Talking to your tools?

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

Just been watching HAL Heavy Engineering on YouTube, and he said “Well done, little buddy!” to a boring bar. Only yesterday I said “Well done, lad” to a spanner.

Anyone else doing this, or should I start looking for a padded room and a suit that does up at the back?

Rob

[Alan JacksonParticipant @alanjackson47790]

I always praise my tools and machines, after all they are my compatriots and we like to work together.

Alan

[Peter Cook 6Participant @petercook6]

Always say nice things to them.  This notice was above the photocopier in the Philosophy Department, University of Reading

Warning

This machine is subject to breakdowns during periods of critical need.  A special circuit in the machine called a critical detector senses the operator’s emotional state in terms of how desperate he or she is to use the machine. The ‘critical detector’ then creates a malfunction proportional to the desperation of the operator. Threatening the machine with violence only aggravates the situation. Likewise attempts to use another machine may cause it also to malfunction.  They belong to the same union.  Keep cool and say nice things to the machine.  Nothing else seems to work. 

Never let anything mechanical know that you are in a hurry.

[HollowpointParticipant @hollowpoint]

I swear at mine regularly. 😂

[Andrew CrowParticipant @andrewcrow91475]

I’m not sure whether I’m talking to the tools or to myself (therapy is available) but I do swear at myself when producing yet another piece of scrap. 🤣🤣

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

I talk to my deceased Dad when I use one of his old tools to good effect.

[JAParticipant @ja]

Of course I talk to my tools and, until a few years ago, my motorcycles. They are some of the very few sane things, people, I know. I only swear at the workshop elves.

Don’t tell anyone else!

JA

[KEITH BEAUMONTParticipant @keithbeaumont45476]

I also talk to my deceased Dad when successfuly using one of his tools,especially if it is one he had made. I thought I might be unique in so doing,but apparently not. I feel it a real comfort.

Keith

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

I don’t talk to my tools but certainly have “words” with me when I drop, break, or lose one!

 

A few years ago Walker Midgely were selling steam-engineering equivalents to that University of Reading notice – laminated sheets not about photocopiers but very similar in ideas, about injectors.

[Charles LamontParticipant @charleslamont71117]

I don’t talk to my tools much. I am too busy talking to myself.

A few tools have names though. I was given Mr Shifter when a commercial vehicle garage closed. He is a 4lb lump of brass on the end of 15″ of steel pipe. And Sir Cloudesley, who lives in the garden tool shed.

[larry phelan 1Participant @larryphelan1]

Of course I talk to my tools. When  one considers the kind of conversation available around here, it makes more sense.

If you are rich and do so, your are just eccentric

If you are poor and do so—– you are nuts !

[VicParticipant @vic]

I often thank my car after a longer than usual run 😊

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

I am an original thinker, you are an eccentric, he is a raving lunatic

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

And a crank is even more off-centre than an eccentric…..

[Kiwi BlokeParticipant @kiwibloke62605]

Cold, hard, unyielding, often sharp. Why talk to tools? I talk to my wife.

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