Welcome to the IHoP

[Tirefryr 1,742]

Back in my day new bottles of booze were already half drunk, and we took our shoes off when we left the house because we couldnt afford to wear them out.

Every generation gets better in general. Smarter, stronger, and faster. And usually has a better life. If it wasnt that way we would be moving backwards. We can still learn things from the past but young children today know more than we ever did.

It is too bad that most kids are in a rush to do things their way.... but every generatio of teens is the same in that regard.

In regards to technology, yes, but they don't know shit about taking care of themselves, anything about history, half can't do any math without a calculator. I personally think we are going backwards. We're just getting closer to killing ourselves and have mother nature purge herself of our destructive nature.

I get the message but I call partial bullshit. They take better care of their health in many ways. Less incident of nearly every disease. Most of what is left is suicide or a culture epidemic.

They are more informed about drug a abuse and sex. They are more socially intellectual in almost every way.

For the most part kids come out brilliant genius'. We just fuck up that roll and ruin it for them. The people on this site are FAAAAAAR ahead of the average. Even the most ignorant person has a leg up on joe q public.

And joe q public of today is leaps and bounds above what our grandparents dealt with. It is just the way it works. If we got slowly worse we would have died out a long time ago.

Knowing how to solve a matrix without a calculator is pointless in daily practice. You need to know how so you can learn why we have a machime to do it. If someone blasted us into the stone age we wouldnt need long division anyway. We would have more immediate problems.

When you learned how to do all that shit math in school it was needed. Because they didnt have disposable machines that could do it for you, and nothing when we were kids required anynof that kind of math.

Now in industry from coding to engineering we need math like that to be precise on a daily basis. And since the long way takes too long it is more important to know how to run a machine.

Thinking otherwise is like thinking that learning to put fuel in a car is silly when you can just raise horses.

Have you spent any time around children, especially teens lately? They are socially inept. They can't communicate with each other at all without a machine. Two teens sitting 2 feet apart on a couch and how do they talk? They text each other.

They ARE more informed about sex and drug abuse and they still choose to ignore it. That is stupidity, steps backwards.

As for the machines, what will they use when the machines don't work? Ever go to a store or restaurant and you bill comes out to, oh let's say, $20.36. You hand the person $21.00, they plug it into the cash register, then you find a penny in your pocket and hand it to them. They don't know how much change to give you. They can't do anything for themselves.

I could go on with this forever.

[dem beats 1,223]

i say the things i do out of EXPERIENCE not because i read it some where on the internet. in my day there was no google to make your self look fucking smart,. either you had done it and you know it or you dont and you dont know shit.... like some people i see here,

Not to take away from what your saying, but you can learn a lot on the internet. Though you can also be misinformed.

Oh come on, Blues Audio speakers and Linear Power amplifiers were designed by the God's and ignore Physics. The funny thing is, they sound good too!

i say the things i do out of EXPERIENCE not because i read it some where on the internet. in my day there was no google to make your self look fucking smart,. either you had done it and you know it or you dont and you dont know shit.... like some people i see here,

Not to take away from what your saying, but you can learn a lot on the internet. Though you can also be misinformed.

Oh come on, Blues Audio speakers and Linear Power amplifiers were designed by the God's and ignore Physics. The funny thing is, they sound good too!

If they were made in a different galaxy, then our physics wouldn't necessarily apply, but once they came in our galaxy...

I can't believe it's not butter!!!!

technically, the physics would be the same in other galaxies.

I remember a lecture by Neil DeGrasse where he mentioned that it's a possibility that our laws of physics wouldn't hold true in other galaxies with different dimensions, and such.

But it's not something I really know anything about, so... I Dunno.

Gots to be careful on how you use the word dimension. If you mean like the show sliders then yes. If you mean like line, plane, cube, tesseract, etc etc then those other possibile "dimensions" literally exist concurrently with our existance. Our frame of reference doesn't permit the sight of that though.

Kind of like how shit changes at the speed of light and how time may be an actual physical dimension and not some pseudo dimension. If durration is movement through the dimension we call time....holy WTF.

