Stuff You've Seen In Fiction, But Also Managed In Real Life

[granite sheep]

Just had a fantastic day clearing the trees in my old man's back yard today- taking down the branches, chopping up the twigs, felling what was left of the tree trunks- all great manly activities. However, the icing on the cake must surely be the fact that I got to do all of the above, whilst equipped with a 2-stroke petrol chainsaw! Now, the weird thing is, in all 34 years and 9 months of my life so far, I have never actually wielded the throbbing might of a chainblade before- using this bad boy was my first time. However, after scanning the manual, and a bit of trial and error seeing as to where the wood would land post- sawing, I then started a 6 hour rampage of timber destruction, gleefully making logs, twigs, killing the fuck outta trees, etc, etc. Anyway, after a nice cold one in the evening, I got to thinking, how in the hell, having never operated a chainsaw before, was I somehow wielding it like a COG veteran inside of 5 minutes of picking up the saw? And then it hit me. COG. Gears of War. It got of goin: Evil Dead, Warhammer 40K (if only for Chainswords and Chainaxes), numerous horror movies, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, not to mention numerous forestry documentaries of Discovery, had left me programmed with the knowledge as how to tear shit up with a chainblade.

 

And then I wondered, how many folk have seen stuff in popular fiction, and managed to apply what they've seen into a RL situation- especially if you've never physically done the deed.

[Ke1t]

I've been trapped in a room with a man and a woman, none of us having reciprocal feelings for the other.

 

It was Hellish.

 

100 meaningless Kelt Points to anyone who knows what in the fuck I'm talking about, btw.

[granite sheep]

Stuck? As in the door was fooked stuck? Nae nice.

[Dandyesque]

Just had a fantastic day clearing the trees in my old man's back yard today- taking down the branches, chopping up the twigs, felling what was left of the tree trunks- all great manly activities. However, the icing on the cake must surely be the fact that I got to do all of the above, whilst equipped with a 2-stroke petrol chainsaw! Now, the weird thing is, in all 34 years and 9 months of my life so far, I have never actually wielded the throbbing might of a chainblade before- using this bad boy was my first time. However, after scanning the manual, and a bit of trial and error seeing as to where the wood would land post- sawing, I then started a 6 hour rampage of timber destruction, gleefully making logs, twigs, killing the fuck outta trees, etc, etc. Anyway, after a nice cold one in the evening, I got to thinking, how in the hell, having never operated a chainsaw before, was I somehow wielding it like a COG veteran inside of 5 minutes of picking up the saw? And then it hit me. COG. Gears of War. It got of goin: Evil Dead, Warhammer 40K (if only for Chainswords and Chainaxes), numerous horror movies, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, not to mention numerous forestry documentaries of Discovery, had left me programmed with the knowledge as how to tear shit up with a chainblade.

 

And then I wondered, how many folk have seen stuff in popular fiction, and managed to apply what they've seen into a RL situation- especially if you've never physically done the deed.

 

 

 

Chain-saws aren't exactly in the same domain as Brain Surgery.

 

You touch it with something, it cuts it. End of.