“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” needs to die out because that’s not how trauma works. You never recover full strength in a broken bone, never become fully cured of PTSD.
But you also learn how to handle pain be it physical or mental. It gives you a new perspective that helps you to handle difficult situations in the future. There’s obviously a point where you’re just fucked, but up til then there’s more of a trade off.
People tend to make that claim when they are adding pain to your life, as is the case with punishment. Life is painful enough to teach this lesson without anyone adding more.
I’ve not heard it used that way. In my experience it’s after something bad happens to someone or they’re going through some shit in an effort to reassure them that whatever is going on will pass and they’ll at least gain some mental strength from it. Maybe it doesn’t help at the time but looking back on stuff that’s happened to me it is a true statement.
Which generation is that, though? Like basically everybody experienced this as a kid.
Pfft! Grass?! Try sand that’s 3000° from the American Southwest sun, and full of broken Budweisers. Also, I’m not seeing any old, disintegrating railroad ties anywhere. How are you supposed to get your daily tar and lead content?
Man I miss those railroad ties and old rubber tires
Kids these days didn’t know the flavors they’re missing!
That’s what the child-sized cigarettes were for
That isn’t rust on the roundabout, it’s dried blood.
I smoked my groin so hard on one of these while trying to jump on while it was ferociously spinning. It sucked at the time but the character it formed has stayed with me for life.
Is that character sterile?
Thankfully no! I may someday produce offspring who will also misjudge playground physics.
Then you’ve never had Clacker Balls. At least half of my friends received concussions from those things.
And who haven’t seen that one kid who tried to get home while balancing vomit /no vomit “decision”…
My god it was awful, but it was a builder of character 👍
It’s on grass. It needs to be on concrete slabs which are uneven and sticking up.
So that slide in the background, I remember the one at my local park being about five stories high. My mother insists I am wrong but I know what I remember. That slide in the background does look like it would fit the bill though.
Similar in Scotland still, except flush with the ground in a rubberised floor, this could be worse? Ground lever must increase potential for high speeds? I remember these monsters, and much bigger than this photo…
Witches Hat! We had one like this, but quite a bit bigger, in my town. All the danger of a swing and a roundabout combined. Mounted on concrete.
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Is the slide in the background AI-generated or Photoshopped or something or… is it actually buckled right in the middle?
thin metal, long slide, heavy use. most of them looked like that after a while.
Looks legit to me, just a busted slide
The weak were ground to mush underneath that thing.
not from uk but when I grew up we had this net spaceship thing you could climb into like a clubhouse. Made completely out of metal. In a place with both severe summers and winters. I for the life of me do not know how we did not end up with news stories about some kid or adult cooking or freezing or sticking to the walls in there.
Is it tetanus? Cause it looks like tetanus.
