Playground Furniture: Search and Destroy

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Or Taking Sides: Swings vs Roundabouts. I don't think we've done this.

The playground on the way to my house has the most fantastic thign that I can't even begin to describe and it looks incredibly dangerous, and there were a couple of parents looking at it puzzled. Or maybe just pining to be kids again, I don't know.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 23 January 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy: the see-saw.

Search: Everything else.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Thursday, 23 January 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

WITCHES HAT!!!!

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: the helter skelter and the roundabout, and those tube things

Destroy: the sandpit, the baby swings and the baby slides! We don't want babies in our playground! Ah, actually this playground is boring! Lets ride around on our BMX's!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 23 January 2003 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Playground furniture? I work with a brit and I still learn a new word/idiom/bit of slang every day. What's a witch's hat?

I cracked my head when I was 6 and got a concussion from a jungle gym once. Fell off and hit my head on every bar on the way down, ouch. Luckily didn't hurt my mad spelling sk1llz. Um, so destroy jungle gyms. (do you call them jungle gyms in UK? on reflection that's not a descriptive name at all.)

Search: Really really tall swings that you can jump out of when you reach maximum height. Also swirly slides.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Swings! Swings! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Baby roundabouts (ones with seats on), swings, swing boats, oh pretty much everything really.
Destroy: Slides that are too narrow for grown up bums, see-saws.

― Celeste (Celeste), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy slides which burn exposed skin when you slide down them. I should oil my pants more, so I guess it's partly my fault.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Forgot the obligatory shards of broken glass. They're always a scream!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Witches hat got banned for being dangerous although I fail to see why it was any more dangerous than other playground furniture.

I can still remember the dizziness that accompanies getting off a moving roundabout.

I quite liked swings, but was never a fan of slides. I always did what yr not supposed to do, ie hold on to the sides as you go down. Result: burns on hands. Silly me.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 24 January 2003 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Witches hat = cunning combination of climbing frame and roundabout in the shape of said headgear. Combined the danger of falling from a great height with the danger of being flung out at high velocity.

They rocked.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 24 January 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

what do ppl think about having woodchips or sand under playground furniture? This was a safety measure which came in after I was too old to use a playground.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 24 January 2003 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

All playgrounds should either be built on
a) A bouncey castle
b) An old Indian burial ground.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 24 January 2003 10:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I made up "playground furniture". I don't know what the proper word would be.

I am almost reayd to describe the dangerous thing.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

it's a great term graham ("street furniture" = what the police call the stuff traffic needs to point it the correct way etc etc)

ps in buffy last night they all referred to a traffic cone as a "pylon"!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

referring to a pylon as a traffic cone would be worse, shurely?

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

not if you were persons more than a mile high

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I found I could never recapture the thrill of a conventional kids playground after the first time I saw the adventure playground at Crystal Palace Park. It was quite an experience. I've never seen anything like it since. It was just so HIGH - there were parents who would have got jittery looking down from the top of that thing - plus loads of ricketty bridge things way off the ground and a gigantic slide and and big turret things that were so lofty a small child would have made a hell of a mess falling from them. Eventually they took down the top two levels, probably because a small child did just that, then dismantled the entire thing a couple of years later. I was sad.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 January 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Hah I knew you must have been fooling with the furniture bit. (I would say playground equipment, myself.) I don't think we have witches' hats in the US but they sure sound like fun. Did the whole thing rotate or just the roundabout part? (Also we call roundabouts merry-go-rounds.)

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 24 January 2003 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Search - Swings, roundabouts, climbing frames et al!

Destroy - Remember those sorta rocking horse (although I seem to recall it was a cows face on the one in our park) things that were metal, went backwards and forwards, had about 4/5 seats on them with kinda handlebars at the front of each seat and you had to really shove hard to get momentum going? They were notorious for knocking folk out and breaking arms and things... I wonder what the correct name is for them?

― smee (smee), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.thehandstand.org/archive/jan2002/EdcellJan2002/pearse/roundabout.JPG

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

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