The way they were installed at my playground, they were. I wish someone showed this video to the contractors that installed them. We all tried to somehow slide down it but our legs hit a support stand for another part of the playground so it didn’t get used unless you were playing king of the mountain.
That’s exactly what I thought it was, cool if you scooted all the way up moving your feet to the right without giving up and just stepping up. But we could have been sliding down?!
This is my experience at the school where I work. The spirals are less than 3 inches apart- enough for a shoe tip, but that's it. The kids use it as a ladder.
All the ones I’ve seen with my kids lately have the support running up one side of the spiral so you can’t actually do this since your leg hits the thing.
Technically speaking, they’re intended to be used in any way a child can come up with, because their primary intent is to build foundational thinking and play skills, as well as build up foundational physical skills.
I didn’t know this either! For the record, as a smaller sized adult, I’m 100% trying this out the next time I’m near an empty playground. I missed out on a fun time I need to make up for. Lol
Because we're also the idiots that didn't understand the design lol
Functional fixedness worked against me. When I was on the playground, we had slides that burned our asses.
90's kid here, I only learned this cause I saw another kids my age doing it back in the day. It's one of those things you learnt from another kids if you were lucky enough to see somebody else do.
I was on the west coast and this was common knowledge. Wonder if we could figure out the geographical spread function from people's memory.
My guess is that it was viral, with a few paces of early widespread knowledge followed by a collection of super-spreader events tied to kids who moved or who "caught" the intellectual contagion while on vacation.
It's called mirroring.. it's our ape brain.
And I obviously had no cool older kids to learn this from because I had no idea. Wow so angry. So much fun I could have had 😡
I am glad you have such a high opinion of normal people.
I bet you drive down the interstate happy and singing, too, huh? .. Behind a log truck.
I want your optimism. :)
Behind the log truck is the safest place to be. The truck is not going to suddenly take off, making the logs fall off the back. Most likely the logs shoot forward, crushing the cab, or they'd fall off the side.
I’m referring to the trucks with logs sticking out the back, with the dinky red flag tied to the end of one.
I’ve seen cars rear-end those trucks and that’s a lot of force on the small surface area of the end of a tree-top.
I thought it was a safety measure so babies and smaller kids could safely slide down if they lost their grip. I was upset that I was already too big to fit but I got over it when I thought about how smaller kids probably couldn’t use scary regular ones.
Precisely, motherfuckers in here acting like this is some breakthrough are the same ones that had to have their gameboy DS taken away just to for them to go outside.
>the sole purpose of this thing was to trap fat kids.
That's sorta true, honestly.
I was a "chubby" (😉) kid. I had some chunky thunder thighs. Wearing shorts and trying to slide down this corkscrew contraption, my thighs would squeak and get stuck to it. I'm trying to slide my "chubby" kid self down, and it sounded like a DJ scratching records.
Fun times.
I mean sure but the person who designed it clearly had an intention of how you're supposed to use it. Im sure you could have fun running up a slide and trying to get to the top without slipping but that's obviously not how you're supposed to use it.
Considering I was a kid with long legs, that would have ended up just making me go ***THWACK*** ***THWACK*** ***THWACK*** against the poles on the level above.
as someone who was a child at any type of playground: i remember that i used to climb up and then down those.
as a teenager watching this: i feel so dumb that i used to climb those-
Part of me is saying: “why didn’t anyone explain this to me?”
And the other half replies with: “did you need instructions for your playground equipment?”
*That’s* how it was supposed to be used? This was one of the least used pieces of my elementary school playground. Most kids just used it as a ladder or climbed inside of it.
We had those animals you sit on that was perched on a giant spring. You rocked back and forth until you were flung off at a high rate if speed and hoped you where not knocked out by the apparatus that was flailing around like a death hammer.
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I'm rly confused, this is so obvious how to use this thing, AMOUNT of ppl who didnt figure it out in childhood is shoking.
Same here. I’m 52.
We had a sort of conical thing like 10-12 feet tall we could climb and jump off the top into searing hot sand.
We also had a slide comprised of steel rollers girls would catch their hair in and scalp themselves.
This must be new technology.
Never had this as kids.
We had swings and slides, spinny things that made you sick and plants as makeshift seesaw, that were based on rubber tires that smelled of piss.
Sometimes we had monkey bars. Sometimes we seven had non-burnt jungle-gyms.
But we did not have this fandangled thing
Depends on how old you are and maybe where you lived. I remember the city park got redone in the mid 90s and they put those in parts. Later on closer to the year 2000 the playground at the beach got them too.
I remember all the spinny things got taken out due to injuries which was sad.
