Don't take it to heart fella, its was just a bit amusing for some of us, your obviously use to older cars.
As an oldie I used to use feeler gauges on my contacts in thousands of an inch, rotating the engine to top dead centre of course.
Yes, i too can remember using a fag paper to set the points on my magneto equipped bike, i still work in thou half the time.
today most think magneto is a character from X men....
only threw out my whitworth spanners the other day