Showing posts with label home improvement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home improvement. Show all posts

Saturday

Predator Press Declares War On Big Twisty Tie

Predator Press

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The catastrophic failure of the once-glorified Twisty Tie continues to reverberate in the cavernous halls of Casa de LOBO. I figured I would get thicker screws for this chair yesterday instead, but they are not long enough.

So Big Twisty Tie continues to rake in their fat cash based on my ill-advised endorsement, mocking me as my chair lie crippled and broken.

Fuck you and your sweeping conspiracies, Big Twisty Tie! You people are sneaky frauds! And I am sitting on this chair anyway!

Do you hear me?!?

Extreme "Mad Skillz" Home Improvement

Predator Press

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Well, I fixed the deck chair good as new.  And I'm starting to consider the garden variety Twisty-Tie mankind's greatest and most-unsung achievement.
 
O Twisty Tie,
-what limits thee?
From bread to seats,
you mystify.

Your tensile strength
and flexing form,
magically born
in perfect lengths.”

See that? I just made that shit up. THAT'S how awed I am over the humble Twisty-Tie, forgotten in somebody's drawer -unassuming and patiently waiting to be deployed on its single purpose: to attach some shit to something else. Fuck cures for cancer and space shuttles: whoever invented the Twisty-Tie should get a Nobel Prize, season tickets to the Lakers, and a goddamn statue.

-I will bet you one million dollars that when God has decided He has had enough of this dump of a planet and we ironically save it from utter and well-deserved annihilation, there will be a Twisty-Tie involved somewhere.

So I'm on this crazy home improvement jag now, right?  I'm all fixing that weird, crooked drawer that doesn't close right, putting the toilet paper on the spool .... then I decide to finally install my television on the wall. At this point, I was pleased to find I own a tool.  A tool commonly referred to as a “screwdriver.”

This "tool" -which I had previously mistaken for one of mom's fancy cooking utensils- is a steel rod with a four-sided pointed tip used to drive screws ... hence it’s designation: a flathead screwdriver.

Used properly, this item can be held by the silvery thin part and used to bash the screws in with the wider end, also known as the handle.

But this television is a piece of crap.