Bless single payer healthcare.
We used to do this off roofs into the snow as a kid.
I miss being indestructible.
No parents. No Internet. Very limited home entertainment. Full boredom.
Growing up Gen-X was like a perpetual episode of Jackass starring The Goonies.
libraries, arcades, malls, bowling alleys, pool halls, swimming pools, console game systems, video rental stores, bikes, parks, dungeons and dragons. There was a bit of things to occupy time.
libraries,
arcades, malls,bowling alleys, pool halls,public swimming pools,console game systems, video rental stores,bikes, parks,dungeons and dragons.Not every kid had money growing up and most home entertainment was expensive.
dungeons and dragons manuals were at my library and arcades had 10 tokens for a dollar. I was able to make enough collecting aluminum cans. libraries also had movies but yeah you neede a friend with a console or vcr which I had. bowling and pool were more high school things when I was able to make that sweet sweet minimum wage. Also when out of funds it was still fun to watch people play at arcades and sometimes you might find an errant token on the ground.
Comment from an old reddit post:
Ashfield Valley estate in Rochdale. It was completed in 1969 and while it was initially popular, like many housing estates at the time, it quickly declined and by the 1980s was a haven for drug users, glue sniffers and squatters as well as being home to a large number of families, OAP’s and single people. In January 1987, frozen water pipes cracked, flooding 15 of the 26 blocks. Many of the tenants were evacuated, with some having to sleep in a local church. 23 blocks were demolished in 1992.
We jumped off buoys and navigation markers as a kid.
Sure it was water below but under the water … the supports and ladders of the buoys, mangled barnacle mess.
And the ospreys.
Goddamn did an angry osprey make jumping off the buoy that much more exciting, a little bit of “and maybe we’ll get attacked by a raptor” excitement….
I too was a bay child. We’d use the barnacle covered chains holding the buoys in their place to pull ourselves down to the bottom for whatever reason
I have a scar on my left leg from where I slipped on the ladder abd sliced my calf open on barnacles.
It bled till it didn’t. And I survived.
I’m pretty sure I’d die of some terrible infection if it had happened today.
Comrade here jumping into an ocean full of sharks and is worried about being attacked by birds…
Comrade over here forgetting that birds descended from dinosaurs.
Veeeeery few sharks in the bay I was jumping into.
Osprey on the other hand will actively rip your face off for getting too close to their nest.
Very few sharks implies some sharks which are way too many for this guy.
I don’t fuck with apex predators.
Maybe it is just the angle, but why are the kids jumping out those windows and not the ones that seem to be directly over the mattresses? I guess this shows my age: my first reaction was to ensure these kiddos were safe! It does look wicked fun!!
They aren’t falling straight down.
Those windows seem easier (even safer) to climb than the others where they would have to support themselves on the frame.
What about the kid who is actively falling straight down?
You say that based on Doppler effect or you have more frames?
He’s clearly facing a diagonal that will lead to the mattresses. People usually jump on the direction they are facing, but there isn’t enough information on the image to tell if he’s doing the things people do most of the time or if he’s laughing after jumping to his death in a very unusual position.
I don’t know what’s going on haha but it looks to me like the kid is jumping beside the mattresses which is kinda funny.
They might be trying to do a roll on impact, so horizontal momentum might be intended.
What’s the spring situation like here? Did mattresses not have them back then? Have they been removed?
My mattresses were just stuffing. The spring board under it had the springs. Do you have springs in your mattress now. I went memory foam and air combo decades ago so im not sure what a typical one has now.
That’s crazy!
But it looks like crazy fun…
1980s England wasn’t the most sheltered place I guess
1980s everywhere
Really? Given your history, West Germany as well?
Everywhere, really.
Well at least the places i went to school. Germany ( It was West Germany back then ), Brazil, USA and Colombia.
I feel like all the sheltering came around in the 90s.
I did this in the 70s!!! good old days :)
I did that until i knocked a kidney stone loose at 14
Good, clean fun.
Holy shit!!! We did that too! And we did it inside the building too.