My undepants get snug thinking about that shit.

[ssh 924]

Back in my day new bottles of booze were already half drunk, and we took our shoes off when we left the house because we couldnt afford to wear them out.

Every generation gets better in general. Smarter, stronger, and faster. And usually has a better life. If it wasnt that way we would be moving backwards. We can still learn things from the past but young children today know more than we ever did.

It is too bad that most kids are in a rush to do things their way.... but every generatio of teens is the same in that regard.

In regards to technology, yes, but they don't know shit about taking care of themselves, anything about history, half can't do any math without a calculator. I personally think we are going backwards. We're just getting closer to killing ourselves and have mother nature purge herself of our destructive nature.

I get the message but I call partial bullshit. They take better care of their health in many ways. Less incident of nearly every disease. Most of what is left is suicide or a culture epidemic.

They are more informed about drug a abuse and sex. They are more socially intellectual in almost every way.

For the most part kids come out brilliant genius'. We just fuck up that roll and ruin it for them. The people on this site are FAAAAAAR ahead of the average. Even the most ignorant person has a leg up on joe q public.

And joe q public of today is leaps and bounds above what our grandparents dealt with. It is just the way it works. If we got slowly worse we would have died out a long time ago.

Knowing how to solve a matrix without a calculator is pointless in daily practice. You need to know how so you can learn why we have a machime to do it. If someone blasted us into the stone age we wouldnt need long division anyway. We would have more immediate problems.

When you learned how to do all that shit math in school it was needed. Because they didnt have disposable machines that could do it for you, and nothing when we were kids required anynof that kind of math.

Now in industry from coding to engineering we need math like that to be precise on a daily basis. And since the long way takes too long it is more important to know how to run a machine.

Thinking otherwise is like thinking that learning to put fuel in a car is silly when you can just raise horses.

Have you spent any time around children, especially teens lately? They are socially inept. They can't communicate with each other at all without a machine. Two teens sitting 2 feet apart on a couch and how do they talk? They text each other.

They ARE more informed about sex and drug abuse and they still choose to ignore it. That is stupidity, steps backwards.

As for the machines, what will they use when the machines don't work? Ever go to a store or restaurant and you bill comes out to, oh let's say, $20.36. You hand the person $21.00, they plug it into the cash register, then you find a penny in your pocket and hand it to them. They don't know how much change to give you. They can't do anything for themselves.

I could go on with this forever.

I fully understand where your coming from, but have faith that not all are like that. However slim it may be, there are people who don't practice such.

[Tirefryr 1,742]

If I can think of anything it isnthat kids today are just so fucking nice. Bullying is really the nations big school problem.

Please. A billion times better than when gangs openly had fights in my school.

Bullying is only an issue because the kids are pussies nowadays. They can't take anything, have no self esteem, feel like they have to look and act a certain way instead of being themselves. This goes back to the parents or lack there of. And then everyone is medicated because laziness is being excused as a disorder.

[ssh 924]

i say the things i do out of EXPERIENCE not because i read it some where on the internet. in my day there was no google to make your self look fucking smart,. either you had done it and you know it or you dont and you dont know shit.... like some people i see here,

Not to take away from what your saying, but you can learn a lot on the internet. Though you can also be misinformed.

Oh come on, Blues Audio speakers and Linear Power amplifiers were designed by the God's and ignore Physics. The funny thing is, they sound good too!

i say the things i do out of EXPERIENCE not because i read it some where on the internet. in my day there was no google to make your self look fucking smart,. either you had done it and you know it or you dont and you dont know shit.... like some people i see here,

Not to take away from what your saying, but you can learn a lot on the internet. Though you can also be misinformed.

Oh come on, Blues Audio speakers and Linear Power amplifiers were designed by the God's and ignore Physics. The funny thing is, they sound good too!

If they were made in a different galaxy, then our physics wouldn't necessarily apply, but once they came in our galaxy...

