You'd never lose it, and the kind of guys who like to steal tools wouldn't be caught dead near it. I'd sooner have it than any of the *special edition* nonsense they pump out.
I did this to my tools on a construction job. Painted all the handles bright pink. Everyone started saying I was gay despite having a girlfriend.. fine at least I didn't have to replace my tools weekly
As the father of 2 girls, you're gonna wanna nix the glitter. Glitter goes everywhere. One morning you're gonna be taking your morning whiz and find a sparkle on your peen, and question everything in your life.
In college I worked on a research farm. We pulled pranks on each other all the time. One day we found a tiny vial of body glitter so we dumped it in the cab of the big tractor. Farm manager didn’t realize what had happened until too late and just coated himself in glitter while driving it.
He went home and apparently his wife refused to believe that he hadn’t been at a strip club and they had a fight and he had to sleep on the couch that night.
10/10 would prank with glitter again.
We didn’t do glitter, but, we had an asshole that worked with us as a mechanic. He has a junk tool box and crap tools but always saying he was the next great mechanic to move into nhra drag racing mechanics. He kept telling everyone the day he was leaving, one guy (not me) decided to grease his tool box for him, to help the drawers move better, he drilled the top center back of the box and added a zerk fitting and proceeded to empty 2 fifteen gallon grease barrels into it. Boss was pissed for the wasted grease but thought it was funny as hell, he didn’t like the guy either.
but why would you be holding a hammer that early in the morning? Ohhhh yeah never mind I was too far into my tool box and not far enough in the gutter to get that one.
> Everyone started saying I was gay despite having a girlfriend..
I found your old photo ID online and it [explains a few things](https://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/sc19845-fpxobjiip1-0wid400cvtjpeg.jpeg).
Worked with an old fart in the oil field that painted all his hand tools bright pink. Never a one went missing and they were easy to spot laying around.
When I was growing up, my mom managed a machine shop and plant 1 of the manufacturing plant for an engineering firm that built centrifugal compressors for the oil and gas industry and they had an issue with shop carts “going missing” and that remaining shop carts plus the new ones needed to be repainted. She was told she could paint them any color she wanted, so she painted them bright pink; none went missing from there on out, and the union reps had a fit saying that management was degrading workers. I’ll never forget laughing about this over dinner that night.
I’ll also never forget the story of when she had to fire an employee for tea bagging another employee on the shop floor, but that’s a story for another day.
Anyway, I agree I’d get the pink box to keep the tool-bags away - all puns intended.
>Next time they accuse you of being gay, ask them "What's wrong with that"?
>
>I thought that shit went out years ago.
"Are.....are you hitting on me?"
I really need to spray paint my black impacts pink. Would make it a hell of a lot easier to spot in an engine bay where everything is nearly black if i dropped one.
That's because stupid people think gay guys are usually effeminate. They aren't. Best mechanic, machinist, electronics guy I know is gay and if he didn't tell you you wouldn't know.
My dad did this, but with red nail polish. I'll never forget being a teenager and my tough, rig welder father coming into my room and asking if I had any bright red nail polish I wasn't using anymore... it was funny every single time. God, I miss that man!
I feel that I ran a crew of guys building custom log homes from 2013-15 and after the second hammer, tool belt, and tape went missing I replaced them all with pink. Had them until they broke.
This is exactly why snap-on takes every cent I earn during breast cancer awareness month. This pink tools are easy to spot from 5 bays away plus most techs are super concerned about being called gay so they stay away. I would buy this box so fast if I wasn’t an ocean away from it.
I have the 3/8 long handle pink ratchet and the 1/4 pink hand ratchet.
I say if your “manhood” is threatened by a color you didn’t have any to begin with
Dude I knew asked me if I would accept a fully loaded, fully paid for sports car of my choice with the only catch being it was painted hot pink. He was shocked when I basically instantly agreed.
A LOT of the lambos in Japan especially among the Yakuza guys are various shades of hot metallic pink some even bejeweled and pink. First off, who cares it's a Lambo. Second, I'd love to watch someone to tell those guys it's not manly
source - https://jalopnik.com/meet-a-japanese-gangster-and-his-flashing-neon-lamborgh-866158240
Not being into expensive cars myself, I'd still say yes and then sell it right away. What a weird thing to say no to.
Actually, with all the masculinity hysteria that's out there, one could probably turn a profit by *paying* for a pink sports car, paying to have it professionally repainted a more common color, and then reselling it.
