It’s also because there’s sooo much dross and very little content.

Both. Odd that you would ask without trying it yourself.

If you mime tightening a bolt, your thumb moves to the right. And vise versa.

Lefty righty, loosie tighty.

I think he means coherent.

She wanted to leave

If you use a stick with two points in it, its called a trammel.

It’s been less and less for the last ever. It did freeze over solid, as did all the Great Lakes, about 10 years ago but that seems to be an outlier. Now there’s been not much by the shore let alone any for ice fishers. I’m talking about Georgian Bay, off Lake Huron.

There was a railway built to my town which had a big industry supplying ice to the large cities in the south. There was a long conveyor belt built into the lake leading to a large building stuffed with saw dust that kept ice well into the summer. It created a lot of winter work for the locals that dried up after refrigeration was invented. The railway lost its usefulness and also got torn up. And now the bay doesn’t even freeze anymore.

I totally count sinew as string. That probably led to plant string. Think about really fine string, or thread, and think about how many miles of it you carry around on you every day. It’s crazy how taken for granted it is!

I would posit string being the real game changer. How do you think they got the stone on the end of a stick?

Chocks are cheaper than any incident that could occur without them.

White vinegar.

My daughter’s 8th grade French teacher was the writer of one. I felt brushed by fame.

It’s like if you shave a mustache. “Where’d your lip go?!” then 2 days later you look normal again.

There’s some nice people here and reasoned discussion, but there is a dog pile mentality sometimes that’s way worse than reddit ever was. And it was bad enough.

I would like to sign up for a life of indentured servitude on Mars! The silver lining is it will be a short life.

Mother? Yes. There was another one that came later.

Spot on! I take it your mother didn’t off that advice?

My mom used to tell my brother’s and I to eat vegetables that were longer than they are wide because it’s good for growing an ankle duster.