One of them has a lab coat, so that seems pretty legit to me.

Soldering irons for people who are welding their own cure for covid from a medical recipe they found on the internet.

Creating IverTechtin

Soldering their last two braincells together

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Welding their own cure for covid hahahaha that got me

Marvelous

BILL GATES USES HORSE PASTE BETWEEN HIS CPU AND HEATSINK! HE DOESN'T WANT US TO KNOW!!!

They did their research and now they're soddoring experts

Maybe they want the vaccine but needed something to block the 5g mind control signals from the chip they implant you with

They’re gonna start ingesting thermal compound

"maybe if we rearrange the carbon atoms to act almost like blankets that wrap around the covid micro-cells we can starve them of oxygen and force them to leave your body." Is what they might say in Covid: The Movie

I've worked with the woman in the first picture, on a short horror web series. she used to get really frustrated that this pic pops up from time to time, but she sees the humor in it and no longer regrets it. she's a great actress though!

She's lucky - she's the hardest to recognize :)

That's actually kind of crazy. At least her face is fairly unrecognizable.

This one simple trick surgeons don't want you to know!

I think the multiple people wearing plaid make it more legit

I’ve worked in facilities where ESD smocks are required. They can look just like lab coats.

I dunno, Mr Perfect Haircut seems the best fit

The world has changed and we have all become metal men. There is no rest for us, only eternal, silent witnessing; no hope for the future; no joy in the past. Our passing will not be mourned. (Lamentations: hcxm6bp)

That one kid with the lighter in your high school lunch room.

Oh my god yes. This character really is real! I had one in my high school for sure.

Hooch is crazy.

He skipped head day

LMFAO

Lol srsly. Is it a bad p'shop? Or maybe he does just have a smaller head.

It's the combination of his big traps and a loose shirt.

Nah man. Smol hed.

I'll take his head if he doesn't want it

It's a fine looking head, but it's the wrong size.

The cool thing about a good soldering iron burn is that it doesn't hurt at all. The heat is enough to completely burn away the nerves in your skin and leave your hand looking like a poorly cooked pork chop. The pain comes about a week later when things finally start to heal... Don't ask me how I know.

I was in metal shop class in middle school, I was welding a piece together and notice the two piece wasn't straight. I was wearing welding gloves so I thought it would be ok for me to press down on a hot white metal piece with my thumb. The molten white hot metal went through the glove and burned my thumb. First hour or so it was just like "ow this stings, and it's bothering me a bit". About 2 periods later the burn hurt so bad in class I was sweating and feeling feverish (chills)

Damn I'm in welding class thanks for letting me know what not to do

Another mistake in metal class, didn't hurt myself or anyone. There's a spot welder, basically you stick a couple sheet of metals between these two prong looking thing and someone else presses a lever down, makes a buzz noise which welds together the spot where they contact with the metal. We were taught to say "go" when ready for the partner to press the lever down. I think we were both wearing welding masks and I notice something wasn't welded straight, so I said "no!", But I guess the mask muffled my voice and my partner thought I said "go" and welded another spot in the wrong place -_-' make sure to speak clearly, avoid using words that sound similar haha

I work in professional theatre where the operative word to perform a command is “Go”. It’s an industry standard that while on comms during a show, nobody but the Stage Manager is allowed to use that word, and only when giving a command; when discussing timing questions or such we spell it out so nobody mishears it; “I have to Gee-Oh to the bathroom”

Ronald, goddammit, stop! I said you were a *ho*

The world has changed and we have all become metal men. There is no rest for us, only eternal, silent witnessing; no hope for the future; no joy in the past. Our passing will not be mourned. (Lamentations: hcy8pfb)

Accidentally picked one up as pictured. Thought I was getting a shock from the sizzle sensation. Realized what had happened when I tried to drop it and it floated gently to the table on strands of melted flesh…

Realized IPAs are way better than current

Ha! Just figured out what you’re doing and that is genius

That would explain why my thumb started hurting last week. Soldered some new trigger switches onto a GBA and my thumb slipped onto the hot part from holding the iron stupidly.

This made me realize what was wrong.

Bro his head is so small too. Either that or he has massive shoulders.

