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80# Tannerite Gender Reveal - Whoa
April 24, 2021, 08:22 AM
Blume9mm80# Tannerite Gender Reveal - Whoa
I've gotten lucky and blown myself up twice... but lived to tell about it, was all over 45 years ago and I learned my lesson... some of it is on file with the FBI. (bragging rights... I was one of 2,416 people they suspected of doing some really bad things.) The only person I ever harmed was me.
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April 24, 2021, 10:38 AM
snideraquote:
Originally posted by Lt CHEG:
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Originally posted by Voshterkoff:
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These products literally take us back to the days where any Tom, Dick or Harry could walk into a hardware store and buy commercial dynamite to help them with digging ditches, getting rid of beaver dams, etc.
Yeah, awful.
I’m in no way opposed to being able to go back to those days don’t mistake my point. However, when was the last time that you heard about some farmer doing something so stupid when he was laying ditches with dynamite that he bought without a license or permit? When was the last time that you heard of a rancher doing something so stupid when getting rid of a beaver dam? My point is simply that these exploding target products are absolutely 100% a loophole to the safe explosives act that will allow anyone to purchase a commercial quality explosive without a license when they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to. I have no issue with that but people are doing ridiculously stupid stuff with these products that they never would have done before and if they keep it up then they will end up screwing things up for a lot of people.
People have been stupid for as long as there have been people. The difference is we now have 24hr news & Sigforum to point & laugh.
I'm under 40 and can tell stories of drunks with dynamite (2nd hand, haven't had any of that stuff in years, right?)
April 24, 2021, 10:44 AM
parabellumquote:
Originally posted by Lt CHEG:
...getting rid of beaver dams...
That's how you end up with gender reveal parties.
April 24, 2021, 12:17 PM
AglifterI’m guessing some of y’all don’t “live” in farm towns/not the point where they’ll talk to you. Farms are full of stupidity. Usually, it’s cows or equipment that kills, but explosives cause issues too
April 24, 2021, 01:58 PM
jimmy123xTannerite has a gender reveal kit. How stupid.
https://tannerite.com/tannerite-gender-reveal-target/April 24, 2021, 04:44 PM
flashguyPeople will have a party for anything. Telling what sex (not gender) a yet-to-be-born child is doesn't rank high in my list. Everyone (who cares) will know in a few months.
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth April 24, 2021, 05:11 PM
Elk HunterBack in the early 1950s, there was some highway construction taking place in Lewiston, Idaho. A fairly good sized lava bluff needed to be reduced in size, so they bored some holes, stuffed the holes with dynamite, fused it, and set it off. One chunk of lava that weighed about 10 lbs IIRC, flew about 200 yards, penetrated both sides of a chicken coop and then embedded itself in the side of the people's house. I won't get into the stupidity of some of the stuff I saw while in explosives training in the army. Scared the crap out of me, and a number of others who had an idea how to do that stuff.
Elk
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April 24, 2021, 06:39 PM
CEShooterAssuming that this was in the bottom of a quarry with tall, solid, stone walls I can only imagine how awesome that explosion sounded on their ears. Nothing like a massive explosion in a 5 sided box to make you regret your life choices.
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April 24, 2021, 06:57 PM
Lt CHEGquote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
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Originally posted by Lt CHEG:
...getting rid of beaver dams...
That's how you end up with gender reveal parties.
That comment sir brought a much needed smile to my face. Thank you!
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Lt CHEGquote:
Originally posted by snidera:
People have been stupid for as long as there have been people. The difference is we now have 24hr news & Sigforum to point & laugh.
I'm under 40 and can tell stories of drunks with dynamite (2nd hand, haven't had any of that stuff in years, right?)
I’m well aware that stupid people have been around for as long as there have been people. I will also concede that the modern news cycle amplifies actions such as those in the original post. I do think that stupidity is greatly on the rise. I think part of it is the way children have been coddled for too long with everyone told that they’re special and deserving of a trophy. People do absurdly stupid things with no regard for consequences, and it is the complete and total lack of concern for consequences that makes me shake my head. You wouldn’t think that you would need a special warning not to eat laundry detergent, yet we had a nationwide phenomenon of kids taking the tide pod challenge. I legitimately believe that a growing number of people, particularly youths, believe that the government will keep them from getting into anything too dangerous and accordingly if they can buy something then it must be safe.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”