I can't believe it's not butter!!!!

technically, the physics would be the same in other galaxies.

I remember a lecture by Neil DeGrasse where he mentioned that it's a possibility that our laws of physics wouldn't hold true in other galaxies with different dimensions, and such.

But it's not something I really know anything about, so... I Dunno.

Gots to be careful on how you use the word dimension. If you mean like the show sliders then yes. If you mean like line, plane, cube, tesseract, etc etc then those other possibile "dimensions" literally exist concurrently with our existance. Our frame of reference doesn't permit the sight of that though.

Kind of like how shit changes at the speed of light and how time may be an actual physical dimension and not some pseudo dimension. If durration is movement through the dimension we call time....holy WTF.

My undepants get snug thinking about that shit.

Science like that is borderline philosophical to me, and I become inept.

Luckily Krauss and DeGrasse do a pretty awesome job of explaining interesting astrophysical stuff without dumbing it down too much.

[Tirefryr 1,742]

Back in my day new bottles of booze were already half drunk, and we took our shoes off when we left the house because we couldnt afford to wear them out.

Every generation gets better in general. Smarter, stronger, and faster. And usually has a better life. If it wasnt that way we would be moving backwards. We can still learn things from the past but young children today know more than we ever did.

It is too bad that most kids are in a rush to do things their way.... but every generatio of teens is the same in that regard.

In regards to technology, yes, but they don't know shit about taking care of themselves, anything about history, half can't do any math without a calculator. I personally think we are going backwards. We're just getting closer to killing ourselves and have mother nature purge herself of our destructive nature.

I get the message but I call partial bullshit. They take better care of their health in many ways. Less incident of nearly every disease. Most of what is left is suicide or a culture epidemic.

They are more informed about drug a abuse and sex. They are more socially intellectual in almost every way.

For the most part kids come out brilliant genius'. We just fuck up that roll and ruin it for them. The people on this site are FAAAAAAR ahead of the average. Even the most ignorant person has a leg up on joe q public.

And joe q public of today is leaps and bounds above what our grandparents dealt with. It is just the way it works. If we got slowly worse we would have died out a long time ago.

Knowing how to solve a matrix without a calculator is pointless in daily practice. You need to know how so you can learn why we have a machime to do it. If someone blasted us into the stone age we wouldnt need long division anyway. We would have more immediate problems.

When you learned how to do all that shit math in school it was needed. Because they didnt have disposable machines that could do it for you, and nothing when we were kids required anynof that kind of math.

Now in industry from coding to engineering we need math like that to be precise on a daily basis. And since the long way takes too long it is more important to know how to run a machine.

Thinking otherwise is like thinking that learning to put fuel in a car is silly when you can just raise horses.

Have you spent any time around children, especially teens lately? They are socially inept. They can't communicate with each other at all without a machine. Two teens sitting 2 feet apart on a couch and how do they talk? They text each other.

They ARE more informed about sex and drug abuse and they still choose to ignore it. That is stupidity, steps backwards.

As for the machines, what will they use when the machines don't work? Ever go to a store or restaurant and you bill comes out to, oh let's say, $20.36. You hand the person $21.00, they plug it into the cash register, then you find a penny in your pocket and hand it to them. They don't know how much change to give you. They can't do anything for themselves.

I could go on with this forever.

I fully understand where your coming from, but have faith that not all are like that. However slim it may be, there are people who don't practice such.

I didn't say all were, but a very large percentile is.

[ssh 924]

If I can think of anything it isnthat kids today are just so fucking nice. Bullying is really the nations big school problem.

Please. A billion times better than when gangs openly had fights in my school.

Bullying is only an issue because the kids are pussies nowadays. They can't take anything, have no self esteem, feel like they have to look and act a certain way instead of being themselves. This goes back to the parents or lack there of. And then everyone is medicated because laziness is being excused as a disorder.

Getting in a fight today often times has much worse consequences then "back in the day."

