• southsamurai
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    124 hours ago

    Alas, that isn’t flying, and my punk ass would have explained exactly that to my dad.

    However, my punk ass would also refuse to agree with my kid if they did, because you gotta stick with the bit, or it was a waste of time.

    Dad joking is serious business

  • @[email protected]
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    4511 hours ago

    I would have a hard time tossing a crumpled paper ball further than a good paper airplane would go.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      44 hours ago

      That’s what I was thinking. The most basic paper airplane, the kind that looks like a fighter jet, will cover a football stadium if thrown right.

    • @chonglibloodsport
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      3310 hours ago

      Gotta crumple it as tightly as possible. A loose paper ball isn’t gonna go anywhere but a tight one will go far. It’s all about maximizing cross sectional density!

      • @[email protected]
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        55 hours ago

        I won’t my paper airplane competition several times in grade school. I was a G. It went way farther than a tightly balled up piece of paper.

    • @[email protected]
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      1511 hours ago

      A good plane required mathematical precision, not fanciness. In theory they take about a minute to make. The son did not make a mathematically precise plane.

    • @ChicoSuave
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      910 hours ago

      I think the subtext is that the son spent 10 minutes making a piece of crap.

      • @GreenKnight23
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        188 hours ago

        y’all clearly never played paper football.

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        I flicked one across the basketball court in highschool, bleachers to bleachers.

    • lad
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      19 hours ago

      I think, a slingshot would toss further, also that was what I expected to happen