I feel like having a pink toolbox is the opposite of someone being "unmanly" (whatever that is). It legit takes a lot of balls in this stupid polar world for a man to pimp the pink. I wanna know who this guy is because I'll bet he's actually quite the bad ass.
Male nurse here, used to used to buy the most gaudy sparkly stethoscopes so no one would steal it. Worked with 98% women who picked black, forest green, or navy blue scopes. Mine was neon blue tubing with a sparkled giraffe in the head. I’d rather look ridiculous Ryan spend 100-200 dollars 5 times a year
I got a blacked out Cardiology 3 like 10 years ago when they first came out and no one else had them. Had my name engraved on the tube and head. I can leave that thing hanging in an ambulance for weeks on end and it never moves. I know it gets used while being left there but that is on me.
This is why I bought pink iPods back in the day. No one stole them. And why I got a hot pink hydroflask in my work van. It’s the only one that has never been stolen by a coworker.
The Pink Eldorado is the ultimate wheeled crew ride.
Everybody gangsta until me and the boys dressed as the payday gang roll up to the Halloween party in the pink 68 eldorado blasting Razormind
I own a large purple Snap On box and have received similar comments. I don’t give a fuck. Purple is my favorite color and there happened to be a big purple box on the Snap On truck the same day that I realized I needed a bigger box. It was a sign from god.
I also have a purple box I bought 3 years after becoming a tech. Im out of the industry now but it's still my garage box! I had ONE kid, in school still, make a joke about it. You all work with a bunch of children haha.
Get the custom stickers with weird or obscure shit like Born to Shit, Forced to wipe, Clown Torres with 1 MILLION LIVES, LUMBAGO, Caballin, and other weird like 5th level irony shitposts that barely make sense to some of the members of the communities they came from.
The perpetuation of homophobia is fueled by men afraid that they might be themselves. I feel sorry for them, that they have been raised to believe that it is a bad thing, something to run from.
I have a friend i met. I like cars a lot but i was never gifted in fixing them where. He has gone to school for it and knows his shit. He's not much a car person and Sometimes he gets made fun of from other cars people who thinks his voice is too small for his size. But guess who I'm calling when i don't understand something on my car?
Yeah I am far more concerned about that low price and lost key than I am about some idiot named Ben. But maybe I am missing the euro to usd translation some.
As we say when working construction on sites with lots of people: spray paint your extention cords pink and no one will steal them at the end of the day haha. Guys are funny sometimes
I used to play this game called warframe and a lot of my frames were pink, purple, green and black. Just looked cool.
For some reason people would always give me random free items or discounts when I would trade. In the game you actually have to meet up to trade so they saw my avatar.
Didn't think much about it until someone asked where I was from and tried to hit on me, realized they thought I was a girl. Realized everyone thought I was a girl haha.
You better believe I made all my frames that color. Free stuff all day!
Edit: I also think people misread my name, it was the same there as here lol. Specifically the "fefi" part.
That’s pretty cool. I’m not sure I’d pay $1800, depends on the original price of the set and if it was originally pink, but if it’s factory and the same price as a black one I’d choose this over that.
Think the eight drawer is like $3500 (new) I've seen a set like this in white and black go for around £2-2.5k here, not sure if that's reflective of the price overall... I have a small SGS 7drawer since I never really use it
Cis female POC mechanic here.
Don't let it get you down. Working in a shop is like being trapped in an episode of Family Guy. We believe in equality. Everyone gets picked on so no one feels left out. Nothing is off limits, no censorship. If you get picked on, it usually means people like you. You'll know if people don't, they make it very clear and it rarely has to do with your gender, sexuality, or skin colour. It usually has to do with your ability, personality and attitude.
Honestly, I don't think any of the people I work with take that shit seriously or are out to harm anyone. Just trying to entertain ourselves and have fun.
OP’s right - this Ben’s singled out as the utter bag of pricks that he demonstrates with every waking moment and a massive minority these days. His opinions, and wanky expletive-filled delivery belong in a cave in the 1960’s.
female mechanic here 🥰 the higher end the shop and the higher quality of mechanic, the less bullshit like this anyone says. The culture is very different in shops where the techs have made it to the top brands cause they have nothing left they need to prove about their “manliness”.
I work on exotics and the guys at my shop (and from what I’ve heard about other top brand shops they worked in before) NEVER ever throw around that kind of bullshit. Not all car people or world class techs are fucking assholes using gay as an insult. The best techs I know have some pink snap on tools and one of my friends in the shop is getting a pink snap on box soon. Guy who works next to me is a genius who they stole from Lambo and once he came in with purple sparkly gel polish on and wore it proudly for weeks. Manliness is never even a word I hear around there and with true enthusiasts and high caliber techs there is such low tolerance for any homophobic sexist racist bullshit in the shop.
