Scans of a pamphlet dated 1965, titled 怎样打飞机 ("How to Shoot an Airplane").
Link to original post on 白板报, with scans of instruction manual. Via PostShow.
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Jason Li is an associate at Node and was formerly a research affiliate at the Institute for the Future.
Vintage Chinese pamphlet: How To Shoot an Airplane
At Institute for the Future’s Virtual China blog, Jason Li points to scans of a 1965 pamphlet titled 怎样打飞机 (”How to Shoot an Airplane”). Link…
The original post has more great prints. Says it was published in 1965 by the Guangzhou Military Headquarters.
FYI…. 打飞机 (”Shoot an Airplane”) is a slang term in Chinese for maturbation. Aside from the obvious, That repetitive motion of the hand looks similar to anti-aircraft guns of that have the anti back-coil mechanism that rocks back-n-forth.
If you know what the other meaning of “打飞机” is in Chinese language, you’ll know why he posted it~
Fang Liang & xorms:
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Why do you think the post (found on PostShow) caught my eye in the first place
It’s like accounting for lag in a FPS.
No, accounting for lag in an FPS is like *this*…