The Two Greatest Things To Have Ever Been Created

The eternal battle between theory and practice in the construction world! That poor structural engineer spent FOUR DAYS meticulously calculating load distributions and stress points to create perfectly placed holes in that beam... only for the building services engineer to say "nah" and just ram that pipe straight through the ceiling anyway! 😂 This is the engineering equivalent of your mom ignoring your IKEA furniture assembly instructions and just hammering things together however she wants. The best part? That building is somehow still standing despite the architectural rebellion!

Ever notice how screw heads have personalities? The star-shaped Torx is everyone's darling, while that slotted flathead was clearly designed by someone who hates humanity! And then there's "the hot one" – an empty box because it stripped immediately and vanished into the void of your project, probably rolling under some unreachable cabinet. It's mechanical natural selection at work! Engineers spent centuries perfecting fasteners only for them to develop their own social hierarchy. Next time your screw strips, remember: it's not just hardware failure, it's hardware with an attitude problem!

The forgotten middle child of the metric system strikes again! This meme brilliantly captures how the decimeter (dm) gets completely ignored while millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers get all the glory. Poor little dm is relegated to the sad cat in the corner, desperately seeking attention like that one unit you vaguely remember from 5th grade science class but never actually used in real life. The metric system is supposed to be perfectly logical with its powers of 10, but somehow we collectively decided that measuring things as 0.1 meters or 10 cm was better than saying 1 dm. It's the mathematical equivalent of being left on read.

The distinguished toad in Victorian attire has finally conquered the engineering gauntlet! The Fundamentals of Engineering exam—that sadistic rite of passage designed to crush souls and destroy weekends—has claimed countless victims, but not our amphibious friend. After 400 practice problems, 17 energy drinks, and what was probably a mental breakdown at 3 AM in the university library, this well-dressed croaker can now proudly announce his triumph with all the pomp and formality of someone who just survived academic hell. Engineers don't celebrate—they inform with great pleasure .

Engineers have never met a problem they couldn't solve with a good approximation! When no one's asking for solutions, there's always that one engineer ready to whip out their calculator, scribble some equations, and proudly announce "So anyway, I started approximating." The beauty of engineering isn't finding the perfect answer—it's finding one that's close enough to work while everyone else is still defining the problem! That paper full of calculations? That's just Tuesday morning coffee thoughts.

Physics textbooks: "Let's assume the surface is frictionless..." Real physicists trying to solve actual problems: "I'm limited by the technology of my time." Nothing ruins a perfectly elegant equation faster than adding friction into the mix! Suddenly your nice, clean inclined plane problem turns into a mathematical nightmare with coefficients of friction and normal forces crashing the party. Those beautiful parabolic trajectories? Gone. That simple acceleration calculation? Ruined. No wonder physicists look so defeated when reality refuses to be an idealized system!