• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 days ago

    We jumped off buoys and navigation markers as a kid.

    Sure it was water below but under the water … the supports and ladders of the buoys, mangled barnacle mess.

    And the ospreys.

    Goddamn did an angry osprey make jumping off the buoy that much more exciting, a little bit of “and maybe we’ll get attacked by a raptor” excitement….

    • conc@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 days ago

      I too was a bay child. We’d use the barnacle covered chains holding the buoys in their place to pull ourselves down to the bottom for whatever reason

      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 days ago

        I have a scar on my left leg from where I slipped on the ladder abd sliced my calf open on barnacles.

        It bled till it didn’t. And I survived.

        I’m pretty sure I’d die of some terrible infection if it had happened today.

        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Comrade here forgetting that not only do sharks predate dinosaurs, but - unlike birds - have hardly changed.

          Orcas are still kings of the oceans, and it seems they’ve finally decided they’ve had enough of our shenanigans, so maybe we should be more worried about them that either of the others.

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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            9 days ago

            not only do sharks predate dinosaurs, but - unlike birds - have hardly changed.

            They at least lost their armor. Imagine a shark with one of these covering its head!

            • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialEnglish
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              9 days ago

              Oooh, what’s best about Dunkleosteus is that modern theory is that this was just their skull, and that they had skin over it:

              Less bizarre looking than earlier renditions, which made them look a bit like turtles, but still… bad ass!

              • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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                9 days ago

                modern theory is that this was just their skull, and that they had skin over it:

                I was curious about that! My recent trip to the field museum in Chicago indicated that they believed the armor to be external but it would make more sense for it to be beneath the skin if there’s not evidence to suggest otherwise

                Edit: Also turtles are fucking badass. You do not want to meet a snapping turtle on the Riverwalk!

                • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialEnglish
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                  9 days ago

                  There’s so much media representing Dunk with external armor, it’s going to take forever and cost a lot to clean everything up. AFAIK, the “internal” theory only became dominant recently, and I think it might have been because they found evidence of skin patterning in a recent fossil? I might be conflating that with the (also recent) Ankylosaurus find, which had spectacular preservation of skin patterns.

      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 days ago

        Veeeeery few sharks in the bay I was jumping into.

        Osprey on the other hand will actively rip your face off for getting too close to their nest.

    • chuckleslord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Completely off-topic, but apparently in UK English they pronounce buoy like “boy”, which, like, phonetically is fine but it’s definitely wrong. Or feels wrong. "We jumped off boys. " Utter madness

  • vaguerant@fedia.io
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    10 days ago

    What’s the spring situation like here? Did mattresses not have them back then? Have they been removed?

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      10 days ago

      My mattresses were just stuffing. The spring board under it had the springs. Do you have springs in your mattress now. I went memory foam and air combo decades ago so im not sure what a typical one has now.

  • lipilee@feddit.nlEnglish
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    9 days ago

    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

  • tazzy@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 days ago

    And then after playing head inside and watch ma’s Corrie and make her a proper cuppa I remember these days I do

  • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
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    10 days ago

    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.

  • Llamatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    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.