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MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksM to The Far Side@sh.itjust.works · 1 year ago

15 March 2024

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MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksM to The Far Side@sh.itjust.works · 1 year ago
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    Reminds me of the time when my uncle asked me to go get the dolly from his garage. I, being a kid and having no context for why he’d need a dolly, spent a few minutes in his garage but eventually returned with a Barbie doll still in its box. Fortunately, my uncle just chuckled, clasped my shoulder, and went to the garage to get his dolly so he could move his laundry machine. I often remember that day as a lesson in humility.

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      what’s a dolly then? some kind of skateboard, right?

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        A dolly is a wheeled tool for moving heavy stuff. They come in various shapes and sizes. They generally look something like this

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          That’s a wheely transporter

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            No, I believe that is a lifty-shifty.

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            https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7e/32/9a/7e329a2f5003bed981d00937cd0a72e7.jpg

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            Wheely transporter? Everyone I’ve ever known has always called these “dollies”. Maybe it’s just an American thing. Also I actually looked up dolly to get this image.

            • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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              what’s the name of that thing that mechanics lie on to slide under cars?

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                Not sure, the thing they use to lift it is a car jack but what they lie on? Not sure

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                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeper_(tool) (I copied your question into Google).

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              We’d call that a sack barrow on NZ, usually. I’d think of a dolly as being four wheels.

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              It’s an American millennial thing. From the folks who brought you boaty mcboatface and heckin puppers, it’s the “half of our humor is using babytalk out of context” generation

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          Thats a hand truck.

          Dolly is usually more like this

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        Kinda

        https://egripment.com/products/dollies/skateboard-dolly/

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          Whoa, why are the wheels all clustered together and tilted 45° diagonal?

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            Probably to allow for a heavier load (clustered) and for keeping the dolly on rails (tilted) although the rails seem proprietary, not something you find just everywhere

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    Guy returns with a wrench. Gets beheaded.

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    • lad
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      Gets bi-headed instead, that guy is just bad with specifics

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    Is there something to get here or is it…… just a guy upset that he has been handed the wrong tool

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      wench (probably referring to 2a):

      1 old-fashioned : a young woman or girl

      2a old-fashioned : a female servant
      b archaic : a girl or woman of a socially low class

      3 archaic : a lewd or promiscuous woman : a female prostitute

      winch:

      2: a crank with a handle for giving motion to a machine (such as a grindstone)

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        I’m retarded I read it as winch / wrench, and got the wrong end of the far side as usual 🤦‍♂️

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          No worries, it’s easy to misread, and I do it all the time. Hopefully it helps the next person. 😀

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