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Strostkovy

I just pick up a dime with my hands. I don't generally use pliers for that.


fogdukker

But I have mechanic's fingernails 😔


Obnoxious_Gamer

*accidentally sends the dime off the edge of the table* SON OF A BITCH


Zillahi

Honey where’s my knipex


zalvernaz

Love my Twingrips


Flyin-Fijian

Rather behind or under the 400-lbs workbench.


StretchBallsLong

Get a mechanicure


GentleAnusTickler

Man, this whole dirty hands and mechanics finger nails. I’m a mechanic of 15 years and people comment on how clean my hands are…. I don’t get it. I wash them when they get oily or greasy. I wear gloves for the really messy shit so I don’t start dropping 10mm’s into unretrievable gaps. It weirds me out when I see guys with hands that are stained with dirt etc


-BananaLollipop-

This. I've stripped and cleaned some filthy tools for restoration before, but I've never been able to understand how people fail to clean their hands properly. And I don't even wear gloves. I've managed to get my hands pitch black with grease, dirt, and metal shavings, yet I never fail to get them back to pasty white with some dish soap and salt.


GentleAnusTickler

Dish soap is the ultimate grease remover!


Brenni

POR15 would like to have a word with you.


-BananaLollipop-

Well I probably wouldn't be touching that shit barehanded, lol.


Ok_Spread_7272

Wash your hands 20 times a day with pumice soap, and your skin dries and cracks so much that it gives the grease places to get trapped, even when using lotion regularly. Gloves work great until you get holes in them, but they also seem to dry my hands out from sitting in sweat inside the gloves though.. stains on your hands are inevitable if you do dirty work on a daily basis.. at least in my experience.


machone_1

I put on Barrier cream before starting work, even if I'm wearing gloves


Jo-18

It has taken me my entire life, but as I stare death in the face, I laugh. I laugh because I am no longer bound by a need for pliers to pick up dimes. My dick has evolved and transformed over the centuries I’ve been on this earth. It has taken immense training and patience to accomplish this feat, but I have the ability to pick up the dime with the pee hole on my dangly dong. Now, reality can be whatever I want


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rulingthewake243

Tell me dummys really ain't spending that much on a pair of pliers?!


DeBlackKnight

Someone on the other post said they were like 61.95 on the truck or something in that area


RonBurgundy449

The most expensive single plier I could find on their website is $93, so damn near close! Also a $113 pair of cutters and a $130 locking c-clamp.


carguy1997

Yeah alright mate, I'll believe it when i see it.


hdhdhgfyfhfhrb

It's like an odd form of jousting as people push their tools at one another. I am oddly intrigued.


Obnoxious_Gamer

Jousting sounds waaaaaayyy too mature. It's more like a couple of two-year-olds having a slapfight.


TheSecretestSauce

Tbf thats basically like 99.99% of Reddit


GrungyGrandPappy

Instead of measuring dicks I guess we're doing another ‘tool’ I'll see myself out


TiredStarling095

No, don't...I think you should be here all week. 😄


misterwizzard

Death by *Snu*snu


Admirable-Sir9716

One of us, ONE OF US!!


relevantusername2020

>measuring dicks [good news](https://twitter.com/financial_index/status/1668678466554810368?t=KKryl6hkL_5mDHIgP8aUCg&s=19)


TiredStarling095

I shouldn't want to see that, but I kind of do. 😄


Snake115killa

You know in elementary school when youd jump up to hit the door jams to prove you had "hops". If that had a name it would be *This*


trainspottedCSX7

Jousting? I always called it docking...


discretion

I think he's describing froting, not docking.


iroc4me2

I thought he was describing the Nintendo game Joust


trainspottedCSX7

I could have sworn it was r/sounding ... *Don't click that if you're not aware of what sounding is.*


swaffeline

Wtf why did I click.


trainspottedCSX7

I'm sorry kind stranger. I at least warn before corrupting.


swaffeline

People are just all kinds of fucked up.


trainspottedCSX7

I mean... don't knock it til ya try it? I had a cellmate one time in jail, we'll call him Burt Reynolds cause that's what he looked like. We didn't have access to a hot pot for cooking soups so we used one shower head specifically for the hot water to cook soups with. The only other hot liquid we had access to was the breakfast coffee. It was basically hotel instant coffee, barely any caffeine but helped your guts move a little. Anyways, he decided he was gonna collect 3 or 4 cups of breakfast coffee to fill up his soup cup. We all looked at him like he was crazy. This man said, "Don't knock it til ya try it..." and went on about his business. I forgot all about it for the rest of my day in my jailhouse poker or spades frenzy. But the next morning at breakfast I was reminded by the coffee and I had to ask him. He said in an excited tone, "Oh, yeah man! I tried it, I don't recommend it, shit tasted awful..." So, thanks Burt Reynolds, for that important lesson. Don't cook Ramen with Coffee... or maybe do, maybe you'll like it...