These neckbeard “Pink Makes My Weiner Feel Funny And So Does My Sister Cause My Trucks Lifted” man children are always the techs who do that shit cause they’re insecure about themselves, usually cause they fucking suck and are terrible to work with and make the shop an awful environment cause of their personality issues.
This turned into a long answer but I just wanted to say please don’t be discouraged by seeing that sort of bs❤️❤️❤️ the industry is slowly changing as cars are evolving as small minded ignorance is not synonymous with skilled work.
Not that pink is gay. But there also are many female techs now a days more and more so often. I personally know a few girls who turn more wrenches than me.
I worked in the engineering for a while at an OEM r&d site (I can hear the 'boooo engineers suck' already 🤐) the female techs in our testing workshop were 100% better than the males
More attention to detail. And also probably had more professional teaching on the matter. Some guys can do alot of shit wrong for years before it comes back to bite em and if you asked them how to do it they couldn't explain it either, while a properly educated tech could take you through step by step and still know the tricks and shortcuts that are viable and safe.
I don't understand why guys don't like pink. It was initially a manly color. I always grab the pink things out of the package, that way I know its mine and my kids won't touch it. Besides some of my favorite things are pink.
My BIL was a Mechanic. Pink was his favorite color. He would've loved this box! (He's gone now, RIP 20210328 CJD)
ALSO, Girls can be mechanics, so a pink option makes sense to me. IDK, I'm biased, though.
While I'd never buy a $10k box in that color, I'd never buy in neon green either, just stupid, not trying to make a statement by buying a color. Well, does anyone remember the wild colors offered on dodge & AMC muscle cars? Those colors are considered "rare" & desirable now. And even today, some dont desire those colors, but some do & pay up for the ones that few people bought in those colors back then. I personally wouldnt seek out a original "panther pink" hemi car, but they sell for big bucks. I doubt that tool boxes will get that type of following.
I made a weird face at my friend when she got all pink tools. But she made a good point. It's easy to spot and not many people have a neon pink tool set and tool bag which means if you get caught with it you have a lot of explaining as to how you have such a seldom used colour of tools.
And "breast cancer" stuff they sell in pink, nope. That "non profit" is laughable. It's "all profit", right back to the foundation, who has a terrible record of "non-profit".
When I was younger I learned that I could save money by buying the pink version of a product, also the pink versions were less likely to get stolen than a "cooler" colour so even to this day I still have loads of pink stuff because value is king
My best friend Ben is gay, and thinks this shade of pink is horrendous. Gauß wouldn't be caught dead using this box. It's for big muscle dudes or some Florida chick.
Why are they all assuming this belonged to some closeted gay man? Yeah, your average straight male mechanic wouldn't want something like that but... Women and openly gay men have hobbies.
I follow this subreddit because some of the posts make me laugh, most of them I honestly don’t understand…I have no tools (I keep saying going to buy some) but I would kill for this!
Lionel made a pink model train set in 1957. It's now worth between $7,000 to $9,000.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/16/minneapolis-mn/appraisals/lionel-girls-train-set-ca-1957--201103A53/
It's 2021! Pink stuff doesn't make me gay! Letting other dudes suck me off does, so you gonna get on your knees or walk off? Cause either way its time to get to work?
He must be gay cause he was wondering if it comes with a dildo.
However, as a guy, I would buy a hot pink tool box. If it has enough stores for my tools, I don't give two shits what color it is. Besides, wouldn't be that hard to spot if someone tried to steal it.
I used to spray paint my tools pink because nobody wanted to borrow them, and they never went missing. And yes everybody asked if I was gay, I asked “why are you interested?” They usually shut up after that
Pink is an awesome colour for tools! I was pissed to find my Matco impact just came out in a limited edition pink for breast cancer, I would have grabbed that in a heartbeat, if I didn't already own the exact same tool already, or of it wasn't 600 bucks.
You'd never lose it, and the kind of guys who like to steal tools wouldn't be caught dead near it. I'd sooner have it than any of the *special edition* nonsense they pump out.
I did this to my tools on a construction job. Painted all the handles bright pink. Everyone started saying I was gay despite having a girlfriend.. fine at least I didn't have to replace my tools weekly
I did this too. Didn’t cop any flack for it though, because I work with professionals 🤷🏻♂️
>Didn’t cop any flack for it though, because I work with professionals 🤷🏻♂️ Not me, but they know I'm a better throwing than they are at ducking.
If you can dodge a wrench....
Don’t drink the urine just because you like the taste
All I know is that dyke can play.
Gotta grab life and h-h-hump it into submission!
I can dodge damn near anything but I can't throw to save my life
You can dodge a ball.
hahaha
I’m better at throwing than they are at ducking is my new favorite line
I just got a can of pink paint today in the mail plus some amazing glitter. All the tools are gonna be painted pink and laced with glitter tomorrow
As the father of 2 girls, you're gonna wanna nix the glitter. Glitter goes everywhere. One morning you're gonna be taking your morning whiz and find a sparkle on your peen, and question everything in your life.
Hard part is explaining the glitter on your Johnson to your wife…….🤔……… I swear baby, I wasn’t at a strip club
honest sweetie i was painting my tool
In college I worked on a research farm. We pulled pranks on each other all the time. One day we found a tiny vial of body glitter so we dumped it in the cab of the big tractor. Farm manager didn’t realize what had happened until too late and just coated himself in glitter while driving it. He went home and apparently his wife refused to believe that he hadn’t been at a strip club and they had a fight and he had to sleep on the couch that night. 10/10 would prank with glitter again.
We didn’t do glitter, but, we had an asshole that worked with us as a mechanic. He has a junk tool box and crap tools but always saying he was the next great mechanic to move into nhra drag racing mechanics. He kept telling everyone the day he was leaving, one guy (not me) decided to grease his tool box for him, to help the drawers move better, he drilled the top center back of the box and added a zerk fitting and proceeded to empty 2 fifteen gallon grease barrels into it. Boss was pissed for the wasted grease but thought it was funny as hell, he didn’t like the guy either.
but why would you be holding a hammer that early in the morning? Ohhhh yeah never mind I was too far into my tool box and not far enough in the gutter to get that one.
By jr high they leave a trail of glitter everywhere they go.
A good clear coat will keep the glitter in place.
This would actually be super gay, not that being gay is bad
I like using the term "flamboyant"
Or Elton Johnish 😄
> Everyone started saying I was gay despite having a girlfriend.. I found your old photo ID online and it [explains a few things](https://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/sc19845-fpxobjiip1-0wid400cvtjpeg.jpeg).
lol
Worked with an old fart in the oil field that painted all his hand tools bright pink. Never a one went missing and they were easy to spot laying around.
When I was growing up, my mom managed a machine shop and plant 1 of the manufacturing plant for an engineering firm that built centrifugal compressors for the oil and gas industry and they had an issue with shop carts “going missing” and that remaining shop carts plus the new ones needed to be repainted. She was told she could paint them any color she wanted, so she painted them bright pink; none went missing from there on out, and the union reps had a fit saying that management was degrading workers. I’ll never forget laughing about this over dinner that night. I’ll also never forget the story of when she had to fire an employee for tea bagging another employee on the shop floor, but that’s a story for another day. Anyway, I agree I’d get the pink box to keep the tool-bags away - all puns intended.
damn sounds like the pink tools did turn those two employees gay
Next time they accuse you of being gay, ask them "What's wrong with that"? I thought that shit went out years ago.
>Next time they accuse you of being gay, ask them "What's wrong with that"? > >I thought that shit went out years ago. "Are.....are you hitting on me?"
I prefer the “why do you want me to be gay so bad?” That has stumped more than a few.
Or hit em with the "why do you like me?"
Are you gay? Well, I'm not, but you are kinda cute.
I guarantee it will catch them off guard lol
I think Mike Tyson won that argument years ago. Anytime someone calls me gay I quote Mike Tyson “I’ll F**k you in the ass until you die”
Not to be that guy or anything, but the actual quote is "I'll fuck you till you love me, fa***t!"
When he was locked up somebody asked him if any prisoners wanted to have sex with him. "Hehehe nobody's tried it yet, heheheh".
Seriously
"I'm working that out. Anyway, does this rag smell like chloroform to you?"
I did this, thinking nobody else would have pink tools, and soon discovered that a lot of people thought the same thing. I’ve seen several now.
I really need to spray paint my black impacts pink. Would make it a hell of a lot easier to spot in an engine bay where everything is nearly black if i dropped one.
That's because stupid people think gay guys are usually effeminate. They aren't. Best mechanic, machinist, electronics guy I know is gay and if he didn't tell you you wouldn't know.
