You really gotta hand it to the Japanese.

Whatever it is, they'll find a way to make it better.

I present... really, really intense Japanese compost, everybody.

I thought "turning it every once in a while" was just the greatest innovation in the compost since bins, and now the Japanese are there, as always, turning my worldview on its head.

Bokashi. It's the garbage reclaiming wave of the future!

On that note, once you're done making stock, is there anything, anything at *all*, that you can do with bones other than make scrimshaw?

Why do people say/think this?

I see this every week or so, often twice a week in different journals and comms and fora.

A little boy likes to play with himself, and mom goes "Oh, if only he were a girl, he wouldn't do that!" or "Next one is gonna be a girl, she won't do that!" or "I wasn't prepared for this because, lol, I'm a girl!" or "Why do boys do this????"

Or, alternatively, a little girl likes to play with herself and mom goes "Oh, I didn't know girls did that too!" or "I thought only boys did that???" or "Why is my girl so weird, this is a boy thing, isn't it???"

...and every time people pipe up to say that yes, young girls do touch themselves, and yes, young girls *do* hump things, and yeah, that's one way in which boys and girls are NOT different (I've even heard it said that girls can be *worse* about touching themselves because, unlike boys, they'll keep at it even when the pants are on!), but clearly nobody reads what anybody else has to say, ever, because not a week later and...

"OMG! MY KID IS MASTURBATING AND IT'S TOTALLY A GENDERED PHENOMENON!"



The whole thing makes me wonder if people actually want to get feedback and advice and consolation, or if they really just like to hear themselves type.

I'm usually sympathetic... well, no, but I usually pretend to be sympathetic anyway - but this is starting to wear out my teeth, I'm grinding them so much!