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Worthless social constructs (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 46 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Swinging your hammer is easy.

Avoiding your fingers is the tricky bit.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    The trick is to look at the nail and not your fingers. If you look at your fingers so you don't hit them, you'll hit them.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    also choke up on the hammer. gives you less oomph, but more control.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    There's a very similar concept in motorbiking, target fixation. It essentially says that you go where you look. If you're riding along and there's a pothole in front of you, it's easier to avoid it if you look either to the side of it or past it. If you look at it, you subconsciously turn towards it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I remember an episode of Little House on the Prairie from my childhood. Pa has to get a job at the quarry, and he and a buddy are put to work drilling holes in the rock with a long metal spike and a sledgehammer. One of them has to hold the spike in place while the other bangs on it with the sledge. How the spike holder still had any fingers attached at the end of the day is beyond me. That shit traumatized me.

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