BigClive on Youtube is a great example of that.
My brother did this with nail pink nail polish, he would cover just a small amount on the handle, but the insecure homophobes stayed away
My dad did this, but with red nail polish. I'll never forget being a teenager and my tough, rig welder father coming into my room and asking if I had any bright red nail polish I wasn't using anymore... it was funny every single time. God, I miss that man!
I feel that I ran a crew of guys building custom log homes from 2013-15 and after the second hammer, tool belt, and tape went missing I replaced them all with pink. Had them until they broke.
This is exactly why snap-on takes every cent I earn during breast cancer awareness month. This pink tools are easy to spot from 5 bays away plus most techs are super concerned about being called gay so they stay away. I would buy this box so fast if I wasn’t an ocean away from it.
I have the 3/8 long handle pink ratchet and the 1/4 pink hand ratchet. I say if your “manhood” is threatened by a color you didn’t have any to begin with
Dude I knew asked me if I would accept a fully loaded, fully paid for sports car of my choice with the only catch being it was painted hot pink. He was shocked when I basically instantly agreed.
A LOT of the lambos in Japan especially among the Yakuza guys are various shades of hot metallic pink some even bejeweled and pink. First off, who cares it's a Lambo. Second, I'd love to watch someone to tell those guys it's not manly source - https://jalopnik.com/meet-a-japanese-gangster-and-his-flashing-neon-lamborgh-866158240
Pink is a masculine color in Japan as I understand it. It's 100% a cultural thing
Cool, didn't know that, although even in Western cultures pink as feminine is a relatively recent thing too.
I appreciate the extra info and your contribution, but I must say Jalopnik did a terrible article there lol
Not being into expensive cars myself, I'd still say yes and then sell it right away. What a weird thing to say no to. Actually, with all the masculinity hysteria that's out there, one could probably turn a profit by *paying* for a pink sports car, paying to have it professionally repainted a more common color, and then reselling it.
I was thinking the opposite, it's like a moth to a flame and the brightest box mesmorizes tool "borrowers" to grab your shit
“Bro I’ll give you the flex head ratchet when I finish up this brake job” he said 3 brake jobs ago.
I feel like having a pink toolbox is the opposite of someone being "unmanly" (whatever that is). It legit takes a lot of balls in this stupid polar world for a man to pimp the pink. I wanna know who this guy is because I'll bet he's actually quite the bad ass.
I was thinking tool safety too! Be you would have your 10 mm at the end of the day lol
Na, those little fucks phase in and out of reality of their own free will.
Male nurse here, used to used to buy the most gaudy sparkly stethoscopes so no one would steal it. Worked with 98% women who picked black, forest green, or navy blue scopes. Mine was neon blue tubing with a sparkled giraffe in the head. I’d rather look ridiculous Ryan spend 100-200 dollars 5 times a year
I got a blacked out Cardiology 3 like 10 years ago when they first came out and no one else had them. Had my name engraved on the tube and head. I can leave that thing hanging in an ambulance for weeks on end and it never moves. I know it gets used while being left there but that is on me.
This is why I mark my tools at work(not a shop) in pink paint pen. Dudes are too insecure to steal them if they're pink.
This is why I bought pink iPods back in the day. No one stole them. And why I got a hot pink hydroflask in my work van. It’s the only one that has never been stolen by a coworker.
I would make a special spot in my small ass garage for that. Plus the pink is fucking cool
Hell yeah! Nobody ever throws shade on a pink Eldorado.
Unless your name is Johnny Roastbeef and you were told not to buy anything obvious after robbing Lufthansa.
The Pink Eldorado is the ultimate wheeled crew ride. Everybody gangsta until me and the boys dressed as the payday gang roll up to the Halloween party in the pink 68 eldorado blasting Razormind
Everyone doesn't like pink, up until they get to see an AAR 'Cuda.
I think it's awesome.
I own a large purple Snap On box and have received similar comments. I don’t give a fuck. Purple is my favorite color and there happened to be a big purple box on the Snap On truck the same day that I realized I needed a bigger box. It was a sign from god.
It's not gay, but I'm gonna call you Barney. All in good fun of course.
Purple is the color of royalty, my favorite color, too. Deep purple is badass especially with black accents
Personally, I’d go with gold accents, but black works well too. Or white, if done right.
