r/terriblefacebookmemes • u/QueenMelle • Mar 26 '23
Boomer Aunt with her ancient wisdom.
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u/WhatNazisAreLike Mar 26 '23
The funny thing is, as a kid, we would always get hurt more on the newer playgrounds that are close to the ground. When there’s only a 3 foot fall, you’re bound to do much more stupid shit.
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u/QueenMelle Mar 26 '23
One of the comments under the original post was:
"So true. We are screwed if we end up in a war. "
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u/Theburritolyfe Mar 27 '23
Yeah because America doesn't have a military presence all over the world. America hasn't actively used it's military in ages. America doesn't have a military budget larger than the next several countries put together. You are reading this on the internet so you know it's true and not facetious.
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u/twizted_fister Mar 27 '23
They really have no idea we've been at war for 20 years until recently
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u/draker585 Mar 27 '23
A 3 foot or lower drop is more dangerous than a higher drop. With a higher drop the body can react and brace, while a short drop you’re already on the ground by the time you understand what’s happening.
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u/thebookklepto Mar 27 '23
Beyond that, there’s growing evidence that those playgrounds aren’t really that good at all for developing minds.
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u/mrangry7100 Mar 26 '23
Wouldn't the kids in the first one be the adults in the second? So it was boomer parents that turned their kids into lawsuit happy pussies.
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u/twizted_fister Mar 27 '23
They memory hole that part by saying those are other people's kids not their wonderkin
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u/stevio87 Mar 27 '23
Exactly, once again, it’s just boomers complaining about stuff that their generation started or exclusively did. They constantly complained about “participation” trophies, they were the ones that gave them to the kids, sueing for every little BS thing, yeah they started that too.
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u/Newmusician67 Mar 26 '23
"If you're nice to that black kid or you see some 500 year old art without my permission then by god I'm suing the state."
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u/QueenMelle Mar 26 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
"If you see a drag queen.....State's getting sued, Joe Biden's getting sued, CNN, you better believe they're getting sued right along with u/jamesgelliot. So tired of these snowflake younger generations.....better sue all them too AND you too Junior!!
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u/yoydid Mar 27 '23
What's the joke about "500 year old art"?
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u/Art_Sempai Mar 26 '23
Little me got knocked TF out by a metal swing seat at school. 😅
The kind that had that frame with the bar you had to slide up the chains and bring down to lock the kid in the seat.
I lost time. I saw everyone looking down at me. I'm like why am I on the ground.
I just walked it off, it would be a lawsuit today.
I probably had a concussion. 🤣
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u/QueenMelle Mar 26 '23
Top pic doesn't look like a playground. It looks like a bunch of 5 - to 10 year olds playing on an unguarded construction site.
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u/Art_Sempai Mar 26 '23
There's worst. 🤣
I think 70s - 80s was the last gen of the death playgrounds.47 dangerous old playgrounds that our great-grandparents somehow survived
https://clickamericana.com/topics/family-parenting/life-for-kids/dangerous-old-playgrounds-our-great-grandparents-somehow-survived4
u/TheRoadofToad Mar 27 '23
Dude when I was in elementary approximately a decade ago my elementary has these VERY tall swings with a very long swing and chain and is kids would swing high ass hell and at the highest point we would do a motion to get out of the swinging motion to where we’d be falling until the chain tightened and abruptly started swinging again, I’m surprised none of us died or ended up in a sped class
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u/Art_Sempai Mar 27 '23
I've saw those back in the day.
They removed the chains and never replaced the swing.
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u/ceton33 Mar 26 '23
If the child fall and break their neck, I would be concerned about safely and regulations. But those is for losers!
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u/zeldanar Mar 26 '23
Ahh survivor bias
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u/Mary-Sylvia Mar 27 '23
Boomers X survivor bias best ship <3
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u/zeldanar Mar 27 '23
Right! “We didnt have car seats. And we were fine!” Do they not realize how many kids DIED for us to require car seats???”
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u/VanilliBean Mar 27 '23
If they fall and break their neck they wont be crying to you… cause they’d be fucking dead
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u/smudgiepie Mar 27 '23
I'm still haunted by a girl at my school who fell off the very top of the tower at the playground and went to hospital.
She didn't end up paralysed or anything luckily but seeing her being carried away on a stretcher is burned permanently in my head.
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u/Nestormahkno19d Mar 27 '23
How many kids do you think died, were paralyzed, or otherwise maimed by this playground equipment before being taken down?
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u/QueenMelle Mar 27 '23
Who knows? Their mothers immediately disowned them if they became any of those things.
Like god damned badasses
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u/BuendiaLabyrinth Mar 27 '23
Ah, the good ol' times when a child would get badly hurt, maybe disabled for life, and would still get scolded by their relatives.
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u/JakeyJelly Mar 27 '23
I don't believe this for a second because a lady back in 1970 sued God for 100,000 for shooting a lightning bolt at her house I totally believe if her kid fall off that ladder the mom would find someone to sue
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u/FakeBenson Mar 26 '23
The only thing I can gather from this meme is that people have gotten to be more caring.
