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[-] fuck_you_spez@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours 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.

[-] Longpork3@lemmy.nz 17 points 1 day ago

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?

[-] SpongyAneurism@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 22 hours 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.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

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

[-] besmtt@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

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

[-] foo@feddit.uk 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.

[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

What is that thing?

[-] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Cyclist@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

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

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 5 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.)

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 27 points 1 day ago

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@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] strawberry@kbin.earth 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

[-] Feddinat0r@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago

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

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

*socket

[-] Feddinat0r@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

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

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

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, in english the nut is the threaded fastener.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

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

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 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@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

No idea but it must make OP chuckle

[-] Bentheredonethat@discuss.online 19 points 1 day ago

Pretty esoteric for everyone outside the 10mm socket using world

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

So for everyone ever?

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

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago

Got me in the first half.

[-] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 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.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 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

[-] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

Yes, but there be magic.

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

A single sock would work as well.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Gollum chewed off the zip tie.

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