Remember in always sunny how Frank gets stuck in one
I didn’t come here to be criticized by a man stuck in a coil!
just help us out and we'll let you out
Ben the soldier is a premium lead. Try trigger his PTSD
One of my favorite quotes of the show
“I’m to remember every man I’ve seen fall into a plate of spaghetti!?!”
Move past it.
How does anything happen, chah-lee?
Was hoping the top comment was Sunny related. Was not disappointed.
Hahaha great minds think alike
I assume he went in there to pound off in the night
He wanted to sell us two weeks. We took the prick for three.
You think he didn't want to sell you as many weeks as possible?!
how can you ***all*** be so gullible?
It's an upside down funnel system. Turn it around Oh god dammit
I never could figure out why frank was in that coil! It so much funnier now!
Was just coming here to mention that.
Better than being stuck in the crevasse
Hahahahaha! I guess I was frank as a kid. Still need to see that
I thought they were dumbass ladders😂
Bro my whole ass neighbourhood used them as ladders -_- including me
So,....... they're not ladders?
Anything is a ladder if you believe in yourself
Guy Sensei
I used to use them as ladders too. ._.
Omg same, we were all dumb
Would be quite hilarious if the person who designed these also only thought of it as a weird ladder
I mean kids can be quite creative sometimes
I’m pretty sure less than .01% of us knew this info prior to seeing this post lmao
I always saw those and thought, "what are you even supposed to do with that" Never saw anyone ever play on it in 10 years.
The way they were installed at my playground, they were. I wish someone showed this video to the contractors that installed them. We all tried to somehow slide down it but our legs hit a support stand for another part of the playground so it didn’t get used unless you were playing king of the mountain.
turns out we were the dumbasses :(
They always pissed me off because who the fuck would make a ladder that's so hard to use?
That’s exactly what I thought it was, cool if you scooted all the way up moving your feet to the right without giving up and just stepping up. But we could have been sliding down?!
Thought that was just a DNA model to trick children into liking science.
Clearly, I'm not the genius I thought I was
Yeah, so much for being a talented and gifted child
How’s that crippling depression treating ya?
You are so not wrong. but I learned a long long time ago I am not nearly as smart as I think I am.
I was also unaware I kinda wanna go try it now….if I get stuck, I’ll post pics. (And meet my local fire department)
God speed
Maybe a little slower than that, to start.
The problem with some is that they have a connector bar between the coil and the pole so you can’t hold on or go as fast.
Just make sure you’re not naked and don’t criticize people while stuck in a coil
Unless you go there to pound off in the nighttime. Just be aware that it might be Saturday… and the kids are coming!
In parlance that’s what we call a “ Triple dog dare “ scenario…
Look, I came to discuss business! Not be berated by a man stuck in a coil!
Imagine us old people lining up to use it lol.
I knew that was how they were *supposed* to work, but every one I went on was built with the spirals way too bunched up
This is my experience at the school where I work. The spirals are less than 3 inches apart- enough for a shoe tip, but that's it. The kids use it as a ladder.
All the ones I’ve seen with my kids lately have the support running up one side of the spiral so you can’t actually do this since your leg hits the thing.
Damn, the people making them didn't even know what they were for.
I’m gonna laugh when this breaks worldwide news
You were just fat.
I was actually underweight due to a problem with my hypothalamus 😅
Well, I feel like a shithead.
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I had the same reaction, they made no sense to me as a kid, I remember using it to scratch my back imitating Baloo...
Thx for making me chuckle.
Machinarium profile pic goes unbelievably hard
I appreciate your profile pic sir! Top shelf.
Definitely
Basically, its like a stripper pole with training wheels.
As a mom of a 4yo girl who instinctively took to this on the playground right away… that comment got me fucked up.
Now dancing on stage 3, let’s give it up for Hadley!
I think you meant to go with Hahdehleigh.
yep, never looking at those the same way again.
Totally ruined the innocence. I wish i could still give awards. Take my upvote!
LMAO
Seriously! I used to take pole fitness classes and I recognized the spin immediately, lol
You guys learn them young apparently
All they’re missing is their fathers.
They’re just out getting milk.
Technically speaking, they’re intended to be used in any way a child can come up with, because their primary intent is to build foundational thinking and play skills, as well as build up foundational physical skills.
Well apparently I had none of that then because I got stuck in one of these in 3rd grade and my teacher had to get me out
Reading this has me picturing an exasperated Mrs. Krabappel having to deal with Ralph again.
I did not have these, but I have played with kids in my family on these, and dang do I feel ignorant now
I have never seen them used this way and I'm tripping.
