Saturn missiles are pretty similar. Mortars are better when you’ve got teams or just for general mayhem. Throwing a wheel of 6000 uzi-crackers into the other guys’ fort was also always a blast. I’m too old for that shit now, though.
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There are things you should never be too old for. 
…and you are only as old as you feel.
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“Safety officer” ha ha ha! You’re awesome!
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Uh, dude. What do you think those Confederate flags are about if not whining about injustices and wrongs? You can’t finish a six pack without hearing about the War of Northern Aggression.
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And isn’t waving a rebel flag a de facto call for righting a perceived wrong? Otherwise, it sounded like he was describing Yankee ingenuity. One might even say a Connecticut Yankee is one of the ur-templates.
Say whatever you want, an evening of assembling a rocket array on your head or welding together a beowulf cluster out of junk computers beats an evening with losers whining about injustices and wrongs and calling for (or, worse, celebrating) various marriage bans, or, even worse, racial policing.
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Pretty much that.
The people are more similar than different. Hence also the sometimes overly fierce rivalry.
That.
Both sides have their fair share of whiners and perceived wrongs. Two boyfriends marrying may insult someone’s tender feelings, a southern flag does the same to a different demographics, spending time on attempting to stop either just annoys everybody around. Let the people do what they want, just don’t let them stop others doing what they want.
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It doesn’t seem like a bad idea to try to get people to realize what message they are actually sending with their wavy symbols. Most biases are unconscious, but still foolish and wrong. Listening to Dawkins and Dennett last night and they discussed how, when they ridicule an idea, they are not after changing the mind of the proponent of that idea, but someone within ear shot who is sitting on the fence and ready to tumble. When it comes to minds, you can only harvest what is ripe.
did this for years. favorite moment was the sneak attack use of a hand-held jupiter battery, which was 50 short stemmed bottle rockets in a box to flush the entire opposing side out of their solid defensive position.
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fwiw - never had an eye injury, but if we’d have been smart enough to do with safety glasses, it really would have been pretty safe for what appears to be stupidly dangerous. bottle rockets aren’t heavy, fast or hot enough to do much damage, even if you take a direct hit and explosion.
Just let them wave whatever they want. Whether it is a confederate flag or a rainbow one or a combination of both or whatever else. The noise about pushing others to do what they don’t want, or don’t do what they want, is getting rather loud.
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