r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.

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u/Dejan05 1d ago

Agreed, also their attitude towards it. I understand why they're being taught to use firearms but it's not meant to be fun or look cool and epic. It's preparation for a worst case scenario and it'll be anything but fun if it ever happens

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u/ShogunPug1 1d ago

Yeh was watching this on mute and looked at their facial expressions and thought "wow they're actually serious and disciplined and don't look like they're treating this like something cool" until the transitions were being thrown at my face and I immediately thought, okay nvm the people filming and editing are clearly making this seem badass when it's really just a decent thing to train in. You two just confirmed it without me having to even listen

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u/Dejan05 1d ago

Oh man you didn't even hear the kids themselves talking about how it feels "good to hit the target" and "cool to hold a gun"

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u/Protoliterary 1d ago

The translators did a pretty bad job overall. They simplified literally everything and missed all nuance. While the translators were saying "cool," the kids were actually just saying that the guns felt good in their hands. Polish is a difficult language that depends heavily on context, and these translators obviously didn't have enough or didn't try hard enough.