• luciole (he/him)
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    255 months ago

    While clothing slides at exhilarating speed over a metal slider, sticky sweaty skin will instantly and firmly grip to it. You do NOT want to initiate thigh skin contact in the middle of a descent.

  • @[email protected]
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    175 months ago

    We did those shitty fundraising sales the entire 6 years I was in elementary school with the promise of more playground equipment and finally when I was in 5th grade they put up a single slide. In hindsight someone had to be skimming off the top there.

    • Dark Arc
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      45 months ago

      They always are … they’re a scam and should be illegal IMO

    • Nougat
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      85 months ago

      We had asphalt. Monkey bars on it, too. For first graders. So many broken arms.

      • Mom Nom Mom
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        35 months ago

        Ooh, damn that’s rough!

        I think we had some bars over asphalt/concrete/cement (I dunno, it was a big solid surface that was also the parking lot, the kickball diamond, the wiffle ball field, and where we had all of our field and track days) but I only ever fell off the ones over the rocks. I do remember friends with broken teeth or busted noses from that, tho.

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      5 months ago

      Huh, interesting reading these comments. In my area it was wood chips. Splinters everywhere, jammed between toenails and fingernails, wood chips to the face, throwing wood chips in each others eyes…

      It was not many years later that school playground was renovated to have the softer outdoor foam play floor

      • Mom Nom Mom
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        85 months ago

        I think wood chips were added later (after I was out of that school) “for safety” and then rubber mulch was an even later upgrade.

        And when did something soft go in the playground area? Waaaay later, the school got actual grass in the playground - instead of playground equipment. 🙄 Building was closed within a few years of that happening.

  • @[email protected]
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    35 months ago

    Hey, I just went down one of these last week!

    It was still on a half day preheat, so it wasn’t that hot.

  • @[email protected]
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    25 months ago

    My family invested in a jungle-gym when I was a kid. We were lucky. The slide was wood with a thin wax coating. It lasted about one year in that region, baking in one season, swelling in another, freezing and thawing in the other two, until it became a splinter distributor and we never used it again.

    For the metal slides, however, lying on a skateboard + metal slide = somehow never broke a bone.