things in the world headed the way they are, hands on machinists who "know too much" will be in high demand.
    Stay safe everyone and prepare accordingly. Merry Christmas to all and the blessings of the New Year to each and every crabby old fart, and fartesses, out there.

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