Hard yes, but some say granite is harder.Seem some fine wood carving in my day. Never was good at it meself only good at carving my fingers.
Hard yes, but some say granite is harder.Seem some fine wood carving in my day. Never was good at it meself only good at carving my fingers.
I prefer soap stone myself. Have spent many an hour inhaling that fine dust before I found out it causes silicosis.Hard yes, but some say granite is harder.
For starters, schools have banned pocket knives. Some cops treat them like concealed weapons, and finally, soccer moms worry the bubble wrap babies will get a boo boo.Everyone had a jack knife. When we weren't making whistles from the willow branches along the river, we were whittling strips from sticks we would pick up in the vacant lots. It was great fun - high culture for us prairie boys. But, sadly, no one whittles anymore.
Why? Maybe it's immigration? Them furners never whittled.
One of my closest friends and hunting buddies does that for a living. We sometimes collaborate on projects, I provide the iron work.Now people whittle with chainsaws:
My kids carry pocket knives, have hunting knives, and have been proficient with firearms, weapons and weapons safety since they were strong enough to lift them, respectively.It would be nice if children were taught more about safe handling of everyday items, such as knives, that are also very useful tools. You know, instead of this 'prohibit everything' mindset that is so prevalent today.
And lawn darts weeded out the poor genes.Besides which that one kid with the eye patch served a role as a valuable lesson to the rest of us kids.![]()
My kids carry pocket knives, have hunting knives, and have been proficient with firearms, weapons and weapons safety since they were strong enough to lift them, respectively.
But I hate bubble wrap, and believe said tools serve a purpose in society.
Darwin is having a difficult time handing out awards these days, thank you so much overprotective parents and medical science.And lawn darts weeded out the poor genes.
Kids today need stronger lessons to get through to them. Columbine, Red Lake, Sandy Hook, that sort of thing.It would be nice if children were taught more about safe handling of everyday items, such as knives, that are also very useful tools. You know, instead of this 'prohibit everything' mindset that is so prevalent today.
Besides which that one kid with the eye patch served a role as a valuable lesson to the rest of us kids.![]()
Kids today need stronger lessons to get through to them. Columbine, Red Lake, Sandy Hook, that sort of thing.
That has more to do with mental illness and how society ignores it, than children being raised with a healthy respect and skills to handle weapons.Columbine, Red Lake, Sandy Hook, that sort of thing.
In a world of hysterical overreaction to everything, it's our sacred duty to teach kids to overreact hysterically.And once again, learn to using a paring knife=jumping off a cliff. :roll:
Some people are just not worth the effort.And once again, learn to using a paring knife=jumping off a cliff. :roll:
In a world of hysterical overreaction to everything, it's our sacred duty to teach kids to overreact hysterically.
Not that it's real difficult. The battle cry of the North American teenager is "My life is RUINED!"
That has more to do with mental illness and how society ignores it, than children being raised with a healthy respect and skills to handle weapons.
Easy solutions, rarely are the right ones.Have people always been this collectively blind? I mean, sure a knife or a gun can harm someone, no doubt. So can a dog. So can a car. We give all this supposed attention to safety, which I guess now a days means prohibit and ban just about everything, but we only give the faintest lip service to how we expect kids to behave and treat one another. And then it blows up, often quite literally in someplace like the school library or cafeteria and everybody goes "Wow, how did this happen?"
Easy solutions, rarely are the right ones.
It still does. But the other, and predecessor, meaning is "excessively excited or irrational." It comes from the root word meaning "uterus." So the etymological meaning of "hysterical" would be "acting like a woman."I remember when hysterical meant funny.
It's good that you're taking care of your ocular health. You'd miss 'em if they were gone.Whatever, have at it, my eyes could use the good workout they'll get from all the rolling back and forth.
I can't think of a time or place when they weren't.Have people always been this collectively blind?
Lawmakers react to whoever's shrieking loudest at the moment. It's how they get re-elected. And since the person shrieking loudest is highly unlikely to be rational, and the sane people are mostly too busy to engage in the thankless task of trying to talk sense to cowards and crazy people, shrieking wins the day.I mean, sure a knife or a gun can harm someone, no doubt. So can a dog. So can a car. We give all this supposed attention to safety, which I guess now a days means prohibit and ban just about everything, but we only give the faintest lip service to how we expect kids to behave and treat one another. And then it blows up, often quite literally in someplace like the school library or cafeteria and everybody goes "Wow, how did this happen?"
I wonder if aliens are learning to whittle on cattle? Don't they know driftwood is so less messy. But, go figure, they're aliens.