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[–] 22 points 2 months ago* (32 children)

Ok I think this actually has way too much speculation and is asking the wrong question. Instead of "in your opinion globally are there more x or y", why not quantify it? Specifically in your instance, does your living quarters and personal belongings and other places you frequent have more doors or wheels? Go count them. We can actually solve this with enough data.

For me it's doors by a long shot. Almost nothing in my life has wheels. I live frugally and cheap furniture usually doesn't have wheels. I don't own Lego as other comments suggest. Drawers are not doors. Gears are not wheels. Eyes (wtf) and widows are not doors. The breakdown in my life is:

42 doors 15 wheels

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (15 children)

    Does your office chair have wheels? Lawnmower? Skates or bicycles? I bet you have more wheels than you think. They're insidious.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    My office chair has 5, I counted those. I have a bicycle with 2, also counted. No lawnmower, I don't have a lawn. I use bark and drought resistant native plants to preserve water. My fridge has 2, the ironing board nobody uses and should really be chucked has 2, my car has 4. That's everything

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (13 children)

    Many drawer slides inside a little wheel on each side. Do roller blinds count as one long wheel?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (12 children)

    Drawers have runners and slides, not wheels. See my other comment on wheels

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    I definitely have drawers with little wheels in them.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (9 children)

    Yeah but they're not called wheels. If you go to purchase a replacement, they're called what I said before.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    I don't understand this logic, the wheels are a part of that. By this logic we shouldn't be counting the doors of a car either because we don't call a car a door.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (7 children)

    But you just did, they're called car doors

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    And these are drawer slide wheels. I don't see your point.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

    Do they actually call them that where you live? In which case feel free to count them. But where I live they're just part of "drawer sliders" or "drawer runners".

    If they don't, and you're calling them wheels just because they happen to be a circular rotary component of something else, we're back to dissembling everything to count the circles again. That's the point, to draw a line before it gets silly. Otherwise my vehicle has probably thousands of wheels inside it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If you're just going by what literally has the word wheel in it, your car only has one wheel: the steering wheel. The four tires on it don't count, because they're clearly tires and not wheels.

    Like, yes, if you arbitrarily limit a definition, you can skew results however you want. But a wheel is a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. That definition would include gears, tires, the wheels guiding your timing belt, arguably the stereo and thermostat knobs. So, yes, your vehicle probably does have many more wheels in it than you'd care to count.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Ok but if we're going by dictionary definitions

    A movable structure used to close off an entrance

    Which basically includes half of the universe as well. So the answer to the question becomes: "there is a near infinite, uncountable, amount of wheels in the world, defined as a circle that can rotate; accompanied by a myriad of doors, defined as something that can open or close." Hooray. The question isn't fun anymore, and I don't really want to start counting the sphincters doors in my body.

    I clearly misread the room because we all seem to be hell bent on forcing this overly loose interpretation so that everything counts as a wheel for the meme.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, the definition of a wheel is given as:

    a circular frame of hard material that may be solid, partly solid, or spoked and that is capable of turning on an axle

    The little wheels on the runners definitely count since they fit the definition just fine.

    But that's also kind of the point, the question is so hard to answer because people can keep thinking of more doors or wheels they hadn't considered yet. The question itself invites silliness, that's its appeal.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    In my life it’s wheels by a long shot. 36 doors. 120 wheels. And that’s counting anything remotely like a door - stuff that’s sus. But all the wheels are 1000% clearly wheels. There are wheels everywhere.

    Edit: and I’m NOT counting the little wheels in all my drawers, or any of the many wheels I encounter and use like shopping carts. It’s SO totally wheels. :)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Wow that's crazy. What sort of wheels do you have?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)
    • Car wheels
    • Spare tire wheels
    • Bicycle wheels
    • Suitcase wheels
    • Lawnmower wheels
    • Tool wheels (like a dolly)
    • Wheels on coolers
    • Wheels on furniture/tool chests/tables
    • Wheels on rollerblades and skates
    • Rando equipment with wheels (like my little air compressor or power washer or my weed whacker edger attachment)
    • Wheels on toys from my childhood on a shelf (transformers, legos, evil kenieval motorcycle toy)
    • Wheels on the trays in the dishwasher
    • (I didn’t even count all the little wheels on each kitchen drawer - but those are there too!)
    • wheels on the vacuum and pet cleaner carpet thingy
    • couple of big plants sit on a roll-y tray with wheels
    • desk chairs with wheels there are wheels everywhere!
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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Doing this now, will report back.

    Edit:

    95 doors, 105 wheels. I didn't count any wheels I couldn't see (inside dryer, etc)

    Uh oh, forgot the doors on the cars:

    Even: 105 doors, 105 wheels.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    a door handle has a latch assembly which is arguably a wheel, as is the turning cylinder, if it has a lock it could have a bunch more "wheels" too, and the "rose' (the round part that covers the hole the cylinder passes through to connect the two handles) could also be a "wheel" depending on your definition.

    One could count a hinge as a wheel as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Not every cylinder is a wheel. Not every handle is connected to a door, and not every door has a handle. Sliding doors are doors, but not drawers. Cabinet doors are doors but not windows. A hinge is not a wheel. Plumbing isn't a wheel. Your capillaries and glands are not wheels.

    Your definition is wheely bad

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I'll push back on the gears are not wheels statement. They serve the exact same function as wheels (as in they spin to allow something else to move or spin relative to them), just with teeth to add friction and make the ratios less dependent in the specific diameters and/or flaws in curvature (give them a large thing to grab onto to prevent small variations from having an impact).

    Though I'll grant that hinges aren't wheels (while they do have an axle and involve spinning, the hinged object itself is more like the wheel than the hinge.

    Also drawers, if they have tracks, have 2 or 4 wheels each.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    There are hinges that use wheels, though, but I would agree that a standard door hinge is not a wheel.

    But is a motor a wheel? Maybe not a servo motor since it can't completely rotate but a stepper or most other motors can freely rotate as much as they wish.

    Pulleys are considered wheels - your vehicle is loaded with those.

    Ball bearings... Just counting those alone would put wheels above doors in my house.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    My own definition for this question is, a wheel is called a wheel. You don't call gears wheels, they're a mechanism. If we get too clever with definitions, I have 700 small wheels in my medicine cabinet that facilitate my daily movement

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