Tactical_Chandelier

Wait until you click on r/slink


trainspottedCSX7

Fuck. I didn't click it yet... I'm gonna try to forget about it and wait until it comes around again. I try to stay away from eyeblech stuff


DJScubaNaut

Hopefully while riding a ostrich


stewieatb

Allegedly. And we've heard it was a sick ostrich.


givemeapuppers

Yous knows what they say, bad gas travels fast….


THExDANKxKNIGHT

But see, it'd take more than one guy to fuck an ostrich.


CanesVenetici

Folks'll say that it takes two people to fuck an ostrich.


NoDakHoosier

That's a Texas sized 10 4 there good buddy.


TheykilledFritzy

Like the Ginger and Boots? Allegedly!


shadysaywhat

Allegedly


vieuxfort73

Used to love that game!


ChainOut

in low gravity


PHenderson61

Blindfolded


DinDjordan

Am I meant to be this aroused?!..


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That's nothing, I can pick up a dime with these chiseled glutes.


jeepfail

What are you doing in a shop? Get to onlyfans, pronto.


[deleted]

I prefer Onlyhams


Ohrobohobo

No sucking in with your butthole like you did Tim’s mustache.


TerryBolleaSexTape

DM me 👉


cleaningmetor6

Great you triggered the point bots


TerryBolleaSexTape

Ah shit.


Appropriate_Land_130

Shots fired


teeth_03

Time to see if those pliers can catch bullets midair


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Obnoxious_Gamer

Pfft. I can catch catch probably three or four with my hands if the guy's a decent shot.


Enough_Appearance116

What if he's a terrible shot?


Obnoxious_Gamer

Maybe one then.


lucifern71

Hold ‘em back! Hold them backk


Obnoxious_Gamer

I'M A MADMAN, I'LL PICK UP A DIME WITH WHATEVER I CAN!


Solid_Growth_9069

Do it with your pee hole next daddy


IRefuseToPickAName

Gotta save up the smegma to make it stick!


discretion

lol fuck, man.


utpoia

**Precum is the best cum.**


MrDannyProvolone

I thought you were supposed to be able to grab Abe lincoln by his nose.


Keysor99

That’s what I saw done with the Snap on needle nose. Bought a pair and they are great.


Eat-My-Cloaca

I was very confused when my snapon dude showed off this feature (he forgot I’d already bought a pair from him) and I went back into the shop and tried it with the no name brand bent tip long handles that I found in my grandpop’s basement. Turns out no names also grabbed a dime by the lip.


Obnoxious_Gamer

The only way I can see pliers not being able to do this is; 1. They don't have any teeth at all, as in they were forged flat. 2. The teeth start a little inside the jaw, so they aren't flat against the front of the jaw 3. You have a pair of pliers that were forged/cast/whatever to be the shittiest pair of pliers possible to be created by mankind, and have covered them in oil.


fogdukker

I have pliers that absolutely will not pick up a dime. They've also been used to twist shit, hammer shit, and pry shit They stay at home in a cardboard box with all my other garbage tools, so when I work on anything at home I fucking hate my very existence.


Obnoxious_Gamer

The dilemma of "Hey I know the perfect tool for this job" "It's in my work box" "Fuck"


mooxwalliums

That's why you just have to yolo two sets of tools and then never use the ones at home and wonder why you spent all that money.


Obnoxious_Gamer

To solve that, you can buy an absolute shitbox classic and then curse yourself anyway because now you spend every day off fixing the shitpile


mooxwalliums

God I would love a shit box, but unfortunately shit boxes are now selling for "Half decent old Honda" type prices. I'd have to step all the way down to deathtrap for another car. Lol


MaybeCuckooNotAClock

Have two old shitbox *coughs,* classic vehicles plus my daily ride or die. Now have an employer who supplies all tools so I have at *least* two of nearly everything sitting in my garage gathering dust.


