[TheForge] propane/acet kaboom discussion

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Hello John:
As others have said..the delete button isn't hard to find.
While there are a few prudent adults amongst us, they are in an awkward 
position in a profession that requires one to be overqualified for the 
money it yields and the amount of dirty, dangerous physical work involved.
 We are anachronisms..deviants of a sort.
Having a certain modicum of adolescent pleasure ,in making loud noises, 
playing with fire and controlling  dangerous situations, makes 
blacksmithing much more attractive..much less like work.
 Most of us do it for the grubby  joy of it...at least in part.
Given a standard of acceptible risk like, say, the freeway...I'd say 
that we are generally within reasonable bounds.
Further, despite the impish tone of the discussion, we gain a clearer 
knowledge of the dangers involved in our medium from it.
Note that our society has deprived our gene pool of  most natural 
opportunities to eliminate  genetic mistakes..
We are doing our best to restore that natural process.
My friends are dying of cancer and heart attacks in disconcerting 
numbers this year.
I think I'd rather go out with a bang.

John Emmerling wrote:

> To All
> This discussion on playing around with propane/acetelyne to make a big 
> bang is not only childish, but is nothing less than pure stupidity. 
> Imho it ranks up there with anvil shoots, but considerabily more 
> dangerous. I can't imagine why anyone would want to waste their time 
> and money on such inanity. How about ending this one while everyone 
> still has fingers and toes?
> John Emmerling
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