Idk if the actual rope makers are here to pat themselves on the back for doing something traditional, I think it’s actually the ridiculous positivity-or-nothing media (lookin at you internet) trying to pull another noble savage out of their unwittingly prejudiced hat. Or, I should say, annoying urban progressive…

They may have noticed that this type of wood, when found in water, separates into convenient layers. I’ve read of similar procedures in which logs are soaked for a long time, and then beaten to separate the layers for peeling (in order to make baskets or chair seats).

Fair. But I mean people can always Do It Wrong. Applying some super duper zip ties and then snipping the ends is less work than putting on snow chains, so if the product included the tool and the instructions say what they’re supposed to do, I don’t know that there’s really a valid beef to pick.

straight up sobbing? good lord. someone says this exact thing here every time a celebrity dies too. this is the most off-the-rails dramatic commentariat on earth

And this is just the precurser to the shit show that will be 2017.

I get what you are trying to say here, but I disagree with it. I’m an alcoholic in recovery, and I’m not proud of many of the things I did. I’d never do that sort of stuff when I was sober, and it’s not simply a matter of removing my inhibitions. It’s confusion AND the removal of inhibitions. I said things to people…

Not only doesn’t he have popular support, he doesn’t have military support. The most die-hard hawks want to update the aging arsenal with equipment that has a longer shelf life, but even most them want to reduce the arsenal because maintaining it is a nightmare. About the only people hopeful about this is Wall Street…

Pfft, at best it’ll probably end up being a star fence.

No, I’m pretty sure we’d still have a night. Gliese 710 will be much, much farther away from us (13,000+ AU away) than Pluto is from the Sun (average distance 39.5 AU), and the Sun shines only about 0.00065 as brightly on Pluto as it does on Earth: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/15/bafact-math-…

Please be sure to mind my Alan Thicke trigger.

IDK if this makes me old-school, but I’ve always felt that my irrational feelings/responses are my problem. I wouldn’t think of putting limits on someone else over it.

When Caitlyn Jenner had that magazine cover when she debuted or whatever, my mom’s main complaint was that Caitlyn wasn’t dressing her age. I think that all Hollywood ladies who have lots of money and surgery and are in their 60s look basically the same.

And I will be one of those douchebros! An adrenaline filled lady-douchebro!

A real tough guy would just let it go and move on if he got called a wimp. It’s not like he called you a pussy or a wuss (part wimp and part pussy per Fast Times at Ridgemont High). By the way, you know who the original tough guy was, right? It was a guy named Jesus Christ.

By the sound of it if someone were to show up, they just need to do something dangerous in the vicinity and you would leave.

If you guys meet up and fight, can you post that video?

Sounds like you should try harder.

“I don’t know if there’s anything analogous for younger generations though. Hmm.”

Living here was why I always know he would win. The ratio of yard signs here was (still is. No one is taking them down) 3000 trump per 1 Clinton.

We may be more armed than you (or they) realize. The “left” is an angrier, diverse and more violent group of people than many realize. We just don’t announce it on our t-shirts and Twitter accounts.