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best playground ever
Topic Started: May 5 2010, 07:58 PM (424 Views)
el-b
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...playground.html

phh! ignorant parents have no idea what makes a good playground! well its not like anyone really goes on swings anymore anyway :P
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Kyrtuck
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lol, I heard about this years ago in Muse magazine.


And shux, the swings were my favorite.
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Is it time for el-b's regular spamming-Daily-Mail-links session?

What's that, an article about a council approving the construction of some strange assortment for bricks? Hardly surprising.
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Feldoon,May 5 2010
10:08 PM
Is it time for el-b's regular spamming-Daily-Mail-links session?

What's that, an article about a council approving the construction of some strange assortment for bricks? Hardly surprising.

To be fair it DOES look like shite. One slip and that's a lovely big lawsuit for "Drove teeth out of mouth and into brain."
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Feldoon,May 5 2010
10:08 PM
Is it time for el-b's regular spamming-Daily-Mail-links session?

What's that, an article about a council approving the construction of some strange assortment for bricks? Hardly surprising.

id hardly call it regular, and two links isnt that much of a spamfest lol. every now and again i end up on that site and with all those links down the side is just so easy to find linkable crap.

years ago? typical of the media really. slow week, latch onto something even mildly insane and make it out like it happened yesterday.

is it wrong that i find the top picture amusing? even a 7 year old is facepalming at it.
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What the heck did they connect "hard, grey blocks of concrete" to "encourage kids to use imagination"?

But we had imagination when we had swings and climbing frames! They might as well give someone a prison cell with an open door and say "do what you want". Everyone would do the obvious - leave.
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el-b,May 5 2010
11:29 PM
easy to find linkable crap.

Sorry, but the emphasis there has to be on crap.

Said it before, the Mail & Metro are filled with stories like this that affect a tiny population, which the rest of the country can only draw one conclusion from. Yes, we can all agree that it's sad and pointless that this thing got built: but the point of forum threads is to get some discussion going about a topic, usually a single issue which you can have multiple views on, not to get everyone to go 'Tsk tsk' and agree on your point of view, which is the only point of view.

Before you make a thread, think about whether it's something to be discussed or something to be read. If it's the latter, keep it to yourself, or if you desperately have to share it, save it until another thread is going in that direction.
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HunteRS,May 5 2010
10:19 PM
One slip and that's a lovely big lawsuit for "Drove teeth out of mouth and into brain."

Yep, pretty-much.

Anyone for a few rounds of "Another Brick In The Wall"? >:)
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We don't need no slides and see-saws.
We don't need no swings at all.
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Pixellated,May 5 2010
10:55 PM
the point of forum threads is to get some discussion going about a topic, usually a single issue which you can have multiple views on, not to get everyone to go 'Tsk tsk' and agree on your point of view, which is the only point of view.

or to point out something funny. its hardly a political thread.
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http://www.returntothejunkyard.org/index.html



When I was a kid in California, there were large areas that had been hit with mudslides and earthquakes. Much of the cast-off refuse was tossed into what were supposed to become landfills, but ended up being giant pits full of --- well --- interesting garbage.

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This sign said it all for the places I was privileged to visit. Supervision was there, but kids were generally free to actually do things with all the junk. The best one I recall was a huge open pit that looked like it'd been meant to be the site of a new skyscraper that never got built...easily a half-mile across, with two loosely-adjoined lakes formed by rainfall and a little actual dredging.

We tore into iron barrels with hacksaws, plywood and hammers and two-by-fours and nails, and built pirate rafts that barely floated. There was a project to try and restore an actual boat (a really old half-rotted dinghy), not driven by the supervisors or parents but because we could.

I still love junkyards.
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Calbeck,May 7 2010
09:06 AM
http://www.returntothejunkyard.org/index.html



When I was a kid in California, there were large areas that had been hit with mudslides and earthquakes. Much of the cast-off refuse was tossed into what were supposed to become landfills, but ended up being giant pits full of --- well --- interesting garbage.

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This sign said it all for the places I was privileged to visit. Supervision was there, but kids were generally free to actually do things with all the junk. The best one I recall was a huge open pit that looked like it'd been meant to be the site of a new skyscraper that never got built...easily a half-mile across, with two loosely-adjoined lakes formed by rainfall and a little actual dredging.

We tore into iron barrels with hacksaws, plywood and hammers and two-by-fours and nails, and built pirate rafts that barely floated. There was a project to try and restore an actual boat (a really old half-rotted dinghy), not driven by the supervisors or parents but because we could.

I still love junkyards.

Keep in mind, this is the state that voted the Terminator in as governor.
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Maybe they figured the minimal style would allow them to use more IMAGINATTTIONNNN!!!!!!! XD

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At that point you might as well let them play in a construction site.
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Kyrtuck
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Okay, I looked back at the Muse magazine I was talking about, and it wasn't quite the same thing. But anywhoo....


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Sabre_Justice,May 8 2010
02:55 AM
At that point you might as well let them play in a construction site.

Well, it beats the hell out of them sitting around playing fucking computer games all day....

And I say that in full knowledge of where I am. :)
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Aww man, thats depressing. They've taken the 'play' out of playground. I remember an awesome playground in Reading right by the river... it had tube slides, swings, ziplines, this weird pedal-roundabout thing, those tyres-on-chains that'd make you sick if someone spun you too fast... hell, it even had an awesome lake-like area with a chain-raft and a great waterbased island to mess around in.

When I see what has happened to things like that nowadays, it makes me sad that kids simply dont get access to such cool areas anymore, because of the overprotective twats that think that all fun should be safe. If you lose some skin here, or get friction burns there, its all part of having fun as a kid. You toughen up, you learn not to hurt yourself, you go back to having fun.

Ahh, I shouldnt be ranting, but I get pissed off when you see how pathetic its all become. It shouldnt be about liability, it should be about fun. Bring back childhood!
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Reminds me of one day I came to the playground around here and found that they'd completely removed the old, rather dangerous playground I knew and replaced it with one of the cookie-cutter sets. Being around seven I was completely inconsolable.

I think there's been a backlash against the whole 'children in plastic bubbles' style of parenting, so hopefully we'll start seeing less of this insanity.
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Zakarius,May 15 2010
08:02 PM
It shouldnt be about liability, it should be about fun. Bring back childhood!

This is what comes of the Rule Of Law -- it inevitably becomes the Rule Of Lawyers.

And childhood ends the first time you wind up with a major injury and don't blub like a little bitch about it.... >:)
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flyboy254,May 7 2010
05:29 PM
Keep in mind, this is the state that voted the Terminator in as governor.

Keep in mind, the state was almost wholly run by "Dukemeijan Democrats" in the '70s when this was going on. Schwarzie would never have gotten his shot if the Old Guard hadn't screwed things up so incredibly bad that the public actually recalled Davis.

And yeah, all in all it was a big old construction site, and we loved it to pieces. Literally. :lol:
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Calbeck,May 20 2010
09:38 AM
"Dukemeijan Democrats"

"Deukmejian", actually -- and don't bloody remind me. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian
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