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[–] southsamurai 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Alas, that isn't flying, and my punk ass would have explained exactly that to my dad.

However, my punk ass would also refuse to agree with my kid if they did, because you gotta stick with the bit, or it was a waste of time.

Dad joking is serious business

[–] [email protected] 2 points 24 minutes ago

It was gliding, neither is flight

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

surprised nobody mentioned the father's flying skills yet

[–] Imgonnatrythis 16 points 8 hours ago

I make paper fly farther everytime I bring my briefcase on an international flight you losers.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

I would have a hard time tossing a crumpled paper ball further than a good paper airplane would go.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

That's what I was thinking. The most basic paper airplane, the kind that looks like a fighter jet, will cover a football stadium if thrown right.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Gotta crumple it as tightly as possible. A loose paper ball isn’t gonna go anywhere but a tight one will go far. It’s all about maximizing cross sectional density!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

I won't my paper airplane competition several times in grade school. I was a G. It went way farther than a tightly balled up piece of paper.

[–] Scubus 15 points 10 hours ago

A good plane required mathematical precision, not fanciness. In theory they take about a minute to make. The son did not make a mathematically precise plane.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

I think the subtext is that the son spent 10 minutes making a piece of crap.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, this guy hasn't seen many paper airplanes apparently

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

y'all clearly never played paper football.

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I flicked one across the basketball court in highschool, bleachers to bleachers.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 1 points 29 minutes ago

And sadly it's still the conventional football players that get the trophies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I think, a slingshot would toss further, also that was what I expected to happen