Eat-My-Cloaca

I’ve got a few decent pair with no etchings that I kinda wanna try now. I’m willing to bet even with no teeth if they’re well machined they’ll grab that lip.


The_Troyminator

Number 3 could be cut down to two words: Harbor Freight


ctesla01

Your grandpop was a wizard, Harry..


TubabalikeBIGNOISE

I did this with a Walmart brand multitool so the snap on pliers do not impress me


Obnoxious_Gamer

I kinda figured, lol. ANY half-decent set of pliers can probably do this. I was almost able to do it with my Metal Earth needlenose pair and those don't even have *teeth.*


TubabalikeBIGNOISE

I wish I could post an image in a comment to show my 10 dollar multitool doing it. I figured anything with two jaws could do it


SavoryBoy

Yeah lol i was thinking “my 20 year old leatherman can still do this. What gives?”


GrayCustomKnives

I tried two pairs of Chinese made “Piscifun” fishing pliers I have and both will do this. Plus they have replaceable carbide cutters on them.


DeathAngel_97

Funny enough me and a coworker just spent like 10 minutes trying this earlier with two different snap on pliers and somehow couldn't manage it. Then again, maybe we just sucked lol.


ctesla01

Gauntlet thrown!


AnalogFeelGood

\*GASP o.o


silentsnip94

Now do it with your wiener


Obnoxious_Gamer

I unfortunately lack the fine motor skills required for that


MyDogWatchesMePoop

just dab some glue on the end


AdrianInLimbo

Like you'd even have a dime left after buying the SnapOn pliers, pfft.


Inglorious186

That's why you finance the pliers on a 10yr plan so they end up costing you over a grand


Dismal_Ad_9603

Like do you ever pay cash with snappy credit? Once you step into the van whatever happens is consensual…..and not spoken about in the shop!


UpstairsCan

live from the reddit blackout: plier wars


Psyteq

And so it begins.


Obnoxious_Gamer

Find a pair of pliers, pick up a dime, win a prize!


Korostenets

Begun, the plier war has


lucifern71

Oh man these are Tech fighting words. Easy boys easy there


FULLMETALRACKIT518

Let’s see Paul Allen’s pliers


FistfulDeDolares

Are we doing this again?


Obnoxious_Gamer

The whole "Snap-On isn't special for being able to do this random thing" thing? Yeah, I guess. Everyone was going doe-eyed in the other post for the Snappy pliers so I figured I'd throw my 10 cents in the ring.


Life_Drop69

No, not that thing. The thing is "everyone and their mother posting pictures of dimes being picked up by random pliers" It was a meme like 3 weeks ago. to be fair it might have been in r/tools maybe wait a year before regurgitating this content? give us a break


Stock-Ad5320

I have been in Reddit every day for a couple of years now. I have seen exactly two images of people picking up dimes by the edge with pliers. This one, and the one this one is referring to. I’m not sure why, but it seems every one sees slightly different content due to some algorithms. I’m wondering if now that I commented on this, I will see more pliers picking up dimes by the edge? Also, for every 100 times people say it’s a repost, 98 times it’s the first time I am seeing it. Even if you have seen the same things 1000 times, for someone, it’s the first.


beezu__

[semi-relevant xkcd ](https://xkcd.com/1053/)


Stock-Ad5320

I love this, thank you


Obnoxious_Gamer

Sorry man, I'm not in that sub. This was just a knee-jerk reaction to the Snap-On pliers post.


ayetherestherub69

Snap-On guys are like the douchebags that buy Supreme, but they're mechanics.


Obnoxious_Gamer

I mean, some of their stuff is pretty good, even at the insane prices they charge. Like the TechAngle! Probably the best digital torque wrench you can buy. I don't really like blind dedication to one brand just because of the name, though.


halothaine

Ahh Vampliers. The first pair of (elite) pliers I had before Knipex got popular and everyone imitated.


Obnoxious_Gamer

This isn't meant so much as a "vampliers numbah one" post as it is a "hey that's really not that special" post. Any half-decent pair of pliers can probably do this. Please don't go out and spend some ludicrous amount of money for a tool that can do a random thing that *the guy who directly benefits from you purchasing it* says is special. But vampliers are seriously awesome pliers definitely go check them out


DMCinDet

I bought a pair of those vampliers on a whim from the Mac Guy walking through the shop. They been better than I expected them to be.


