Smart people learn by reading.

[Jackpine Radical]

Average people learn by observing what happens to others.

Republicans just gotta go and pee on the electric fence for themselves.

[drmeow]

1. LOL

[undeterred]

2. Women never pee on electric fences.

At least none that I know. :shrug:

[Kablooie]

13. But they sometimes try to sit down on them.

[jody]

3. Smarter people learn by doing. n/t

[sandnsea]

7. That would be the peeing on the fence

thingie. Thinking you can go do something without reading or listening to anybody else.

[Mz Pip]

4. And once is never enough!

They keep coming back to that fence expecting that no matter how many times their weenies get fried, eventually their pee will turn to gold.

[The Straight Story]

5. I learned about sex from doing it, not reading about it

But hey, whatever floats your boat :)

[Bigmack]

12. I've always disagreed with that statement....

A lotta people learn bad habits doing the "trial and error" method.

I think a combination of reading and experience is the best.

Oh... and LOTS and LOTS of practice.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Experience is a great teacher,

but fools learn from no other.

- Benjamin Franklin

[jkshaw]

8. I invite them to come and experiment on our

electric fence! It's almost a mile long, and I've read on some gardeners' blogs that human urine keeps deer away.

Although, come to think of it, do I want the side hill cluttered up with screaming Republicans?

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Right. And it does specify

HUMAN urine.

I think that's bullshit, though. About the urine, I mean. I mean, some hunters take along--uh--receptacles into their deer stands, and others just kinda pee here and there, and I don't know of any differential success rates between the two groups.

[jkshaw]

11. Jackpine, before we put up our electric fence

fence I was researching everything I could find on deer repellents because I hated to think how MUCH of a fence we would have to build. We have a 2 1/2 acre garden besides the two orchards, see.

I ended up doing a piece for my garden website on all the things I read that that would repel deer, a pretty funny page, if I do say it myself, and one of the things was to invite one's male dinner guests to go out after dinner to relieve themselves along the garden perimeter.

We didn't try that, but we did try noisemakers, virtual dog barking machines, lion urine that my daughter coming home from the library could smell inside her car with the windows closed as she came up the drive, and finally faced the inevitable -- an 8-ft electrical fence.

Incidentally, Jackpine, I enjoy your posts. Also your user name.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. ROTFLMAO!! That was perfect!!!!!