"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Working-with-your-hands Wednesday
Bonus video! When you want to make opening your beer bottle an event.
Austraian Aboriginies (or whatever the current term is) have a similar spear chucker called a Woomera. In use for many thousands of years. The leverage advantage of it and the aerofoil on the boomerang were pretty cool innovations for those primitive people.
I’m disappointed the bottle opening thing didn’t actually launch the bottle up in the air like I was expecting.
ReplyDeleteThat would be cool, Rebecca, but problematical after consuming several beers, alcohol being famous for degrading hand-eye coordination ... ...
DeleteThat sling stick is cool, but I want to know how to use an atlatl.
ReplyDeleteThe sling stick and atl atl are very similar in operation ... ...
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHgUMUk3YwY
A sling stick looks simpler to make and use than an atl atl, although I expect that range is lower with the sling stick.
ReplyDeleteAustraian Aboriginies (or whatever the current term is) have a similar spear chucker called a Woomera. In use for many thousands of years. The leverage advantage of it and the aerofoil on the boomerang were pretty cool innovations for those primitive people.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I sent the bottle opener vid to my youngest son. He wants one, him being an ex mortard, as the rest of the army so unkindly refers to them.
ReplyDelete"Mortard". Haw!
DeleteI watched a couple of videos of men using the Woomera; awesome weapon, in the right hands.