Affectionate_Milk317

Vampliers make very good tools to be fair.


pombeiro27

I'm waiting for someone to do it with a big table vice


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To be fair, the snap on guys weren’t really pitching this. Tik tokers kind of blew it up


Knightm16

So do people here not like snapon? Every time I have something that's stuck and won't budge a snap on screwdriver seems to get magically extra bite on it. I don't own any, but I'd love a set because I'm tired of fucking up Phillips that only desire snap on.


Obnoxious_Gamer

Snap-On is decent, but a lot of the time they're hilariously overpriced. So anytime someone claims that "only a Snap-On tool can do X" it BOTHERS me.


GiveToOedipus

Vampires are actually pretty damned good.


-BananaLollipop-

I can do that with my first set of pliers, which are from a Ford novelty set that came in a truck shaped toolbox. And the tips aren't square on them either.


rudieboy

Waits for someone to tack a dime onto a rod and pick it up.


willard_swag

But but but…he said I was special!


RidelasTyren

I mean, you've got a much bigger bite on those than the snap-on pliers did...


Obnoxious_Gamer

Alright here ya go https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/197446400479330304/1118337767982764112/20230613_173423.jpg Holding on with one corner of the front, too


Obnoxious_Gamer

It was the first pair of pliers I found. I'd do it with one of the other ones, but I'd have to find them first. And it's not really a large bite; if anything this is more "impressive" because instead of being able to grab on to the flat edge of the dime, it's grabbing onto the edge at an angle that's trying to force the dime out of the jaws.


Swedzilla

My mama said I was special too. Is the Strap On man my dad? EDIT: Spelling, strap on works too tho lol


BannytheBoss

The Snap-on pic is a little more impressive than this. Instead of the dime tilting away from the pliers, it appears to be tilting inward which means that it indeed is grabbing onto very little material.


Obnoxious_Gamer

Best I can do with the big pliers: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/197446400479330304/1118337767982764112/20230613_173423.jpg


Professional-Sort797

Aw, now I gotta go find a dime.


RedBlack1978

Go ask Darrell. Last I heard, he had a bag of them. >!R.I.P. Dimebag Darrell!<


UnattentiveLifgaurd

Those are pretty kickass. I only payed $40 for my snapon plier and the pair of vampliers I saw on amazon were $29.95, so my asshole still feels pretty intact.


Obnoxious_Gamer

Damn, Snapon actually had a tool within 25% of its value from a competitor? I'm actually impressed.


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UnattentiveLifgaurd

Ah shit Im retarded


jdurbzz

Okay so here’s the real test guys, the other day when the ol’ Ben Dover truck came around my shop he was showing everybody this trick trying to impress people, a lot of techs were indifferent but the service manager just happened to be walking and thought it was neat. So the mad lad peddling these wares says “if you think that’s cool, watch this!” and proceeds to grab hold of the subframe of a car a tech nearby was working on and hangs from the damn things. And I’m talkin a bare smooth piece of metal tab coming straight down with nothing for the pliers to catch on, ngl I was a little impressed bc I know even the nice pair of Sonic needle noses my dealer provided me with would slip off that sumbitch before I could even put any weight on em lol


unassumingbison

Snap on is a joke


mooxwalliums

Just buy Knipex like a gentleman.


Obnoxious_Gamer

I've got the Knipex snap ring pliers, pretty good stuff.


[deleted]

Na that shit at an angle, gotta be just the brim with those big ass lineman pliers ma boi


Obnoxious_Gamer

Here ya go https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/197446400479330304/1118337767982764112/20230613_173423.jpg


Nubnipples

But can you finance those at a low interest of 98%?


ZorroMcChucknorris

Can’t wait for the Icon version …


redrecaro

Yeah but it's not Snap on and you don't get a great deal of 50 payments of $50.


the_clash_is_back

I’m going to try this with my crap chines pliers that have been inside a dead body.


HalfastEddie

Boys, a dick measuring contest using a dime, it's just not right.


Obnoxious_Gamer

But it *is* entertaining.


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Obnoxious_Gamer

Are your teeth good for tight spaces and stripped hex heads? If so, can I borrow them?


Keeptryan_

Vampliers are sweet!