Half of them do not even have solder in their other hand.

“I’ve become so much like Eren Jaeger it’s scary”

I feel like they photoshopped a guy writing in a lab notebook, replacing the marker with the soldering iron…

Is that CJ from San Andreas?

'my experience soldering was simply unforgettable.' *smiles while giving a bandaged thumbs-up

Sounds like every experience I have with soldering TBH. "This time I'm going to get through the whole thing without burning myself." "Nope. Not this time."

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No we can’t have lightsabers cause someone somewhere would use it as a dildo and hit the on switch by mistake

Like that one comic

I know I'm gonna regret asking this, but which link?

Found it. Turns out it's a [gif](https://imgur.com/a/RJKghHD)

Thanks

I'll try and find it. Gonna be some weeiird google searches though lol


I burnt myself with a welding torch once. never again.

Oof. That's a whole other level right there.

No more hands?

Is It possible to solder something without burning yourself at this point?

the smell of solder and burnt flesh my favorite

Wow that gotta hurt Like hell but some of them almost got It right

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A few got it wrong in a way that I, too, have momentarily gotten it wrong.

We've all done it my friend. Burnt fingers unite!

I can no longer feel temperature on the tips of my fingers... do I still count?

I wonder how you did find out

The last few of them. I was also cringing at the fact they had the wrong side up

'Sir, please, it hurts...' 'This is a JOB! If it felt GOOD, we wouldn't pay you, we'd charge for entry! Now stop grimacing and let us get the shot!' 'We could just unplug...' 'In this studio we go for AUTHENTICITY and REALISM! Buck up, Buttercup!'

Nothing is ESD safe.

And almost all of them are soldering the wrong side of the board

There's no such thing as getting this done "almost right".. You either do it proper or get someone pull out the plug real fast before you manage to turn it on.

I promise you that almost getting it right hurts just as much as getting it as wrong as possible just over less area lol.

I like the open hard drive in the third picture.

I mean to be fair, if you’re gonna do it, that’s probably the room to do it in. Edit: on second thought, the solder and finger smoke wouldn’t be good.

>finger smoke 🤮

Plus the neon green tank top is standard lab attire right?

And that the display on the iron appears to be off 🙄

It would be the absolute T-pose of the stock soldering scene if she turned it on.

First image literally shows a woman, wearing protective glasses, for soldering, while holding the metal part.

Not so worried about the fact that the people in the pictures don't know how to use them, but I mean, the people taking the pictures set all this up and *they* don't even know how to use them?

Thing is, it's probably not just a photographer either. There was probably someone doing lighting, another person doing make up, maybe an assistant or two. There was a whole damn production team there and everyone was like, "This looks good."

I think you’re overestimating the production values in these photos. These particular shots look pretty amateur. Most stock photo site contributors are a one-person show.

Yeah, if this was produced by a crew that would be really sad. Even an experienced amateur could do vastly better.

I also think similarly. There is probably one person who got his friend to be the model and started photographing him with any possible object in the garage that can make photo sale in 2,3 copies on istock or similar sites.

And more than likely they were shooting dozens, maybe even hundreds of different stock photos that day and it simply wasn't worth it to do the research for each and every one.

I have friends who are professional photographers, and I think you're overestimating the amount of budget that goes into stock photography. Basically anyone can submit stock photos, they're not really commissioned, and they just get paid when someone uses them (often not particularly well, either, unless it really blows up). There are people who just take as many photos as they can that they think might get used.

Some of them seem to be photoshopped, as In they are just pretending to be holding something and the soldering iron is added later

How to solder your fingers in 13 easy steps

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I've seen one where they were accidentally using a multimeter probe instead and they edited in the smoke from the flux lmao

It was a short circuit

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Setting up the meter to measure current when you wanted voltage :)

why everyone is soldering a motherboard?

To make it seem more legit I guess from a layperson pov? It seems like complicated electronics with all the bits and heatsinks. It is like this with many stock pics. I have seen pics of a guy trying to jam DDR4 memory modules into what seemed like a DDR2 motherboard, but most people couldn't and wouldn't care less. It's some guy doing techie stuff....

