June 07, 2008

Rocket Fishing Rod --- In case you've ever contemplated what's wrong with modern culture, not to mention modern youth... Please hold firmly in your mind, before clicking the link, the concept of simply having a pole, with a line and a hook on the end to catch fish, as it has existed throughout the ages. Then click the link and see just how far down the wrong path we have gone. How do we fix this?
posted by es el Queso 16 years ago
  • "How do we fix this?" stupidity can not be fixed, by anyone but Darwin... don't worry, these things always fix themselves....
  • It's not fishing. It's XTREME FISHUN.
  • Give a child a fish, he will eat for a day. Give a child a Rocket Fishing Rod, he will never learn to write a coherent sentence.
  • I'd like to point out the typo in their advertising at the bottom of the page: "...safely hides the book until the bobber hits the water". Only because it makes me feel better when I see horrible stuff like this.
  • Well. you need a rocket rod to catch flying fish.
  • Someone is going to put someone's eye out...that's all I've got to say about this....
  • I prefer dynamite or carbide. Relax Queso I'm sure it won't catch on. All it will take is some laughter from "real" fisherman and Jr will learn how to do it right e.g. with beer and a 5lb test line.
  • HuronBob: you forgot to add: so who wants to catch one-eyed fish?
  • Evolution has only one answer to this: ROCKET FISH.
  • Still use a cane pole for bream and crappie.
  • How goddamn hard is it to use a closed-face reel? Have we actually gone so far that kids today do not have the manual dexterity to let go of a button while simultaneously swinging their arms forward?? (Wii popularity suggests no - one good sign at least). I mean, really, we aren't giving the anklebiters fly rods and demanding they tie their own fly before making the first cast, and I highly doubt anyone would object to a kid not wanting to gut the first fish they caught (or even bait the hook themselves, if you're using leeches, I suppose - now maggots, they make good bait as well, I was never squeamish about 'em but leeches are kind of sucky and bitey and make-your-finger-bleedy if you hold them for too long)... wait, where was I going with this? Oh yeah, GODDAMN kids can't even be bothered to burn off one friggin' calorie casting the damn line now can they? What, Daddy going to drive the SUV down to the lake and then the whole family takes off in their HoverRound scooters lest they be forced to (gasp) walk, like physically move themselves rather than using gas or electric to do it? Look man, my father-in-law uses a Spree scooter to go most places, he's overweight and can't walk that fast or that far any more, but for the love of god if you showed him this and asked what he thought of it, he'd likely tell you that any parent stupid enough to buy one for his or her kid ought to be locked up in a looney bin. You walk to the damn lake, you carry and cast your own rod, and you eat what you catch. And to think, I thought the "spin pop" was a sure sign of the coming apocalypse. Boy was I ever naive. It gets much, much worse. Please bring on peak oil so that plastic becomes too expensive for us to continue manufacturing crap like this. ps nippurr said "crappie". Heh.
  • Monkeyfilter: a sure sign of the coming apocalypse
  • MonkeyFilter: kind of sucky and bitey and make-your-finger-bleedy
  • Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal, and be sure to tip your waiter. Just not with a rocket.