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[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago (2 children)

When a dog cannot carry it

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Are we talking Chihuahua or English Mastiff?

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 0 points 6 days ago

Any dog.

Ankle bitter aren't dogs. If it's small enough to be drop kicked over a fence, it's not a dog it's a cruel genetic mistake made by humanity.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was going to say a human can't carry it, but yours is good too.

[–] pipe@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

First it must become a branch, then work its way up to being a limb, and through perseverence and bravery, it may one day be a trunk. Trunks make great logs.

[–] SolSerkonos@piefed.social 9 points 6 days ago

YES! It's not just stick>log. There's several steps between the two!

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 6 days ago

Limbs can also become logs.

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

When you can't wrap your hand fully around it, I'd say, is the boundary between a stick and a log.

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

I feel personally attacked

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I really like this definition!

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If you can lift it with one hand, it's a stick. Possibly a staff if you'rewearing a pointy hat. A log requires at least two hands.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Gotta have those small logs, or split logs to get a good fire going

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Making these up.

Logs:

  • Take more than 1 hand to pick up

  • Burns for more than 30mins

  • Can cause concussion if thrown through the air.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

About two seconds after that booty clap

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

When the average person cannot lift it with one hand

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Stick is a branch where as log is part of the trunk. Narrow trunk is called a sapling.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 5 days ago

What about branches the size of trees?

[–] FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

If you can stand on it and roll it with your feets, that's a log. Can't do that with a stick. Nobody ever heard of the stick rolling championships.

At the point where you put down the reciprocating cutter and pick up the chainsaw.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago

If it sticks around for long enough, it eventually gets logged

[–] RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago

Yours is a stick. Mine is a log.

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You see, dicks

[–] NastyNative@mander.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

When you can no longer hold it!

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

When you remove a single grain of sand from a heap, and as a result, it is no longer a heap.

Some definitions have fuzzy edges. Actually most words are really fuzzy that way. Mathematical concepts are precise, but normal everyday words aren’t. Treat them accordingly.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

When diameter > 100mm

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

Depends if you've got a stove/open fire as a source of heating.

Sticks are used as kindling to get it going, logs are used to keep it going

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What about cords, twigs, or timber? You can't jump straight from sticks to logs.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No cords. These trees are Bluetooth.

[–] HorreC@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

bigger than your thigh

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

When you write on it.

[–] Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

At the same time grains of sand becomes a heap.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 points 6 days ago

When I get semi-aroused.