Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday humor...

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 03:46:20PM +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
> 2009/4/17 Sean Gibbins <sean@???>:
> >
> > 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.

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