Holes, a wildly popular movie about the very real problem of exploitative kids camps. And yet they persist…
The children yearn for the mines
The children yearn for the mines.
Trees and grass and other green things around you in the garden have a positive psychological effect. The feeling of having done something visible has a positive psychological effect. Getting a physical workout has a positive psychological effect.
I know yours is a humorous comment, but a child digging in a garden has nothing to do with them yearning to be an early-capitalism style child laborer.
We know…
Oh thank god for explaining that. I was convinced children want to be abused.
Jesus dude, go touch some grass.
We all know it’s bad for children to work in mines, its a joke.
Hello Jesus dude. That’s kinda what I said, no?
Don’t let them bring you down. From where I’m standing, they’re the killjoy.
Yeah, but you sucked all the fun out of a joke that no one was confused about in the first place.
I unwittingly terraformed a huge swath of land that started flooding when they flattened out the gravel road to our house over the course of a month or so with a spade when I was 10. This post is weirdly accurate.
I sometimes think of going back there to see what happened since but I’m not sure if someone lives there these days.
I’m on the spectrum and digging a hole, diggy diggy hole. Diggy diggy hole!
Kid found his calling: to become a Dwarf.
I was gonna say geologist.
I knew a kid who loved bass fishing, but there were carp in the creek near where he lived. So he would go out at night and bowhunt the carp. In a couple years he’d cleared miles of river of the nasty things, and he had the best bass fishing in the area.
Later on he went to college and got a degree in fisheries.
A degree in fishery? Sounds fishy.
must sell snake oil…
I’m surprised no one’s said archeologist.
I guess it’s unrealistic even as a dream job these days.
I’ve worked with two archaeologists. They’re more employable than you think. Both of them were at drilling sites I was working. Not that kind of drilling, we often dig small (< 6 inches in diameter) holes in the ground to see what’s going on in the subsurface for a variety of reasons. In this case both were there for planned underground utilities (water and sewer).
Anyway we were legally required to have an archaeologist at these two sites just in case we encountered artefactsand they sifted through the top 10 feet of our hole. It’s fairly common in some areas and the archaeologists worked for private consulting firms.
ROCK AND STONE! ⛏️
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This, but it’s my ADHDAF ass stacking firewood with my dad. Eventually, when I was old enough, I even got to use the splitter and the sledgehammer. Now I’m a grown ass man and Pittsburgh is technically subtropical so he doesn’t heat the house with wood anymore, but in years of studying I’ve never found a more effective meditation than 3 hours of splitting and stacking firewood.
Dad just learned about autism
Nah. That’s all kids.
Especially boys.
Guessing it’s just the exercise? I feel more in control of my emotions after a nice long walk.
It’s more about doing something they enjoy and find fulfilling
Sunlight too is incredibly important for mood
Human beings crave agency and usefulness, even the little humans and even in little ways.
Never underestimate the catharsis of digging a hole.
Unless you live on hardpan. Fuck hardpan.
Who was that guy that discovered something very important in physics, and he said the elves told him about it? The elves that were in the massive holes/caves he would dig in his back property, as his outlet. I forget how large his friends said the tunnels were, but he clearly spent a lot of time digging tunnels.
Edit: Seymour Cray, of the Cray supercomputer. AKA The Father of Supercomputing.
John Rollwagen, a colleague for many years, tells the story of a French scientist who visited Cray’s home in Chippewa Falls. Asked what were the secrets of his success, Cray said “Well, we have elves here, and they help me”. Cray subsequently showed his visitor a tunnel he had built under his house, explaining that when he reached an impasse in his computer design, he would retire to the tunnel to dig. “While I’m digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem”, he said.
Cray has been called solitary, uncommunicative, secretive, and difficult to get on with. Frank Sumner, Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester, met Cray on several occasions and refutes suggestions that he was a prickly character: “He was a very friendly man, and perhaps the greatest all-round computer scientist ever”, says Sumner.
I think Seymour Cray may have had a gas leak in his basement.
Or a big stash of DMT
This passage from Wikipedia is infinitely funny to me:
DMT has a rapid onset, intense effects, and a relatively short duration of action. For those reasons, DMT was known as the “businessman’s trip” during the 1960s in the United States, as a user could access the full depth of a psychedelic experience in considerably less time than with other substances such as LSD or psilocybin mushrooms.
“Have you always wanted to have a transcendent psychedelic experience but just could never fit it in to your busy schedule? Now you can, with DMT™! Ask your dealer about it today!”
Well yeah, acid is your whole day. You’ve gotta plan that shit. It’s a real Saturday drug.
I live in Houston. Everything is clay. That shit gets stuck to your shovel and does not come off.
That being said, we had some woods behind our house and we would play out there all the time. Digging, pellet guns, machetes to chop down trees and make forts.
A 6’x3’ hole?
Little dude is chill now because he’s dug your fucking grave, man!
Talk about cathartic. Everytime he feels like you’re a dick to him, all he’s gotta do is think of that hole waiting to swallow your body.
And he’s got a blunt instrument with a handle to fix the size difference, that he’s getting real good at wielding.
Hand him the shovel if you want, but don’t turn your back.
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Either short or a shallow ass grave.
It’s only 2 measurements of a 3D hole, I assumed depth wasn’t specified and it was 6 feet long and a yard wide. Traditionally graves are also 6 feet deep but that’s not always practical, so if it’s less you should put rocks on top to keep animals from digging it up. Since I’m pretty sure the kid isn’t going to bother with a coffin, even if OP is taller than 6 feet, their knees and spine are bendable.
You should always put rocks on top if you cairn
That’s fair. I hadn’t thought about the missing third measurement.
I could of course be wrong and it’s six feet deep x 3x3. Not sure how a kid is throwing the dirt up and out, but possible. And easy to dump in a body, it’d just crumple down in there. Less suspicious in appearance too. Stick a little tree on top, water it in.
Or it could be measurements for a circle that is 6ft wide and 3ft deep. We don’t really have enough detail cuz they don’t say the shape but it doesn’t have to be square.
They had to help him out of the hole. I’m guessing 6 feet deep
Well he’s gonna have to dig down 2 more feet if he doesn’t wanna be left out with the yellow-spotted lizards.
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I love to dig. My dad used to get mad at me for failing classes in school, which happened often. He’d say, “Do you wanna go dig ditches for a living?!”
Now I’m a software developer and yeah I like it. It shuts my brain off. I wish I could do it part time or even just as an exercise but I live in a suburb and any time you want to dig you have to make a phone call and wait for someone to come out
Have you considered calling the locating service, get them to mark the entire yard, and then taking pictures so you know areas are okay to dig in going forward? I’ve been considering doing that for my yard just so I know where I can safely landscape.
I’ve done it before! I think its illegal to dig before calling. A friend of mine was digging in his yard and found an underground cable of some kind, almost took it out with a spade. Probably would have cost a pretty penny, with court fees to boot! Maybe I should take an ad out and offer to help dig for people. Maybe i could get a couple jobs a week, and I would do it for free or travel money and pizza at least
Future in land management
Children yearn for the mine.
Hell yeah! I did this kind of thing a lot with my kids. Give them a backpack, a flip phone, lunch and drinks and tell them to go explore a hill visible from the house.
Dig it oh oh oh, dig it
