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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I dont do tools, or work on cars or anything, but I literally just bought a $20 rachet set with like 50+ pieces, and the one time I use it on my car to remove the battery, I lose the 10mm... I didn't realize this was so common. I must have spent like an hour in the parking lot looking for it and felt a fool for losing it. This isn't so much humorous as it is vindication! I am not a fool! Or atleast, we all are.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Has anyone stopped to consider that we may have the causality backwards here?

We know that frodo becomes invisible when wearing the ring, perhaps the reason we can never find the 10mm is that this was already done?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I also wonder if we're approaching this the right way. The Ring hast strange powers and works in subtle ways to get to its chosed ringbearer.

Maybe this is the trick to never lose your 10mm again. At least not for very long.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

A meme for that weird cross section of LOTR and auto mechanics. Beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How would losing the ring save middle earth? Sauron would have won if the ring wasn't destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

No, but what they're saying is ... Well, it's funny because... Just shut up! Coming around here with all your LOGIC! Ruining our jokes.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (2 children)

10mm socket, commonly known by mechanics to be the single most lost tool on the planet. Most cars use them a lot, but they're always nowhere to be found

[–] bitcrafter 6 points 1 day ago

Clarification: it is actually The Ten MM Socket.

(In Middle Earth they do not exactly have machine shops, so they were only able to make one of them.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I've been wondering why I've been having issues with missing 10mm's lately.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's the One Ring crafted in secret by Sauron, a corrupted Maiar. The One Ring to rule them all, the One Ring to find them; the One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness, bind them.

[–] bitcrafter 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh, so the picture is showing that One Ring! Makes sense now.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

10mm socket

famously know by all mechanics to dissapear

mostly its just a common size, and since its used often, its odds of dissapeaing are high

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That a 10mm nut, that always get lost and youll never find again

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks, in german it is "nuss" therefore nut :)

If i hear socket i think of lights like E14 and E27 socket

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, in english the nut is the threaded fastener.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It took Sauron 3000 years and he still never found the ring

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It is a zip tie, frequently used to attach two things although in most cases it is pulled tightly and this is a rare case of it being used as a simple loop.

[–] undefinedValue 7 points 1 day ago

No idea but it must make OP chuckle

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty esoteric for everyone outside the 10mm socket using world

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So for everyone ever?

I think you meant to write "10mm socket searching world" ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Got me in the first half.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I recently bought a 12 pack of 10mm socket heads. I can't find it...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Am I missing something about the zip tie shown here? Those things are pretty easy to cut open, easily defeating this lock or w/e.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's not about locking it.

Mechanics will always misplace a 10mm socket head so the joke is attach the ring to the socket and now the ring will never be found.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

But Sauron doesn't need to have the ring to draw power from it. Even without knowing where the ring is, he'll conquer Middle Earth unless it's destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Oh I guess I misread the other comments, I assumed they were talking about a wrench or something to use on the socket rather than the socket thing itself

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the image of the 10mm is supposed to go behind the ring. Otherwise the zip tie creates an impossible perspective, I think.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yes, but there be magic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Just because you lost your ratchet head doesn't mean that someone else doesn't find it. Like, Gollum's buddy found a 10mm ratchet just splashing around in a river.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

A single sock would work as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Gollum chewed off the zip tie.