Truth Facts by Wulff & Morgenthaler for October 03, 2014

Yeah, that’s not sexist at all.

Is it an ironic mistake or do you male Americans really call the thingemebob a bolt instead of a nut?

Well spotted, @Cilliers – it’s definitely a nut. Even americans don’t get that one wrong.

And the chisel is not just a thingy, it’s a SHARP thingy!

Totally sexist. As a man, I resent the suggestion that I know anything about tools.

Bad.

My husband bought me a table saw for Mother’s Day one year. Love it! I keep a tool kit in my car, and have a cabinet just for my tools (his tools just lie around, I can always find mine)

OMG!! Danish Cartoon!! Run for your life.

That would explain the pastries.

That also explains the wall plug that is a hollow wall anchor.

And it is an allen wrench. A key locks and unlocks, a wrench tightens or loosens. And the nail set might be a centering punch or a prick punch. Other than the chisel, are any of them absolutely correct? Maybe that is because we have to deal with chiselers every day.

Wall plug? Allen key? Bolt? Must be a UK/euro thing.

The Bolt is actual a Nut

Agreed that not only is this strip very sexist (I learned the use of tools from my father, and use them as much as my husband does), but four of the five are not even accurate on the “male” side.

Save the nut and the chisel, I wouldn’t know any of these things by name nor what they’re supposed to do.

So yeah, it’s sexist. To both genders, ironically enough.

To survivalists some of these are weapons.

@ Al S : I was about to blushingly concede and apologise, but then decided to check the original strip in Danish, to find that the nut was correctly there called a “metrik”. Moreover, bolt translates as “bolt”, in Danish, so that it’s unlikely that the creators themselves made the mistake. Therefore……

(The archived Danish strip is at

http://heltnormalt.dk/truthfacts/2013/05/30

if anyone cares)

Sadly, my mom calls everything a “thingy” or “whatever”, etc.

Now make a list for the kitchen, only reverse the genders, and you will have described my household.