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MizPiz posted:I just want to say something to the whiny little bitch that got all the cool poo poo taken away from the playgrounds when I was a kid: 
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ghosthorse posted:I know a lot of people think this but my public school was actually responsible for the playground change up in Ontario in the early 90's. We had a 12' tall climbing section and a girl fell off it onto a lower section and broke her neck. She was in a halo brace for like 2 or 3 years
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:
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You haven't lived until you've been on a Witch's Hat. It was like a cone balanced on a tall pole that could flop around and spin. I remember being like 7-8 and getting on the one in the park (now long gone) with the older kids. If you somehow got inside that ring, you pretty much just died.
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i wanna ride the cone of tragedy
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im pooping! posted:i wanna ride the cone of tragedy Funnily enough that's what my ex said to me last time we drunkenly hooked up
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bunnyofdoom posted:Funnily enough that's what my ex said to me last time we drunkenly hooked up hell, same
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You would have thought it was the Hope Diamond.
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All I can see is the excited face of the car's gearshift and AC dials.
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I was in St. Louis for an Indycar race over the weekend and stopped by the City Museum before we left. It is incredible. Along with the playground elements they also have a cafe on every level, a taxidermy/entomology room, architecture museum (which is expanding), an art gallery, and a ferris wheel on the roof about 11 floors up. There is a disclaimer on your wristband stating that any injury or damage you incur is not the fault of the city museum, enter at your own risk. I went down the huge slide on the roof, which ends in a tunnel, and had to brake myself HARD with my hands and feet against the sides because someone let their little boy climb into the exit, a bend just at the end of the slide. He saw me coming and SCREAMED and scrambled out of there. The moral of this story is if you take your kids there, watch out for the slides. Some of them are not marked yet.
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RoboRodent posted:Couple of years back my sister called up the local gymnastics club and asked them if they still did birthday parties. They said yes. Then she asked them if they could do an adult birthday party. They kind of paused and then said, well we've never done that but we don't see why not. I did a similar thing for a work offsite then immediately broke my leg on a trampoline. 
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pr0zac posted:I did a similar thing for a work offsite then immediately broke my leg on a trampoline. My buddy works for a programming company that takes day trips to places all the time for company bonding. They went to one of those trampoline facilities that people can bounce off walls and poo poo. Within 15 minutes 5 people had rolled ankles, jacked up their knees, and in 2 cases torn acls.
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Aug 28, 2017 16:33
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At my job we just go go-karting and give each other whiplash.
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At my job most people just drink and play golf together then come to work and talk about drinking and playing golf together
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PCOS Bill posted:At my job most people just drink and play golf together then come to work and talk about drinking and playing golf together How is Ron White lately?
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I like Ron White. 
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syscall girl posted:How is Ron White lately? I don't know who that is
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PCOS Bill posted:I don't know who that is They call him "Tater Salad."
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My elementary school playground had this like 12ft tall bar tower thing. It had a pole on the side. I guess the intention was kids would climb up the inside and then slide down the bar. Instead they got hundreds of kids doing backflips from over 10ft up onto stone playground filling. Lots of fun injuries. We all had an unspoken agreement to lie about it's safety to keep it too. "How did you get this rock embedded in your hand?" "I tripped and fell on it."
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ghosthorse posted:I know a lot of people think this but my public school was actually responsible for the playground change up in Ontario in the early 90's. We had a 12' tall climbing section and a girl fell off it onto a lower section and broke her neck. She was in a halo brace for like 2 or 3 years I moved out of Ontario in 1990 when I was 11. Revisited a couple years ago and the playgrounds in my old neighborhood were gone, nothing but flat grass now. When I visited before in 2003 one of them at least had the sand pit but no structures. I was talking about this with a friend from London, ON and he told me that in his neighborhood, the playgrounds were also made of thick timber beams (same as mine) and some kid managed to get his head stuck in the gap between two of them.
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I apologize to those from Arkansas, but this picture is more or less what I picture when I think of Arkansas.
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Randaconda posted:I like Ron White. Me too. Did you see his 2016 show? I about died.
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syscall girl posted:Me too. Did you see his 2016 show? I about died. Ooooh, no I didn't. Is it on bluray or something, or was it a live show?
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Randaconda posted:Ooooh, no I didn't. Is it on bluray or something, or was it a live show? It was live in Austin
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Well, poo poo.
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MacheteZombie posted:My buddy works for a programming company that takes day trips to places all the time for company bonding. They went to one of those trampoline facilities that people can bounce off walls and poo poo. Within 15 minutes 5 people had rolled ankles, jacked up their knees, and in 2 cases torn acls. "What would be a great activity for people with atrophied everything because they spend all their time sitting?"
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Trampolines lol!!!!!!!!!!!!
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:I remember a giant rocketship too at my preschool. It was in the courtyard and the building was built in 1969, just the right time for SPACE to be in the minds of all children. I attended in the early 90s so it was a bit rusty with flaking paint, but it seemed enormously tall. One playground not far from me has a similar "Submarine" jungle gym, that resembles something like a Gato-class boat. I'm kinda amazed its still there because it may even pre-date the space-craze. When I was a little grabber, the local elementary school had a great playground. The district was never very well funded, and it looks like the city simply took whatever leftovers they had in the Department of Public Works yard, because it was mostly telephone poles, cement sewer culverts, packed earth and old tires. The result was more like a military obstacle course than a playground but we loved it.
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They had stuff there. E: now they have different stuff. Crazy. E2: did I mention that I have fond memories of being a child and playing? E3: at the playground. Cocaine Bear has a new favorite as of 18:36 on Aug 28, 2017 |
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JoelJoel posted:They had stuff there. lol this is so true!
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JoelJoel posted:They had stuff there. 
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mind the walrus posted:There need to be more adult jungle gyms. I don't mean like professional tag or for intensive circuits and self-serious bullshit. I mean reasonably safe playground-style equipment adults can freeplay on. Most people get the best whole body workouts when they aren't following some rigid plan that sucks all the joy out of motion, so facilitate that. Blockbuster did try something like that in 2 places - Albuquerque and Indianapolis. Blockbuster Block Party was basically a proto Dave & Busters with an enclosed jungle gym/ball pit/obstacle course. Blockbuster never capitalized on the idea but the thing that ruined it for me was the fact that the gym area was repeatedly closed down because a couple would gently caress in the ball pit, someone would find the condom, and it would have to be sanitized.
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JoelJoel posted:I went to a playground once.
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