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wizard@fedinsfw.app to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days ago

Trampolines are socially-accepted pens for kids

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Trampolines are socially-accepted pens for kids

wizard@fedinsfw.app to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days ago
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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    Back in my day, trampolines didn’t come with walls. You just flew off the side, or got your legs jammed between the springs. Bah! Kids today!

    • thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net
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      I haven’t broken many bones, but every bone I’ve broken broke during an unplanned trampoline dismount.

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        I haven’t broken many bones, but every bone I’ve broken wasn’t one of mine.

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          Call this guy an ambulance. Just to hover his surrondings.

        • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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          We were rowdy kids.

      • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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        I’ve enjoyed many hours on trampolines and have never broken a bone or incurred any injury whatsoever.

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      I think this every time I see a trampoline with the walls and stuff.

      Getting double bounced by an older siblings and launched into the stratosphere is truly terrifying.

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      Yup, my mom bought one for my brother and I. Just a rectangle with exposed springs. No pads, no walls or nets.

      We never did get hurt, but man, we could do that double-jump timing thing and send each other ridiculously high.

    • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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      That was how I got my first head injury!

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    Wait till you hear about ball pits and bounce houses

    • TabbsTheBat (they/them)@pawb.social
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      And playpens. That one literally has pen in the name

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        I like to think of it as rage in the cage, like wrestlemania but for kids

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          Fight! Fight! Fight!

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      I was a child before ball pits were really a thing. I do have very young toddlers now though. Ive heard that theyre super duper unhygienic? Makes sense I guess.

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        For germs, a ball pit is like rolling around on a bathroom floor.

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    how do you write with a trampoline?

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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      Ball point pen

      Fountain pen

      Ink pen

      Things that probably don’t go well with trampolines

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    If you think about it, blow up dolls and bouncy castles serve the same purpose:

    • they provide you about 5 minutes of fun
    • but your kids would stay in them indefinitely

    the key difference though, is the format of the kids you put into each.

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    You need to tie the opening shut if you plan to leave them unattended, though. Even then, they can get out, the slippery little bastards.

    This reminded me that when I was a kid, my best friend had a privacy flip lock on the outside of his bedroom door. I remember asking about it, but I don’t remember what he said. I’m guessing they locked him in his room when he was sent to his room for being bad.

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    When I was in grade school there was a girl in a wheelchair that would make the circuit of school assemblies warning of the evils of trampolines. Never touched one to this day.

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      What if you don’t inhale?

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        That was the slogan for the ‘Don’t Huff Electronics Duster Even Though It’s Fun And Easy To Steal’ assembly they had the week after.

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    Trampolines are for every fit adult and child.

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    For kids? 🤨

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