amalgamation of all the parents’ suppressed negative feelings towards their kids into one object
When people ask where I was at during 9/11. I didn’t find out about it until hours after it happened
Wrong thread, I think. So what were you doing hours before you found out about it?
I was young, I just know I was playing on one of these before I heard about it
Maybe he was west coast and sleeping. The first plane hit pretty early in the morning.
I was shaving my head. Happened to have the news on the TV in the background and thought ‘fuck, that’s awful’ after the first plane, then ‘fuck, that’s deliberate’ after the second. I guess the twin towers is our ‘you remember where you were moment’ for those of us too young to remember the moon landings.
I was in school at the time. The teacher had it on the tv when I walked in (just after the first plane hit) and I was so excited to watch an action movie instead of doing work. When the camera didn’t change the view for a couple minutes, everyone gave me the stinkeye when I criticized it for being boring.
Then my teacher explained what was happening and told us all to rmember it because people will ask us for the rest of our lives where we were when this happened. I didn’t get it at the time, but he was right.
Yup, I was at work in Albany at the time and called my mom in California and told her to turn on the TV.
My old school “upgraded” it when we left… by asphalting around it.
If you had to work around the hateful little shits all day you’d be trying to look for low key ways to maim them too.
If you truly hate kids, this is what you have to do. Introduce dangers with plausible deniability.
How was I supposed to know the kids would use it to turn each other into meat crayons?
If you truly hate kids, this is what you have to do. Introduce dangers with plausible deniability.
My knuckles still hurt from the memories of slamming those box scooters into each other before they started putting handles on them.
My school had one on dirt. The panels were wood and had a hole in it. Finally, one day, we were playing and a kid’s foot went down there and got fucked up. He was like a rockstar coming into school next day with stitches and crutches.
Knees are overrated.
Uncle Dave out there spinning the yeet machine up to 11.
Don’t swing on that one, Matt threw up on it.
I only think of one thing when I see “Meatspin”. And I don’t want to search for it… But it gets You Spin Me Round stuck in my head…
That was my spray in TF 2 for a while. Had to pay it forward, right?
Good times.
Lemon Party conjures the same kind of deep trauma.
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The cure for that is some goatse.
Me and the boys love a French 75
Like a record, baby.
My kindergarten had a much cruder and unsafe version of this. My
systemsister has a scar on her forehead from the time she fell off of it and an open ended pipe in the structure hit her. We went absolutely wild spinning that thing.I hope your
system is doing butter thesis dames.sister is doing better these days.Poetry.
The game was, you’d put one kid in the middle and then everybody else would do their level best to spin the damn thing so fast it would either drill into the Earth’s mantle or take off like a helicopter.
In my home village we have a much safer and much better version of it:
You can accelerate yourself by just pulling at the plate in the middle, meaning that everyone can have fun and you can probably get much higher speeds.
Meh, the constant threat of being thrown violently out into oblivion was most of the fun!
„Safer“ until you get flung against the metal bar before flying off. Because to get it up to speed you have to stand up.
Once the children are a bit bigger they don’t have to stand up to spin it. For smaller children its true.
Where can I get this
Exactly you can use the railing to hang on the outside. Greater speed and much more fun.
Back in my day, we walked for miles uphill in the snow to school, we rode the unprotected meatspin, broke all of our bones, and then we walked for miles uphill back home. Kids these days are so spoiled and pampered!!!
I don’t remember ever being thrown off of one of these. But I always see memes like this.
Part of the fun is hanging off the side of it to increase the G forces.
My school had one of those. One day we got the idea to tie one of the kids to it around his waist and make him run around to spin it. I still remember our teacher asking “where’s Willy?” once recess was over, then looking out the window to see him desperately trying to untie himself.
There are 3 nearby, including one at a super crowded park. I think one is getting torn out though.
Have you seen the videos using motorbike wheels to spin these things up?
Whistlindiesel on YouTube put a jet engine on one
This was the best one.
Broken bones was just an indication that you gotta get good.
These were so much fun as a kid and pretty good as a drunk adult too
We used to walk up hill both ways in the snow to the hospital
