heroicjanitor Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3472871/Council-replaces-childrens-playground-with-brick-wall.html Just thinking of all the fun I could have with that wall...
Ramar Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 To be fair there's a park near me thats had a huge brick wall as its community play thing for over 15 years, I've never seen it mentioned in the papers. (Admittedly there are other things like a terrible obstacle course at the same park)
Coolness Bears Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Awesome. I used to run into brick walls as a kid, SO much fun. I would run from the top of the hill and school all the way down and the smack into the wall at the bottom, I often collapsed onto the floor afterwards then dusted myself off and did it again. It wasn't just walls though Trees were also a good source of running into material. Chairs/desks/tables anything really. It was painful habit. :p
Jimbob Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Hmm. Replacing a whole park for a brick wall. Probably one of the better ideas from a council if i must say so. It can be used not only for football, but for working on your biceps as you lift yourself up. They can think themselves lucky, all i had when i was a kid was a playground with swings, slides and monkey bars. I would have killed for a wall to play on. And one more thing............... What-ever you do, don't bully Casey near it!!!
jayseven Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 I don't see the big complaint... There's one in a park near my junior school that was ALWAYS in use for wall ball, at the least. We also played a surprise-variant of football-tennis with it. Kids have a lot of imagination. Stupid Sun.
ReZourceman Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Yeah whut. Nice clean ball wall fun innit. Also...like...yeah.
jayseven Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 This big! ... It's been a legal grafitti wall for the last decade or so. Er, I appreciate there's no sense of scale with this pic. I'd say it's around 7-8ft tall, maybe 10-12 wide?
S.C.G Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Kids these days don't know how good they have it... ... in my day we used to make walls for our own entertainment.
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 I expected this to be an Onion article. I mean, sure, a wall can provide a lot of fun, but they're REPLACING a PLAYGROUND with one! That's just a big "Fuck you!" to the children.
nightwolf Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 I expected this to be an Onion article. I mean, sure, a wall can provide a lot of fun, but they're REPLACING a PLAYGROUND with one! That's just a big "Fuck you!" to the children. Exactly, the least they could do was re-tarmac the floor as it looks rough.
Supergrunch Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 All youngsters will do is cover it with graffiti, climb on it - then fall off and hurt themselves. Brilliant.
Goafer Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 WE could shag up against that... Angry Eileen Pritchard said: "All youngsters will do is cover it with graffiti, climb on it - then fall off and hurt themselves." Also anyone else read this as her actual name? From now on, I want to be known as Angry Luke Stevens.
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