No, I’m a barely competent flint-knapper, but I know the difference between hard and soft hammer techniques . I’m reasonably good with a fire drill - the trick is being able to identify the right wood for it. Try it some time, it’s fun (but don’t count on being able to teach it to a teenager).
Edit: Incidentally, I don’t mean to imply that kids today aren’t capable of learning these things, I’m stating as fact that they aren’t doing it, for the most part, and instead they are learning more complex tools like computers and cell phones. When I was helping high school seniors learn to build robots, I found some of them did not have the correct muscle development to use simple hand tools because they never had done anything of the sort before. It took them weeks to learn to keep a phillips head screwdriver in the end of a screw, and some of them never did master standard screws.
It could be worse. It could be like the time Jasper Carrott went into an American shop and asked for a rubber. When the clerk asked, “Just one?” he replied, “I don’t make that many mistakes!”
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It almost seems unjust that the BB style manual insists that the dismembered victim is merely a “man,” while the gentleman who cut him to pieces is a “gentleman.” But that is, indeed, the way our world works.[/quote]
Well, I assume he is a foreigner, therefore a soldier, therefore an aristocrat, therefore a pimp. Which implies that the murder may affect the succession to his father’s title and may possibly shed light on this:
The same people that who were ignored when they tried to warn the public about Gary Glitter and and Jerry Savile said those guys were just the tip of the iceberg.
. I’m reasonably good with a fire drill - the trick is being able to identify the right wood for it. Try it some time, it’s fun (but don’t count on being able to teach it to a teenager).
