And who haven’t seen that one kid who tried to get home while balancing vomit /no vomit “decision”…
My god it was awful, but it was a builder of character 👍
So our kids being dumber because we grew with this? 🤔 Or your point is different?
It’s just a joke is all.
Mine too 😎
So, the internet does not convey sarcasm or jokes very well, especially in text form.
I know you probably don’t care, and that’s good, but that’s why I assume you got the downvotes.
A simple /s is easy enough to type out to avoid a downvote or 5. ;p
Sarcasm is only one side; after 505 joke how older gen was cooler i got the question - maybe older gen’s fault that new gen grew not so cool? Definitely there’s no answer, but, at least, i got the question.
Me, i got question, not younger gen/s
Similar in Scotland still, except flush with the ground in a rubberised floor, this could be worse? Ground lever must increase potential for high speeds? I remember these monsters, and much bigger than this photo…
Witches Hat! We had one like this, but quite a bit bigger, in my town. All the danger of a swing and a roundabout combined. Mounted on concrete.
Ah, the furious carrousel. I remember once how my legs were flying almost parallel to the ground while, with my arms, I was trying to hold to this structure. Never really liked it, but it was a question of honor.
They still have these in Taiwan. Plenty of hurt kids.
Wait. What? They don’t have those any more?
I once got one of these up to speed (solo) at the park near my home, jumped on, and held onto the middle with my legs, while my head spun around past the outer platform. Then, some dickhead bully hit me in the back of the head with a rock and I had to make my way home while bleeding… Only, there was literally no one there. I checked multiple times, and there was nowhere to hide or run to. That fucking merry-go-round dislodged a rock from under it, then the centrifugal force flung it right at my head! And that’s one of the milder ways you could hurt yourself on these things…
So that slide in the background, I remember the one at my local park being about five stories high. My mother insists I am wrong but I know what I remember. That slide in the background does look like it would fit the bill though.
I smoked my groin so hard on one of these while trying to jump on while it was ferociously spinning. It sucked at the time but the character it formed has stayed with me for life.
Is that character sterile?
Thankfully no! I may someday produce offspring who will also misjudge playground physics.
It’s on grass. It needs to be on concrete slabs which are uneven and sticking up.
I had seen that in one of my neighbourhoods.
It had already been broken by the previous generations.American Old: “Back in my day, we went outdoors and did things that built our bodies and minds. Why don’t you kids do that?”
American Young: “Cause you defunded all the public parks, demolished the outdoors to build parking lots, and sent cops to harass anyone caught outside the house without their parents.”
American Old: “Shut up, you woke antifa little shit. Nobody wants to hear you talk.”
Our big thing was daring each other to get the swings in the playground to go so high you’d flip right over the stand. You had to stand up on the seat and pump hard to get high enough. I always chickened out, but some of the kids did it. The problem was the chains were then wrapped around the stand, making it harder to swing.
And yes, the surface under the swing was hard asphalt.
And then Purple Aki was there and everyone hi-fived.
That didn’t happen.
Mythbusters did this. Its not possible - you have to replace the chain with solid bars.
But I think this is all entire human race thing. Idk anyone who has never tried this, or seen someone who has. No generational thing about it.
Hmm, I’m beginning to think I was scammed by stinky boys who claimed they did it but actually just somehow managed to throw the empty seat over the bar. Because the chain was definitely wrapped around it.
As a kid, going over the bar on the swings was a huge fucking deal!
I have vague recollections of some book or show where a kid went over the bar and as a result his body turned inside out. (Not sure if that was an actual thing or some fever dream I had!)
And the cartoon Recess had an episode where a kid went over the bar and disappeared, and all the kids thought he travelled to another dimension or became a god or something. (In reality he just jumped off the swing and hopped in his mom’s car, but nobody saw him because of glare from the sun)
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Then you’ve never had Clacker Balls. At least half of my friends received concussions from those things.
Is it tetanus? Cause it looks like tetanus.
No tetanus causes lockjaw, they run their mouths too much for that to be the case.
