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People have been cleaning their ears with cotton swabs for years. What other tools are being inadvertently used wrong? (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by ediculous@feddit.nl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Travelator@thelemmy.club 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Screwdrivers are not actually pry bars.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands!

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

“Your offer is accepted!”

[–] kboy101222@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Blasphemy!

[–] blindsight 1 points 1 year ago

Well, big flathead screwdrivers aren't for screwing things in. Small ones have a place for decorative screws, like on light switch covers, but big flathead screws should never be used.

So big flathead screwdrivers are better as pry bars than as screwdrivers.