SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS THEN & NOW

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razzle
razzle
July 3, 2017 1:26 pm

Most if not all of the people in the top picture are dead. They might still be with us if they had played on the bottom playground.

TomMacGyver
TomMacGyver
  razzle
July 3, 2017 2:16 pm

Most of the people who use the bottom playground will think that the world should be made safe for them from cradle to grave. They’ll die the first time they have to actually face a dangerous situation, as they won’t have the experience or the cajones to deal with it…

razzle
razzle
  TomMacGyver
July 3, 2017 2:23 pm

Don’t be silly.

There will never be dangerous situations again and the stock market will never crash again.

James R. Chaillet, Jr., MD
James R. Chaillet, Jr., MD
  razzle
July 3, 2017 2:22 pm

Check your math. If any of those in the upper picture were still alive, he/she would be well over a hundred years old.

razzle
razzle
  James R. Chaillet, Jr., MD
July 3, 2017 2:27 pm

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razzle
razzle
  James R. Chaillet, Jr., MD
July 3, 2017 3:00 pm

Also if you’re gonna be PC go all the way… he/she is gender binary and excludes those on the spectrum.

The proper term is “it” or “those things”.

Unreconstructed Southerner
Unreconstructed Southerner
  James R. Chaillet, Jr., MD
July 3, 2017 5:14 pm

MD. Well bust my buttons. We’ve a college boy in our midst. Me? I’m kinda like Gus McRae when he told Woodrow Call…..”Just once in my life I’d like the chance to shoot at an educated man”.

All in fun brother. Just breakin’ balls.

razzle
razzle
  Unreconstructed Southerner
July 3, 2017 6:37 pm

There ain’t a lot of fun being had in this thread it seems.

I’m thinking too many of these other folk spent too much time playing on plastic jokes and can’t recognize a metal joke when they see one.

I did the math.

JRCJ,MD + Joke = NothingBurger

james the deplorable wanderer
james the deplorable wanderer
July 3, 2017 6:48 pm

I bet none of those 1912 kids worried one bit about diversity, binary gender discrimination, the patriarchy, transfer payments, multiculturalism, poverty (even if they suffered from it), foreign wars, or their retirements.
I wish none of mine (or anyone else’s) did now.

nkit
nkit
July 3, 2017 8:47 pm

I remember the old fashioned Merry-go-Rounds as a kid.. Push and run as fast as you can.. Nothing to ride on, just jump on the wood…no worries…

like this
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Fiatman60
Fiatman60
  nkit
July 3, 2017 11:21 pm

Nkit…. that playground is way too hazardous for today’s kids to play in. The train tracks are too close… kids might go onto the tracks…. Harmful dioxins spewing from the diesel locomotives… too much high frequency squealing of the wheels… possible derailment of hazardous materials etc etc.
I demand that the tracks be moved to a safer location….
/ sarc off/

peaknic
peaknic
  nkit
July 5, 2017 10:09 am

Uh…, you can still find brand new merry-go-rounds being installed in public playgounds today. My town in NJ has one only a couple of years old.

nobody
nobody
July 3, 2017 10:36 pm

In the Thunderdome playground, is that a kid falling off on the left side of the photo, near the ladder?