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![[0640] Roundabout II](/comics/2014-12-08-0640-roundabout-ii.png "[0640] Roundabout II")
- Caption: One week later.
- Yuna: This is boring. Faster, mommy!!
- Ye Thuza: I’m trying, but it isn’t working!
- Yuna: Why not?
- Ye Thuza: I don’t kn–
- Sign: This playground now fulfills all requirements of the new playground equipment safety law!
- Yuna: BWAAAAAAAAAH {SOB}
- Ye Thuza: There’s nothing worse in life than when your attacker laughs in your face.
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Sheesh, what a bitch!
Ye Thuza: “You make my daughter cry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.”
I guess they put something on it to limit its rotational velocity, such as high-friction rubber pads.
Nerd way of saying it slows down too quickly.
That’s funny I’m seeing a lot of parallels with something that happened recently…
You DARE force people to be safe? People can be dangerous if they want to! It’s parents like her that ban GTA so that other parents don’t give the game to 10 year olds. Safety is only safe if it’s forced, and then there’s no fun.
The evil nanny Nazis have appeared.
@ TurboAura:
That is their intention. You are not supposed to have fun. Fun is useless. All free time must be scheduled, regulated and controlled. Thinking for yourself is wrong. Do not question.
Mother Evil is doomed . . . doomed, I tell you, DOOMED!!
I….I don’t know how to feel.
I broke my arm when I fell off a spinning merry-go-round like the one Yuna is playing on, so I understand how dangerous playgrounds can be, heck my little brother fell off the top of a Jungle Jim and broke his arm a few years later.
On the other side how can a person learn to be safe if all danger is taken out of their life, like me and my brothers eventually learned that Ninja fighting on playground equipment leads to broken arms.
Thanks Michelle Obama
Van wrote:
Evil nanny Nazi used Disable, It’s super effective.
Sorry been playing Ruby a lot recently. Not Omega just plain old Ruby.
a lesson learned: back when I was 12, my little sister being a bratty 8 year old felt it was a good idea to jump on me get up and do it again. after a few times doing so I threatened that if she bounces on me again, I’ll bounce on her. one standard bratty 8 year old response later I stand up and chase after her as she jumps onto the couch, I follow about 2 seconds later. what I didn’t realize until I got back up was that she landed with her arm in a bad angle and I landed on it in such a way that I broke her wrist.
2 lessons were learned: first was by my sister that you should listen when people tell you to stop doing something. that I should only threaten if I plan to follow through, and follow through if I’m willing to feel the guilt associated with it.
“In order to reduce the number of serious accidents in the Bathtub, wearing safety helmets while showering is still voluntary, but we are trying hard to push through this bill that will make you all rest a little easier”
I would love to take credit for that snark as an original, but I can’t….
I think they need a little more horsepower to break it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwo9AvTA5xY
That woman will probably also try to have Ye Thuza arrested for “child endangerment” 😛
So… due to concerns over public safety, the roundabout has been… placed under arrest! >:=)baaa-dum-tish)>
These pedantic pencil-pushers are perturbing our possibily of playground pleaure! Produce a petition!
Looks to me like Mrs Cambridge is about to get some company.
At three I drove my first car, and drank my first beer (and the root of my disdain of said substance). My childhood is filled with bumps bruises and downright scary mishaps; and the people around me much more adventurous.
We are all still alive.
I really feel sorry for those who want to wrap up their children with bubblewrap, but I have very little love for those that take away the chance of adventure from others.
And she will be “poof”, as she never had existed
I have mixed feelings on this.
There were people dying on this thing after all… granted they were using motor-bicycles to generate rotational velocity…
I guesss a path between making it too slow and granting full (motorized) speed would be right.
@ Steven:
Yeah, my son fell off playground equipment. Broke his collarbone. He survived, and learned to be a bit more careful next time.
THAT’S HOW ITS SUPPOSED TO WORK.
Wrap your kid in pillows and they will never know their limits.
reminds me of how I felt when they started to take the branches of the trees I loved to climb on away so it became impossible to climb them
the problem is the legal system, child climbs a tree, falls, parents sue the town for childs injury -.-
@ All-Purpose Guru:
Oh, and Shakespeare had it right. “First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” –Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4 Scene 2
Sad thing is they’re actually doing this. At my old elementary school one girl was being stupid and broke her arm falling off a piece of equipment on the playground. One girl, and that thing was dismantled. It makes me wonder why they bother building this stuff in the first place if they’re going to take it out every time a kid or two gets hurt on it. What’s the point? :/
Life no fun without little death in it.
Ya typical, I wish these people would remember that to a child scars and bruises are badges of honor. Yes it hurts at first, but pain is temporary the stories are forever.
Well, that sucks. Just ruined it for everyone else
@ Sarusig:
Common Core math… FDA banning research on dietary supplements… people in office trying to rewrite the Bill of Rights… And now this?!
It is only a matter of time before it all comes crashing down on us. I am moving to Canada!
That last picture made me so sad.
Now Yuna is here only a little girl who want’s to have some
fun at a playground, and than this!
But as we know the family the revenge will come.
Maby again someone will be “puff”. he,ehe
Oh boo, it’s like when they slowed down the spin on Disneyland teacups! But I LIKED spinning my neck so fast that my neck nearly snaps!
Luke wrote:
Penguin? Is that you?
Kinder Surprise chocolates cannot legally be sold in the United States.
