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Is Soviet playground! Is fun! Go play on playground while Papa reads Pushkin.

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Submitted ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FlyingSquid@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Brutalist playground!

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  • sakodak@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For anyone interested, this is one of a series of sculptures in Poland meant to evoke playground equipment. You can crawl on it, but it’s not actually meant as a slide.

    umtychy.pl/131896-tychy-rzezbiarskie-formy-zabawo…

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Aw, I thought it was so beautiful and it turns out it was because an artist made it to be beautiful.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      That’s really cool! Thanks for adding that!

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For instant fun, just add skateboard!

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    • AGD4@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I was thinking this was intended for skateboards and scooters.

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      • PineRune@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The sand at the bottom suggests otherwise.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Superman by Goldfinger started playing in my head upon seeing the image.

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      • raccoon@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So here I am…

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      • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ok I can’t help but bring this up. Lazypurple a TF2 YouTuber got a state board and spent like 30 minutes just laughing his ass off with it. just scating past all his teammates fighting. The section in his video is like 3 minutes long but omg he has such good dork vibes youtu.be/XBF-g4y4clg?si=NY_1eA25tx2mAhJL&t=3103

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    • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah if the kids don’t love it the skateboarders will

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  • countrypunk@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That unironically looks like a good time. I hate metal slides cuz they always build up a lot of static electricity and burn my ass during the summer

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know that you’d get much speed going down that slide. Or slide very far either.

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      • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        People have forgotten the simple joy of climbing to the top of a sketchy structure and suffering major contusions and broken bones on the way down.

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      • toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Hint: some things are intended to have ice on them. This is a kick-ass slide!

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      • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I almost wonder if this may have been more of a winter attraction. I could definitely see rocking my snow skate in a park built like this.

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah but concrete would just be a cheese grater on your flesh

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      • countrypunk@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s the way I like it

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    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      unironically

      … did you notice this is concrete?

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  • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They call the design movement Brutalism because the concrete slides brutality shred your ass.

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  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Where’s my brutalist hempcrete future I was promised?

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    • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In the dusbin of history, along with Brutalism itself.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People got too high and forgot to implement the plan.

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  • peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not gonna lie, that looks fun as hell to play on

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    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can see so many hours of my childhood friends and I playing army battles defending this as a fortress.

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    • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah the mixed comments are interesting, one gets the impression many here only see that as a slide intended to give kids road rash and have no sense of potential in other uses.

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    • connaisseur@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hell seems like a good comparison, indeed

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  • DrDominate@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I get it’s concrete, but you could totally polish concrete and it would make a great slide.

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    • Baguette@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I lived by a concrete slide that you needed cardboard to use like a sled in order to go down. Otherwise the slide would burn the everliving shit out of you if you didn’t, but damn it was fun

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    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Kinda looks like it once had a layer of sheet metal attached to it at one point.

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    • protist@mander.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a granite slide near me that they say gets faster with use, and they were correct. Fastest slide I’ve ever gone down

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  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s a total misrepresentation of a late soviet playground!

    Where are handles and stopper you can kill yourself with while sliding? Where’s the Hole in the end, the one you feed bad kids to (and it starts to call you ‘tovarish’ at some point)? Where’s someone’s dad (also from CheKa) who takes kids out and never returns them.

    You can do better Leutenant Squid. That’s said, I forgive you. But you’d not like to know the lenght my tolerance can go.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This unironically looks really freaking fun.

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    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A great tag/grounders arena

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  • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ahh this brings back some childhood memories. I loved framing westeners for crimes that the party committed. That was my favourite subject in school.

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  • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s amazing that something as inhuman as brutalism ever developed.

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    • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When you’re thinking of brutalist structures you have to keep in mind the architectural world they were coming into. How the world had rarely seen such, flat, pure surfaces. We take them for granted now, every box building ever built owes something of itself to brutalisim.

      But in the wake of WWII, I think it made a statement that things done in this building are done in a modern way. No gargoyles, no baron von-fuckpants, none of the old world trappings.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe it’s because I grew up within walking distance of the Indiana University campus, which has a lot of brutalist architecture (for example, this is the library), but I honestly don’t mind it if it’s done well. It can just also be done really poorly.

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      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The trees help! (embedded that here:)

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        Took my mind here 👇 But San Francisco’s 130 year-old de Young Museum isn’t brutalist is it?:

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        I like it in any case. Doesn’t hurt that it’s one of the most renowned art museums in the country.

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    • finley@lemm.ee ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And the Soviets had their own particular sub-style of brutalism called Soviet brutalism. They loved it so much, they put their own twist on it.

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    • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As long as there’s enough greenery around, what’s the problem?

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      • PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Brutalism is mint in the first place, but it really, really gets better with age and foliage. The more moss and lichen and ivy, the better it looks

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  • sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t worry, “exclusion zone” means zone where danger is excluded.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fun is mandatory.

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  • emmy67@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Looks kind of awesome as a skate ramp

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Even the part where grownups need to duck?

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a mini bobsled track

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  • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You see ass-destroying slide, I see the makings of a FFA KoTH paintball/airsoft arena.

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  • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unexpected Babbdi

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