We cared not for the danger, only that we'd reach the center at max speed
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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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
That's what the child-sized cigarettes were for
not 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.
Which generation is that, though? Like basically everybody experienced this as a kid.
Around here they started getting rid of them in the 80's. The story I was told is that kids would play "dropsies" where you'd 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.
That's the gruesomest story I heard but I found many, many other ways to injure myself on these things.
Wow, that's messed up, most what we did is just throw people off it or throw drinks at em when the thing was up to relativistic speeds.
That isn't rust on the roundabout, it's dried blood.
"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.
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.
I 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.
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.
Boo! Pointless nostalgia bait is lame
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 👍
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
So our kids being dumber because we grew with this? 🤔 Or your point is different?
It's just a joke is all.
Mine too 😎