I'm talking in real life.They're a common staple in video games. But it occurred to me the other day that I don't think I've ever actually used one myself. Have you?
they were a popular toy in the 90s and 2000sin real life they go in a big circle instead of out and back
do I look like I'm aussie m8?
>>737079626I have, I couldn't do shit but my cousin got it to work. We never tried it on birds though.
>>737079626every kid had a nerf boomerang
Absolutely. As I kid I thought they were super cool. Tough to get the hang of
>>737079626Yeah when I was a kid. One of my neighbor's dad gave us boomerangs and nunchuks that he made it himself once. A lot of bruises and bumps on head were had
Boomerangs aren't real dude. They're a fictional item like a magic wand or a toothbrush
>>737079626I bought one and then went to the back of the grocery store near my house to try it out. Big wooden bitch from Ebay.I chucked it as hard as I could but it literally just kept going straight instead of returning and smashed into a Mitsubishi Crossover leaving a big fucking dent. A couple people watching me saw it happen so I just ran off into the woods and left it.
>>737079717yeah I had one of these because zelda was cool and then I threw it a few times in a big field and it just kind of did nothing and I never used it again
>>737079626I did. I borrowed my homies then threw it then it landed sharp end in the ground and broke in half :(
>>737079717InterestingI had a frisbee, but never a boomerang. Idk why it ended up that way.Perhaps it's because I had a dog. She loved chasing the frisbee. Then again, perhaps she would've enjoyed a boomerang as well, provided it wasn't too heavy and couldn't hurt her.
>>737079626Not the original australian-made, but I did have some knockoff version as a kid. Difficult to throw with accuracy at a distance, but it did loop back just fine.
>>737079626Axes are a staple of video games but I never used one in real life
>>737079681How would we know? We dont see you.
Imagine inventing a new type of weapon with a gimmick (returning to you) that only ever works if you miss your target. Those people must have had the worst throwing arms in the world.
>>737079626I bought one from the seller in OP and though the color came out a bit darker than pictured, it's actually extremely high quality, but I've been hesitant to throw it. He did send instructions on his throwing method but I'm worried I'll underestimate how far it'll go and it'll end up hitting someone's house or car. >>737079925Yeah this scenario exactly, basically. Even at a public park you have to worry about overshooting and hitting a pedestrian somewhere.
>>737079626Had an actual wooden one as a young kid. Takes a little bit to get the technique down, and if you're not careful they can be pretty dangerous on the return, as all flying and rotating hunks of hard material can.Now I want to get into learning a sling.
A plastic one but I could never get it to work. I got better return from frisbees once I learned the trick.
>>737079925Kek>>737080031Darn. Sorry to hear that.>>737079798Interesting. So the ones for kids could really hurt as well, then?>>737079701>>737080280I see. So there IS a technique involved.In cartoons, the things usually tend to come back even when you don't want them to. But I always assumed there must've been a technique or something. Especially since you need one with frisbees.
Ive clocked a few birbs with it but i babby this since my uncle got it in the 60s or 70s
>>737080147Well, I can see (You).
>>737079626I had one when I was a kid and I remember vividly the day I got the hang of how to make it return but one time I missed and it broke a window on my house and my dad beat my ass
>>737080103Well sure. But the boomerang thing still strikes me as weird, since they're technically a children's toy, and I also had a frisbee when I was younger.>>737080265I actually also have a big beautiful public park near where I live. But I'm still hesitant to get a boomerang. Especially since idk what I'd do with the boomerang after trying it out a few times. Maybe just give it to a neighboring kid?
I had a cool triangle one as a kid. It took a lot of practice and you had to throw that fucker HARD but it would actually make 2 or 3 decreasing radius orbits around you before it got close enough to catch.
>>737080389That's bad ass I'm super jelly
>>737080368Same way as the technique of a frisbee or the notfrisbees in disc golf. You can just chuck it but it won't really fly, but with the proper arm and wrist action it will. I haven't even seen that boomerang in probably 20 years now so fuck if I remember how it went but it wasn't anything too special
>>737079626You need a license for this in Australia btw.
It's a weird weapon. It's a clever design, but of limited use. It needs a wide open space to return, if it hits the target it drops so the return is only useful if you miss, and you have to stay where you threw it to catch it. You also have to throw it a very specific way to make it return in the first place.I guess it was useful for hunting if an animal didn't know it was going to curve around and hit them from the side?I think they just chucked them straight most of the time. The forward spin probably adds some force to it.But it's definitely cooler as a fictional weapon than a real one.
i had one that worked really well as a kid but it eventually broke. had another 3-blade one that touted to be 'easy to use' and i never got it to do much beyond veer to one side
>>737080389that shape looks a bit weird, but if ladies like it more power to you
>>737079626I tried one once and it's not at all as useful or easy as in vidya
>>737080635I think its a deco one meant for tourist purchases not an actual boomer still killed 2 starlings who dared attempting to eat seeds i planted not even 2 minutes beforehand
>>737079626Not since I was a kid. I still have a didgeridoo, but
>>737079626Yea, it sucks when there are a lot of trees everywhere.I had more luck with a bow.
