The book is a spiffing idea in its own right. However, it will also teach kids the foundational basics of the survival tactics they'll need to avoid the marauding cannibal gangs that will be commonplace by the time they are 30.
It also has the additional benefit of being extremely triggering to the libs. People who will celebrate castrating them, but enact legislation to censor a book like this. What a world they are inheriting.
I used to love playing military-themed games with boys in my neighborhood and school (we called it playing "war" for some reason, even though we were all literally on the same team). We'd take turns playing general and would run around with Nerf guns (or imaginary guns because schools didn't allow toy weapons smh), looking for some imaginary enemy to kill.
If only this book existed back then--We could've killed those tyrannical tree stumps and boulders with efficiency!
This looks pretty jolly to me and I'd think there are plenty of boys and girls of sufficient spirit to enjoy having their very own copy.
I hope Dr. Copper will add to his offerings something along the lines of "Where There is No Doctor," a book I keep meaning to go ahead and order. I live in an area overflowing with our very best physicians, none of whom I hope will ever get another hand on me, and I'd think it wise to give kids the most useful practical advice on how to render useful aid to the walking and not-so-walking wounded until them *professionals* can be summoned. Just for fun of course.
This isn't just critiquing from the sidelines. This is giving back. This is making the world a small, tiny bit better. Imagine if more people made the world a small, tiny bit better?
I work at a small Renaissance Faire (hold your horses -- this is not nearly as ghey as you think) that operates as a 501c3 because we have a particular emphasis on education. Every year our militia team teaches hundreds of little kids how to conduct pike drills, organize and deploy a team to storm a castle wall, and cooperate to subdue a dragon. (OK, that last one might be a little fanciful.) This is easily the most popular show we run; the second and third are the axe throw and bow and arrow shoot.
I saw this on Morgthorak's substack and I am glad its making its way around! It's great in general that the unwoke side of the Internet has started making its children's content. It's important to know that patient zero of the censorship cult was tumblr; a website that attracted many creative yet unhappy teenage girls through the artwork that was posted there by people who were also left-wing gender ideology activists. The girls became SJWs when they grew up and began to police others; that's why I think that it is through creativity that we could potentially break the indoctrination cycle
"In that case, Professor Copper’s Tactical Primer is absolutely not for you." Meh, I *am* gay but still prefer Professor Copper over gender nonsense. Though I'll admit I'm a bit unusual for my demographic.
I am hoping that a guerilla war against Spiders from Mars won't be necessary, but given the will to inflict Lockdown 2.0 I fear my hopes are dimming.
Everybody should at least learn wilderness survival, you're bound to learn something of use in the Coming Austerity. "Imma just go and eat berries in the forest and cavort with nature spirits" yeah/no...
If I had smiled a little more upon reading this, the top of my head would have fallen off.
Adding to your list of "You could put someone's eye out with that"-toys, did you ever make sling-shots (think also called catapults?) out of the inner tyre (the air-hose) from a bike?
We made such and used ball-bearings and dowel-nails (think that's the name, u-shaped nails used for fastening fences to posts) for ammo.
Also, the thick heavy card-board tubes used to roll up classroom maps or wallpaper or linoleum carpets on, plus inner tyre, plus tennis ball filled with some combustible mix including styrofoam, soap flakes, shredded plastic and whatever we could get hold on.
Mate and me got started on building a polish resistance-style grenade launcher out of an old bike, but (perhaps thankfully) we never finished it.
Basically, the pedals and corresponding gear is connected to a pitcher arm with a basket, same as on a catapult or onager from ancient times, and old-style leaf suspension is used to store the energy from cranking the pedals. All of it mounted on a small bike-drawn two-wheeled carriage.
As for precision, I think it's along the lines of "anywhere within a 45 degree angle from the direction aimed in, is good".
Hope there's a section on traps in the book. Few things slow people down as knowing there might be 2' pit with a feces-smeared piece of girder sticking out inside it...
The book is a spiffing idea in its own right. However, it will also teach kids the foundational basics of the survival tactics they'll need to avoid the marauding cannibal gangs that will be commonplace by the time they are 30.
It also has the additional benefit of being extremely triggering to the libs. People who will celebrate castrating them, but enact legislation to censor a book like this. What a world they are inheriting.
