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Man pretending to fire a 'quaker gun', a decoy cannon made out of a log, US Civil War, 1862 (media.piefed.social)
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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 14 hours ago

Splinters are the worst tho. I’d rather me leg blown off.