>>737080718fucking starlingsthey're airborne rats
>>737079626I made a boomerang in grade school shop class. It worked, somehow, but I felt playing with it was just too much work for not enough return.
>>737080389Cool pic, anon. Has a nostalgic feeling for me as my mom had 2 boomerangs tribal painted like that from when she lived in Australia. Also have a trunk like yours from when my ancestors immigrated to 'murica. Never used the boomerangs, was too pussy to lose 'em over the fence or break something.
>>737081004> for not enough returnI see what you did there.
>>737080217It's a useful gimmick though. Throwing accurately while having enough force to seriously injure or kill is harder than you imagine, despite our adaptations for it.
>>737081004I wish there were more punny characters
>>737081114pretty basedmy entire house is just full of hand me down furniture because why replace what lasts forever and outside of muh bed anything modern is stuff i found on the side of the road or cobbled together with plywood and pipes welded together. I really should be a proper boomer though for hunting grouse and other fowl
Oldschool toys were something else, huh?
>>737080593Some colonies never change.
>>737079626I had a few plastic ones as a kid, took me forever to learn how to throw them correctly but I got pretty good at it. Some weird shit always happened like birds snatching them or a homeless person running out of the woods and taking it. Now I kind of want to get one on Amazon and see if I can still throw them.
>>737079626>throw boomerang>it just goes straight
>>737079626I bought three entirely because of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger.They usually arc'd too wide to properly come back but when they did they were fucking badass.
>>737079626Real boomerangs don't come back, they're essentially big blunt throwing knives that can bonk targets on the head with lethal force, or just outright demolish small game. I've played with toy boomerangs, and I've never thrown a real boomerang, but I have thrown hatchets before, and I imagine it's not that much different, beyond the fact that you have to be better and gauging distance, because boomerangs can fly way farther than a hatchet.
>>737079626Never could get it to come back. Would just go straight, curve up, and then fall back down. And then i had a couple break when they landed :/
>>737079626>throw boomerang irl>it doesn't come back>just lands in the grass further aheadIt's shit.
>>737079626I had one of these and could never make them work as a kid, I guess I needed to throw them palm out instead of back hand out and probably not in my living room lmao. I always wanted the one in the picture, OP. Since it's pretty much the type in Zelda. Hell, Zelda made me love things like swords and shields, bows and arrows, bombs, boomerangs etc.
>>737079856Obviously. Just like Australia itself.
>>737079626Yeah, and the fucker got stuck on the roof
I made a couple of them myself when I was a teen. I felt betrayed because they didn't work like in my video games at all. I made one out of plexi glass and cut my hand.
>>737080280>Now I want to get into learning a sling.I FUCKING LOVE THE SLING I HAVE BEEN USING ONE FOR A YEARHOLY SHIT ANON PLEASE DO.
>>737079626I had a blue plastic one as a kid, but I never learned how to throw it right.
>>737080614IIRC aboriginal boomerangs don't even return
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>>737084525If you do it right, it does a wide circle from where you throw it. IF you do it right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9jyz6c0Uwk
For all you chumps who the coomerang won't cum back to, you have to shout>"I'M GONNA BOOM!"
We got one as a kid but didn't have enough space in the yard to get it to do a full 360. Was kinda neat still, though.
>>737084646Whoops. Was meant for --->>>737084287
>>737084525Indeed, the ones that return are just toys. The ones that serve as weapons are designed to be aerodynamic so that they fly fast and cut reliably.
>>737079626Had a couple plastic ones back in the 90s. Maybe a hard foam? At least one was made out of some kind of balsa wood. I dunno.Really only had one place to throw them though, my school's playground. Would've been more cool to throw it somewhere more open, maybe with things to target, but say luh vee.Funny coincidence: I had to go get power of attorney a few days ago and for whatever reason the guy had a boomerang in a glass case in his office.He mentioned it off-hand when I was looking at it, but didn't say anything about why it was in a case, like, if it was special or rare or something.Looked a lot like >>737080389 though I don't remember the EXACT designs on it to know if it matches.>>737084525Yeah, I really can't imagine aborigines coming up with and standardizing a perfectly shaped stick that comes back accurately if they miss a throw. I'm betting one DID come back (once) and then get worshiped though.
>>737082035fucking jarty
>>737080368>So there IS a technique involved.yeah the piece of curved wood doesn't magnetize back into your hand from its own free will. jesus fucking christ. this is the intelligence level of the average poster
>>737090045Hey man, I knew there had to be a technique. It's just never explained that way in the cartoons, is all.
>>737079626Yeah, I had no idea how to throw it and then it got stuck in a tree and that was that,
