LadyButterfly she/herWe are hardcore
mcSlibinasSo our kids being dumber because we grew with this? š¤
Or your point is different?
LucidNightmareItās just a joke is all.
Mine too š
So, the internet does not convey sarcasm or jokes very well, especially in text form.
I know you probably donāt care, and thatās good, but thatās 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 genās fault that new gen grew not so cool? Definitely thereās no answer, but, at least, i got the question.
Me, i got question, not younger gen/s
TropicalDingdongYouād get your older cousins to bring the thing up to orbital speeds when you were having a birthday party in the park. At least a couple times a year, some would get a broken arm on that thing, and once a generation a kid would end up underneath.
Peppycito
tomenzggAnd who havenāt seen that one kid who tried to get home while balancing vomit /no vomit ādecisionāā¦
My god it was awful, but it was a builder of character š
talIs the slide in the background AI-generated or Photoshopped or something orā¦ is it actually buckled right in the middle?
apotheotic (she/her)Looks legit to me, just a busted slide
lime!āWhat doesnāt kill you makes you strongerā needs to die out because thatās not how trauma works. You never recover full strength in a broken bone, never become fully cured of PTSD.
But you also learn how to handle pain be it physical or mental. It gives you a new perspective that helps you to handle difficult situations in the future. Thereās obviously a point where youāre just fucked, but up til then thereās more of a trade off.
People tend to make that claim when they are adding pain to your life, as is the case with punishment. Life is painful enough to teach this lesson without anyone adding more.
Iāve not heard it used that way. In my experience itās after something bad happens to someone or theyāre going through some shit in an effort to reassure them that whatever is going on will pass and theyāll at least gain some mental strength from it. Maybe it doesnāt help at the time but looking back on stuff thatās happened to me it is a true statement.
blackn1ghtThat isnāt rust on the roundabout, itās dried blood.
LainTrainWhich generation is that, though? Like basically everybody experienced this as a kid.
Around here they started getting rid of them in the 80ās. The story I was told is that kids would play ādropsiesā where youād drop a shoe under the platen and then try to grab it on the next round. Some kids would throw it far under and the kid reaching for it could get his head caught under and it could break their neck.
Thatās the gruesomest story I heard but I found many, many other ways to injure myself on these things.
UnderpantsWeevilNo. Only my generation. The Best Generation.
Boo! Pointless nostalgia bait is lame
redparadiseI personally prefer swings, who wants to get a splitting headache and puke when you could swing in the cold breeze under a tree and look at the clouds.
Pfft! Grass?! Try sand thatās 3000Ā° from the American Southwest sun, and full of broken Budweisers. Also, Iām not seeing any old, disintegrating railroad ties anywhere. How are you supposed to get your daily tar and lead content?
tetris11
whelknot from uk but when I grew up we had this net spaceship thing you could climb into like a clubhouse. Made completely out of metal. In a place with both severe summers and winters. I for the life of me do not know how we did not end up with news stories about some kid or adult cooking or freezing or sticking to the walls in there.
Is it tetanus? Cause it looks like tetanus.
MrsDoyleOur big thing was daring each other to get the swings in the playground to go so high youād 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.
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 momās car, but nobody saw him because of glare from the sun)
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.
And then Purple Aki was there and everyone hi-fived.
I had seen that in one of my neighbourhoods.
It had already been broken by the previous generations.
It had already been broken by the previous generations.
American Old: āBack in my day, we went outdoors and did things that built our bodies and minds. Why donāt you kids do that?ā
American Young: āCause 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.ā
American Old: āShut up, you woke antifa little shit. Nobody wants to hear you talk.ā
Digestive_BiscuitItās on grass. It needs to be on concrete slabs which are uneven and sticking up.
glibgI 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.
I once got one of these up to speed (solo) at the park near my home, jumped on, and help 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 bleedingā¦ 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 thatās one of the milder ways you could hurt yourself on these thingsā¦
DigitThey still have these in Taiwan. Plenty of hurt kids.
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.
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 photoā¦
HossenfefferWitches Hat! We had a bigger on in my town. All the danger of a swing and a roundabout combined. Mounted in concrete.