You'd 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.
My brother swears he fell underneath, one time we were playing. Thankfully, he was towards the edge and he was small (at the time).
Teenagers with dirtbikes. Such glorious stupidity was something to behold.
I remember getting spun up to warp speed and one kid slipped and flew off. Not normally a problem but he happened to get flung onto his bike that was parked there. He did not ride off into the sunset.
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" needs to die out because that's 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. There's obviously a point where you're just fucked, but up til then there's 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.
I've not heard it used that way. In my experience it's after something bad happens to someone or they're going through some shit in an effort to reassure them that whatever is going on will pass and they'll at least gain some mental strength from it. Maybe it doesn't help at the time but looking back on stuff that's happened to me it is a true statement.
Pfft! Grass?! Try sand that's 3000° from the American Southwest sun, and full of broken Budweisers. Also, I'm not seeing any old, disintegrating railroad ties anywhere. How are you supposed to get your daily tar and lead content?
Man I miss those railroad ties and old rubber tires
Kids these days didn't know the flavors they're missing!
That's what the child-sized cigarettes were for
That isn't rust on the roundabout, it's dried blood.
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.
We cared not for the danger, only that we'd reach the center at max speed
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.
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)
That didn't happen.
And then Purple Aki was there and everyone hi-fived.
It's on grass. It needs to be on concrete slabs which are uneven and sticking up.
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 👍
Then you've never had Clacker Balls. At least half of my friends received concussions from those 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.
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.
Is the slide in the background AI-generated or Photoshopped or something or.... is it actually buckled right in the middle?
thin metal, long slide, heavy use. most of them looked like that after a while.
Looks legit to me, just a busted slide
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...
Wait. What? They don't have those any more?
They still have these in Taiwan. Plenty of hurt kids.
The weak were ground to mush underneath that thing.
Is it tetanus? Cause it looks like tetanus.
No tetanus causes lockjaw, they run their mouths too much for that to be the case.
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.
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