I approve of this book and this review 🤓
I used to love playing military-themed games with boys in my neighborhood and school (we called it playing "war" for some reason, even though we were all literally on the same team). We'd take turns playing general and would run around with Nerf guns (or imaginary guns because schools didn't allow toy weapons smh), looking for some imaginary enemy to kill.
If only this book existed back then--We could've killed those tyrannical tree stumps and boulders with efficiency!
This looks pretty jolly to me and I'd think there are plenty of boys and girls of sufficient spirit to enjoy having their very own copy.
I hope Dr. Copper will add to his offerings something along the lines of "Where There is No Doctor," a book I keep meaning to go ahead and order. I live in an area overflowing with our very best physicians, none of whom I hope will ever get another hand on me, and I'd think it wise to give kids the most useful practical advice on how to render useful aid to the walking and not-so-walking wounded until them *professionals* can be summoned. Just for fun of course.
This isn't just critiquing from the sidelines. This is giving back. This is making the world a small, tiny bit better. Imagine if more people made the world a small, tiny bit better?
Thank you.
There is a belt fed machine gun in .22LR which is perfect for kids. Unfortunately is pretty rare.
Thanks, ordered it for my son, though he will get it second hand.
I also survived BB Guns, cherry bombs and Roman candles. This will make great Christmas gifts this year!
Finally a philosophy to replace the Scouts of America-shaped hole in our culture
I work at a small Renaissance Faire (hold your horses -- this is not nearly as ghey as you think) that operates as a 501c3 because we have a particular emphasis on education. Every year our militia team teaches hundreds of little kids how to conduct pike drills, organize and deploy a team to storm a castle wall, and cooperate to subdue a dragon. (OK, that last one might be a little fanciful.) This is easily the most popular show we run; the second and third are the axe throw and bow and arrow shoot.
This is fricking awesome! Remember kids, Train How You Fight.
I saw this on Morgthorak's substack and I am glad its making its way around! It's great in general that the unwoke side of the Internet has started making its children's content. It's important to know that patient zero of the censorship cult was tumblr; a website that attracted many creative yet unhappy teenage girls through the artwork that was posted there by people who were also left-wing gender ideology activists. The girls became SJWs when they grew up and began to police others; that's why I think that it is through creativity that we could potentially break the indoctrination cycle
I think a Little Book of Useful Chemistry might not go amiss.
OMG this is the kind of children's book we need!
"In that case, Professor Copper’s Tactical Primer is absolutely not for you." Meh, I *am* gay but still prefer Professor Copper over gender nonsense. Though I'll admit I'm a bit unusual for my demographic.
I am hoping that a guerilla war against Spiders from Mars won't be necessary, but given the will to inflict Lockdown 2.0 I fear my hopes are dimming.
Everybody should at least learn wilderness survival, you're bound to learn something of use in the Coming Austerity. "Imma just go and eat berries in the forest and cavort with nature spirits" yeah/no...
If I had smiled a little more upon reading this, the top of my head would have fallen off.
Adding to your list of "You could put someone's eye out with that"-toys, did you ever make sling-shots (think also called catapults?) out of the inner tyre (the air-hose) from a bike?
We made such and used ball-bearings and dowel-nails (think that's the name, u-shaped nails used for fastening fences to posts) for ammo.
Also, the thick heavy card-board tubes used to roll up classroom maps or wallpaper or linoleum carpets on, plus inner tyre, plus tennis ball filled with some combustible mix including styrofoam, soap flakes, shredded plastic and whatever we could get hold on.
Mate and me got started on building a polish resistance-style grenade launcher out of an old bike, but (perhaps thankfully) we never finished it.
Basically, the pedals and corresponding gear is connected to a pitcher arm with a basket, same as on a catapult or onager from ancient times, and old-style leaf suspension is used to store the energy from cranking the pedals. All of it mounted on a small bike-drawn two-wheeled carriage.
As for precision, I think it's along the lines of "anywhere within a 45 degree angle from the direction aimed in, is good".
Hope there's a section on traps in the book. Few things slow people down as knowing there might be 2' pit with a feces-smeared piece of girder sticking out inside it...
This looks really cool. I'm sure it's a slam dunk. I'll share with interested parties.