Thank you Raf!
A little bit of our own culture.
As a ten year old in 1950's Oz I grew up in a pretty blood thirsty culture.
We actually killed things, and did totally unacceptable things by today's standards, things like catching rabbits, wild cats, wild dogs & etc and then killing them in various ways.
One of those ways was by shooting them with cracker guns:- length of water pipe, screw on cap with a hole, wooden stock, charged with a penny bunger, chewed up paper and a marble. Accurate enough at close range and with enough punch to terminate a cat. You lit the wick sticking out through the hole.
But now they've banned rabbit traps, banned penny bungers, in fact banned just about everything that was fun. Ten year olds today cry if they see blood, and as for a broken bone --- MY God!!! that's life threatening.
I live in a nation of wooses.
I really do hope we never have to fight a serious war.
Thank you Raf for reminding me of the Good Times.
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