I remember we didn’t stop those for anybody. You want on? Sprint and jump. Want off? I still have a vivid memory of trying to get off one, being thrown outward, and getting a bar between the legs. Went to the bathroom and found blood in my underwear. Can’t believe I still walked home after that
Meatspin
Submitted 8 months ago by Gork@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’ll happen after a solid meatspinning. Merry-go-rounds can be pretty dangerous too if you’re not careful.
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Mums will not let their kids on it. Dads will spun it faster to teach their kinds about conservation of momentum.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As a dad I once spun it so fast I made a kid throw up. It was awesome.
Dhar@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I did that to my own son. He barfed in the car and I learned my lesson.
Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The parents not caring is bullshit. Once my Dad came over and explained, we were doing it wrong and demonstrated for the kids a better, faster, more dangerous method before then ignoring us and heading back to the other adults.
Psythik@lemmy.world 8 months ago
One thing I hate about being a 90s kid is that I was not allowed to do anything fun that could potentially injure me, because religious conservative Boomer parents were afraid of anything and everything back then. I wasn’t even allowed to play StarCraft because it had “craft” in the name, and “craft” was associated with Witchcraft. My dad wouldn’t even pump gas without inspecting the handle closely beforehand because he thought get people were gluing HIV-infected needles to them.
Even after I moved out he would constantly come over unannounced to check on me. If I refused to answer, he’d call the police and file a missing person’s report. I was actually somewhat relieved when he died a couple of years ago, because for the first time in my life, I was allowed to be an independent adult at the age of 35
Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
90s kid here: Your parents were just insane.
Affidavit@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This post makes me question my interpretation of events.
I have acquaintances who seem to have a paranoid belief that every other person in the world is a paedophile just waiting for an opportunity to kidnap their child. Growing up in the 90s, I had a great deal of freedom in comparison to this thought process. I played cricket on the streets, I walked around the neighbourhood without concern, I walked my dog in the evenings. My parents didn’t seem to think I would be unsafe without them around to coddle me.
I guess no matter the generation there are parents who go too far in one extreme or another… Though tbh, being concerned about witchcraft seems more medieval than boomer. Sorry for your loss, but I’m glad you feel more free now. I imagine it must be a complex mix of emotions.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That blows, because we’re similar age, I’m born in '87, and I look back fondly at the freedom I had as a kid. It’s a bit how I intend to model my parenting around, although it’s hard to escape modern times in my mind sometimes. But my kids will wander around the neighborhood alone (in a couple of years, still too young), get dirty, stay out til the sun goes down, that kind of thing, with the caveat of not bothering people and their properties. Probably easier said than done on my part, we shall see.
Laborer3652@reddthat.com 8 months ago
I couldn’t pump gas because my cousin did once and got soaked in gas. I learned decades later its because he wasn’t supposed to pump the gas but did anyway and squeezed the handle as he pulled it out of the pump and sprayed it everywhere.
I couldn’t play Magic: The Gathering because you “summoned” monsters and that meant summoning demons to my mom.
Halloween was the devils holiday and was a somber affair.
Harry Potter was the work of Satan and was going to force me to be wiccan and eat babies or something.
There’s probably a lot more that I’ve finally been able to forget.
TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Damn dude, I hope things are better for you
thirteene@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fellow 90s kid, my parents were exactly the same. Religious background, fox news constantly, I once didn’t text back within 2 hours and had a neighbor contacted via Facebook knocking on my door in my 30s (to be fair I work on call so it’s atypical). I got lectured at 18 for buying an m rated game in front of them… Police report was a bit much; but I you aren’t alone.
Side note I would recommend this nostalgic song: high fives - 90s kid anthem by Dr awkward
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
My old school “upgraded” it when we left… by asphalting around it.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you had to work around the hateful little shits all day you’d be trying to look for low key ways to maim them too.
GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
If you truly hate kids, this is what you have to do. Introduce dangers with plausible deniability.
How was I supposed to know the kids would use it to turn each other into meat crayons?
saltesc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My school had one on dirt. The panels were wood and had a hole in it. Finally, one day, we were playing and a kid’s foot went down there and got fucked up. He was like a rockstar coming into school next day with stitches and crutches.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Knees are overrated.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 8 months ago
In my home village we have a much safer and much better version of it:
You can accelerate yourself by just pulling at the plate in the middle, meaning that everyone can have fun and you can probably get much higher speeds.
kungen@feddit.nu 8 months ago
Back in my day, we walked for miles uphill in the snow to school, we rode the unprotected meatspin, broke all of our bones, and then we walked for miles uphill back home. Kids these days are so spoiled and pampered!!!
Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Meh, the constant threat of being thrown violently out into oblivion was most of the fun!
