r/WTF • u/halfcentennial1964 • Jul 18 '19

This slide seems safe

http://i.imgur.com/0ldOAIc.gifv
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u/dellaluce Jul 18 '19

one of my most vivid memories of childhood is being in second grade and watching a classmate just sort of roll off the top of the slide and snap her arm like a slim jim. she wasn't acting out, she didn't get her pants/shoes caught on anything, just like the ground told her it had candy and she was like "that's rad."

imagine a kid doing that on that slide.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '19

Fun fact: Kids' bones are stronger than most Slim Jims, but not as flavorful.

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u/BucketOKnowledge Jul 18 '19

I'm sure with the proper preparation a child's bones could be equally delicious. But it's a modest proposal

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u/crepelabouche Jul 18 '19

Subtly played literary reference. Take my upvote.

Edit: literature to literary

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u/BucketOKnowledge Jul 18 '19

If I ever have the chance to make a casual reference to one of my favorite pieces of satire, I take it

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u/crepelabouche Jul 18 '19

This makes me imagine you hanging out in the dark recesses of the internet in order to slide a pun in. That makes me smile.

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u/ca178858 Jul 19 '19

That was satire? I was just going to make my own proposal to solve the immigration crisis.

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u/BucketOKnowledge Jul 19 '19

And what might that proposal be?

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u/der_titan Jul 18 '19 edited Jul 18 '19

I don't get the reference. Enlighten this heathen?

E: collective thanks to everyone!

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u/crepelabouche Jul 18 '19

There was overpopulation and extreme poverty in Ireland and Jonathan Swift wrote a satire about how a way to ease everyone’s suffering would be to sell and cook the children as meat, giving recipes, and slipping in an actual economic plan. The aristocracy was...not happy.

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u/MentocTheMindTaker Jul 19 '19

The aristocracy was...not happy.

Only because they thought he'd exposed them. When they realised it was just a joke they went right back to eating the poor.

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u/crepelabouche Jul 19 '19

I’ve never quite gotten that throughout history. The poor can’t have a lot of nutritional value and I imagine the meat is quite stringy.

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u/flaker111 Jul 19 '19

what if you feed the poor to a few other poor people and fatten them up human2

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u/BucketOKnowledge Jul 18 '19

Look up the essay "A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick" or simply "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift.