Jeez, talk abut a dog pile.
Yeah, Caleb made some dumb statements in his post, but I hate to think bacon some of the dumb things I said and did as a teenager. Heck, kids specialize in dumb, sometimes. I think Imade it a full time job when I was that age.
But to some degree, Caleb is right, in a very general way. I've been knocking around this rock for a lot of years now, and one thing I have learned is, sometimes stereotyping works. The FBI, Israeli Mossad, Scotland Yard special Branch, all use profiling, as do other agencies because it yields results often. How else would they know that serial killers are most often single white males with a good paying jobs? But is Caleb making accurate statements is another matter. But if you back off and take a very general look, you can tell a little something about somebody by his belongings. Generally. Very Generally.
A car sitting on a parking lot, says something. A lowered Japanese compact with a coffee can muffler and a whale tale on it, is not likely driven by a senior citizen. But the silver box stock Toyota Camry with a book on the back seat titled "The Senior Citizens Guide To Medicare" is not going to belong to that young dude with the stain lee steel stud in his nose and the ink on his arms. Sterio typing does have some validity.
But wood for show??? I'd hate to have to tell the gyrations of hard working construction and frm workers in Europe that Opinels are show knives. Just as I'd hate to tell 20 gyrations of working folks in Finland and other parts of Scandinavia that all those wood handled puuko's are for show. But then again, Caleb is a teenager. How far has he traveled yet? I say cut him some slack and teach him the way of it.
When I was kid, there was this country store, and they had what was called the liars circle. It was the most esteemed old collection of hunters, trappers, loafers, poachers, and chicken thieves the Eastern shore of Maryland had. Us kids loved to be able to sit in on the meetings of the liars circle when allowed, because we'd learn from the old guys. They in turn took great lea sure in teaching us things like knife sharpening, how to jack light deer, and other things they held important. We kept our mouths shut, but sometimes uttered something dumb. That got us a stiff admonishment not to spout that kind of bull hockey, and they then corrected us.
We elders, who's time is growing short on this earth, need to teach the kids on their path from kids to adulthood. RThat included correcting htier BS in a way they learn, and that's not dog piling.
Caleb, go back and think about some of your observations, then go check out puuko's, Opinel's and Herters sodbusters. Ya got a few false conclusions there, kid.
Carl.
