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#917

Don’t get me started on the “bushcrafting” cult. :laughing:

I spent a few years in my youth shooting photos for nature books in the wilds of Central and South America. The guides were these wizened old geezers who could out-walk and out-climb me in my 20’s.

They handled a machete like it was just a biological extension of their arm, clearing trail and making rough shelters. Scared the shit out of me when I first saw how they used a machete to open a coconut held in their other hand. Those bushcraft nerds should spend a little time in the actual bush.

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#918

Haha don’t get me started either. I mean, they’re having fun, it’s no harm to me and all, but I just don’t think it makes a ton of sense. OK, they’re harming knife design though, in that it’s getting tough to find an outdoors knife that isn’t a great slab of metal because as soon as they see a knife they grab it and start beating on it with one tree limb so as to split another tree limb. Horace Kephart used a hatchet, morons! So did the Sami*, the voyageurs, and the mountain men! Idiots.

I’d have enjoyed seeing those machete guys handle themselves in the bush that way. Very cool.

*Strictly speaking the Sami nomads had a large knife for chopping wood and a smaller knife for cutting things. They weren’t trying to use one knife for everything, is the point.

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#919

Apparently the womenfolk have the largest penises in this klan.

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#920

The school personnel may have focused on the danger that Crumbly may have faced from abusive parents rather than the danger he posed to other students.

I don’t think that’s terribly persuasive, but I have observed plenty of occasions when someone has hesitated rather than take swift action against an obvious jerk, concocting ever more absurd scenarios where the perpetrator is the one in need of help. It seems to be a particular problem for people for whom “being nice” is a core part of their self image.

The people in the office may have fallen in to the trap of wanting to be seen as helpers and not quite known what to do with a kid who desperately wants help but also wants to fight against it every step of the way. And of course manipulative jerks can spot these types a mile off and know exactly what buttons to push to get them to tie themselves in knots rather than take action.

Edit: reworded for clarity

#921

It’s probably wise not to use the same tool to prepare food as is used to clear, say, poison ivy vines.

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#922

True dat. But also a machete is mostly an impact tool, not a slicing tool, and the cross-section of the blade, its “geometry,” as they say, means that if you’re optimized to be one you won’t be much use for the other.

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#923

I’ve been served fresh coconut sliced in half by a machete. I guess the trick is to make sure it’s not the first one in the batch.

Impact tool? Not the ones I’ve used, or seen used south of the border. They’re thin steel, used with quick little slicing cuts to clear vegetation blocking the trail, or else harder cuts for something like opening a coconut. Very very sharp and well-maintained.

Not a thick beveled edge like a hatchet, although I know some things marketed as “machetes” are like that in the USA. Usually shorter than a classic design because they’re thicker steel and would be too heavy at that length. Those designs probably reflect the more woody vegetation in the temperate zone. Most of the stuff in the tropics is fairly soft except for the larger trees. And coconuts.

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#924

Maybe they used the spine on the coconuts. I don’t know much about machetes, but it would make sense to have different styles for different purposes like any other tool. My own yard has a mix of stuff and some of it is highly poisonous and I don’t know which it is. :frowning_face:

#925

Nah, you use the sharp edge. This guy is just milking them but it’s a similar technique if you want to cut off the husk and get to the meat.

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#926

So it seems not to have the woody outer layer at that point. Interesting.

#927

Okay, that would be funny.
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#928

Or maybe a few chapters later in the narrative.

Specifically, the Massacre of the Innocents.

Today’s GOP: the party of Herod.

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#929

Unwritten here is that you can’t get married until the church says it’s okay; they love to leverage human’s instincts against them. If you start enjoying sex before you’re married, it upsets their whole racket. And if you insist on making something natural verboten, you end up with the Duggars.

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#930

Is this money all coming from the investing equivalent of Canadian girlfriends?

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#931

Couldn’t take his lawyer’s advice to keep his head down and shut his mouth. Hey, let’s sue everybody! And let’s try and get the $2 million in bail money for ourself! Oh, and keep that fundraising grifting money flowing to be sure we can keep security paid.

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#932

Either that, or actual investors who are telling Trump they’re ready to go as soon as a working demo is up, and he’s counting it as in the bank.

“It will be like something the world has never seen, I can tell you that. It will be ready in two weeks.”

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#933

Also, Greg Sargent!

#934

You’ve got the right latitude, but the longitude is little different. :wink:

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#935

I eat and/or shop in Aurora several times a week and have been for years. This simply isn’t a dangerous thing for me to do. Then again, perhaps “not getting randomly shot by the Aurora PD” is a white privilege thing.

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#936

Rob Ford comes to mind.

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