Kids and shooting…

http://vimeo.com/25318752

why can’t i embed vids anymore?

This is my rifle,
this is my gun,
this is for fighting,
this is for fun.

So long as he doesn’t get his gun and rifle mixed up i wouldn’t be too fussed.

Same as a lot of people grew up with playing soldiers, cowboys & indians, cops & robbers, etc. Heros on TV were Starsky & Hutch, The A Team and films loved were the Dirty Dozen, Battle of the Bulge, 633 Squadron, etc prior to the total cultural A bomb that was Star Wars when I was 10 in ’77. that resulted in arms that knuckles that were constantly bruised from “light sabre” battles.. ..

As a kid in the 70’s WWII was still very much part of the recent social memory too. We had real heros they were our fathers and Uncles and grandparents who had seen service, I played with Airfix & Action man, we all did – it was aspirational. I ended up in the TA for 5 years as a result of going Army Barmy in my teenage years.

Are we not seeing a reflection of our society’s now deep affection for our armed forces, are children simply not aspiring to their real life heros…. or is it just me..

Of course, if I had had a gun this morning then things may have turned out very differently for the girl with the stupidly loud ipod blaring out on the bus on my way to work… 😈

Hmmmmmmm mandatory arming of all cyclists might solve a few road issues too….

I really wouldn’t worry, my eldest son wasn’t allowed guns. but anything vaguely gun shaped became a pretend gun. I realised I was going to have to accept that gun play was inevitable when I had to super glue his favourite (pistol shaped) stick back together when it got broken.

I then decided when he was older he could have a bag of toys only to be used in the woods near the resevoir I used to sail at. so he had catapults and potato guns etc.

he has grown into a relatively well rounded lad, but briefly had hair that justin beiber would have been proud of and expressed a desire to be a hairdresser – I then worried he’d not played with enough guns!!

needless to say the two sons I have had 10 years after my eldest son have nerf guns and I dont worry

there is no toy that will affect kids as much as open discussion and debate about the world and all that goes on in it

+1 boba. I was about to post similar. That’s the best Spaced episode.

The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society.

Boba

Top bit of Spaced there 😀

When you find ironicsans 50pt send it over will ya.

Someone has designed a sarcastic typeface / font – it’s basically italics but sloping the other way. A neat idea and one that the internet would really, really benefit from the adoption of..

jon73 – 😆