Trash?

I found this at my backyard, can somebody confirm if it’s only trash?

 

Rusty drill bit ... trash ... confirmed.

 

Nothing special? I only ask because... Some vintage drill bits can be collectible.

Debora

 

Just a rusty spade bit.

 

wood drill..for making a flat based hole.

 

That could be recycled. But that is it's only value

 

Soak in vinegar to remove the rust, polish and sharpen it, then throw it in your tool box instead of the trash can!

 

now a days , not every 25 year old guy.....has a tool box !!!

 

A spade bit is a wood-boring drill bit that is flat with two sharp lips. The spade bit was invented by the Irwins tool company in 1968 and its design allows for it to scoop material out of a bore-hole quickly.

 

Yeah, I keep forgetting..............

 

Just can't resist: call a spade a spade (bit that is).

 

oh, some will not like this .but.......


What happens when a perfectly innocuous phrase takes on a more sinister meaning over time?

Case in point, the expression "to call a spade a spade." For almost half a millennium, the phrase has served as a demand to "tell it like it is." It is only in the past century that the phrase began to acquire a negative, racial overtone.

So what does all of this mean for people who want to, well, "call a spade a spade"? I urge caution. Mieder concludes his case study with the argument that "to call a spade a spade" should be retired from modern usage: "Rather than taking the chance of unintentionally offending someone or of being misunderstood, it is best to relinquish the old innocuous proverbial expression all together."


https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/19/224183763/is-it-racist-to-call-a-spade-a-spade

 

I didn't know that! What a tool I am.

 

Not allowed to call nuts nuts. Instead they are mentally obscure or sumthin.

 

Oh, you're allowed......it's just that now, it's seen as demeaning and socially repugnant .........

so, why do it ?

 

Quote from The Thin Man...

Nora Charles:
Waiter, will you serve the nuts? ...I mean, will you serve the guests the nuts?

 

You're lucky. All I ever find are fairies.