We used to jump off the roof into a snowbank. Then when the snow got deep enough we would just sled off the roof onto the snowbank.
ah, the British Space Program of the eighties!..
No wonder they didn’t get to the moon, using mattresses instead of trampolines.
Holy shit!!! We did that too! And we did it inside the building too.
I did this in the 70s!!! good old days :)
This is what happens when you cancel Doctor Who, BBC.
Well shit, 80s kid here and we kinda did this. We had a pile of old mattresses and cushions. The mattresses were the super cheap and crappy kind with no springs so were actually really good for landing on. The ground floor of our house was maybe 6ft higher than the back garden and we had a kinda small raised patio at the back door with steps down into the garden. We piled up the mattresses on the lawn, beyond the flower bed. And threw ourselves off the wall at the edge of the patio down onto the mattresses. Lots of fun.
My siblings and I used those same mattresses to slide down our stairs, crashing into them at the bottom. That was fun too.
I also remember finding these long smooth metal sheets somewhere and using them to make a slide down our garden steps. Then using a sledge sliding down it and crashing into the mattresses.
I miss those days.
Did you ever jump apparently 5+ stories up, trying to hit a 3ft/1m-wide target?
Oh all the time. Sometimes while riding a tiger. It was the style at the time.
And then after playing head inside and watch ma’s Corrie and make her a proper cuppa I remember these days I do
This is why video games are important.
Bless single payer healthcare.
What’s “single payer healthcare”?
Apparently it allows you jump out of windows onto a pile of mattresses.
Can you elaborate more on what “it” is though?
Single payer is a system where healthcare is paid for a single public authority, not private and not a combination of both.
It’s a form of socialised healthcare where the government negotiates the prices with medical companies. The government of an entire country negotiating prices carries way more bargaining power than individuals so it means the prices are much lower. Combine that with taxes paying for healthcare and you have a nice healthcare system
Edit: in some cases it’s just one guy paying, in this case it’s Alan: https://www.thebeaverton.com/2017/08/poll-canadians-love-single-payer-healthcare-except-alan-single-payer/
We used to do this off roofs into the snow as a kid.
Ah yes, back in the good ol’ days when natural selection was still a thing
It still is! It’s just now those kids also film themselves doing it on YouTube.
You say that but remarkably few of us died and in retrospect I wonder how.
With the emphasis on ‘few’
As we say here: “A bisserl schwund is imma.” Translation: “There is always a little bit of loss.”
That would be a hard pass for me.
Thatcher was PM, if you were a kid then you’d be throwing yourself off a building too.
You say that as if it’s got any better.
Now we’ve got Thatcher wearing a tie and running the labour party…
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 mean, I’m guessing some of the 90s sheltering was maybe in response to the crazy 80s
slightly (or absolutely) unrelated story, but I remember we built cross tracks in the forest for ourselves and our crappy bikes (I’m talking early-mid 80s on the other side of the Iron Courtain; the best bike I had was a rusty Csepel BMX, then my father’s Sputnik race bike). once we decided fuck it why don’t we do the same in our own street (a mud/gravel street at that time), and took shovels and stuff and destroyed the street. when the first adult residents got home, they were very pissed for some reason and commandeered us to restore the street. I remember the feeling of betrayal / injustice to this day! :-D