I remember senior year one of the students streaked during a football game. He hadn't done anything before, still the school expelled him for 4 months, and he had to petition to the school district about allowing him to graduate because of all the time missed (even with making up all the work). How the fuck does that better his education? I couldn't imagine what shit he'd been in if he fought someone. Or if you fought someone away from school, someone talks about it at school, school finds out, your fucked.

So in that regard I see the same as you about our current society being fucked up.

Edited September 26, 2012 by stefanhinote

[Godsmack 361]

If I can think of anything it isnthat kids today are just so fucking nice. Bullying is really the nations big school problem.

Please. A billion times better than when gangs openly had fights in my school.

Bullying is only an issue because the kids are pussies nowadays. They can't take anything, have no self esteem, feel like they have to look and act a certain way instead of being themselves. This goes back to the parents or lack there of. And then everyone is medicated because laziness is being excused as a disorder.

Couldn't of said it better myself brother.

J

[dem beats 1,223]

Back in my day new bottles of booze were already half drunk, and we took our shoes off when we left the house because we couldnt afford to wear them out.

Every generation gets better in general. Smarter, stronger, and faster. And usually has a better life. If it wasnt that way we would be moving backwards. We can still learn things from the past but young children today know more than we ever did.

It is too bad that most kids are in a rush to do things their way.... but every generatio of teens is the same in that regard.

In regards to technology, yes, but they don't know shit about taking care of themselves, anything about history, half can't do any math without a calculator. I personally think we are going backwards. We're just getting closer to killing ourselves and have mother nature purge herself of our destructive nature.

I get the message but I call partial bullshit. They take better care of their health in many ways. Less incident of nearly every disease. Most of what is left is suicide or a culture epidemic.

They are more informed about drug a abuse and sex. They are more socially intellectual in almost every way.

For the most part kids come out brilliant genius'. We just fuck up that roll and ruin it for them. The people on this site are FAAAAAAR ahead of the average. Even the most ignorant person has a leg up on joe q public.

And joe q public of today is leaps and bounds above what our grandparents dealt with. It is just the way it works. If we got slowly worse we would have died out a long time ago.

Knowing how to solve a matrix without a calculator is pointless in daily practice. You need to know how so you can learn why we have a machime to do it. If someone blasted us into the stone age we wouldnt need long division anyway. We would have more immediate problems.

When you learned how to do all that shit math in school it was needed. Because they didnt have disposable machines that could do it for you, and nothing when we were kids required anynof that kind of math.

Now in industry from coding to engineering we need math like that to be precise on a daily basis. And since the long way takes too long it is more important to know how to run a machine.

Thinking otherwise is like thinking that learning to put fuel in a car is silly when you can just raise horses.

Have you spent any time around children, especially teens lately? They are socially inept. They can't communicate with each other at all without a machine. Two teens sitting 2 feet apart on a couch and how do they talk? They text each other.

They ARE more informed about sex and drug abuse and they still choose to ignore it. That is stupidity, steps backwards.

As for the machines, what will they use when the machines don't work? Ever go to a store or restaurant and you bill comes out to, oh let's say, $20.36. You hand the person $21.00, they plug it into the cash register, then you find a penny in your pocket and hand it to them. They don't know how much change to give you. They can't do anything for themselves.

I could go on with this forever.

Just like plumbing, what about when all the toilets fail?! Modern plumbing is the number one life saving factor in our world, but whay do we do when there are no toilets left. We should all take bucket pooping classes and train in them until we have it just right.

You know that was an actual argument they had when the aquaducts and the later modern plumbing came around?

When we have 90000000 ways to dispose of technology that does it all for us it is silly to fixate on the steps that lead us there. Appreciate, learn why, and move on.

As for my dealing with kids, I worked in the school &park/rec co effort for low income kids. Volunteer with them. Used to also do groups annually.

Was a nanny with 5 kids to watch also. MIL is a school worker for the principle at a local school.

I get a lot of exposure. More kids play Instruments and explore art with tech than ever before. They communicate faster and articulate better than we could have ever imagined.

