Theo is not in favor of chainsaw sculpture at this juncture.
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Heather: Wow, so you two really MADE those things?
Amanda: Yeah. Grandpa's trying to work us up to making a chair.
Amanda: Mom's Anger Therapy Guy thinks it's really about getting me to like making things more than I like smashing things.
Keisha: Amanda, I love you, but that is FAIR.
Amanda: I LIKE smashing things, though! I wanna get the chainsaw and throw wood bits EVERYWHERE.
Keisha: Ugh. I don't like when people like destroying stuff. It's creepy.
Amanda: Heeeeyyy... Keisha?
Keisha: Yeeeaaaah?
Amanda: Chainsaw go BRRRRR.
Keisha: Stoppit!
Amanda: Yeah. Grandpa's trying to work us up to making a chair.
Amanda: Mom's Anger Therapy Guy thinks it's really about getting me to like making things more than I like smashing things.
Keisha: Amanda, I love you, but that is FAIR.
Amanda: I LIKE smashing things, though! I wanna get the chainsaw and throw wood bits EVERYWHERE.
Keisha: Ugh. I don't like when people like destroying stuff. It's creepy.
Amanda: Heeeeyyy... Keisha?
Keisha: Yeeeaaaah?
Amanda: Chainsaw go BRRRRR.
Keisha: Stoppit!
Chainsaw go BRRRR until it go GSHSHSHSHSH. Then the screaming happens.
Amanda has a future in software testing. Half the job is basically trying to come up with ways to break things.
Maybe at Underwriter’s Laboratory, where they try and set things on fire to see if they’re safe for home use.
Friends made good money doing that professionally. Knew how to find *all* the weaknesses in systems.
Maybe Amanda would like making mosiacs with tiles. She could smash up pretty tiles and then make an art piece with the tile bits.
Destroying things has its place! Without demolitions experts we’d have no way to clear out old buildings so there’s room for new ones.
Well, to be fair, demolition **COULD** be done without explosives…
…it just takes a **LOT** longer.
It’s still breaking things, though. Just slower.
And Without explosives it is often More Dramatic emotionally, because; the use of a wrecking ball is a LOT of bang and dust, but you get to Work at it. Explosives, meh, push a button, big boom, Lot of dust and it’s over. …where’s the fun in that, if you don’t get to rain tiny bits and pieces all over the lot?
Oh, there’s much more involved in explosive demolitions than just a button push and big boom. It takes weeks or months of prep, studying the blueprints and the local geography, you have to take out all the interior walls using sledgehammers and chainsaws, put strategic holes in the load-bearing walls and any other supports, wire up all the explosives, get them timed just right and THEN you get to push a button and see the big boom, and the gentle folding in on itself of tens of thousands of tons of building. And don’t worry, there a LOT of tiny bits and pieces raining all over. Why do you think they get filmed from a mile or so away? Tons and tons of prep culminating in a single, satisfying moment. And some people really go for that.
Not that wrecking balls aren’t also satisfying as anything. Swing! Crunch! Crash! I can totally get behind a wrecking ball. But people tend to underestimate the amount of work that goes into a proper explosive demolition.
Demolition _was_ done for thousands of years without explosives, wrecking balls, or chainsaws – just muscles, levers and axes, and gravity. Ancient cities are on a hill, called a “tell”, that they created by knocking down buildings and rebuilding on top of the rubble, again and again. However, most of those ancient buildings would be described as “mud huts” today, and it didn’t take much to make one collapse. Or you could wait a few years, and it would fall down on its own.
But there were also military engineers (possibly the first engineers), who either built large strong structures or supervised the active demolition of them – with the added problem of someone trying to kill the men doing the work.
I feel like this is a situation Fraggle Rock was invented for. The Fraggles eat the buildings made of Doozer sticks, and the Doozers then have space to make more buildings.
Additionally, the Doozers continue to make their buildings out of PRESSED RADISH DUST. It was always deliberate.
Chainsaws can create wonders; http://www.greensidesart.com/index.htm
Amanda is a troll and I love that!
Amanda needs an axe and a pile of firewood
May Amanda never meet Inugami Korone- a.k.a. Doog.
Lumberjacking is not a career path I would have imagined for Amanda but here we are.
Holy s**t…. Don’t let her see certain movie located in Texas so she doesn’t get… weird ideas.
Too late. I think that is what her Brrrrr comment is for, cultural referent. They both know it’s scary, heck, -I- know it’s scary just from the T.V. commercials that reference it. I haven’t seen it.
Keisha is in for a lot of disappointment in life….
I think Amanda would really get into Jackyl. (Look ’em up on Youtube and you’ll see why. I dunno if posting a link is kosher)
Does this mean Heather forgave Amanda?
This is for Chug. “…people tend to underestimate the amount of work that goes into a proper explosive demolition.”
I DO appreciate the amount of work that goes into setting up a job. In not rushing. My point was that perhaps explosives and a “short fuse” might be a bad combination for Mandy. That maybe a more physically demanding job might burn off some anger allowing her mind to settle.
I grew up with ‘Big Red’ Adaire on TV, even with B&W TV, he was magnificent. Myth Busters showed safety features in a rather glib way. More of a nod and a wink, while showing how much a fun it would be with Moar ‘Splosives! For Spectacular Failure, goggle Lindheimer Observatory Demolition, in Evanston Illinois. It’s clustiferous!