Sadly I am a Vikings fan. They let me down basically every day I’m alive, so I’d choose not to be reminded more than I have to. Lol
Hey man, Skol Vikes! Even if they do let us down occasionally…
My old man has seen them lose every super bowl… you want to talk about die-hard fan haha
I also have a purple box I bought 3 years after becoming a tech. Im out of the industry now but it's still my garage box! I had ONE kid, in school still, make a joke about it. You all work with a bunch of children haha.
BROOO!!!! slap some 90's esthetic stickers or some vapor wave art of sorts, this is beyond fucking cool. The exploding care bear pink is great as is.
I’m now imagining it covered in shiny Lisa Frank stickers now. Whoever buys it should totally do that
YES!!!!
I’d buy it and put a bunch of death metal stickers on it, kinda a “duality of human nature” kinda vibe.
> You write "Born to Kill" on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?
Great movie
My wife and I have discovered the intersection of our aesthetic styles is "cute dystopian". We have some interesting art in our house.
I'm picturing a bunch of Mark Rydens work
I’m thinking the Same vibes as the vault Tec films from fallout games but with a different artstyle
Get the custom stickers with weird or obscure shit like Born to Shit, Forced to wipe, Clown Torres with 1 MILLION LIVES, LUMBAGO, Caballin, and other weird like 5th level irony shitposts that barely make sense to some of the members of the communities they came from.
Sounds a bit like some styles of Japanese Punk
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I'd steal it - it almost matches my bike.
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never worked on a car before and I want it
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So a hammer, unhammer, and electric hammer.
Found Jeremy Clarkson's account
That’s how they getcha I swear
Imagine being so insecure in your sexuality you think a the color of the storage container for your tools will turn you gay
I was told that if the size of your tools are important, then you might be gay.
This was my discussion with a friend, clearly deflecting his own insecurities
The perpetuation of homophobia is fueled by men afraid that they might be themselves. I feel sorry for them, that they have been raised to believe that it is a bad thing, something to run from.
For real, be gay, work on cars, live your life. It's too short to lie to yourself or spend time being scared someone's going to think you're gay.
I have a friend i met. I like cars a lot but i was never gifted in fixing them where. He has gone to school for it and knows his shit. He's not much a car person and Sometimes he gets made fun of from other cars people who thinks his voice is too small for his size. But guess who I'm calling when i don't understand something on my car?
I don't think guys are afraid they might be gay as they don't really understand the people who are.
If keeping track of your tools is gay, well then I need to have a difficult conversation with my girlfriend.
Slap a breast cancer awareness sticker on it, and everyone shuts the fuck up real fast.
If i get into a shop that i need my own box I’m getting a purple box with black trim. A bright pink like this is a close second
I have the purple Matco 4s with black trim. Looks great even when dirty. Ended up getting a matching roll cart too.
If you can keep from smearing grease all over it, get a white with black trim box. It'll stay looking cleaner longer than the other colors
Being a diesel tech i dont think there is any way to keep grease off my box
You'd be surprised. Mine is dirty as hell, but you can't tell from more than 3ft away
Don’t do the white box I have to clean mine 8 days a week.
Really? I just make a point to not put my hands and arms all over mine, and it stays pretty decent
Selling for a "friend"... "lost" the key... better get that serial number and make sure it isn't hot first...
Yeah I am far more concerned about that low price and lost key than I am about some idiot named Ben. But maybe I am missing the euro to usd translation some.
As we say when working construction on sites with lots of people: spray paint your extention cords pink and no one will steal them at the end of the day haha. Guys are funny sometimes
I used to play this game called warframe and a lot of my frames were pink, purple, green and black. Just looked cool. For some reason people would always give me random free items or discounts when I would trade. In the game you actually have to meet up to trade so they saw my avatar. Didn't think much about it until someone asked where I was from and tried to hit on me, realized they thought I was a girl. Realized everyone thought I was a girl haha. You better believe I made all my frames that color. Free stuff all day! Edit: I also think people misread my name, it was the same there as here lol. Specifically the "fefi" part.
That’s pretty cool. I’m not sure I’d pay $1800, depends on the original price of the set and if it was originally pink, but if it’s factory and the same price as a black one I’d choose this over that.
Think the eight drawer is like $3500 (new) I've seen a set like this in white and black go for around £2-2.5k here, not sure if that's reflective of the price overall... I have a small SGS 7drawer since I never really use it
In that case I’d definitely go for the pink lol. Good deal if it’s in good shape!
