I was like 4, playing with some industrial scrap and dropped a big pipe on my hand and split open a finger tip. Still got a scar on that finger 50 years later. I went crying to grandpa and he got fucking enraged and nearly kicked my ass for being a sniveling little pussy.
Same!! Like did they just pull a world war z and start climbing on top of each other to make a kiddie tower? Or did they just throw each other up there for fun? My guess is they climbed on the top bar, then shimmied down the swing chain into the seat. Sounds like a lot of work to swing 🤣🤣🤣
There's a park near where I live that has absolutely nothing fun. No monkey bars, merry go round or big slide. It has some padding like thing on the ground in case anyone falls from two feet. Boring as hell.
I just showed this to my 5 year old daycare kid.... I said, "Remember how I'm always telling you kids today are little wimps compared to the olden days," he said "yeah.....". His eyes & mouth opened wide for a good minute lol.
Ahhh, the Natural Selection Obstacle Course. Only one thing would make it better, and that would be if they had gravel underneath. These are probably the kids that saved the world in WW1 and possibly WW2.
Now they have restrictions on children's playground equipment to be a certain height, and the ground below has to be "soft" landing material like sand, pea gravel pebbles, soft wood chips, recycled rubber bits, etc. They also can't use metal for most of the construction because it gets too hot in the sun and summer.
Dang, I'm not that old but I remember playing on our school's old playground equipment, and being careful not to burn my legs going down an old metal slide, and to be careful not to jump off the big elevated concrete platform. We used to have a tire swing but the school took it away because we would spin ourselves too fast on it. Every kid was ticked off it was gone.
First kid to break a bone loses.
I was like 4, playing with some industrial scrap and dropped a big pipe on my hand and split open a finger tip. Still got a scar on that finger 50 years later. I went crying to grandpa and he got fucking enraged and nearly kicked my ass for being a sniveling little pussy.
No blood, no foul.
That is an EXTREMELY dangerous situation! Not a one of them is wearing a mask!!!
Fucking LOL!!!!!!!
They are all wearing their magic hats.
As a mom it makes me shudder looking at that. But I do appreciate how tough we used to be. I am also sad at who we have become.
The tee vee was the beginning of our ruination. Along with the film industry showing propaganda reels prior to the movie being watched.
when the kids were kids and fear was to be confronted.
Doesn't look like any of them had a fear of heights.
Vertical ladders 16 rungs ---- 16'
If you hang down 5' that's an 11' drop.
I like the 8' high swings.
Yeaaaaahhh I'm not a heights guy... It's not the elevation that bothers me always, it's the sudden stop at the bottom that gets me....
I want to know how they got up into those swings.
Same!! Like did they just pull a world war z and start climbing on top of each other to make a kiddie tower? Or did they just throw each other up there for fun? My guess is they climbed on the top bar, then shimmied down the swing chain into the seat. Sounds like a lot of work to swing 🤣🤣🤣
Must be for safety.
The old swings had wooden boards for the seat.
They put them up high enough so passerbys wouldn't get hit in the head.
Fair enough. Still quite a ways up kek
Lots of places now have no teeter-totters or merry-go-rounds, replaced by things that are impossible to fall from. Also slides are shorter. Good pic!
There's a park near where I live that has absolutely nothing fun. No monkey bars, merry go round or big slide. It has some padding like thing on the ground in case anyone falls from two feet. Boring as hell.
All I see are healthy BOYS being BOYS who would be capable of beating the crap out of any kid today who called him a girl.
That’s a cool way to strenghten them abs and arms.
No, kiddies just enlarge their stomaches.
Yeah, Americans weren't pu**ies back then. God save us.
Bring back bullies.
Right?! At least you learned who to trust and who not to. Jeez. These young people are mentally handicapped from the Nanny State!
Epic. Not sure of the height comparison but remember flipping off high bars like that in primary school
I just showed this to my 5 year old daycare kid.... I said, "Remember how I'm always telling you kids today are little wimps compared to the olden days," he said "yeah.....". His eyes & mouth opened wide for a good minute lol.
Ahhh, the Natural Selection Obstacle Course. Only one thing would make it better, and that would be if they had gravel underneath. These are probably the kids that saved the world in WW1 and possibly WW2.
TEACHERS - sign up for something like this and help save the kids from physical snowflakiness
https://www.movnat.com/event/2022-educator-certification-usa
This is why they were the Greatest Generation.
Darwinism works
How did they get into those swings??
I remember jumping out of the hay loft as a kid. We would run around and climb up the ladder and do it again and again
Now they have restrictions on children's playground equipment to be a certain height, and the ground below has to be "soft" landing material like sand, pea gravel pebbles, soft wood chips, recycled rubber bits, etc. They also can't use metal for most of the construction because it gets too hot in the sun and summer.
Dang, I'm not that old but I remember playing on our school's old playground equipment, and being careful not to burn my legs going down an old metal slide, and to be careful not to jump off the big elevated concrete platform. We used to have a tire swing but the school took it away because we would spin ourselves too fast on it. Every kid was ticked off it was gone.
Where are the fat kids?
B-b-but, so UNSAFE!!
No wonder people live longer today.