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Megane

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"Boomerangs" , posted Tue 11 Nov 22:02

A friend of mine just came back from Australia, and he brought with himself a boomerang. We've played around with it, but all we could do was make it fly really really high into the air, then dive down really really fast. The best I did was to make it travel a U-path. The worst that happened is that one of my buddies threw it wrong and it zoomed a few feet away from the head of an innocent picnicker. >_< All in all, a good time and a sore arm was had by all.

So, have any of you guys ever played around with one?

The look on someone's face when you obliterate his best friend - PRICELESS

I don't know

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Radish

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"Re(1):Boomerangs" , posted Tue 11 Nov 22:46

quote:
A friend of mine just came back from Australia, and he brought with himself a boomerang. We've played around with it, but all we could do was make it fly really really high into the air, then dive down really really fast. The best I did was to make it travel a U-path. The worst that happened is that one of my buddies threw it wrong and it zoomed a few feet away from the head of an innocent picnicker. >_< All in all, a good time and a sore arm was had by all.

So, have any of you guys ever played around with one?

I've never been able to get the conventional style boomerang to work, but I could do fairly well with the X shaped ones.

I love how in videogames and tv you just chuck the damn things and then come back like they were on an elastic cord.

Juke Joint Jezebel

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"Re(1):Boomerangs" , posted Tue 11 Nov 22:54

i threw a Chullore once
it was fucking sick
i almost vomited afterwards

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Freeter

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"Re(2):Boomerangs" , posted Tue 11 Nov 23:30

Got one from my cousin, but I'd probably get in trouble testing it on the street...

Megane

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"Re(2):Boomerangs" , posted Wed 12 Nov 00:04

quote:

I love how in videogames and tv you just chuck the damn things and then come back like they were on an elastic cord.

And Batman throws his Bat-a-rangs wrong, if they were conventional boomerangs. Well, in one intro I think he throws them wrong... >_> But how they always hit some schmuck in the hand and still have the spin and force to return to Batman eludes me.

We practiced it in an open field, where softball players practice on one end and ~~collateral damage~~ innocent bystanders hang out in the other.

The look on someone's face when you obliterate his best friend - PRICELESS

I don't know

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Gen

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"Re(1):Boomerangs" , posted Wed 12 Nov 00:29

quote:
A friend of mine just came back from Australia, and he brought with himself a boomerang. We've played around with it, but all we could do was make it fly really really high into the air, then dive down really really fast. The best I did was to make it travel a U-path. The worst that happened is that one of my buddies threw it wrong and it zoomed a few feet away from the head of an innocent picnicker. >_< All in all, a good time and a sore arm was had by all.

So, have any of you guys ever played around with one?

I've used boomerangs. I've never seen someone actually throw a boomerang and have it move parallel to the ground in a generally straight line, followed by a 180 degree direction change, then straight back to the person throwing. I've also not seen it move parallel to the ground in a big circular shape and return to the thrower. With sufficient wind you could throw it flat and get it to sort of return, but I don't think that counts. I could get it to return but only by throwing it at an incline, so the wind resistance and gravity would bring it back. Until I see someone who can do it the way it looks in movies really good, I not convinced that it can be regularly thrown like in a movie.
I'm also not sure that the boomerangs I've used are the real thing like Australians would use to hunt birds or whatever they do. They might have been more of toys.