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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

opinions

This starts out silly and gets all serious; Nothing prize-winning here but it's topical to me, 
and it's a blog.
I worry about my future wrench. Will the oil-soaked handle eventually slip?
I don't know a whole lot about wrenches, their pedigree etc, and you'd think that it was a silly thing to worry about, but read any five reviews of any wrench out there, and you'd think we were talking fine wine.

And so forth and so on, "Too soft" etc.
This particular kind of wrench is supposed to fit like a sock over the bolt, so...
Maybe they throw it down or otherwise abuse the thing, IDK.
Regardless, if I don't hide it carefully I could lose it in a week (long story I can't go into now)
Bahco has more snob-appeal. 
Pliers are nice.
No, they're not.
(etc)
This video is informative, if slightly tedious.
the picture I snipped shows best on the left vs worst on the right, with my brand somewhere in the middle.
Video
The Torque test was worse, although I don't really know what 105 foot-pounds is.
I'm still watching but wrenches so far seem to fail around 100 foot pounds, if it would even be possible to use an adjustable wrench with that much power applied (that's what sockets are for?)
Size matters
(another link)
Tire-bolt, 130 ft/lb
on a 10-inch crescent-wrench, it would need more force, e=mc^2







Geez
(link)


They prolly don't use torque tests on hand wrenches, especially the 8" one I'm getting,
And if I needed that much torque I'd use a different wrench,  buuuut
My 12" craftsman "USA" rules (if I ever needed 100 ft lbs?)
19mm
But if you had a torque wrench 
and a socket set, 
WHY would you pick a crescent-type-wrench?
"recommended" vs "max before it snaps off" (in the desert, at midnite), uhm, ??







(Link)
The Winners! (RIP)
This fits into an opinion blog barely, beeeecause it basically abuses wrenches, and never really gives an idea of what works, day-to-day. 
Least Jiggle, flattest no load are biggies (I think)
Sometimes a seemingly pointless bombastic video is useful.
The guy's "Klein tools" recommendation can be summed up with this amazon review

no one mentioned "vise grips", hmm

None of this will matter in a week.
(depressing)


 Westerly: "From the west"

Westerly: "Toward the west"

ooh, what the hell Is it?? 



When a weatherman says "West winds" or "westerly", what is he talking about?

Like we're all supposed to know.

winds, blowing hard, come from somewhere, and I wanted to know, so I asked,

And got that answer.

 The weather vane on a preachy kid's show was what started this. 
I can't remember what they said, exactly, so I'll summarize-google.
If  the vane's rooster is facing west, that means, the wind is blowing east.
Or, the complete opposite of what I thought (birds follow the wind direction)



If the arrow is pointing north,

the wind is blowing SOUTH.

In the rooster's face.

So anybody saying "Northerly" might mean the north-wind is blowing SOUTH, right?
I still don't know.

Why not just reverse the arrow so it points south?
That would be too easy.


A lady yelled "..."windsock!!" and I think she's right. The windsock doesn't care where you've been, it points to where you're going.




wut?


Except on Sundays, Ax^2, E=MC

I'm reconsidering the beauty of concrete buildings.
I don't exactly know why, and if I ever did, I forgot.
Much smarter people with better webpages have written about it, to no avail (it's all just talk)




Broadening my horizons slightly, I'm quoting youtube videos.
Why read bombastic stuff when a video can just show you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwu4fJ_eeq8

This might have looked more coherent in another entry....anyway, I liked the video, the first half at least.
(Link)











https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/17/no-kings-republicans-hate-america/

An opinion, or skillful Spin?
Ignore it, smear it, blame some group,
declare war.
















Trump keeps saying that the price of eggs has dropped but mayonnaise is still high.
Soy free mayonnaise is laughably high. Well anyway...

"Buy 'Hummus'!" google says.
I hate cream cheese, lox and asparagus, what makes you think I'll Like "Hummus"?
Plus it has garlic.
And I'll just bet that industrial Hummus has soy oil.

OMG (or something)
f'n steak used to cost less. Yeah I'm old but what the hell do you all eat?
(LINK)
Basically the guy got reamed for asking such a disrespectful question.
He shoulda picked "Reddit"

Hard to explain, easier to read, but the significance is, prices haven't gone up a few percent since he wrote that, they've skyrocketed!!
Here. 
Roast, $4Lb??? nonono....
And boy have you got the excuses loaded up. Eveil neighbors, supply chains, dwindling cows, 
The war.
Apparently.....Trump claims beef is too high also, wants to import beef from Argentina, to
(IDK) Piss off cattlemen, who (the slightly biased article I read said) 
are barely above water for Lo these many years.
But with tariffs, uhm,??
This is one of those unclear things still being spun to make opposing viewpoints,
and I regret chiming in.
Anyway,
cat amongst the pigeons.

The articles with videos are being cut off, and it's easier for me to go directly to youtube.

But the whole beef thing is another link: 
The above video was quoted by a canadian ad that I can't see yet.
???
If all this seems written confusingly,
 it is (written confusingly.) It needs more spin.
Why is Trump pissed off at Canada anyway. Did they refuse a casino?
Does he want a regime-change?
It isn't clear to me at all.
yeahbutt what does he reeeelly want??

Reddit has a blustery opinion I didn't read much of (I glossed.)
They're pissed.
Yeah I get it.
Trump wanted (wants?) canada as a state (the thread is a little dated?)

I just started looking (I'm losing interest fast) but Quora doesn't like what Trump is doing either.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-thoughts-on-Trump-and-Canada
These people sure love to type. 
I don't suppose Reddit and Quora are trendy anymore.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump
I'm afraid to directly quote them....But apparently He says The Ronald Reagan Foundation has exposed a fraud, God bless, MAGA, in caps.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz1e201r8o if you wrote three pages of a speech, I might quote a paragraph, earning your righteous wrath and a BIG lawsuit and catcalls of FRAUD!!!
Well anyway....the spin begins


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