• fan0m@lemmy.world
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    I’m more of a Swiss Army knife. I can do a lot but I’m not that great at any of it.

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      3 days ago

      I’m great at some stuff, but it’s useless stuff. I’m awful at talking, so even when I’m good at something, I look stupid when I try to explain it

      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 days ago

        No that’s absolutely not useless. You’re hanging with friends partying and realize there’s no bottle opener for wine. Then you pull this bad bitch out of your pocket and save the day

        This happened to me once, except that no-one had swiss army knife in their pocket. I’m carrying now one

        The same way, you’ll never know when knowing what happened in Paris 1764 will save your day

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          So it happened once, but without the knife. Now that you have the knife, has it ever come up again?

          I opened a bottle with a swiss army knife corkscrew once to see if it was a difficult as it appeared and it was an adventure. Maybe with some practice it would be easisr, but it shredded the cork because the tiny handle was hard to keep straight and the pulling action was hard to keep straight. Had to use one of the screws that sits on the lip to keep itself straight to get the rest of the cork out.

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            This is hard to read as a Frenchman. Opening a wine bottle is a basic life skill you learn as a child there, and a Swiss army knife corkscrew is a fine tool to get that job done easily. I can also get the job done with just a shoe (like a sneaker) if needed (except I’ve stopped drinking). I get it, it’s our speciality, but still it’s strange to read about not being able to get it done with a Swiss army knife, no diss intended!

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            3 days ago

            You are supposed to use your hand as leverage to lever it up the first quarter inch or so, like a traditional wine key. Then pull from there.

          • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Back in the bad old punk rock days, when we had wine on sale from Aldi, we’d jam the cork into the bottle with a screwdriver and catch most of the spray in the mouth. It was an art. Then drink directly from bottle as usual.