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u/Pengin_Master Mar 27 '23
Question: wouldn't it have been the people growing up on the dangerous playgrounds who would be the ones sueing and making the new safer ones?
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u/SteamrollerBoone Mar 27 '23
My mom taught school during the '70s & '80s. The idea that parents just here recently started going ballistic and threatening to sue everyone possible anytime their little preciouses got a boo-boo or caught hell from a teacher for being a little shit is just fucking laughable. I'm pushing 50 and get second-hand embarrassment whenever some jabroni my age posts nonsense like this.
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u/simpcatfisher14 Mar 27 '23
Well, at least she’s not racist
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u/QueenMelle Mar 27 '23
Unfortunately, she is, in fact, quite racist. She's just been penalized by FB enough that she's "careful now".
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u/SherSquarepants Mar 27 '23
I really hope your Aunt sees this. I can't stand when people talk crap about their family members behind their backs. Let her know you're telling the whole world she's a racist idiot.
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u/EveryAverage7432 Mar 27 '23
We had that same playground in Ukraine in the 90’s no kidding same exact thing. It took a decade to build up enough courage to start playing at the top
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u/ford-prefects_towel Mar 27 '23
Hilarious because the ones doing the suing and over protective are boomers...
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u/QueenMelle Mar 27 '23
The over protective boomers are slowly and devastatingly stripping alot of people of their rights at the same time.
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u/Top_Gun_Ya_Bix Mar 27 '23
I miss those playgrounds.
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u/No_Quote600 Mar 27 '23
Kid comes running home crying with broken neck
Kid's Aunt: I Told you not to come crying to me! Slams door in kid's face
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u/No-Material-4888 Mar 27 '23
What is up with boomers getting mad that kids aren’t severely injuring themselves or dying?
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u/Stein_um_Stein Mar 27 '23
I let my kids get their bumps and scrapes, but I don't let them do stupid shit that could maime or kill them... That wouldn't exactly be a life lesson now would it.
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u/umbravivum Mar 27 '23
This picture is why people live longer today than 70 years ago. Also why more people make it to 18 today than 70 years ago.
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u/Redoran_Gvard Mar 27 '23
No it's because of advancements in medical science today are much better than they were 70 years ago.
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u/QueenMelle Mar 27 '23
And seat belts, and pedestrian laws and lack of 30 ft fireman poles in playgrounds too tho....
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u/Rhomega2 Mar 26 '23
If their child breaks their neck, they probably won't be coming home to cry about it.
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u/Rafacat7 Mar 26 '23
And break your fool neck, don't come home cryin' to me
Yeah i don't think they will, they are dead
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u/kailwolfsin64 Mar 27 '23
Your aunt is the type of person to go 90 in a school zones then after she hits 10 kids try to sue the school for putting kids in her way
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u/BudgetFree Mar 27 '23
So sad some people don't get that in the first picture it doesn't mean they don't care. The parents can't express that they are worried about their child's safety to them in a nice way but they are so worried they get so agitated they shout at them from the other side of the playground.
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u/cowvid19 Mar 27 '23
This is actually a problem. Kids have stopped playing outside like they used to so they have weird balance issues and poor sense of orientation and there are studies about it. Open ended playgrounds are good actually, and kids should be allowed to play in the street again.
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u/zgrizz Mar 26 '23
We really need to rename the sub ... "FactsThatTriggerMe" sounds about right.
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u/nchp2002 Mar 27 '23
This pic really portrays how both generations are stupid as shit, but each also love to think that the other is more stupid than they are.
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u/144tzer Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
And the third picture:
"If you fall and hurt yourself badly, we are in a country with free universal healthcare and there'll be no need to sue for financial compensation"
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u/IdespiseGACHAgames Mar 27 '23
What kind of Boomer are we talking about here? Because I was told similar warnings when I was a child during the 90's, and my sister (39) has told both her children the same things. I'm a Millennial, and my sister is debatably the tail end of Gen Y. So is this aunt a Baby Boomer, or the '30 Year Old Boomer Meme' Boomer?
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u/Sage_Smitty42 Mar 27 '23
Conservative boomers are more likely to sue I would feel like if anything negative happens to them directly or indirectly
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u/therockking111 Mar 27 '23
Parks being sued was your Aunts generation. Not ours. We are the ones that get the shitty parks because they sued.
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u/HamSandwhichOfficial Mar 27 '23
Remember the good ole days when kids could snap their necks on the playground? Why can’t we go back to that 😩😫😔
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u/ETIsMee Mar 27 '23
The school won’t get sued for a child getting hurt it’s the child’s fault usually
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u/evan0736 Mar 27 '23
unintentional child deaths have decreased by like over 50% from image 1 to image 2
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u/Acextreme77 Mar 27 '23
Please tell me no one actually tries to sue anyone when their kid gets moderately hurt
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u/QueenMelle Mar 27 '23
Some may, but def not an entire generations worth, thus, making this, a terrible meme.
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