Dam, you go
September 6, 2016 6:33 PM   Subscribe

 
Even slip 'n slides are trying to kill you in Australia.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 6:39 PM on September 6, 2016 [6 favorites]


That's awesome.

I have a scar on my leg from a slip n slide accident in my (Australian) childhood. Good times.
posted by kitten magic at 6:46 PM on September 6, 2016 [1 favorite]


The craziest part is that they let people carry selfie sticks whiile they ride. I guess they're not worried about lawsuits when someone eventually impales themselves.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 6:52 PM on September 6, 2016 [3 favorites]


All looks like fun, and then they show the kids Boogie boarding over the berm...ow ow ow. You have to be between 12 and 22 to think holding on to the board instead of bailing into the water is a good idea.

The dog wasn't having fun
posted by rockindata at 6:55 PM on September 6, 2016 [1 favorite]


I guess they're not worried about lawsuits when someone eventually impales themselves.

Nah. Injuries doing things like this are all part of the fun. You'd be considered the biggest wuss ever if you sued.

My slip n slide injury was due to us using a butter knife to peg the slide into the ground. Sure didn't think that through. As my parents said later: "well that was stupid".)
posted by kitten magic at 7:04 PM on September 6, 2016 [8 favorites]


Luke Jerram built one not quite as long (only 90 metres) on Park Street in Bristol
posted by Z303 at 7:13 PM on September 6, 2016


This is everything Slide the City wishes it was but isn't.
posted by jacquilynne at 7:19 PM on September 6, 2016 [3 favorites]


Dang...Mrs. Benway and I watched this over and over. So much fun, we miss the inevitable body mangling of the slip-n-slide. So many good (and painful) memories.
posted by Benway at 8:18 PM on September 6, 2016


That looks fun as hell. I would absolutely hang onto the board to skip all the way across the water, berm or no!
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:33 PM on September 6, 2016 [1 favorite]


Is it too late for me to start over and be Australian instead?
posted by eggkeeper at 8:35 PM on September 6, 2016 [4 favorites]


Five of my most impressive scars are from Slip 'n Slides. No way would I survive this one .
posted by PussKillian at 8:43 PM on September 6, 2016 [2 favorites]


Needs HappyFunSeptember tag
posted by esto-again at 8:50 PM on September 6, 2016 [1 favorite]


"THAT'S a slip 'n slide."
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:54 PM on September 6, 2016 [4 favorites]


feel the berm
posted by NMcCoy at 8:55 PM on September 6, 2016 [1 favorite]


When I was five, I wanted a slip 'n slide sooo badly. My great-grandmother (who was, I think, in her 60s -- having had children very young who also had children very young) bought me one. My mother and grandmother staked the thing down in our extremely flat and extremely hard Illinois yard. None of the adults really knew how to use the thing. And my grandmother says to my great-grandmother, "It's like ice skating." So, after working herself up a bit, saying, "I'll show you how to do it," my great-grandmother runs full speed and tries to skate standing fully upright. It didn't go according to plan. Her legs immediately flew out from under her and she crashed mightily. My mother and grandmother laughed more than I think I've ever seen them laugh since. After everything settled down, my grandmother says to my great-grandmother, "Mom, I think I would have laughed if it'd killed you."

I don't think I ever got to actually use the slip 'n slide.
posted by Jonathan Livengood at 9:00 PM on September 6, 2016 [3 favorites]


The important thing is that everyone signed an organ donation form.
posted by um at 9:23 PM on September 6, 2016 [2 favorites]


Can't see the vids from here. I'll just assume it's made from rubbish bags and a perforated old hose.
posted by pompomtom at 9:24 PM on September 6, 2016 [2 favorites]


Mostly old corrugated tin, actually.
posted by um at 9:31 PM on September 6, 2016 [1 favorite]


That's some pretty skillful drone photography work!
posted by lostburner at 10:04 PM on September 6, 2016


That looked so fun
posted by gt2 at 11:13 PM on September 6, 2016


Needs more lamb on the bbq.
I like how his drone is called Phyllis.
posted by Thella at 11:54 PM on September 6, 2016


Totally buried the lede of drone beer delivery.
posted by ckape at 12:13 AM on September 7, 2016


If only I had a penguin...: "I guess they're not worried about lawsuits when someone eventually impales themselves."
America, you're not the world.
posted by brokkr at 1:13 AM on September 7, 2016 [7 favorites]


In defense of inanimate objects, the Slip n' Slide seems sane enough; it's the people who get crazier every year. (My favorite was the man standing up in three innertubes. Seems to me his comeuppance should have been greater than it was for that audacity.
posted by chavenet at 2:14 AM on September 7, 2016 [2 favorites]


That was fun!
posted by james33 at 2:59 AM on September 7, 2016


For anyone wondering who Paul Borrud is, he used to run Facebook in Australasia.
posted by Hogshead at 5:23 AM on September 7, 2016


Nope... America isn't even me.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 5:36 AM on September 7, 2016


It looked like the landing pond at the bottom might have been a bit small for the speeds, at least with the boards. A couple of the tumbles on the berm looked like they might have hurt. But other than that, it looked like pure fun.
posted by Dip Flash at 5:43 AM on September 7, 2016


But are those lambdogs on the barbie?
posted by sammyo at 6:09 AM on September 7, 2016


Then I realized it was foam and all the water was actually beer.

it uhh. looks like beer. Is it really beer?
posted by Annika Cicada at 7:05 AM on September 7, 2016


Too right, mate! You don't expect Aussies to wallow in toilet water, do ya?
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 7:06 AM on September 7, 2016


This is a water slide.
posted by Oyéah at 7:53 AM on September 7, 2016 [1 favorite]


I used to organize the slip-n-slide at my college end of year party (Renn Fayre, at Reed). Lots of fun, and very easy, just need a hill, thick plastic, and a hose. They work better if you're naked; skin on plastic is low friction.
posted by Nelson at 8:51 AM on September 7, 2016


Naked works great until someone gets a mud enema by overshooting the end of the plastic.
posted by Dip Flash at 9:47 AM on September 7, 2016 [1 favorite]


A lotta folks would pay money for that. Probably do, in fact.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 12:06 PM on September 7, 2016


Nah, $20, same as in town.
posted by jenkinsEar at 5:45 PM on September 7, 2016


White stuff's probably detergent - we always added some to our slip and slides for extra slip! This is great, thanks for posting!
posted by goo at 4:00 AM on September 8, 2016


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