Teen pregnancy is was down. Kids ODing is way down. School violence is way down. MN is a shining star for all of that in general but when I was in middle school I went to the school that "won" most violent school in the US....

I am not an expert, but I think that being pessimistic about it is silly. If things in general are getting worse we wouldnt have made it this far. And maintaining that people are idiots just because there is a tool to take over a time honored tradition is a bit silly. You have to see my point on that at least a little.

[ssh 924]

Political parties aside, big brother continues to grow, and that's not cool!

[ssh 924]

Just added an extra layer to my tinfoil hat.

[dem beats 1,223]

If I can think of anything it isnthat kids today are just so fucking nice. Bullying is really the nations big school problem.

Please. A billion times better than when gangs openly had fights in my school.

Bullying is only an issue because the kids are pussies nowadays. They can't take anything, have no self esteem, feel like they have to look and act a certain way instead of being themselves. This goes back to the parents or lack there of. And then everyone is medicated because laziness is being excused as a disorder.

Getting in a fight today often times has much worse consequences then "back in the day."

I remember senior year one of the students streaked during a football game. He hadn't done anything before, still the school expelled him for 4 months, and he had to petition to the school district about allowing him to graduate because of all the time missed (even with making up all the work). How the fuck does that better his education? I couldn't imagine what shit he'd been in if he fought someone. Or if you fought someone away from school, someone talks about it at school, school finds out, your fucked.

So in that regard I see the same as you about our current society being fucked up.

This... and why the fuck should we allow violent dominance to prevail? Because in then end that is all it is? I agree, kids of today are "pussies". More power to them. Let shit get hashed out anyway other than fists in my opinion.

If that is how it should be maybe we should have all the kids fight for grades. Push the kid with crutches down the stairs.... he was a pussy to let his bones get broken anyway.

We don't need Klingon warriors. People can express themselves without medication and without hitting. As you said a shit load of that comes down to parenting. But saying it is going backwords is pretty wild IMHO.

[ricksi30 923]

I had to go to counseling because I pushed someone in the bathroom when I was in high school. They wouldn't let me back until I did. All this bullshit about bullies drives me crazy. And I was in NO way a bully, never messed with anyone without having a reason. I've been in one real fight in my life and I got my ass kicked. Did I sue or press charges? No I was looking for trouble and got beat up.

[dem beats 1,223]

Just added an extra layer to my tinfoil hat.

You meed armadiller. And I agree. I hate me some big gubment.

[///M5 2,833]

I will say the more in learn about Japanese cooking the easier it sounds. Shit is SIMPLE. Extremely delicate and complex mind fuck flavors from insanely simple prep.

I think I may try to incorporate Japanese cooking into every day life. It is so simple to make fresh whole meals. I am great with a lot of the stew, BBQ , and other time dependent cooking methods. Adding something fast and healthy would be a great technique.

Shabu shabu or sukiyaki would be SOooOooOooo simple to make.

Great healthy food. There is a reason they are all fit and live a long time.

[///M5 2,833]

Back in my day new bottles of booze were already half drunk, and we took our shoes off when we left the house because we couldnt afford to wear them out.

Every generation gets better in general. Smarter, stronger, and faster. And usually has a better life. If it wasnt that way we would be moving backwards. We can still learn things from the past but young children today know more than we ever did.

It is too bad that most kids are in a rush to do things their way.... but every generatio of teens is the same in that regard.

In regards to technology, yes, but they don't know shit about taking care of themselves, anything about history, half can't do any math without a calculator. I personally think we are going backwards. We're just getting closer to killing ourselves and have mother nature purge herself of our destructive nature.

I get the message but I call partial bullshit. They take better care of their health in many ways. Less incident of nearly every disease. Most of what is left is suicide or a culture epidemic.

They are more informed about drug a abuse and sex. They are more socially intellectual in almost every way.

For the most part kids come out brilliant genius'. We just fuck up that roll and ruin it for them. The people on this site are FAAAAAAR ahead of the average. Even the most ignorant person has a leg up on joe q public.

