I seem to remember a pajeet/paki version. A girl on a swing - on the edge of a cliff - boyfriend or friends pushing her. Higher and higher, and off she goes, flying off into the ether.
Why the hell do they build these contraptions on cliff edges?
Story time: Years ago there was one of these set up at a travelling exhibition. It was NASA equipment and had actually been used to train astronauts so a lot better designed and made than the one in the video. I was in my early 30s but still thought I was capable of handling anything life threw at me. I know for a fact that when I was a kid I could have sat in that thing all day while someone tired himself out spinning it. But I was no longer a kid.
Within a couple spins I realized I'd made a terrible mistake but no amount of my screaming "STOP I"M GOING TO BE SICK" has any effect on the guy doing the spinning. I suspect he ignored me on purpose.
It was fucking terrible. And I learned on that day that the invincibility of youth has a hard Best Before date.
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But, the idea to place this on a cliff, that's super Chinese.
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Why the hell do they build these contraptions on cliff edges?
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Within a couple spins I realized I'd made a terrible mistake but no amount of my screaming "STOP I"M GOING TO BE SICK" has any effect on the guy doing the spinning. I suspect he ignored me on purpose.
It was fucking terrible. And I learned on that day that the invincibility of youth has a hard Best Before date.
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