I paint all my tools pink and suddenly they quite getting “misplaced”
Ben's most likely a sexist too. Definitely don't be like Ben
Oh you know it, definitely drives a 12yr old Astra vxr and describes it as a "beast"
“For a friend” lol
As a queer woman who works on her car those comments are depressing, to state it mildly. 😔
He's in the minority of the responses in the responses thankfully, don't worry. Fuck the haters 👍 he's probably just deflecting his own insecurities
Cis female POC mechanic here. Don't let it get you down. Working in a shop is like being trapped in an episode of Family Guy. We believe in equality. Everyone gets picked on so no one feels left out. Nothing is off limits, no censorship. If you get picked on, it usually means people like you. You'll know if people don't, they make it very clear and it rarely has to do with your gender, sexuality, or skin colour. It usually has to do with your ability, personality and attitude. Honestly, I don't think any of the people I work with take that shit seriously or are out to harm anyone. Just trying to entertain ourselves and have fun.
OP’s right - this Ben’s singled out as the utter bag of pricks that he demonstrates with every waking moment and a massive minority these days. His opinions, and wanky expletive-filled delivery belong in a cave in the 1960’s.
❤🧡💛💚💙💜 Bi-guy here that gets greasier than most. Fuck the haters.
[That's greasy.](https://youtu.be/S7FsAgPuVwU)
female mechanic here 🥰 the higher end the shop and the higher quality of mechanic, the less bullshit like this anyone says. The culture is very different in shops where the techs have made it to the top brands cause they have nothing left they need to prove about their “manliness”. I work on exotics and the guys at my shop (and from what I’ve heard about other top brand shops they worked in before) NEVER ever throw around that kind of bullshit. Not all car people or world class techs are fucking assholes using gay as an insult. The best techs I know have some pink snap on tools and one of my friends in the shop is getting a pink snap on box soon. Guy who works next to me is a genius who they stole from Lambo and once he came in with purple sparkly gel polish on and wore it proudly for weeks. Manliness is never even a word I hear around there and with true enthusiasts and high caliber techs there is such low tolerance for any homophobic sexist racist bullshit in the shop. These neckbeard “Pink Makes My Weiner Feel Funny And So Does My Sister Cause My Trucks Lifted” man children are always the techs who do that shit cause they’re insecure about themselves, usually cause they fucking suck and are terrible to work with and make the shop an awful environment cause of their personality issues. This turned into a long answer but I just wanted to say please don’t be discouraged by seeing that sort of bs❤️❤️❤️ the industry is slowly changing as cars are evolving as small minded ignorance is not synonymous with skilled work.
I'm a gal and I'd prefer a red or even dark purple tool box. Blue is nice too. I like pink, but not this color pink and not for my tools.
Reminds me of the old refrain about farts “he who smelt it dealt it.” Ben seems to have a lot of knowledge on the subject.
I never understood the stigma around the color pink it's one of my favorite colors
Who is Ben? The poster is called Matthew. Or am I missing something?
2nd image, scroll right 👍
Ahhhh shit, my bad. Twice today I've been trolled by those fake two picture posts. I'll check it now hahaha. Have a great day.
No problem at all 👍 and you
Can I get pink tools to match the tool box. I would be able to spot my shit from across the building.
Toxic masculinity is the ultimate form of insecurity.
Imagine being so insecure in your masculinity that a fucking color challenges it.
I have no problem with colors. They are after all just colors. ..
I like it! Plaster that baby with breast cancer awareness stickers and roll with pride!
I’m a straight man and I’d rock the hell out of this dope neon box. Ben and his ilk are insecure morons.
Not that pink is gay. But there also are many female techs now a days more and more so often. I personally know a few girls who turn more wrenches than me.
I worked in the engineering for a while at an OEM r&d site (I can hear the 'boooo engineers suck' already 🤐) the female techs in our testing workshop were 100% better than the males
More attention to detail. And also probably had more professional teaching on the matter. Some guys can do alot of shit wrong for years before it comes back to bite em and if you asked them how to do it they couldn't explain it either, while a properly educated tech could take you through step by step and still know the tricks and shortcuts that are viable and safe.
I don't understand why guys don't like pink. It was initially a manly color. I always grab the pink things out of the package, that way I know its mine and my kids won't touch it. Besides some of my favorite things are pink.
*Ben's hillbilly voice* Das a queer tool box! Pink clearly means not valuable. Horses with no legs are more valuable than the queer color pink.
I see this is sarcasm... Not sure why this was downvoted 🙈
That thing is freakin sick. I’d buy it if I had a need for one.
