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WCDT Strips 3806-3810 (13-17 August 2018)
TheEvilDog:
Just to add to War Sparrow's post.
When you go to school and you take woodwork or metalwork or whatever subject involves power tools - you go there to learn. From trained professionals. As in people trained to teach people how to use the tools. They're trained to deal with people who don't have great attention spans and spend some time before going over the basics of safety, control and what to expect, well before they let a student even touch a power tool.
Faye may be a professional metal worker, but she isn't a teacher. What we saw was Sam holding a dremel tool and Faye nearly freaking out because the kid was going to start dremelling without putting the piece into a vise. She let Sam into the deep end and was lucky that Sam only suffered a ripped off nail.
Everyone who has their own experience with using power tools, ask yourself this. Before you got to use them, how many times did you watch someone else use them? Were you told how to use it? What kick to expect from a drill? Maybe the right way to hold and use a heatgun? Because I bet, every single parent or adult figure teaching you made sure that the first time you used something wouldn't be your last.
Case:
Hmmmmh ... Jim didn't say anything about the Lasers being verboten, did he?
Uh-oh ... :-\
Carl-E:
I think you have to power up a laser; that makes it a de facto power tool.
The new strip - do you think Bubbles will now manipulate Faye's inner child? Or her outer one?
And lastly,
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 14 Aug 2018, 06:35 ---Climbing a mountain. Climbing a mountain lion.
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Happens all the time around here...
Case:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 14 Aug 2018, 21:21 ---I think you have to power up a laser; that makes it a de facto power tool.
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Why, yes ... in the same sense that your PC, your fridge, or the ceiling lights in the room you're in are power tools. :-P
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 14 Aug 2018, 17:59 ---Everyone who has their own experience with using power tools, ask yourself this. Before you got to use them, how many times did you watch someone else use them? Were you told how to use it? What kick to expect from a drill? Maybe the right way to hold and use a heatgun? Because I bet, every single parent or adult figure teaching you made sure that the first time you used something wouldn't be your last.
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If Dad said, "Be careful with that," I heard, "That thing can maim you."
If he said, "That's a wicked instrument," he meant, "That thing will kill you if you're don't watch it." I don't ever remember a time I didn't believe him. He had some scars and a fingertip or two missing, so that may have had something to do with is cred. I never really had a serious run-in with a power tool.
(Small kitchen appliances were another matter - a Sunbeam electric mixer tried to eat my left thumb. It didn't break anything or draw blood, but it wasn't for lack of effort. I don't remember if I turned it off or pulled the plug, but I escaped more or less unscathed except for a long bruise the folks didn't notice and I didn't tell them about it. Mom would have freaked and Dad would have been furious because I think that's how he got at least one of those scars. If he's reading QC on the Other Side and sees this he may come back from the dead and whupp my arse.)
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