The last line should really say "hold my potatoes"
Lord of the memes
The Lord of the rings memes communitiy on Lemmy. Share memes about Lord of the rings and be respectful.
Or "Hold my Green Dragon's ale"
Hold my pint!
If everyone were a gardener no one would need a warrior
You don't know many gardeners then. Try making a single step in their cabbage patch.
Leave the cabbages alone, but please god come steal some zucchini. It's trying to drown us.
If you only teach people to be warriors then they only know how to do war.
You need to know how to do both. Having the skills to grow, build, operate and repair things is wonderful and should be encouraged.
But knowing what to do in an emergency and be as helpful as you can until professional assistance arrives is very important too.
I remember a saying that goes something like "a peaceful people is better than a helpless people" and I feel that fits here
If you teach people to be warriors then they will only know how to do sandbag filling and type III wildfire fighting.
- Canadian army proverb
Thank god for firearms (yes, very regulated, etc, not that kind of comment), because now we don't bother with decades of practice of swordfighting, archery only to die to some noob with a machine gun and have released millions of man-hours to do better things with their time, like gardening, RnD, corporate pole climbing :)