On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 03:46:20PM +0100, Victor Churchill wrote: > 2009/4/17 Sean Gibbins <s...@funkygibbins.me.uk>: > > > > However, I do believe there's an unwritten rule between flat pack > > manufacturers that states any screws supplied with a given unit are to > > be made from processed cheese. I can't believe I'm /that/ incompetent! > > <PC warning, and veering OT> I have long held the belief that there is > a plot by the Chinese to bring Western civilisation to its knees > beneath a deluge of shoddy falling apart products. Gives you a > different spin on the 'irresistible force and immovable object' > scenario .. will the screwdriver or the screw deform first?
Depends on whether you're using a cheap screwdriver, surely? "There is no screwdriver so brittle that cheap manufacturers cannot make a screw that will deform using it..." Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: h...@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- Summoning his Cosmic Powers, and glowing slightly --- from his toes...
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