Comment by furyofantares
11 hours ago
> WD-40 works great for its intended purpose.
When I was a kid some family friends used WD40 on their joints - arthritic knees and such. Church friends, actually, which I mention only because stuff like that probably helped me reject the religion as readily as I did.
A web search for "WD40 arthritis" shows that there are still people doing this.
Maybe they think it'll work better since it penetrates deeper than vaseline.
> Church friends, actually, which I mention only because stuff like that probably helped me reject the religion as readily as I did.
You mean they got this suggestion from a priest? Or what's the connection?
There isn't one. I guess the actual reason I mentioned it was I felt weird calling them family friends when they weren't, but I also felt weird calling them church friends for no stated reason, so I added a little personal anecdote about it, which now I think I shouldn't have.
But since I did, lemme clarify, it was a pretty out-there fundamentalist church that I'm glad to have escaped early, and my comment is just that seeing people there do stuff that I couldn't make sense of, even totally unrelated stuff like this, probably helped undermine any sense of authority they had in my mind.