larry wrote:
Are but what about biros being used a blowpipes to fire small pieces of paper ?!
Or the more dangerous practice of placing folded paper caps ,as used to toy guns, in between two bolts using a nut and throwing them. There was enough gun power to separate the bolts. But of cause this has the potential to cause injury if you got in the way of the bolts.
I was told a tale when at college of some idiot who did a similar thing with a soldering iron and some match heads ! Needless to say the tip on the iron was blown off the iron when the heads ignited narrowly missing the owner of the iron !
Think there was also the thing with water bombs ,both paper and ones made from either whole or sections of balloons.
Tales like that are globally known!
It's funny just realise that generations after generations do same things over again without realising right away that someone else has done it before them. I used to learn to make slingshots etc. because I used to play with boys when I was a kid. But I learned to make garlands as well and pick mushrooms or berries in the forests without getting lost.
And adults over here has usually made these kind of 'shooting' based kids things allowed with a certain harmless target and by a competition. And I find myself feeling quite proud when my kids aim well, but I guess that because of Finnish history during the past wars.
This is what the Midsummernight looked like this summer over here:
and this is what Summer looked like over the Antarctis this year:
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Thanks!