Sometimes when you learn how something works, you think, Thanks knowledge, that really helped, everything makes more sense, and other times you look up how wrists turn, and it's like WTF?!
@Alice@RickiTarr Red Rover was the most dangerous game any 80s kid ever played. Literal hand-to-hand combat, full contact, on a playground. Probably broke more arms, chipped more teeth and bloodied more noses than everything else combined.
@danciruli@Alice@RickiTarr I just saw an announcement commemorating the beginning of corporate retreat season and the tugs of war that will accompany it. They encouraged people to be smart and say "that's a lot of kinetic potential, like, enough to hurt everyone involved, actually"
@danciruli@Alice@RickiTarr my range of motion is limited due to the shoulder injury I sustained in fifth grade throwing a dodgeball 75 mph. children who caught dodgeballs with their faces never fully recovered from the psychological trauma.