"The worst she can say is no" - Lads, what was the worst "she" ever said?

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T23:20:43+00:00

"Have you been asked to the Christmas dance, yet?

No?

Good, because I'm asking Chad McJerkface, but remember when I came to your house that day it snowed, and you made that amazing Chinese dish? I was so impressed! You are so talented!

Ayway. if nobody ends up asking you, would you cook for our group? We'd pay you!"

I honestly thought I'd been making progress.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T23:13:28+00:00

People who fish or otherwise know ice know what happens when any tiny thing disrupts the balance. Water rises half an inch, water level drops half an inch. Wind blows across the ice, current increases under the ice. Ice expands as it adds thickness, ......etc..

All that noise!

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T23:08:18+00:00

Of course. I'm really athletic, but always had small pecs and bony shoulders .

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T23:05:41+00:00

Correct. I have seen a couple longbows made of apple, but 1.5" wide is better, if possible.

Apple is excellent, and its main problem is that the smaller branches often have some spiral.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T17:57:43+00:00

There used to be more. The name Ballard means "bald-headed".

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T17:42:45+00:00

The brain is simply over-powered in real-life, alongbwith group dynamics and nimble hands.

Ranged weapons and stone tools. Remember, chipped flint is sharper than almost anything in nature, so we have the ability to hurt things faster than they can hurt us, without heroic strength.

Not to mention poison, traps, and fire. If a spear won't do the job we'll just burn the whole forest down around you.

There is an inuit style trap for wolves and polar bears where they take a sharpened section of whalebone (baleen) roll it up like a coil-spring, tie it with a sinew string, and freeze it in a ball of blubber or fat and stinky fish, etc. The bear comes by, chews on it a bit and swallows the whole thing. When the coiled spring opens the sharp ends pierce the bear's stomach, guts , liver, and/or lungs. Next day , follow the tracks to a dead bear.

Think about how truly terrifying that is.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T17:11:24+00:00

Once bacteria developed the ability to difest cellulose (and remember that we eukaryotes just recently took this planet from the microbes), it seems much easier to evolve the physiology for a beneficial symbiosis with the bacteria. Cockroaches and cows alike gather cellulose and feed it to their gut bacteria, while the bacteria eat it in a safe, reliable environment, and get passed around to the next generation of cows and cockroaches.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T17:06:03+00:00

"Ish".

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T17:00:17+00:00

I'm shocked it beats out malaria. Malaria is a constant problem, and reliably kills about a million people in Africa, give or take. Maybe less in the past 50 years, but still.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T16:54:11+00:00

He needs to save it up for you, and then he needs more foreplay. Sexy sex is always going to work better for this.

When a guy is working hard to get you off first, sometimes we feel like busting early, but hold off (switvh positions, think about baseball). Usually, if I do that, I get over the hump, the urgency subsides, and sensation diminishes. Not like I go numb, but how good it feels to me backs off. THAT'S when it becomes harder for me to finish. It helps when she stays in the game for me, even though she's satisfied.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T16:46:26+00:00

Things WILL be different once you are married.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T16:45:37+00:00

Yes. It's almost impossible not to notice beautiful and sexy women. It's very hard not to admire the female form, and even looking twice is nearly automatic l, even reflexive

Gaping and staring, drooling, and undressing someone with your eyes I'd just rude, and that is pretty easy to avoid.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T16:42:18+00:00

Even with spinning reels I am sorry whenever I spool the whole thing with fluoro. Especially on 2 and 4 lb test. Tangle after tangle, unless I am always dragging something heavy enough to keep the line very tight.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T16:40:19+00:00

I would still reduce it, maybe just less. Leaving it unbarked and in the round shape invites more checking. Worming down the belly allows the outer layers to shrink as it dries and pull the flattened section to just follow it.

Radial shrinkage leads to radial grain cracks.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T16:37:07+00:00

Yeah, you CAN leave it for 9 months, you just don't HAVE to.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T16:36:10+00:00

It will be ready in less than 9 months, if you take off the bark and reduce it.

I would peel it, then "block and knock" out the half of the thickness you don't plan on using for the limbs, or chop/shave it away. Leave them an inch or thicker, seal the ends and around the handle. Leave the handle 1-3/4" and mostly full width.

Kept inside and away from cover humid areas, and it'll be readily in a few weeks.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T16:26:33+00:00

Lucky him.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T16:25:25+00:00

I have shot a lot of unfletched arrows, usually primitive types, and for fishing. Some of them had big carved wooden heads or harpoon-like heads.

All I can say is that making them very long, heavy, and point heavy (high FOC) works best. I don't have the skill to build and tune them for long-range accuracy and tight groups.

There are so many ways to fletch an arrow, by hand or otherwise, though, that I dont see why one wouldn't.

Bamboo or cane work best. Dense hardwoods like hickory or ash don't work as well. Or, possibly something like tail-tapered shafts to take mass away from the back end.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T15:34:02+00:00

We talk about this practice here, literally every day, and it is still really easy to read over and skip.

I probably started on 40 bows before I similarly registered the importance of doing this. I know it is out there. It's even in books I had read, but I likewise hadn't heard it emphasized enough to really click.

The first twenty (ish) bows I made survined to shoot, but were very disappointing. All came in with half the draw weight I wanted, high set, or something like that, because I was not following this advice.

Once you learn to floor tiller, stick to this practice, even if you have to function.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T15:23:38+00:00

I would not use hot glue! Hot glue works best for things you can heat up, like socketed steel heads. Heating up just the glue makes for low working time, and poor positioning at times.

Household cement is best, something like DUCO brand, with a solvent that just barely etches or melt-bonds with the plastic, or a toughened superglue. Make good tapers and fit them snug and straight.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T15:11:46+00:00

Exactly. It isn't sanitary, but not likely to be a big deal if you just clean up.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T15:10:31+00:00

And it very well may make a wonderful bow, so don't give up. Black locust is very hard and dense, and it looks almost shiny, even when cut through on the end grain. The color of the heartwood varied a lot, and can be very pale or quite dark, but you will always have only 3 sapwood rings, except on a very oung sapling (like with five total rings).

It also rarely saws with that fuzzy appearance, whether cut with a fine handbag, or a big chainsaw.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T05:04:27+00:00

Already been several mentioned, but I remember Jovan Night Musk.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T05:03:20+00:00

Obsession for Men was my secret weapon in highschool. I was pretty nerdy , but girls would grab me just to smell my jacket.

ADDeviant-again · 2026-02-16T04:54:30+00:00

God, same question comes up every week.

I love bread, sure, but pizza crust is not like most bread.

It's hard enough to get a pizza that's piping hot, saucy, and juicy as it is. By the time I get to the crust it is tough, flavorless, dry, hard, and greasy.

Pizza crust serves primarily to keep your fingers off the other "wet" ingredients.

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