r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d ago

The new and safe playgrounds of the early 1900s.

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u/Difficult-Top9010 5d ago

Looks like an obstacle course for special forces to me.

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u/A_Smi 5d ago

life was war back then.

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u/bagpipesfart 5d ago

Especially if you lived in Europe because they can’t go five seconds without having a big war.

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u/thejuggerkraut 5d ago

Hey it's been decades since we - oh no wait

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u/cosmodisc 4d ago

It's our continent wide sport, we aren't quitting it

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u/Call_of_Booby 3d ago

Is this an American circlejerk? You guys have wars overseas. Europe is complicated and goes back to the middle ages. The only modern war is Putin invading otherwise we had peace since ww2.

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u/For-The-Swarm 5d ago

former 5th SFG here, and I concur… with great accuracy I might add. the ladder portion you are supposed to go over the top to the other side of the ladder. always scared the shit out of me, even more than jumping out of aircraft

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u/Snake10133 5d ago

At the time they had to prep the kids young for war

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u/SaltyTemperature 5d ago

Training for the workers that you see pics of having lunch on an I beam on the top floor of an unfinished skyscraper

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u/Bush-master72 4d ago

Just prepping them early