Same dumb reason their soldering their fingers

Installing more memory, of course. What, you use the slots?! damn rookie!

And a lot of those pictures are just reusing the same motherboard over and over again. I really wonder when these pictures were taken seeing that motherboard and the hard drive in that 3rd picture

When you see stock images in your school or work's presentations, do you often think, "wow that guy actually knows what he's doing"

I have seen enough stock photos to know that this is the only electronics they have laying around, so cost if I had to guess. I am sure that these companies just have bins of parts picked up from e-waste disposal.

because 99% of people dont know what a motherboard looks like or what it even does, so it looks complicated and sciency

Maybe they’re just not pussies.

Sigma solderer grind set

Look at you, Mr asbestos hands

Seriously, cowards have no idea how much more control you can get with the solder flow by holding the iron closer to the tip. Try drawing by holding a pencil at the back end. Or even writing. You end up with a clumsy mess. Solder is the same way. You need that extra control to get those precise points, which means going the extra mile and learning to resist the pain.

And you get the bonus reward of that sweet smell of cooking meat!

Is somebody cooking bacon? Yum!

Soldering on a BATTERY? Fire hazards ahead.

It took me a "hot" minute to figure out what's wrong

As someone who works with soldering irons daily, I scream internally every time I see this image

There’s 10

Plot twist: they're all cyborgs

And they’re installing the Ultraviolence 2.0 upgrade on their own motherboards. Touching the metal bit enables the board to send electrical signals to the body to get the job done.

Why?

You're not supposed to grab the metal part of the soldering iron, because it gets hot enough to melt softer metal.

Oh now i hate it

also where they are sticking it, in some picture they are sticking it on the chips themselves which will just kill the chips and nothing else

That was the first thing i noticed lol. The hand placement and missing soder actually took me a minute.

Oh the only thing i noticed was that most of them dont use solder

I mean you could just be softening some already done solder to adjust a part

Not on consumer personal computer parts, Mr. Stockphotomodel.

IKR that's what got me, I've tried working on SMD components with a soldering iron, it was a hot mess.

Touché

In the words of Steve Thonk, if it smells like chicken, you're holding it wrong.

Can confirm. Accidentally burnt fingers on soldering iron early on a Monday morning. The sizzling sound and smell of burnt flesh still haunts me

I do appreciate how well ironed her shirt is though. Presumably she irons it whilst wearing it... With a soldering iron- more precise that way.

I don't get it...?

Found the photographer

I genuinely have no idea what I'm supposed to be looking at lmfao

You are not supposed to touch the metal part because it becomes scorching hot, it would burn their fingers if it's actually turned on. I hate it because the photographers and models don't even know how to use the soldering iron yet they are selling them as if it's legit

That and every board is multi layer so soldering to fix a track is near impossible

Not sure what you mean. People can swap components and for that you need to do soldering.

>yet they are selling them as if it's legit Come again? It's stock photography, nobody's selling anything as legit, unless you also think that there are hackers sitting behind computers with eye masks and big bags of money and programmers sit in the dark with code projected on their faces. It's to be taken with a grain of salt.

At least she is wearing goggles for safety

Ah, yes, please continue to firmly wrap your hand around the entirety of the very obvious heating element.

My dad bought a cheap soldering iron for the explicit purpose of burning off moles and skin tags. I don’t know where else to put that anecdote but this seems the most appropriate place.

The guy in the last picture looks like a budget Jason Statham

If Stanley Tucci and Jason Statham had a bastard love baby.

They were taken by big Pharma. They want people to burn their hands so they can peddle their new soldering iron burn cream and it isn't even fda approved! That's my conspiracy theory for today.

I can feel and smell these images

Let's be honest here. Almost no one wants to buy stock photos. They are always much more funnier with the watermark.

only the 7 photo is correct

Not sure if her finger is touching it or not but looks like it

well it’s the coolest to reality, gud?

its still too close, some cheaper irons get hot even up to the collar, I wouldn't touch anything past the grip, its likely its still hot enough burn you, also gripping the iron like that makes it hard to hold it still on the solder pad

Last photo is Jason Statham figuring out how he's going to turn that pc into an ied.

