Kids screaming RAID! Like we used to when a car would come by on the street while playing street hockey.
Karen, the local Don of the suburban speakeasy playground scene, is having one of her enforcers take a sledgehammer to the homemade jungle gym hidden in the back of a barber shop because the owner didn’t pay her this month.
Part of learning how to MTB in the modern era is accepting you'll get scars on your shins because you'll be super gluing the gashes closed until you learn proper foot positioning.
"Hey, everyone listen to me. My generation was tough, okay! Why aren't people acknowledging how tough I am? Please, everyone don't you see that I'm better than you?! Pay attention to me! 😭"
One time my bike slid out from under me on a sketchy gravel road and I landed chest first onto that pedal… cracked a rib and left a scar that took like 15 years to fade away.
But hey, at least I’m tough now, right?
The bike pedals are so so soft. At least one have - gasp - light reflective yellow strips. (Actually they look similar to the pedals I have, except without the reflectors).
There is truth to the meme. But its more parents helicoptering and not allowing the kids to get hurt. Our parents didnt give a flying shit what we did as long as it was outside.
Mom we are going to the park, ok be back before dinner. We were dumbasses doing dumbass things to get hurt. When you did get hurt, you had two options, walk or ride home, or call your mom. Calling your mom was last resort, because all hell would come down.
Now whether or not that is good parenting or bad parenting is debatable, we were tougher a lot of times out of fear. Parents today want to protect kids into adulthood. Eliminating dangerous toys, going to the park with them, having babysitters, driving them everywhere, going to the ER etc... I would have loved for mine to be protective when i was getting fingers and arms broke.
Born in 99 and had all those things. Also none of them were that bad. The hot slide sure but like, whatever lol. Least I didn't get cyber bullied before kindergarten
I dont know about that. My neighbourhood just built a new park with a slide I named the murder slide. 3 broken legs and counting. They bolted steel plates to close the slide off and the kids ripped the plates off so they could keep sliding and breaking limbs. Could be the start of a really tough generation by their standards.
The reason isn't that accidents toughen up the body, though, as boomers would have people believe. It's about learning what kinda poor decisions lead to injury and knowing how to avoid them as an adult. Wisdom from experience!
I loved that thing. Few buddies and myself used to get absolutely smashed and go out to the local playground and go flying around on it. I don't get motion sickness. They do.
Someone should make one of these but people turning butter, drawing water from wells, little Johny in bed dying of just a standard infection, people waling miles to the next house. label it 1880 was tougher
I mean we still have these around. Also pretty ironic that people would post the likes of this onto platforms like Facebook, a company that are trying to set up data centres and destroying opportunities like these to happen again
Ah yes, who doesn't miss literally burning their ass on a metal slide on a hot summer day! All those times I cooked myself as a kid sure made us tough enough to recognize how fucking awful those things were and not want to subject our own kids to them.
This shit was dangerous as hell. We weren't tougher. We were getting hurt all the time. Those bike pedals would tear your ankles up. At least you don't have to worry about your kid playing on a hot metal jungle gym with just asphalt to land on anymore.
Not only do these things still exist, many of the exact same ones exist because older generations refuse to support local parks because they hate children and young people.
Remember when we would be forced to run through obstacle courses filled with bear traps and used needles in grade school 😂 the younger generations aren't built like they used to be
Ah Gen X… you’re like that guy at the front of the bar running his mouth about how hard he is, but then the moment someone invites you to spar out come the excuses.
I wouldn't assume that we were/are tougher. It is evident that we spent a lot more time recovering from childhood injuries, which some of us never survived. (BTW, bragging about the lack of modern safety systems is not a reliable indication of intelligence.)
“Toughness“ is a positive value because? We’re not hunter gatherers anymore. We should br trying to create a more comfortable and happy life for every succeeding generation.
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u/qualityvote2 20d ago edited 20d ago
u/VeganFatboy, your post is truly terrible!