Is it because only Germans throw like a girl?

by Cubelock

17 comments

  2. They get really slippery after multiple uses, making them ineffective for throwing

  4. The Americans would probably adopt these, make a sport around it with the players wearing some sort of armour, and lots of commercial breaks, and then start calling it football.

  5. No because of too much butt stuff – where do you think the expression “explosive diarrhea” comes from?

  7. I think because they are heavier and bigger than today’s designs

  11. It’s for far more mundane reasons:

    * something roughly ball-shaped will roll mostly straight forward after ground impact, anyone who ever threw a stick knows that they deflect to different directions depending on their angle of impact.
    * they are far more bulky and heavier, so you can carry less
    * the range difference is negligible
    * if you remove the wooden handle, you have a modern hand grenade and saved a few laborious manufacturing steps and 2/3 of the material
    * you have a higher failure rate to throw them with a shrapnel liner of simple design

    So in short: They are a typical example of needless German over-engineering and Germany realised this, too, in the early 1940s. You can produce as fancy a hand grenade as you want, but it still loses you the war if you can only produce 1 hand grenade for every 3 grenades needed, for the sole reason of the one you do produce being marginally better to an irrelevant degree, instead of producing 4 grenades for every 3 you need.

  16. We still honor this tradition by playing Kub, and why helikopterkast is banned by constitution. Higher chance of it getting stuck on something and that’s a big ooopsie.

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