And joe q public of today is leaps and bounds above what our grandparents dealt with. It is just the way it works. If we got slowly worse we would have died out a long time ago.

Knowing how to solve a matrix without a calculator is pointless in daily practice. You need to know how so you can learn why we have a machime to do it. If someone blasted us into the stone age we wouldnt need long division anyway. We would have more immediate problems.

When you learned how to do all that shit math in school it was needed. Because they didnt have disposable machines that could do it for you, and nothing when we were kids required anynof that kind of math.

Now in industry from coding to engineering we need math like that to be precise on a daily basis. And since the long way takes too long it is more important to know how to run a machine.

Thinking otherwise is like thinking that learning to put fuel in a car is silly when you can just raise horses.

Have you spent any time around children, especially teens lately? They are socially inept. They can't communicate with each other at all without a machine. Two teens sitting 2 feet apart on a couch and how do they talk? They text each other.

They ARE more informed about sex and drug abuse and they still choose to ignore it. That is stupidity, steps backwards.

As for the machines, what will they use when the machines don't work? Ever go to a store or restaurant and you bill comes out to, oh let's say, $20.36. You hand the person $21.00, they plug it into the cash register, then you find a penny in your pocket and hand it to them. They don't know how much change to give you. They can't do anything for themselves.

I could go on with this forever.

You live in IN, Matt lives in MN. COMPLETELY different experience.

[OuTLaWeD 110]

[ssh 924]

[dem beats 1,223]

I will say the more in learn about Japanese cooking the easier it sounds. Shit is SIMPLE. Extremely delicate and complex mind fuck flavors from insanely simple prep.

I think I may try to incorporate Japanese cooking into every day life. It is so simple to make fresh whole meals. I am great with a lot of the stew, BBQ , and other time dependent cooking methods. Adding something fast and healthy would be a great technique.

Shabu shabu or sukiyaki would be SOooOooOooo simple to make.

Great healthy food. There is a reason they are all fit and live a long time.

I thought it was MUCH MUCH more complex to cook. I am so glad I tried to make miso.

[///M5 2,833]

Complexity is only in the details. And the difference is huge. Amazingly subtle makes things go from strange to awesome.

[Tirefryr 1,742]

Back in my day new bottles of booze were already half drunk, and we took our shoes off when we left the house because we couldnt afford to wear them out.

Every generation gets better in general. Smarter, stronger, and faster. And usually has a better life. If it wasnt that way we would be moving backwards. We can still learn things from the past but young children today know more than we ever did.

It is too bad that most kids are in a rush to do things their way.... but every generatio of teens is the same in that regard.

In regards to technology, yes, but they don't know shit about taking care of themselves, anything about history, half can't do any math without a calculator. I personally think we are going backwards. We're just getting closer to killing ourselves and have mother nature purge herself of our destructive nature.

I get the message but I call partial bullshit. They take better care of their health in many ways. Less incident of nearly every disease. Most of what is left is suicide or a culture epidemic.

They are more informed about drug a abuse and sex. They are more socially intellectual in almost every way.

For the most part kids come out brilliant genius'. We just fuck up that roll and ruin it for them. The people on this site are FAAAAAAR ahead of the average. Even the most ignorant person has a leg up on joe q public.

And joe q public of today is leaps and bounds above what our grandparents dealt with. It is just the way it works. If we got slowly worse we would have died out a long time ago.

Knowing how to solve a matrix without a calculator is pointless in daily practice. You need to know how so you can learn why we have a machime to do it. If someone blasted us into the stone age we wouldnt need long division anyway. We would have more immediate problems.

When you learned how to do all that shit math in school it was needed. Because they didnt have disposable machines that could do it for you, and nothing when we were kids required anynof that kind of math.

Now in industry from coding to engineering we need math like that to be precise on a daily basis. And since the long way takes too long it is more important to know how to run a machine.

Thinking otherwise is like thinking that learning to put fuel in a car is silly when you can just raise horses.