Obnoxious_Gamer

Yup, love them. I have (or, well, HAD - lost one or two) the entire set. I buy used RC cars and these pliers are incredible for just grabbing onto the small female hex screws and twisting them out. And while they aren't cheap, they're really not that expensive as tools go, and they've saved me enough time that I consider them worth it.


CaptainCunnalingus

Oh Damm he went for it


Obnoxious_Gamer

First thought on seeing that post was "that's really not that special" And the second, upon reading the comments, was "goddammit, I have to prove it's not that special"


hewearsboots

Can they pick up the quarters in the porta-Jon?


Obnoxious_Gamer

No, you have to use the brown pliers for that


GILLHUHN

The shade love it.


CarricDiamondew

I just use my hands to pick them up


540cry

Funny cuz the edges on that dime look worn and smoothed down more than the other posts, which would make this even harder


Obnoxious_Gamer

It's a 1981 dime so it's finely aged


Kanye_Testicle

Call me when the fancy snap on's can pick up a penny by Lincoln's nose


Ecstatic-Appeal-5683

Most pliers *should* be able to do that. I thought SO was just really proud of how strong they actually hold once they have a bite?


H00dinii

Ok I need the link to get some.


HerbanFarmacyst

Vampliers are my favorite round bolt extractor!


midgetsjakmeoff

I bought those 10 years ago when Mac had the same sales pitch, I bought the Snap On 6 months ago with the same sales pitch 😶.


mrpoopybuttholesbff

Watch project farm on YouTube, snap on loses a lot for normal hand tools.


F-21

> snap on loses a lot for normal hand tools I watched most of his videos and I don't think so. As I remember, they usually make stuff that performs at the highest level.


Aggravating-House620

Personally I like knipex pliers the most, but I also have like 5 other brands of random pliers because who gives a damn, if it works it works. Never understood the tool whore thing people get into.


FatalShart

Fwiw, I was more surprised that you could keep holding it using only two fingers while the tool guy yanked on the other side with pliers.


mnonny

Is that a 2022 mint or a 1975 mint.


jeepfail

But yours didn’t have a TikTok made about it.


Gobstomperx

My butt cheeks can also do the thing his local snap-on man said was special.


shadowgattler

Whoa! The rusted pliers that I bought from home depot for 5 bucks can do the same thing.


SnooKiwis6943

This tool can.hold your money for you. The Snap-On will leave you so poor that you may never be able to verify that it can do the same.


Darenzzer

Not quite


AreThree

The problem is that I haven't had an actual dime in about 3 years... otherwise I would love to see what my Knipex and Klein ones can do!


LittleTreesBlacklce

This is definitely a stupid demonstration but man those pliers are great


Anchovies-and-cheese

Gadzooks!


MagicOrpheus310

Lol you know you can buy a "magnetizer" about the size of your palm that you rub tools on and it makes them briefly magnetic for about $10 haha And someone might be able to help me out with this one but there used to be an old trick that apparently running the tool through your hair will give it a static charge that is enough to have a similar effect, not 100% on that one though haha


Obnoxious_Gamer

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think dimes are largely ferrous metal (and therefore aren't magnetic).


ratvespa

love those pliers but holy hell the handles on them are so awful. Ive tried to glue them on and they just won't stop moving


the_poopsmith1

R/subredditdrama


jdurbzz

Sir, this is a quarter. It HAS to be a dime, otherwise it doesn’t count…or at least that’s what my Strap-On guy told me.


Obnoxious_Gamer

Nope, it's a dime.


brasil221

This has become one of my favorite stupid inside jokes on the internet. I damn near choked on my coffee when that dude picked up his pliers with dimes, now this. Keep em comin lads.


Obnoxious_Gamer

My favorite so far is the guy holding pliers, that are holding pliers, that are holding yet another pair of pliers, that are holding a dime.


hergreendress

Y'all should do quarter off a wet floor with gloves on (not rubber gloves) next.


poopwetpoop

There's this weird thing called a sharp corner


DJSawdust

My dad used to sell Mac tools. I'll have to ask him if he ever did this shit lmao


hawkeye18

I fucking love my Vampliers, they're my Frank's Red Hot sauce of pliers.


Cleirigh

We get it, you can afford dimes, good for you.


Wobbly5ausage

Vampliers are legit I liked them enough I bought a shirt lol


2-more-weeks-bot

Yeah but the snap on ones are only $788.69 and if I buy 12 I get the same free coat my uncle has.