Quote Originally Posted by olderdan View Post
Misuse of any tool especially precision items is not acceptable and ideally should not be portrayed or promoted. ...

While I am at it my pet hates are adjustable spanners/ ball ended hex keys and fractional measurements.
I consider my ball-end hex keys a useful adjunct to, not replacement for, the normal flat hex style. They're especially handy on miniature work where obstructions demand an offset angle approach and little torque is required.

I keep an adjustable wrench in my in-house tool carrier just so I don't have to heft the weight of a full set of SAE and metric wrenches every time I carry it to the most recent domestic crisis. In the shop fixed size wrenches hang to hand on the tool board and are always used in preference to adjustable.

Couldn't agree more emphatically about fractional measurements, though.