The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to [Dormant] moved to !historyphotos@piefed.social@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoSome kids jumping out of windows onto mattresses for fun (England, 1980s)lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square89linkfedilinkarrow-up1529arrow-down11
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minus-squareconc@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 months agoI 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
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·10 months agoI 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.
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
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.