I found my dream home.

[frapjap]

I like how the diagram says you have to put your arms in the air.

The proportion of walking to actual sliding fun looks like a crappy trade off. Whatever happened to the direct slide with a crudely built rusty ladder and the shiny stainless that got faster when it was wet? The new plastic contraptions are an embarrassment to slides everywhere.

[Encryptshun]

^ Agreed.

If the incline doesn't get somewhere near the surface temperature of the sun during summer afternoons, it's not a real slide. The ones in my local park when I was a kid would slough the skin right off your legs as you went down.

[frapjap]

^ Agreed.

If the incline doesn't get somewhere near the surface temperature of the sun during summer afternoons, it's not a real slide. The ones in my local park when I was a kid would slough the skin right off your legs as you went down.

Oh god, the temps were brutal in FL sun! Remember these?

The old metal panel slide that would cut you if the metal started to separate?

Stupid People Society has reduced us from awesome, tough, character building playgrounds with dirty sand as a base and wood slivers at every childs reach



to this worthless drivel of "safety," chopped up old rubber, artificial turf, and pussified plastic s***. WHAT THE HELL DOES IT NEED SHADE FOR!?!? Kids NEED sunburns to remind them when they're older to wear sunscreen at the cookie cutter resort they're going to stay at year after year for the same vacation.


Gone are the days of the metal jungle gym that you became a man when you could walk to the top of it without using your hands, avoiding the pointy rivets, rusty bolts, and sharp edges on the octagons.


Seriously, who can forget this rusty, and arguably most dangerous version of the monkey bars? I don't even know that its called, but its a BEAST and has claimed many a concussions, dislocated arms, and broken collarbones.


I don't even think tire swings are allowed anymore...

[drksolest]

Gone are the days of the metal jungle gym that you became a man when you could walk to the top of it without using your hands, avoiding the pointy rivets, rusty bolts, and sharp edges on the octagons.

i loved that thing

[Encryptshun]

My grade school playground had one like this:



Yes, we played on it in the rain and in the winter.
Yes, I lost my grip at the very top and fell all the way down the inner structure, hitting my head on every rung and landing flat on my back.
Yes, the fact that I did that made people laugh at me.
Yes, the fact that I got up and climbed right back up got me a kiss under the slide from the cutest girl in my grade. No one laughed then.

We are going to nanny our boys into being shapeless globs of doughy emo vagina flesh.

[Jesda]

Childhood was awesome

[snwbrdr435]

[snwbrdr435]

we also had tons of these

[danshaz82]

they would always pinch the hell out of your legs. and the when you would try and run back up them, you would fall and smash your face. good times

[Encryptshun]

^^ I loved those. Especially since the material on the outside inevitably got cut off/stripped away/rotted leaving on ly the exposed chain underneath.

If you can't get tetanus on it, it ain't playground equipment!

[snwbrdr435]

there's a reason kids get tetanus shots

[Razi]

My grade school playground had one like this:



Yes, we played on it in the rain and in the winter.
Yes, I lost my grip at the very top and fell all the way down the inner structure, hitting my head on every rung and landing flat on my back.
Yes, the fact that I did that made people laugh at me.
Yes, the fact that I got up and climbed right back up got me a kiss under the slide from the cutest girl in my grade. No one laughed then.

We are going to nanny our boys into being shapeless globs of doughy emo vagina flesh.

What a hero.

Instead of getting a kiss I fell flat on my back and got the wind knocked out of me while the fat a** teacher did nothing but stare.

[Encryptshun]

Teacher male or female?

[Razi]

Female.
She was huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.

[Encryptshun]

1) She probably wouldn't have fit through the monkey bars to come get you. If she had tried, she'd have gotten stuck. That would have been HI Larious.

2) You still should have kissed her.

[Razi]

Oh, I fell towards the outside.
All the kids, including a girl I liked, gathered around me.

I think it happened one or two times more after that. I never learn!

[krimsonviper]

Oh, I fell towards the outside.
All the kids, including a girl I liked, gathered around me.

I think it happened one or two times more after that. I never learn!

That's alright, you got some sense knocked into you.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

This thread went off on an awesome tangent.

I fractured my wrist in 4th grade when I tried to do some sort of olympic tripple linding (rodney dangerfield style) on the school playground. After 2 hours in class without it feeling better (cos... when you're a kid, walking it off actually DOES work), I went to the nurse and got a bag of ice.
2 days later I went to the hospital. Couldn't use that arm for a month!

[nissangirl74]

This thread went off on an awesome tangent.

I fractured my wrist in 4th grade when I tried to do some sort of olympic tripple linding (rodney dangerfield style) on the school playground. After 2 hours in class without it feeling better (cos... when you're a kid, walking it off actually DOES work), I went to the nurse and got a bag of ice.
2 days later I went to the hospital. Couldn't use that arm for a month!

Good thing it happened in the fourth grade. No need for the hand.

[Encryptshun]

This thread went off on an awesome tangent.

I fractured my wrist in 4th grade when I tried to do some sort of olympic tripple linding (rodney dangerfield style) on the school playground. After 2 hours in class without it feeling better (cos... when you're a kid, walking it off actually DOES work), I went to the nurse and got a bag of ice.
2 days later I went to the hospital. Couldn't use that arm for a month!

Good thing it happened in the fourth grade. No need for the hand.

Speak for yourself. Some of us bloom earlier than others.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Dude I had so many sluts all over my knob in 4th grade, it didn't matter if I lost BOTH hands!

[PapaSmurf2k3]

^I could see myself running for some sort of important position some day, and that coming back to haunt me.

[Encryptshun]

Man, if anything we said on Nico could be used against us, nobody on this entire forum would be electable.

Except maybe for Jay. Because, you know, he's running for President of NAMBLA.

[danshaz82]

Except maybe for Jay. Because, you know, he's running for President of NAMBLA.

the national association of marlon brando look alikes?

[Encryptshun]

Except maybe for Jay. Because, you know, he's running for President of NAMBLA.

the national association of marlon brando look alikes?

Shazzy, you are like that part of my brain that I always want to use more.

[ILOVESILVIA(S13)]

"I probably took more than anybody could survive. ... I was bangin' seven-gram rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll, because I have one speed, one gear. ... I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs."

[danshaz82]

Shazzy, you are like that part of my brain that I always want to use more.

i do what i can

[MinisterofDOOM]

Man, if anything we said on Nico could be used against us, nobody on this entire forum would be electable.

Good thing Emeperor isn't an elected position.

[drksolest]

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