Some of you guys are taking this video way too seriously.
or airliner windshields by shooting turkeys at them.
If they did that with a Minolta SRT its wouldn't crack under pressure.
Anyone recall the Timex commercials with John Cameron Swayze? I say we strap a camera to a boat and take it for a ride.
Destruction for its own sake is sad, not fun. It doesn't matter if you're destroying something as cheap as dirt.
The problem here is feeding the thrill of watching real destruction. When watching a movie full of violence, you're in 'disbelief' mode. Anything goes without having an impact on how you process your day to day. But when it's real, it's no longer in a sandbox. Destroying cheap commodities is only different from destroying precious artifacts in a different, cultural, and hence overridable, layer, than the one concerned with the basic emotional response to real destruction. By dampening the latter you come to rely only on the former, which is much less reliable.
That's one of the joys of being a little boy - taking something intricate and instantly blowing it up!
Boys have a stage in life where they want to "Blow stuff up". Luckily, I outgrew it before I got married. What my wife doesn't want me to watch on YouTube anymore are idiots getting their asses kicked from acts of stupidity. It's one of my guilty pleasures.
When I was a little boy and caught something like the measles or mumps I'd obviously have to be home a couple of weeks. So my mom would drive
into the city and get me some fancy model ship kit. The more intricate the better. Everything had to be perfectly detailed, right down to the paint
details and all the decals. Then once it was done, I'd take it down to our little duck pond with either a cherry bomb on it, or filled with gunpowder, or
simply aim a twelve gauge shotgun at it. That's one of the joys of being a little boy - taking something intricate and instantly blowing it up![/QUOTE
We built cars and tanks and used firecrackers. I'm a little younger than you and unfortunately cherry bombs and M80's were illegal by that time.
I knew a guy when I was a kid who never out grew that phase, he joined the army for life so he could blow up real shtuff.
I was using an industrial hammer drill on a job drilling concrete in an office building. Some fool lady office worker asked my why I had to make so much noise. I told her that I was always noisy as a kid so my mother told me that when I got older I needed to find a job where I could make as much noise as I wanted. My answer pissed her off plenty.
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