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Go play on it while you have a chance! Go Go Go! The McDonald playset ones were always a little unsettling to me. Also, my school was kind of poor, so.. one day they just dropped off about 50 old tires for us to play with. Edit: Let's add content for the top of a page. PicklePants has a new favorite as of 18:55 on Aug 27, 2017 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:There's a tourist trap place called Caribbean Gardens here in Victoria with rides and a big flea market that has a trio of old Main Battle Tanks for kids to climb on. At least, they had them in the early 00's the last time I went. Park near where I grew up also had a tank you could climb on and also get in the hatch although it was filled in so you could only get far enough to just stand in it
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Aug 27, 2017 18:50
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I remember a scarily-tall, rusty rocket-ship climbing frame as well. It was okay if you fell off, as there was asphalt strewn with gravel and broken bottles to break your fall.
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Aug 27, 2017 19:02
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New Boards of Canada album lookin good
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Aug 27, 2017 19:34
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Aug 27, 2017 19:36
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Neddy Seagoon posted:There's a tourist trap place called Caribbean Gardens here in Victoria with rides and a big flea market that has a trio of old Main Battle Tanks for kids to climb on. At least, they had them in the early 00's the last time I went. According to this video they still had two tanks as of last August
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Aug 27, 2017 20:03
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This is the best derail I ever started. 
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Aug 27, 2017 20:08
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Who the hell installs a set of children's slides and then goes "Hmmm, something's missing ... I know, let's put a huge pile of rocks right next to this play equipment!" Better idea: the rock IS the play equipment 
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Aug 27, 2017 20:12
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In Florida our jungle gyms were all like 20 feet tall, cemented into the ground, and surrounded by mulch (if you were lucky) or just right into the blacktop. Climbing on them in the summer was like trying to climb lava and if you fell off the top you would plunk your way down all the other rails until you landed onto the even more hot blacktop. When I moved up to Illinois they had real grass (grass in Florida is basically little green steak knives full of army ants) so falling off of the jungle gym up north was like landing on on a big cushy mattress. Nowadays they have that spongy stuff and everything is made of safe plastic. It's pathetic. How is a kid supposed to break their leg and realize that grip strength is something to take seriously?
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Aug 27, 2017 20:15
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:I was a little kid in the mid 60s in Dayton, OH, and Island Park offered not only the typical potentially deadly playground equipment, but also an old retired fire truck, and (due to the proximity to Wright-Patterson AFB), a loving F-86. To this day, I've never forgotten playing around in the bubble-less cockpit of that plane. Kids need cool poo poo to gently caress around with. At at park near my step-dad's childhood home, they have a real train engine in the playground. Thing was freaking huge. Around the mid-90s they took it out and put up a train silhouette with holes and handles I guess to climb like a wall. It was incredibly lame.
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Aug 27, 2017 20:28
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Solice Kirsk posted:Nowadays they have that spongy stuff and everything is made of safe plastic. It's pathetic. How is a kid supposed to break their leg and realize that grip strength is something to take seriously? Bigger kids, generally.
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Aug 27, 2017 20:29
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Solice Kirsk posted:In Florida our jungle gyms were all like 20 feet tall, cemented into the ground, and surrounded by mulch (if you were lucky) or just right into the blacktop. Climbing on them in the summer was like trying to climb lava and if you fell off the top you would plunk your way down all the other rails until you landed onto the even more hot blacktop. When I moved up to Illinois they had real grass (grass in Florida is basically little green steak knives full of army ants) so falling off of the jungle gym up north was like landing on on a big cushy mattress. do you really even have run if you don't bleed at least once at the playground? Also, the hot rear end blacktop in summer is real, especially since I went barefoot a lot as a kid.
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Aug 27, 2017 20:30
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     Solice Kirsk posted:In Florida our jungle gyms were all like 20 feet tall, cemented into the ground, and surrounded by mulch (if you were lucky) or just right into the blacktop. Parents built our local playground in my neighborhood. They got four old telephone poles, cemented them into the ground and put a wooden platform on top. The most dad playground ever.
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Aug 27, 2017 20:31
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PicklePants posted:Go play on it while you have a chance! Go Go Go! Oh god my childhood McDonald's had one of these and a giant purple Grimace on springs where you climbed inside him and rocked it around. What the gently caress was Grimace supposed to be in McDonaldland??? 
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Aug 27, 2017 20:33
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Ok so that last one is ostensibly a dragonfly. What happened to the others? "Art?"
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Aug 27, 2017 20:35
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Cartoon Man posted:Oh god my childhood McDonald's had one of these and a giant purple Grimace on springs where you climbed inside him and rocked it around. What the gently caress was Grimace supposed to be in McDonaldland??? I remember him, and the fry kids spring horse things. I looked up pics of those.old McDonald's playgrounds and holy poo poo was some that poo poo creepy... 
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Aug 27, 2017 21:13
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I remember him, and the fry kids spring horse things. I looked up pics of those.old McDonald's playgrounds and holy poo poo was some that poo poo creepy... Hamburglar died on the cross for your sins. That's why the Filet O' Fish is on sale on Fridays.
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Aug 27, 2017 21:46
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I was born in 81, so I saw a good number of injuries in playgrounds. Broken noses, severed finger, giant splinters. I got knocked unconscious on two occasions from being thrown by those old merry-go-rounds.
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Aug 27, 2017 21:47
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Cartoon Man posted:What the gently caress was Grimace supposed to be in McDonaldland??? Grimace's thing is shakes. What he's actually supposed to be, I'm not sure.
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Aug 27, 2017 21:53
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John Murdoch posted:Grimace's thing is shakes. What he's actually supposed to be, I'm not sure. I always thought he was a gum drop.
