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The feminist response to this Lidl Valentine Special?

85 replies

Blu · 05/02/2015 21:44

On the Valentine page on Lidl website

Is this:

  1. So cute - I luffs him, look what he gave me...
  2. A great step forward: at last the retail sector has realised that Power Tools are for Life, not just For Father's Day
  3. Oh, great, now women have to add DIY to the Having It All list of responsibilities
4.. Have they learned NOTHING from the Pink Bic debacle?
  1. It just doesn't have enough torque, and I wouldn't look at anything that doesn't have a percussion chuck...
OP posts:
elfycat · 06/02/2015 01:19

Years ago I bought a floral-handled hammer purple, not pink . DH has stolen it.

So I have stolen his Makita.

Maybe DH would like a pink drill for Valentine's. He likes to have one drill for drilling and another standing by as a screwdriver. Do you think that has enough power to turn a screw? I'm not sure.

AmantesSuntAmentes · 06/02/2015 01:14

"lightweight and easy-to-use"

Grin because clearly, working a silly pink screwdriver, is generally beyond our understanding (and strength!).

ArabellaStrange · 06/02/2015 01:07

A pink drill by any chance? Because its less intimidating for us ladieeesss if its pink.
FFS!

ArabellaStrange · 06/02/2015 01:07

A pink drill by any chance? Because its less intimidating for us ladieeesss if its pink.
FFS!

TwoAndTwoEqualsChaos · 06/02/2015 00:58

I have just emailed the link to DH: I know I could buy it myself, but then it would come out of the Housekeeping Budget ...

CointreauVersial · 06/02/2015 00:49

LOL at ridiculous pink drill. Perhaps it would be useful for filing one's nails?

(those Suddenly Madame Glamour candles are nice, though)

EBearhug · 06/02/2015 00:22

I was very good. I experienced the lust and then walked out without touching it. (It helped that I wasn't in my home town and was travelling on foot/public transport, rather than with my car.)

PuffinsAreFictitious · 06/02/2015 00:14

Hmmm, I often look at tools and wonder what excuses I can make to myself to buy them....

EBearhug · 06/02/2015 00:06

I wouldn't be too impressed if I were given that.

However, I did experience some tool lust in Maplins the other day, And I also am very tempted by a CircuitScribe.

Actually, I wonder if I can get work to buy me a CircuitScribe so that I can use it to do STEM work with some of the local schools and it's not just for me to play with, oh no...

PuffinsAreFictitious · 05/02/2015 21:50

I see what you mean about the torque, that's not going to move anything, is it.

Think I'll stick with my Makita.

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