Locksmiths hate WD-40
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Why this one?
IANAL, but people use it on squeaky hinges and knobs and locks, but it sits in the mechanism and collects dust. It turns into a gummy mess eventually, which is the last thing you would want in a lock.
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I imagine it gunks up the lock mechanism. I have had to eventually replace locks I used it in.
not a locksmith, but...
One of those candidates for 'worst memorable phrase in history' is the old "duct-tape for things that move and shouldn't and wd-40 for things that should move and don't".
WD-40 isn't a lubricant. It often works to get something un-stuck, but then you need to still clean and lubricate the parts to keep it working.
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ENTs hate Q-tips?!
That doesn't make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small.
HROOOM
People sticking Q-tips in their (E)ars and to a lesser extent, (N)oses and (T)hroats.
You're absolutely correct, but op is making a joke about Ents from LotR. A cheeky little pun, if you will.
As someone whose name escaped the skipping record that your name is, I concur.
It's a reference to this character from Catch-22. Unless this is my turn to be wooshed.
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RFK?
Structural engineers: fire, water, air and earth. They are like the Anti-Avatar
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Truck drivers hate "four wheelers" because they don't know how to drive.
When they're not in their semi they generally drive a four wheeled vehicle their very own self, presumably being hated on by other truck drivers.
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Data (dwh) people hate Excel
dude you can hate but 80% of "data" still.on excel. I'm in my third global company and people still control things on excel. and 5% power bi (some from excel) hahahahaha
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As someone who used to work with "large" (to normal people; 10k-60k rows up to maybe 70 columns) datasets in Excel exclusively, I also hate Excel.
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Psychoanalysts hate those blotchy black & white images of my mother's pussy giving birth to my father who is wielding a knife with my name written along the hilt. "Stop bringing these fucking drawings in here!" she yells. God forbid a man have hobbies.
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lab techs hate improperly collected samples. The people who collect those samples often in turn hate lab techs.
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