Any good jokes ... ?
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Chris S
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Toshiba Boy
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What, all two inches......of the mat....
ebikeerwidnes
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Oh yes - I never saw one until the sanitised version came out in recent times
but I have seen photos of the original and they could have been specifically designed to injure kids!!
I seem to remember that roundabouts had a handy gap under them and it was just big enough to trap a foot between the nice rough tarmac and the big spinney metal thing weighing a ton or so!!!
Oh - and it was normal for kids to just go down to the playground on their own in many areas - just had to be back in time for tea
I also remember the tarmac in the playground at my Primary School
made of tarmac with little red stones in it
and the stones were a complicated shape made up of angles with edges sharp enough to rip a main battle tank apart
and if you cut yourself when you fell over then you REALLY didn;t want the teachers to find out because they would put some anti-septic on it
The anti-septic was called witch hazel and was designed by a psychopathic alchemist who, with the help of fire demons, worked for centuries to come up with a liquid that caused the maximum pain possible when applied to an open wound.
probably
but we survived !!!
Andy in Germany
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When I worked at a "City farm" in Germany one play area was a "Hut village" where kids could "rent" a hut and build extensions. It included a "city wall", a sort of rickety catwalk that wound through the "village" with all kinds of gaps, steps and wobbly sections, with not a single handrail. I built some sections, but the children often maintained it.
I was told it was fine as long as the walkway was no more than 2m above the ground (bare earth plus sticks, nails, bits of wood, chickens, sheep poo et c). This was somewhat liberally interpreted. The philosophy was that kids need to be exposed to risk, and they'd work it out.
I asked my boss what happened if someone fell off; he said, "They'll learn from the experience."
I was told it was fine as long as the walkway was no more than 2m above the ground (bare earth plus sticks, nails, bits of wood, chickens, sheep poo et c). This was somewhat liberally interpreted. The philosophy was that kids need to be exposed to risk, and they'd work it out.
I asked my boss what happened if someone fell off; he said, "They'll learn from the experience."
mistyoptic
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Do you need therapy for that experience?
Jameshow
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Kids need therapy from smartphones rather than the great outdoors!
Joey Shabadoo
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Profpointy
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The witch's hat was great fun as kids could play together on it and you'd have to hang on tight as it clanged against the stop.
The other good one was a kind of long plank swing with four solid bars; "cranks" as it were. Again it required several of you to team up to play on it.
There was a play park near my nana's house in the Valleys. As a quite little boy I'd go across on my own and play with whatever kids where there, none of whom I knew. I think it's very much "a good thing" for child development
A few years ago I was quite shocked by a comment someone at work made that her and other parents would take it it in turns to supervise a group of kids at the playpark. The kids were 11 ffs! She was from Croatia and thought it odd (hence commenting) but went along with it assuming it was normal in Britain.
Toshiba Boy
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A Trump of Seagulls or a Flock of Trumps?
SteveO69
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SteveO69
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Retyred.life
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Witch hazel. Hah! Mother's milk compared to Merthiolate.
