[123pie123]

my uncle was a postman, when I young he used to give me as many rubber bands as I needed, from memory they were brown

I made a daisy chain of rubber bands that - when stetched, was about 400meters long (to the end of our street). When i let it go, I thought something crazy would happen (i was about 6-7)but in reality nothing really happened it just shrank fast

I was extremely disapointed, it look many days to do this, I learnt at an early age about imagination vs reality

[laurent92]

I was expecting the same, even though I’m 38! On the upside, you dodged what could have been a horrible accident: Ropes snap and take away limbs, tug-o-war accidents are horrible and at scale - https://priceonomics.com/a-history-of-tug-of-war-fatalities/

[devoutsalsa]

If I'm going to lose an eye or a limb, I want it to because I got sliced by a 7 year old's 400m rubber band death whip.

[morpheos137]

He wouldn't have been able to stretch it in the first place to dangerous levels of potential energy.

[ffffwe3rq352y3]

I think they mean if something actually had happened (Which would have been impossible) it would have been a very bad!

[trhway]

>give me as many rubber bands as I needed

in USSR pretty much everything was in shortage, including rubber bands, and when you got your hands on it, you'd do something like "rubber band motor" plane or boat like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5injNIPjiZc