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Re: Low Quality People: The Proof

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On 1/11/25 2:30 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:44:22 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
>>
>> American households are like military barracks for kids. And in France,
>> they are about 5 times more so.
>>
> 
> You are not joking.
> 
> I often drive through the American suburbs, with their neatly groomed
> streets and houses, and I will ask myself: "Where do these kids play?"
> 
> I grew up in a working class area next to an industrial zone and the
> railroad yards.  There were many empty fields and in the late afternoon,
> after closing time, a kid could go wild with play opportunity.
> 
> And we did.
> 
> At one point we even attempted to dig a tunnel under the train
> tracks but our adventure was discovered by the railroad employees
> and we had to abandon it.
> 
> We had so much much wild play it would take years to even describe
> it all.
> 
> But that's all in the past.  Now I am an adult and a scientist/
> engineer.  I don't need stupid games nor fiction because I've done
> it all already.
> 
> I pity the readers of fiction.
> 
> I pity the players of games.
> 
> They are just frustrated children.
> 
> 


That's nothing compared with what we did around the age of 5 in Tehran. 
One was, making bombs :) I mean stuff strong enough to blow a 30 kg 
stone placed on top of it fly upward three stories high. So when I say 
bomb, I'm really not exaggerating.

The hardest ingredient to find in making them was the "kolorate 
potasiyom" (Potassium Chlorate). Everything else was easy to find. For 
sulfur, we used our little hand made slingshots to knock off the white 
porcelain insulators off of the top of utility poles. Inside them, you'd 
always find a large amount of sulfur. For powdered charcoal we just 
smashed charcoal to a fine powder. In those days, many people have not 
yet migrated to electric heaters. People used charcoal in their "Korsi"s 
for the winter period and for cooking in other periods of the year. It 
was always available, and was among the usual items that every house 
purchased from stores and bazars.

But for the damn potassium chlorate we had to walk to two neighborhoods 
away to a pharmacy that was owned and operated by Jews. Only that 
pharmacy sold us potassium chlorate, knowing full well why we were 
buying them. Other ones much closer to us, would not sell it to kids, 
considering them too dangerous.

That mixture created gun powder, and it was one of the ways for us to 
create bombs with. We had four or five different ways of making bombs, 
using even a certain brand of movie reels of film which were sold to 
kids for looking at the negative pictures against a source of light, but 
we also used them to make bombs with, cause they were extremely flammable.

And every now and then, some site would begin construction, and we'd get 
the material we needed for CO2 based bombs in there placed right on the 
grounds, easily taken during night. Often in same sites one could find 
empty sturdy strong bottles that held thinners and acetone, etc. These 
bottles were part of the bomb design :) And when they exploded, boy, the 
scene of everything around it was something to see and enjoy. Hehe :)

On rare occasions, some stupid kid would even throw one of them over the 
wall into the yard of a Baha'i neighbor at the instigation of some 
suckers much older than us... it was not good and we kids would not 
condone it at all because that would mean the end of our fun that day. 
We had to run. Within 15 minutes the alley would get filled with police.

I have said nothing of a myriad of other strange things we did. Climbing 
trees through the branches of which naked live power lines passed. 
Running on top of high walls along their whole stretch, sometimes a kid 
coming down to ground accompanied with half of the wall! And we had 
"kids' Jihad!".. the assyrian neighborhood (they were christian) was a 
short walking distance away. Oh, we were rough. Strange that any of us 
got passed that period unharmed.

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Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-01-09 12:57 +0000
  Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-09 08:16 -0500
  Re: Low Quality People: The Proof DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-09 08:45 -0500
  Re: Low Quality People: The Proof vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-09 13:52 +0000
    Re: Low Quality People: The Proof -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-09 09:53 -0500
    Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-09 21:09 +0000
      Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-11 11:50 +0000
        Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-11 12:01 +0000
          Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-11 07:09 -0500
          Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-11 13:44 -0600
            Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-11 20:30 +0000
              Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-11 16:01 -0600
                Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-11 22:23 +0000
          Re: Low Quality People: The Proof vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-12 14:40 +0000
  Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-09 11:05 -0500
    Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-09 20:59 +0000
      Re: Low Quality People: The Proof rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-10 00:09 +0000
      Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-09 18:58 -0600
      Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-10 07:01 -0500
        Re: Low Quality People: The Proof rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-10 20:26 +0000
          Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-10 20:39 +0000
            Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-10 16:31 -0500
            Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-10 19:24 -0600
              Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-11 11:08 +0000
                Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-11 13:31 -0600
                Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-11 20:13 +0000
                Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-11 15:14 -0600
                Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-11 22:07 +0000
            Re: Low Quality People: The Proof rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-11 02:51 +0000
              Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-11 12:03 +0000
            Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-11 11:54 +0000
  Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-09 18:44 -0600
  Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-11 11:43 +0000

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