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Exactly you can use the railing to hang on the outside. Greater speed and much more fun.
sfxrlz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
„Safer“ until you get flung against the metal bar before flying off. Because to get it up to speed you have to stand up.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 8 months ago
Once the children are a bit bigger they don’t have to stand up to spin it. For smaller children its true.
IntergalacticTurtleFucker@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Where can I get this
AreaKode@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I only think of one thing when I see “Meatspin”. And I don’t want to search for it… But it gets You Spin Me Round stuck in my head…
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lemon Party conjures the same kind of deep trauma.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
bitchkat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The cure for that is some goatse.
Vespair@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Me and the boys love a French 75
DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That was my spray in TF 2 for a while.
Good times.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Like a record, baby.
xavier666@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Meatspin?
The nighmares, they’re coming back
OopsAllTwix@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Are they comin’ right round?
DBT@lemmy.world 8 months ago
BreadOven@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is that the Russian lathe video?
menemen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Here in Germany we optimized the process and just use these nowadays: stilum.com/…/flecto-Karussell-auf-einem-Spielplat…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Trust the Germans to make childhood playground injuries more efficient.
virku@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We have both kinds in playgrounds around my house here in Norway. My kids like both, but the ones from the OP is vastly preferred. They get a lot more Gs in the one with the bars.
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 8 months ago
A core memory of mine is getting flung off of one of these things because of the centrifugal force, falling on my back, and being unable to breathe for like 20-30 seconds … until I screamed at the top of my lungs, while the teacher just went: oh you’re fine, don’t be a baby. I was 6.
volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Jesus Christ
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The game was, you’d put one kid in the middle and then everybody else would do their level best to spin the damn thing so fast it would either drill into the Earth’s mantle or take off like a helicopter.
comrade19@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Have you seen the videos using motorbike wheels to spin these things up?
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Whistlindiesel on YouTube put a jet engine on one
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 8 months ago
The moped plus roundabout was a thing a while back; maybe that’s why they disappeared?
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bosnian space program training.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I lost a tooth to one of these things.
To be fair, a bunch of teenagers were also involved, making it spin at about mach 87 before it smashed into my mouth.
TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
When people ask where I was at during 9/11. I didn’t find out about it until hours after it happened
samus12345@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So what were you doing hours before you found out about it?
TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was young, I just know I was playing on one of these before I heard about it
shasta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Maybe he was west coast and sleeping. The first plane hit pretty early in the morning.
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 8 months ago
Don’t swing on that one, Matt threw up on it.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Uncle Dave out there spinning the yeet machine up to 11.
jaybone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t remember ever being thrown off of one of these. But I always see memes like this.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Part of the fun is hanging off the side of it to increase the G forces.
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This is why we have braindead adults who run things
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
sadly modern adults are concerned about “safety” and “injuries”
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Got really drunk with some other folks at a wedding reception in a park. It had one of these. There were about 10 of us crammed on it and two other people were spinning it. We went flying and it was incredible. 10/10 would recommend.
lauha@lemmy.one 8 months ago
If no adult gave a shit, why don’t we see them anymore?
Toes@ani.social 8 months ago
This was the best one.
Broken bones was just an indication that you gotta get good.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Pffft. 70s Scotland says ‘hold my beer’.
We had a Witches Hat. Far bigger than the one in this video and we went a lot quicker and with a lot more perturbation.
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We had those in place in the US too.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My grade school playground equipment was made of old tires, chains, and wooden posts. Injuries abounded, and not one of our 1980s parents gave a shit.
ikidd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But the ones that survived were warriors all. We’ve seen the enemy, and it goes round and round and round and round.
grogreen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
These were so much fun as a kid and pretty good as a drunk adult too
nexguy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We used to walk up hill both ways in the snow to the hospital
FarFarAway@startrek.website 8 months ago
Idk theres a car dealership that has a 2 level version of this. The middle part is raised and spins with the base. Its not as wide as the old ones, but it seems just as dangerous.
Then theres the single person versions that works off of like angled centrifugal force? Idk. It spins and spins just from body weight. They can start it on their own, but I’ve had random kids ask me to help them stop, cause they couldn’t do it themselves. I see variations of these in most newer playgrounds. Some have you sitting, some standing. Many parents still dont give a shit.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I remember when I was 6 years old I fell off one of these things at full speed and almost killed myself. Funny times.
cheers_queers@lemm.ee 8 months ago
my friend’s 6 year old sister actually broke her leg on one of these back in the day
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is the way
qarbone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This was the centrifuge through which they distilled the kids worth giving a shit about.
Vespair@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Poetry
bigFab@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wo wo wo wo! Who is the rock in the shoe that dislikes this mastapizza?