I find it interesting that you think anyone could handle butchering, wall-building and bone-setting. I suspect this means you have a higher opinion of your fellow man than I do, rather than a misjudged sense of how difficult it is to do these things well.
For instance, I'm pretty sure I could, in time, remove all of the useful meat from a pig. This would probably take me a full day and there'd be some really problematic cuts in there; keeping in mind that I know how to cook and cut up meat regularly. Likewise, I've build a stage wall as a setpiece; all that required was basic knowledge of power tools and the ability to measure. But that wall had to last for a weekend and never bore any weight, which is different from building a wall solid enough to be part of a structure.
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Re: That said...
Date: 2008-11-12 03:38 pm (UTC)For instance, I'm pretty sure I could, in time, remove all of the useful meat from a pig. This would probably take me a full day and there'd be some really problematic cuts in there; keeping in mind that I know how to cook and cut up meat regularly. Likewise, I've build a stage wall as a setpiece; all that required was basic knowledge of power tools and the ability to measure. But that wall had to last for a weekend and never bore any weight, which is different from building a wall solid enough to be part of a structure.