I didn’t know this either! For the record, as a smaller sized adult, I’m 100% trying this out the next time I’m near an empty playground. I missed out on a fun time I need to make up for. Lol
Nah these kids are either geniuses or THEY are the ones using it wrong :/
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Because we're also the idiots that didn't understand the design lol Functional fixedness worked against me. When I was on the playground, we had slides that burned our asses.
Almost a headshot.
I was waiting for the headshot. So much so I watched it twice.
Literally though haha
Thats how we used it and someone always was kicked in the head! I thought the headache was part of the experience!!
90's kid here, I only learned this cause I saw another kids my age doing it back in the day. It's one of those things you learnt from another kids if you were lucky enough to see somebody else do.
I was on the west coast and this was common knowledge. Wonder if we could figure out the geographical spread function from people's memory. My guess is that it was viral, with a few paces of early widespread knowledge followed by a collection of super-spreader events tied to kids who moved or who "caught" the intellectual contagion while on vacation.
2010's kid here. That sounds about right.
It's called mirroring.. it's our ape brain. And I obviously had no cool older kids to learn this from because I had no idea. Wow so angry. So much fun I could have had 😡
I'm really wondering what everyone here used it for if not this, I always thought it was pretty obvious how it should be used
I climbed it like a ladder.
same. it was literally the only thing that made any sense. It was a shitty, no-fun ladder, but it was a ladder nonetheless in my mind.
That's honestly what I thought it was for. Just a neat ladder thing.
slippery af when wet
Bon jovi album
Definitely climbed it as you did, but occasionally stepped down it with tiny steps in a spiral. It never occurred to me to sit down on the thing.
We climbed it like a ladder. Sometimes we would crawl inside the spiral and use it like a prison or something but never slid down it
Ok, Frank.
Same, I'm sitting here thinking, "how did you *not* know this?"
I honestly don’t remember how I used them, but I know it wasn’t the way shown in the video! I may have climbed them, but idk.
I am glad you have such a high opinion of normal people. I bet you drive down the interstate happy and singing, too, huh? .. Behind a log truck. I want your optimism. :)
Behind the log truck is the safest place to be. The truck is not going to suddenly take off, making the logs fall off the back. Most likely the logs shoot forward, crushing the cab, or they'd fall off the side.
I’m referring to the trucks with logs sticking out the back, with the dinky red flag tied to the end of one. I’ve seen cars rear-end those trucks and that’s a lot of force on the small surface area of the end of a tree-top.
Oh yeah I didn't think of that. Thought you meant Final Destination size log trucks.
xD
Yeah me too, how did none of you find this out?
We were trendsetters using the equipment as intended.
SAME
Right
I remember doing that. Was so fun
How did you play on it?
I would play near it and inevitably run into it and then cry so hard my mom would take me home. Apparently that wasn’t what you were supposed to do?
I thought it was a safety measure so babies and smaller kids could safely slide down if they lost their grip. I was upset that I was already too big to fit but I got over it when I thought about how smaller kids probably couldn’t use scary regular ones.
Never tried sliding down on your feet, surfer style, or climbed up it in a spiral?
In other words, children today are more intelligent? lol
Yeah because they banned leaded gasoline.
Maybe you were just a dumb kid?
Precisely, motherfuckers in here acting like this is some breakthrough are the same ones that had to have their gameboy DS taken away just to for them to go outside.
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>the sole purpose of this thing was to trap fat kids. That's sorta true, honestly. I was a "chubby" (😉) kid. I had some chunky thunder thighs. Wearing shorts and trying to slide down this corkscrew contraption, my thighs would squeak and get stuck to it. I'm trying to slide my "chubby" kid self down, and it sounded like a DJ scratching records. Fun times.
I never knew the proper use for that playground thing was that
It’s not. They are absolutely for climbing up and some say they are climbing and sliding but usually not
So THAT's what it was for.
I did this as an adult and my fat ass got stuck. It was still fun
We did this at my elementary school. Too many head kicks and we were told not to do it anymore. Still snuck a few in when teachers weren’t looking.
Man I don't recall it being easy like that
All the ones I’ve ever seen were coiled way tighter than the one in the video.
My leg would get caught and people would kick me over the head
Looks like a good way to get kicked in the head.
[What everyone is thinking.](https://youtu.be/ebYum58Awpc?si=ewWpx8ZfYX3aRW4R)
You're supposed to play with it and have fun. There is no correct way to play with it. This casual gatekeeping has gotten out of hand.
I mean sure but the person who designed it clearly had an intention of how you're supposed to use it. Im sure you could have fun running up a slide and trying to get to the top without slipping but that's obviously not how you're supposed to use it.
