Tools & Toys - What's the Difference?

Cougar Allen

Cougar Allen

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Look at the attachment first (today's Six Chix, from www.kingfeatures.com )

That works for me ... but why? What's the difference? A mop takes effort to use, but there are toys that do too. A bicycle is a toy; a minivan gets you there with no effort but it's no fun.
 
Cars are the toys; bikes are tools. My Trek 1400 can carry me 60 miles in an afternoon at 15mph. My Dawes Super Galaxy can carry 3 days' shopping in its panniers and get me home from the supermarket before you've got out of the car park.

All this and it burns 15 calories per minute from me and harms no-one. My wife was never aroused by men's thigh muscles until she met me...

:D

maximus otter
 
i prefer unicycles instead. with a big wheel you can keep up with bikers with ease. :D

Pete

edit: sorry if that was a little off topic, i guess i consider my uni kind of a toy, whereas a leatherman seems like clearly a tool. i guess things mean different things to different people
 
Building things is fun, and rewarding. I enjoy using hand and power tools when making something.
Destroying things is even more fun. I LOVE doing any kind of demolition, even if it means continuous sledgehammer swinging.
Doesn't matter if it's a pressure washer, circular saw, Sawzall, or even a sledgehammer or lawnmower...they're toys as long as you like what you're doing, even though it's work. I look for work to do (my friends love me), as long as it's something I enjoy.
IMO, cleaning, scrubbing, and scraping up messes, fixing someone else's screwups, etc, all suck, and fall under unnecessary and unrewarding work with tools that I shouldn't have to be, and am not happy about, using.
Does that make sense?
Could I have possibly used a few more commas?:rolleyes:
 
Don't worry, Owen; makes it look like you're pausing to think before you speak. I could work on that sometimes.

anyhow,
Depends on how you use 'em. If I knifesturbate while watching TV, its a toy. If I'm cutting boxes open, tool.
I'd sure hate to try and make a wilderness shelter with a rubber training knife, though.
 
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