Have you spent any time around children, especially teens lately? They are socially inept. They can't communicate with each other at all without a machine. Two teens sitting 2 feet apart on a couch and how do they talk? They text each other.

They ARE more informed about sex and drug abuse and they still choose to ignore it. That is stupidity, steps backwards.

As for the machines, what will they use when the machines don't work? Ever go to a store or restaurant and you bill comes out to, oh let's say, $20.36. You hand the person $21.00, they plug it into the cash register, then you find a penny in your pocket and hand it to them. They don't know how much change to give you. They can't do anything for themselves.

I could go on with this forever.

Just like plumbing, what about when all the toilets fail?! Modern plumbing is the number one life saving factor in our world, but whay do we do when there are no toilets left. We should all take bucket pooping classes and train in them until we have it just right.

You know that was an actual argument they had when the aquaducts and the later modern plumbing came around?

When we have 90000000 ways to dispose of technology that does it all for us it is silly to fixate on the steps that lead us there. Appreciate, learn why, and move on.

As for my dealing with kids, I worked in the school &park/rec co effort for low income kids. Volunteer with them. Used to also do groups annually.

Was a nanny with 5 kids to watch also. MIL is a school worker for the principle at a local school.

I get a lot of exposure. More kids play Instruments and explore art with tech than ever before. They communicate faster and articulate better than we could have ever imagined.

Teen pregnancy is was down. Kids ODing is way down. School violence is way down. MN is a shining star for all of that in general but when I was in middle school I went to the school that "won" most violent school in the US....

I am not an expert, but I think that being pessimistic about it is silly. If things in general are getting worse we wouldnt have made it this far. And maintaining that people are idiots just because there is a tool to take over a time honored tradition is a bit silly. You have to see my point on that at least a little.

I understand. Our opinions of good and bad or worse off, or however you want to call it are different, it's as simple as that.

[dem beats 1,223]

Complexity is only in the details. And the difference is huge. Amazingly subtle makes things go from strange to awesome.

Am I doing it "wrong" trying to make my dashi more powerful? I doubled the kombu. Also the bonito. Though I think the extra bonito was just a waste.

[OuTLaWeD 110]

i do think that people are too soft these days compared to when i was a kid. parents telling their kids that fighting is wrong and you should tell a teacher or whoever. i think thats the wrong thing to do IMO. why screw up a kids life if he excels academically by getting him/her suspended or expelled from school because he/she punched you because you said something or did something wrong to them. thats all you run into these days are "tattletale" kids who can't resolve their own issues so they rely on others to help them. I on the other hand am teaching my kids to take care of themselves by not telling on others and taking things into their own hands. my son is 3yrs old right now and he won't "tattle" on anybody, he just says he didn't see anything or he doesn't know. i think people should stay out of other peoples business and just concentrate on what they have to do. If my son punches somebody in the mouth because some kid was making fun of him or did something wrong to him does that make him a bully? I think the kid who started it was the bully and my son just made him shut his mouth. i don't want a kid who is so afraid of other kids that he gets depressed and possibly kills himself, i want him to take life by the balls and deal with whatever is in front of him head on.

[///M5 2,833]

Complexity is only in the details. And the difference is huge. Amazingly subtle makes things go from strange to awesome.

Am I doing it "wrong" trying to make my dashi more powerful? I doubled the kombu. Also the bonito. Though I think the extra bonito was just a waste.

Is your kombu soft and easy to pierce with your fingernail when you take it out? It takes a while to extract it's goodness and you shouldn't let it sit in boiliing water.

[dem beats 1,223]

Complexity is only in the details. And the difference is huge. Amazingly subtle makes things go from strange to awesome.

Am I doing it "wrong" trying to make my dashi more powerful? I doubled the kombu. Also the bonito. Though I think the extra bonito was just a waste.

Is your kombu soft and easy to pierce with your fingernail when you take it out? It takes a while to extract it's goodness and you shouldn't let it sit in boiliing water.

My dashi never boils. Yes it is really tender. Like a over cooked noodle but a mit more.... connective.