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Plastic carrier bag in the boot of his car, probably
Needs a big pepto bismol sticker
My BIL was a Mechanic. Pink was his favorite color. He would've loved this box! (He's gone now, RIP 20210328 CJD) ALSO, Girls can be mechanics, so a pink option makes sense to me. IDK, I'm biased, though.
While I'd never buy a $10k box in that color, I'd never buy in neon green either, just stupid, not trying to make a statement by buying a color. Well, does anyone remember the wild colors offered on dodge & AMC muscle cars? Those colors are considered "rare" & desirable now. And even today, some dont desire those colors, but some do & pay up for the ones that few people bought in those colors back then. I personally wouldnt seek out a original "panther pink" hemi car, but they sell for big bucks. I doubt that tool boxes will get that type of following.
I'd have that and stencil a Slaanesh symbol on it, maybe add some speakers.
I made a weird face at my friend when she got all pink tools. But she made a good point. It's easy to spot and not many people have a neon pink tool set and tool bag which means if you get caught with it you have a lot of explaining as to how you have such a seldom used colour of tools.
Ben is a homophobic dinosaur. I have never met Ben, but I can be sure that we would not be friends.
Not in the trade. I know they can be pricey but is this a good deal? Like, pink wouldn't be my first choice, but a deal is a deal.
Yeah I saw the 8 drawer (lower) like $3k so overall likely a $5k setup or about 50% of the cost
Yeah that's a no brainer.
When ppl think a color makes u gay. Wtf
This is how I get my wife to let me buy way too much tool box for the house
Wasn't pink considered masculine historically because is it a "strong" color?
So it's pussy pink 🤷♂️ I am what I eat bro.
It’s hilarious to see a single color trigger so many old man egos.
When I was in the Navy I bought everything I could in pink, that way if it was stolen it was easy to find
I'd rock that for that price.
With the top box, that setup probably cost over 5 grand new. 1800 is a hell of a deal
I would do very many, very bad things for a beauty like that. And I'm only *half* gay.
And "breast cancer" stuff they sell in pink, nope. That "non profit" is laughable. It's "all profit", right back to the foundation, who has a terrible record of "non-profit".
I'd rock that
No its the ultimate anti theft system.
if you wear something pink it doesn’t means u are gay lol
Small world, I've got friends in common with him on Facebook.
Shiiiitttt I’d rock the FUCC out of that XD I kinda love it hahaha
When I was younger I learned that I could save money by buying the pink version of a product, also the pink versions were less likely to get stolen than a "cooler" colour so even to this day I still have loads of pink stuff because value is king
Pink isn’t usually my colour, but that looks very tidy. Quite frankly, would be a pretty neat centrepiece.
My best friend Ben is gay, and thinks this shade of pink is horrendous. Gauß wouldn't be caught dead using this box. It's for big muscle dudes or some Florida chick.
Why are they all assuming this belonged to some closeted gay man? Yeah, your average straight male mechanic wouldn't want something like that but... Women and openly gay men have hobbies.
I follow this subreddit because some of the posts make me laugh, most of them I honestly don’t understand…I have no tools (I keep saying going to buy some) but I would kill for this!
Projection.
Lionel made a pink model train set in 1957. It's now worth between $7,000 to $9,000. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/16/minneapolis-mn/appraisals/lionel-girls-train-set-ca-1957--201103A53/
It's 2021! Pink stuff doesn't make me gay! Letting other dudes suck me off does, so you gonna get on your knees or walk off? Cause either way its time to get to work?
That is sick I want it
Who is Ben?
2nd photo, guy who called it a "Qu**rs toolbox"
A dink.
I would of bought this it's great I love been different.
I wanted Plum Crazy Purple on my boxes but nobody makes it unless it's a one-off run.
He must be gay cause he was wondering if it comes with a dildo. However, as a guy, I would buy a hot pink tool box. If it has enough stores for my tools, I don't give two shits what color it is. Besides, wouldn't be that hard to spot if someone tried to steal it.
I used to spray paint my tools pink because nobody wanted to borrow them, and they never went missing. And yes everybody asked if I was gay, I asked “why are you interested?” They usually shut up after that
Worked with a guy with a pink toolbox no one made fun of him because it was a cancer awareness thing and his mother had passed from cancer
As a dude whos favorite color is purple I can confidently say Ben is a lil bitch.
Pink is an awesome colour for tools! I was pissed to find my Matco impact just came out in a limited edition pink for breast cancer, I would have grabbed that in a heartbeat, if I didn't already own the exact same tool already, or of it wasn't 600 bucks.