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October 04, 2004pussified americaI came to Savannah in 1958 after the coal mine at Louellen shut down and my daddy lost his job. We lived with my grandmother for a few months until my daddy found steady work and could afford a place of our own. We ended up in a small, two-bedroom house in Pine Gardens, which was a working-class neighborhood, okay, but no fricking palace. My daddy worked incredible amounts of overtime just to make ends meet. I started school that fall and I was laughed at, picked on and bullied because I was small and I talked "funny" with my hillbilly accent. That's how I learned to fight, because if I DIDN'T FIGHT, I wouldn't have survived. Kids are naturally cruel to those different from themselves. A good punch in the jaw helps cure some of those problems. We ate a lot of pinto beans and cornbread. Money was tight. But we got by. Mama always took a job around Christmas, and I know NOW that she paid for Santa Claus that way. My parents were tough, in both the way they handled life and the way they raised me and my brother. Do you own a good knife? I do. What makes tempered steel that'll hold an edge and not break easily? I'll tell you, if you don't know. That blade is stuck in a fire, then beat with a hammer, over and over again, until it is tougher than the hammer hitting it. I believe that process is called "annealing," and it works just the same on people as it does on knife blades. We don't anneal children anymore. We pamper the shit out of them and be their "friends" instead of their parents, and we're raising people who vote for John Kerry. Read my comments about the "FOOTBALL" post below. Yeah. I'm an "abusive" coach. I don't think so, because I PLAYED for coaches that stood over me and screamed when I hit the ground and didn't get up. If I didn't have a broken bone protruding from my flesh and I wasn't losing copious amounts of blood, I WASN'T HURT! GET UP! RUB SOME DIRT ON IT!! DON'T BE A PUSSY!!! Guess what? I got up every time. They annealed my ass and I am a better man for that experience today. Wimmen and pussified men may not understand the concept of getting up when you hurt, taking one more step when you think you're exhausted, or refusing to quit when everybody else gives up. I DO. It's tempering steel, and we don't do enough of that today.
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"It's tempering steel, and we don't do enough of that today. " AMEN Acidman! Posted by: matterson on October 4, 2004 12:51 PMNice rant on the subject of annealing children and I couldn't agree with you more....the problem though, is like you say....the parents are pussies....therefore the children are destined to be the same. Sad state of affairs friend. I wish I had a solution to the problem, but it's way bigger than both of us. Posted by: Buck on October 4, 2004 01:03 PMThere's a good post on hardening and tempering steel (and humans) at a new blog here, written by a guy who actually gets out and does the real thing with a forge and iron. http://elmtreeforge.blogspot.com/2004/09/hardening-and-tempering.html Posted by: Tokala on October 4, 2004 01:35 PMAMEN Acidman! One problem is that the nanny state intellectual PC crowd have made it "child abuse" to actually discipline your kids these days....and the schools are telling the kids to report if their parents ever have the guts to really be parents. Gotta correct you, Rob. 'Annealing' takes out the stress, makes it soft. Hardening makes it so hard it's brittle, then it's heated to a lower degree to temper it, so it's strong but not brittle. I agree, the kids have to learn that it's nasty out there/hardening/, but tempered so they can handle it without breaking. It's a balancing act, and seems like an awful lot of folks don't even try anymore. Posted by: Mark on October 4, 2004 03:58 PMGotta disagree with ya..men don't own the "market" on hard times and hard play...you say wimmen and pussified men won't understand..I beg to differ. I've had my share of rough times and so has my momma..we're two Georgia women who have been through it all and have come out ahead. I have a daughter and buddy you better believe I ain't no softie. I never got a chance to play football for the obvious reasons but was a Football Trainer (glorified watergirl) for 4yrs........men ain't the only creatures to ever have their faces pushed in the dirt..I also very proudly am a Veteran, I've paid my dues in boot camp...I've eaten more than my share of Pinto Beans and Rice too.....I'll agree with parents wanting to be friends..that's crap..but lay off the wimmen load of garbage..we all ain't all sugar and spice and everything nice..some of us are hard as steel also. Posted by: sandy on October 4, 2004 04:10 PMThe term you're looking for is "forging". Hardening is where you heat the piece red-hot, then quench it in oil or water. The heat loosens up the crystals in the metal, and they all line up because of magnetics or something. When you quench it, they stay lined up, and the result is file-like hardness. Downside: file-hard steel is brittle. Annealing or tempering is where you heat a hardened piece to a controlled temperature, and let it cool slowly. This shakes some of the crystals loose, and lets you control the hardness of the metal. You trade some edge-holding ability for resilience. Forging is where you pound a piece to shape it while it's hot. Forging uses mechanical force to convert austenite into martensite. Austenite is the soft steel crystal; martensite is the hard one. Austenite is a cube, whereas martensite is a rectangular solid, slightly smaller. The hardest possible steel would be pure martensite, with all the crystals aligned, I guess. Forged steel is much tougher than cast steel. Posted by: dipnut on October 4, 2004 05:48 PMSince this isn't a forging site, last I'll say: Annealing is taking a piece to proper temperature, the cooling it down very slowly, done properly this will make the steel as soft as possible. Posted by: Mark on October 4, 2004 06:31 PMI'm very proud to be a woman of substance raised on "Beans and cornbread". Therefore It would have been impossible for me to be a bloodless cunt. Posted by: Lexia on October 4, 2004 09:30 PMgreat post. Posted by: pdwalker on October 5, 2004 02:21 PMI am a full fledged woman in a man's body. Posted by: Pussified Polski on January 23, 2005 05:02 PMI really appreciate blogs like this one becuase it is insightful and helps me communicate with others. I really appreciate blogs like this one becuase it is insightful and helps me communicate with others. I really appreciate blogs like this one becuase it is insightful and helps me communicate with others. Post a comment
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