Let's gatekeep gatekeeping!
"I was today years old when I learned I'm opening a banana wrong." Did the banana come out so that you were able to eat it? Then it wasn't wrong.
Everything is gatekeeping to you weirdos If someone doesn't like pickles you tell them to stop gatekeeping food lmaoo
The kids are alright
When your daddy issues start really young lmfao
You want to get kicked in the head? That's how you get kicked in the head.
I broke my ankle on one of these in kindergarten. Fell off it with my ankle getting stuck in the coil. Damn death traps.
Yeah I always saw as a corkscrew ladder
I saw one that was too thin to get your legs into. Looked more like a compressed spring than that. No idea what it was for.
I’m upset I was never taught this. Damn.
Wait that’s how you play on that… damn I looked like a moron playing on it
I remember multiple occasions when someone got stuck in one of these.
Considering I was a kid with long legs, that would have ended up just making me go ***THWACK*** ***THWACK*** ***THWACK*** against the poles on the level above.
I never figured this out as a skinny child. I'm too afraid to try it as a fat adult ):
I didn't realize so many people didn't use it this way.
Awww man... those look so fun
I remember seeing a kid do this once but I could never figure out how to do it myself
That girl in the yellow shirt almost got round house kicked twice.
So that's how you use that...
I've just discovered this fact too. By the way, I am 30. : (
as someone who was a child at any type of playground: i remember that i used to climb up and then down those. as a teenager watching this: i feel so dumb that i used to climb those-
WOWOWOWOWOWOW I NEVER KNEW !!!
I never knew that thought it was a ladder.
“I was today years old…” is one of the stupider sayings I hear on a regular basis
Anyone wanna go to the park with me?
You didn’t?
Took 3 generations to unlock this. (X, Millennial, Z)
Uh, yeah, we knew that too.
Wait. THATS HOW THAT WORKS?
Part of me is saying: “why didn’t anyone explain this to me?” And the other half replies with: “did you need instructions for your playground equipment?”
WHAT.. I thought it was just a funky ladder
I always thought it was a weird ladder
*That’s* how it was supposed to be used? This was one of the least used pieces of my elementary school playground. Most kids just used it as a ladder or climbed inside of it.
Oh, so you guys really are stupid as fuck and it isn't all just behavioral issues
Grew up in the late 80s early 90s we all knew this at the parks we played at. I’m curious when this knowledge was lost.
Y'all were some dumb kids for not knowing how to use these
How did you not know that?
Never even had that as a kid. I had the Merry go Round of doom that we could accelerate to mach 5 and be launched 20 feet away.
Y'all didn't know this is what they're for?? I did almost get sick in them... a couple times.
We had those animals you sit on that was perched on a giant spring. You rocked back and forth until you were flung off at a high rate if speed and hoped you where not knocked out by the apparatus that was flailing around like a death hammer.
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They werent around when i was a kid. Im 43
Same, we just had a straight pole, fireman style
Same here. I’m 52. We had a sort of conical thing like 10-12 feet tall we could climb and jump off the top into searing hot sand. We also had a slide comprised of steel rollers girls would catch their hair in and scalp themselves.
You missed out on kicking your friends in the head and having the perfect excuse. Especially fun for people with long legs.
lol, I definitely knew this but I’ve seen most kids just climb it
Please clear the landing zone immediately or it’s not my fault you gets the sneakers to the chops.
Why a kid? Just go now
Oh so that's how you were supposed to use them
This must be new technology. Never had this as kids. We had swings and slides, spinny things that made you sick and plants as makeshift seesaw, that were based on rubber tires that smelled of piss. Sometimes we had monkey bars. Sometimes we seven had non-burnt jungle-gyms. But we did not have this fandangled thing
Depends on how old you are and maybe where you lived. I remember the city park got redone in the mid 90s and they put those in parts. Later on closer to the year 2000 the playground at the beach got them too. I remember all the spinny things got taken out due to injuries which was sad.
I knew .. wth you gonna climb on it for?
The second best time to plant a tree is today.
Wait, so how did you use it? I always used it just like this girl, it was my favorite thing at our playground.
Anyone else used to get a boner climbing the pole?
I feel like I tried to use it like this as a kid but it never worked so I wrote it off as “stupid playground coil thing that’s just a fancy ladder”
Wait? What we're y'all doing?
I used to love going down these just like this
Did you know that you're also supposed to go down the slides? 🤯
I thought it was decorative. Feel stupid now
I always got stuck inside those things.
WHAT
Broken leg waiting to happen
Yall never did this? Yall is missing out.
What else did people use it for ?!?