Why...

They are similar to my Snap-On ones, only I have red handles on mine

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

<does likewise>

Oddly, many of my school reports mention "easily led"....

 

I picked the cheapest ones, you know - they're all the same (well,
those on eBay appear to be the same) and I do my research.

One of mine mentioned "Tends to be the class clown". I was an uneasily
sitting class clown for a couple of days after bringing that one home.
Thank you Johnny Redhead, rubbish P.E. "teacher", shitty History
stand-in and general all-round wanker.

 

My mother's favourite was "What more can I say, this boy is brilliant
but bone idle".

Shirley Wood, French teacher[1], and prototype MILF, though I don't
know if she was a mum.

[1] iyswim.

 

Colourist ****.

Elitist bastard.

Actually, speaking of such things - I wielded my Aldi-sourced ratchet
spanners in anger this evening (sorting out the recaltrant outdoor tap,
for tomato-watering purposes) and I noted that compared to the Halfords
Professional jobbies they are a /lot/ heavier. Not so nice to use,
being of a more square-edged (designed by boxheads, obviously) design -
but definitely chunkier when using them side-by-side. Very similar
feel to the ratchet mechanism, apparently accurate jaw/ring sizes and
cost me a fiver for six spanners.

The Aldi (Workzone) spanners live in the woodworkshop, for occasional
use tightening woody-related stuff, the real Halfords Pro ones live in
my toolboxes in the garage for proper spannering. I just got fed up
walking round to the garage, walking back into the house for the garage
keys, walking back out ... etc etc so I wanted some cheap gear that did
the same job, easily to hand. They work well, and just as smooth on
the job, so to speak - just remarkably cheaper.

I'm turning even more pikey as I get older, aren't I?

 

****. I ought to be on commission.

They're one of the weirdest tools, mind. Feel strange in the hand,
right up to the moment you grab a filter and give it some. Then they
come into their own. For that money, you can't afford to not have one
in your box. Er, as it were.

Just don't blame me if you have to hit it with a hammer and it flies
apart and blinds you, OK?

 

That trumps "Could try harder" or even "Could be quite brilliant if he
would only apply himself".

Shirley she gave you wood? Just getting in on that one before Hog,
that's his style. All female French teachers were just fucking lovely,
IME. The French Student teachers, even more so. Just like Francoise
Pascal in that awful teachery sitcom of the time.

 

SIRPip wrote:

Yes

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SIRPip

Devastating accurate, that.

 

<rubs hands>

Excellent.

 

Arse.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SIRPip

<Stifles laughter>

 

I do the same.
The decent kit stays in the workshop for proper use where it counts and
everywhere else I'm likely to need fettling tools is populated with
adequate cheaper gear. So far I've found the Lidl and Aldi spanners to
be more than up to the jobs they've been put to, and no great loss if
they get nicked/misplaced.

 

The young service exchange ones were, for sure. The permanent French
teaching staff tended to be moustachioed and hairy. The men were bald
coots, of course.

 

"Clive is trying"

 

"... hard but not achieving very much"

 

I'm much the same - decent Facom/Elora stuff in the workshop and on the
bike "get you home" tools are cheapies.

Annoyingly, I've had to buy another set of imperial spanners and sockets
as I needed to build an on the car set and my existing good ones had
suffered at my banger racing and youthful hands the last time I ran old
British cars in anger. Certain sizes were showing their age...

Fortunately, I can source locally single Elora spanners or sockets in AF,
Whitworth, BA or metric.

 

Our male French teacher was a nightmare. An absolute stickler for
everything from pronunciation to sitting up straight. At the first
sign of sloppiness, you'd get a warning bit of chalk bounced across
your desk. The next one would deserve the board rubber, also bounced
off the desk. Once the cloud of dust cleared enough to see, you then
had to pick up the rubber and return it, ready for the next miscreant.

The woodwork teacher operated a similar scheme, but with a tack hammer
into the well of your workbench.

 

Exactly. The good stuff lives in the proper boxes, the odds and sods
and cheapies live around workshops, at point of use and need.

 

Our french teacher got caught screwing a couple of the 5th formers so
he was moved to another school all hush hush to protect the two girls
reputation . Within months he was up to his old tricks again and
ended up being returned to France .



Our maths teacher was the dogs bollocks , big tits long slender legs
and a figure most women would die for .

She really could keep the lads in order