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Aug 27, 2017 21:55
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John Murdoch posted:Grimace's thing is shakes. What he's actually supposed to be, I'm not sure. i too grimace when i get the shakes 
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Aug 27, 2017 22:06
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I drove past my old elementary school about six or seven years ago and guys... It wasn't just the playground that was gone, they had torn the whole thing down.. like... 20 years earlier
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Aug 27, 2017 22:08
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PicklePants posted:Go play on it while you have a chance! Go Go Go!  This is the one I remember growing up in the UK, with the old wives' tale of some kid getting too close to the swinging / rocking action and getting their knee smashed to pieces.
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Aug 27, 2017 22:20
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Randaconda posted:do you really even have run if you don't bleed at least once at the playground? Well you were either bleeding, had first degree burns or a concussion and splinters throughout your body from the mulch. The parks in South Florida are nothing like they used to be. The one near me growing up also had a pseudo-zipline that you could get a good running start on and it would fly down about 8 feet before stopping so abruptly that you'd go flying an additional 4 feet.
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Aug 27, 2017 22:23
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Picnic Princess posted:I was born in 81, so I saw a good number of injuries in playgrounds. Broken noses, severed finger, giant splinters. I got knocked unconscious on two occasions from being thrown by those old merry-go-rounds. faster faster we need another master
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Aug 27, 2017 22:31
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Picnic Princess posted:I was born in 81, so I saw a good number of injuries in playgrounds. Broken noses, severed finger, giant splinters. I got knocked unconscious on two occasions from being thrown by those old merry-go-rounds.  (born in '81, anyway) Good times, getting little rust particles in my eyes from being in one of those rocketships; better than getting sliced open on a shard of the jagged metal, though. While I managed to avoid that, I did cracked my head open on a concrete tunnel, and I also managed to fall face first on a "slide" that was comprised of rolling steel bars.
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Aug 27, 2017 22:51
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Picnic Princess posted:I was born in 81, so I saw a good number of injuries in playgrounds. Broken noses, severed finger, giant splinters. I got knocked unconscious on two occasions from being thrown by those old merry-go-rounds. My favorite was being shoved by kids into a giant tire* My big win besides screaming for my life was probably killing a couple mosquitoes. PCOS Bill posted:I drove past my old elementary school about six or seven years ago and guys... It wasn't just the playground that was gone, they had torn the whole thing down.. like... 20 years earlier wish someone discretely and safely destroyed the two high schools I went to that produced spree killers *I am fairly certain I deserved it I was a playground rear end in a top hat
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Aug 27, 2017 23:16
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John Murdoch posted:Grimace's thing is shakes. What he's actually supposed to be, I'm not sure. Taste bud.
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Aug 27, 2017 23:39
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I was born in 76 but I never did any worse than skinning my knee on the wooden climbing structure or bashing by shin on Human Centipede/Blowjob statue
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Aug 27, 2017 23:46
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born: 30s-40s: bombed by Nazis 50s-70s: bummed by priests 80s: playground injuries 90s: bored to death 00s: outraged to death 10s: run over by Nazis
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Aug 28, 2017 00:07
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Slenderman origin story worse than expected.
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Aug 28, 2017 00:07
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The playground equipment at my elementary school was dinosaurs; pterodactyl swingsets, climable stegosaurus, brontosaurus with slides and a pole to climb to his head. My school closed about ten years after I left and someone bought it and uses it as their house now. They kept the playground equipment.
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Aug 28, 2017 00:13
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Leavemywife posted:The playground equipment at my elementary school was dinosaurs; pterodactyl swingsets, climable stegosaurus, brontosaurus with slides and a pole to climb to his head. I want to marry that someone.
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Aug 28, 2017 00:19
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I broke a tooth falling from a playset in elementary school. It never got fixed so still have a big chunk missing from my right canine that hurts like hell when I drink cold liquids. I was the coolest kid with my broken tooth for a while.
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Aug 28, 2017 00:22
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RFC2324 posted:I want to marry that someone. I'd love to just see what the guy did with it. From what I heard, he got the place for a song and dance, and I'm insanely curious to know how you refit an elementary school to be a house.
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Aug 28, 2017 00:23
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Leavemywife posted:I'd love to just see what the guy did with it. From what I heard, he got the place for a song and dance, and I'm insanely curious to know how you refit an elementary school to be a house. Should be easy, so long as there isn't much asbestos to remediate.
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Aug 28, 2017 00:24
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Picnic Princess posted:I was born in 81, so I saw a good number of injuries in playgrounds. Broken noses, severed finger, giant splinters. I got knocked unconscious on two occasions from being thrown by those old merry-go-rounds. I read this as "Broken noses, severed finger, giant spiders" and thought "wow, that's a pretty metal playground".
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Aug 28, 2017 00:28
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If you think about it, Splinter was already kind of giant
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Aug 28, 2017 00:34
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PCOS Bill posted:I drove past my old elementary school about six or seven years ago and guys... It wasn't just the playground that was gone, they had torn the whole thing down.. like... 20 years earlier They burned down my old school. Didn't take the first time, so someone else had a go.
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Drove by my old elementary school today. Some of the old seesaws are still there, but that's about it. The back playground had a big cement shark. Its mouth was open and really small kids could sit in the mouth. At one point, the shark was hollow, but they filled it in after a kid got stuck in it. We also had tires to jump on and drag all over the playground, but on occasion they'd tell us to stay away because there was water in the tires and that attracted mosquitoes. In fourth or fifth grade, the big thing for the boys to do was swing as high as they could, then jump out. We were told not to do that anymore because a kid broke his arm or leg, but I think they were lying to us. Probably more amazing that no one was seriously maimed. This wasn't at school, but I played on one of these somewhere. 
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