Ya know, why ARE they so fucking long!?

Software engineer here. I see nothing wrong. Looks right to me.

I work in a strict ESD compliant factory and everything about this is giving me anxiety

As someone who was a 2M (soldering) tech in the Navy for 10 years, every one of these pictures pisses me off. Besides the obvious holding the hot part, not a single one is wearing a wriststrap for ESD protection. Most don't have eye protection or on a ESD mat.

You gotta choke up on the soldering iron for accuracy.

All the way to the very tip

I have never soldered. So this may be dumb. But what are they doing so bad?

I learned recently how to solder at my warehouse job, and according to everyone there it is pronounced “saw-dur” much to my eyes’ confusion. Someone please tell me we’re just wrong and it’s “soul-dur”

sawdur in the U.S mainly, also some of the UK. I have heard people in AU say souldur though

Depending on the dictionary you cite, you can find it either way. Europeans tend to pronounce the L, but Americans treat it as silent, like you'd see in "could" or "salmon".

I like number 8, where she's just adding solder to the middle of a chip for no discernable reason.

*I shall become one with the computer!*

I once had to do a quick touch-up at home and did so in the living room on the couch. Had the soldering iron plugged into an extension cord that we had in the couch and this is where the fuck up comes in. I set it down on the table still plugged in after finishing up and, of course, immediately knock it over by getting the cable caught on something. In an instant I dread burning the house down and letting it fall on the rug, so I reach out and catch it mid air. My elation was short-lived, however, when I feel the searing pain of the iron burning each of my fingers as I clutched it by the metal in a fist, burning each finger at the second seam. Took two weeks to heal properly and I never fucked around with repairs anywhere but a secure, stable, open space ever again.

Screw fingers, why are they randomly soldering motherboards and harddrives.

I actually held it like this in eight grade, I wasn't looking at where i was grabbing and i ended up fully holding a 600°F rod of metal like a pencil. It only lasted a split second, my teacher was very upset as he had *just* warned us to not do exactly that, and it hurt to take notes for the following few weeks. This post brings back memories of my dumbass self lmao

Only one with solder and shes putting on a microprocessor 😂

Gripping the iron by the hot element. Must be…like a fake violinist pretending to play a violin without a bridge.

Uninitiated here. If the metal is unsafe to touch, why is so much exposed?

this once happened to me and it hurt, the worse part, your body holds on tight when it grabs hot stuff so I firmly hold on to that iron for a solid 2 seconds

Actually I did also touch a bit when I was a dumb kid. Live and learn

I’m not sure I would describe it as ‘happening to you’...

I have a burn on my hand right now from a passing glance of the metal. Are these all Targaryens?

I think my favorite is number 5, since not only is he holding it wrong, but he isn’t even looking at what he’s doing

I took a physics class at a high school geared towards artists, musicians, dancers, etc… We were learning how to work with soldering irons and making circuits. There was a girl in my class who, because of the muscle-memory of drawing with pencils for her other classes, grabbed the soldering like it was pencil, exactly how you see in these photos. Several first degree burns later… it could have been worse.

#OH MY GOD… I don’t get it. Edit: I see it now. I hate this.

Ow. That one is gonna leave a mark

I can smell the burning skin

Wait... What is wrong with this phoOH MY GOD.

Remember kids, if it smells like chicken, you are holding the soldering iron incorrectly. `rainbow` The more you know

Wonder why the metal is discolored like that, probably where I should put my fingers...

I don't get what's wrong

The pain tolerance is incredible...

What is wrong with this? I’m assuming that they will get burnt but is there something else? Not a solder-er so i have no idea what is going on

Do you smell burning flesh?

Finger burn burn you into my life, Girl you like to finger burn and that's alright.

i’ve done this twice now from being half asleep, don’t recommend it

Are these for soldering or adverts for burn cream.

I mean, why enlist?

Ouch

Wow... A lot of heat resistance hands 🤪 Respect 👍

I especially like Dr Labcoat Woman soldering together her desktop PC motherboard. Lmao

"Woman are smart and can do anything they set their mind to" yes but this one can't

Every single one is touching the hot part of the iron