Man not guilty of WD40 'frenzy'

WD40 is about as much use as water, anyway. IOW, a slightly better product than Hammerite.

WD40 is fine for releasing stuff, but normal lubrication methods need to be implimented long term. It don't arf pong though. Brian

That would be why it's the worlds best selling maintenance spray, why it's sold in 180 countries worldwide, was ranked as one of the ?Top 100 Inventions of All-Time? by UK Consumers in a 2010 Tesco Survey and why they sell $300 million worth a year.

The Sun is the best selling newspaper in the UK, by a country mile. Does that mean it's any _good_?

A triumph of marketing.

Not lubrication.

Pah. I use WD40 a lot, mostly for tool and other metal object preservation/cleaning, but also for mild lubrication. It's a lot less messy than the alternatives, and the one can serves for many applications. I'd say a can of WD40 goes in my Top Ten Tools!

I no longer get to read it whenever I want but I used to hold it out as the best example of Plain English in the land. So that's one sense in which I'd say it was and still is bloody good.

Another sense is that it's good at writing for rather a lot of people who live in the UK (admittedly biased towards C2-E males outside Liverpool). You may not like their views but that doesn't make The Sun any less "good" than, say, The Guardian which writes for a different readership - more graduate, metropolitan, and public sector.

And I'll wager that a greater proportion of The Sun's sales are still to people buying out of their own pocket than The Guardian's sales.

In article , Another John writes

It came top in a tools' survey?

It has t*ts (at least I think it did the last time I looked at it).

Owain

Brown-coloured sugar water with a dash of caffeine wouldn't sell by the description alone. But brightly label it "Coca Cola" and it mysteriously becomes a storming worldwide success...

More likely top in a fools' survey.

The whole idea of a WD40 frenzy makes me chuckle.

However, good mixed metaphor on BBC Breakfast today (I forget what it was about). They said: "XXX is another tool in our arsenal". No doubt WD40 is another.

We've been around this loop many, many times.

WD40 may not the ultimate lubricant, rust proofer, release agent, sticky label remover, barbecue lighter fuel etc - but it's pretty good at all of its claimed functions, and it's all there in a single can.

This. If it doesn't give long lasting lubrication to something like a lock or a hinge, it's not exactly difficult to spray it on every month or two. I use it on the car door lock, and one squirt in November stops it freezing up for a whole Winter, while a quick squirt stops the hinges squeaking for months at a time, as does the proper, much more expensive stuff.

As you say, for all its functions, there are better products, but it is acceptable for all of them, and available just about anywhere.

Aye, I'll cheerfully agree to that.

God knows what the Sheriff was thinking about, how can you spray someone _twice_ by accident during an argument? Perhaps a new concept of Sheriff nullification, maybe he thought the 'victim' was in need of a good wetting down.

That is because it is written for people whose reading skill stopped developing at age six, as compared to age 14 that the broadsheets write for.

On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 19:50:52 +0100, Nightjar >> The Sun is the best selling newspaper in the UK, by a country mile.

Even then, two-thirds don't read, just look at the pictures.

It means its very good at doing what it was designed to do.