Posted on 07/22/2008 11:55:31 AM PDT by Alouette
I don't think PETA will let them do that anymore.
When I said “pole”, it was really more of a PVC electrical conduit, with a big ol’ crack on one side...
You had heat?? During the Wisconsin glaciation we had to play on ice. Damn global warming, made you all a bunch of softies.
The crocodiles ate all the alligators on our playground just before the flesh eating bacteria did them in.
Oh, so in otherwords, you are one of those Liberals.
Kids throwing sand is bad right? Never mind kids falling or landing in it at the bottom of a slide, after all, a cat may have poo'd in it. (not likely, cats knew better to hang around playgrounds where evil little kids might swing it by the tail and launch it into the wading pool)
Of course Liberal nanny's can never fathom the thought little johnny can be so cruel.
...and painful cuts and puncture wounds from the pieces of the used, cut-up steel belts which used to reside IN those tires...
“...and painful cuts and puncture wounds from the pieces of the used, cut-up steel belts which used to reside IN those tires...”
LOL, no they pull the steel belts out...but I get your point. Replace one hazard for another.
There might be some rocks in the sand and the kids could bruise their feet or knees. The same thing with the wooden playscapes that are now plastic. Too many splinters from the wood, so everything changed to plastic. The bad thing is that the plastic breaks after years in the sun and cuts the kids.
It's for the "kids".
Lake?
Your duck droppings were in a LAKE?
We had to take them straight from the duck!!!
Okay, that’s enough. Now I have disgusted even myself...
Or just shove the shell in the “Y” of a tree branch!
Or take a small marble and tape to the bottom of a shell - throw it in the air and when it lands - “bang”! (Although we were “smart???” enough to take out the pellets first).
And then whine about the childhood obesity epidemic. Don’t forget to leave out that final step.
Problem is, most plastics ALSO get blistering hot in the sun in the summer time.
They should have just stayed with good ol’ galvanized steel, wood and concrete for play ground equipment.
We weren’t...
“I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldnt get those white ones, you could only get those big yellow ones.................now where was I........oh yeah, the important thing was I was wearing an onion on my nelt, which was the style at the time, you couldnt get those... (trails off)”
>>Sand gets tracked into the SUV carpet.
Barack Obama doesn't call children "punishments" for nothing.
[PVC electrical conduit???]
We would died to have electrical conduit, our barbed wire had an electrical charge pulsing through it but it made us tough...tough and Pi$$ed off.
LOL! Actually - only when we did the marble trick. I mean, shooting at the BACK of them with your BB gun was obviously safe!
I remember the old practice field at high school had sverything made out of steel and concreted into the ground. The extra point / field goal posts were on the goal line an no cushions on them either.
"We're not going to remove [the mats]," Benepe told The News. "Our playgrounds are the safest in the world."
Well, then. No problem. After all, children never fall down or sit down - besides, you could take eggs and meat to the park and cook them lunch while they're playing.
No one, it seems, has been taught critical thinking. No one thinks a thing through, like "If I do this, what might be ramifications?"
And even worse, when there's proof of harmful consequences, they brush it off as if that will somehow make it okay.
And besides, they have a sign up!
I'll bet you even rode in the back of the station wagon.
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