This is because when Kinder Surprise was available, three children choked to death on the little plastic toys.
Which is a horrible, horrible thing to happen.
Meanwhile, also in the States, doctors are legally prohibited from asking parents if there are guns in the family home, as that infringes on the Second Amendment.
It’s interesting how context influences responses. I wonder how people would have reacted if the first strip had featured a child falling off the roundabout and breaking his neck.
There’s a range of child protection that goes from overprotective to wildly irresponsible, and people can disagree about where the lines go without being fun-killing monsters or child-endangering monsters. Funnily enough, it seerms to me that we’ve seen examples of both extremes in these two strips. }:->
@ Amaroq Dricaldari:This is the legacy of the Nanny State! No jungle gyms, seesaws, swings, or 20 oz.+ soft drinks along with levying of taxes on sugary drinks in California. Trans fats in baked goods are banned in NYC. Soda and candy machines removed from schools. Manditory health care enrollent, minority entitlement, free speech rights only if the speech aligns with the left. Human rights trumped by “endangered species” rights. (According to PETA and other animal rights activists humans have no rights.) If mother nature’s rain creates a puddle in your backyard it’s a pond and it comes under EPA jurisdiction. I could rant on but I’m sure I’ve made my point.
demarion wrote:
1. That’s specifically Florida, not “the States” generally.
2. It has nothing to do with the second amendment, it’s just a ridiculous law Florida passed.
I was in 6th grade in 1994 in the United States. That was the year that some bureaucrat decided that playground sand was dangerous and all schools (or at least in Kansas) had to remove the sand and replace it with wood mulch. And what was brought in wasn’t small, neat, and relatively small mulch because that would wear out to quickly. No, we got regular landscaping mulch. And maybe it was safer in some strange way, but I do know the nurse was a lot busier after that. And I was one of three kids sent home for puncture injuries in my class from tripping and falling in the stuff.
@ demarion:
MERICA’!
Fun stuff, though I’m hoping this doesn’t kick off a full storyline. Really seems like we barely get standalones anymore.
@ demarion:I wouldn’t go as far as saying it infringes on the 2nd amendment because that guarantees the right of a citizen to bear arms. However, it does infringe on a person’s right to privacy because having a gun in the house does not directly affect a persons health. Asking whether or not a person has a gun in their household is tantamount to the assumption that they will inevitably use it unlawfully either deliberately or through negligence. I believe that the courts have ruled it as an invasion of privacy. A doctor’s question about firearms has about as much health merit as asking whether there are knives or power tools in the house. An inadvertent injury is more likely with a knife or a power tool. The push to get doctor’s inquiring about guns in the house was just another ploy by the gun hating left to attempt to identify legal gun owners. Anyway I would assume that any gun owner in their right mind would answer that question with a straight faced no. People lie to their doctors all the time. (Honestly Doc, I don’t know how that got there.) Besides, where I live in Maine they don’t need to ask that question because if you said no they’d ask why the hell not!
@ Steven:
Steven wrote:
Better to break your arm then than take a greater risk later and be injured worse.
Or worse, go through life taking absolutely no risk…but then the world does need more cashiers and accountants…
I stabbed myself in the leg with a pocket knife when I was five, (playing a game I’d devised). I’ve wrecked motorcycles…at least three times that count. Sliced the ball of my thumb while carving wood. Singed my eyebrows, nose hair, and who knows what else playing with fireworks.
Risk is a part of living. You take risks or you don’t grow. Better the smaller risks when the stakes aren’t as high or at least the actual chance of serious injury less, so you can learn your limits without getting someone, possibly yourself, killed.
But how is it limited? Simply adding extra friction would make it hard to get going. Although that could be happening, surely there is a way to set a strict limit without affecting low speeds! One particularly cool and impractical way would be to have underground bars connected to the axle that swing out as it spins, but are kept a certain distance with springs counteracting the speed. Once the swing out far enough, they collide with the chamber and slow the whole thing down. [/Mechanical rant]
Whatever it is I’m sure Yuna will find a way around it (We’ve already had a ‘Ye Thuza takes care of oppression of the children’ arc, now its time for her to let her child work it out with all those science skills we saw a few strips ago).
@ yellow103:
How about a generator with the leads shorted through a rheostat?
Jk8z wrote:
The ones at 1:45 and 4:14.
Smart enough to wear helmets at least. And quickly learning as to why that’s smart.
And I see that not a single one ever thought about how to break and stop. Except the one who used nothing more but his own legpower to get the thing up to speed of course.
@ Sean:
Spoken like someone who’s experienced both life and danger. I know the feeling and I agree completely.
For people who argue about child safety, I was a boyscout when I was age 9 to 14. We prepare our own fire, we cook our own food, we even use river for number 1 and 2. We sleep in tents we build ourselves, remember, this is old time tent, not the factory made kids use now.
Do we get injury? yes, that’s the risk. We learn to avoid those injuries and to live off the forest. We got blisters and wood sharpnels on our skin but we nurse it back to health. We got accidents but we got leaders who will do first aid help and bring them back to the nearest hospital.
Do those experience break us and make us weak? No. Those experiences train us that things happen. Both bad and good. We can’t just pamper kids and put them in a cocoon and then release them when they turn 17 or 18. If you do that you will create a generation that’s not ready to face the world. That’s not ready to do menial works because they are too scared to get injured. That’s not ready to face the world’s cruelty because every thing they said are controlled by the helicopter parents.
And the worst part of the current generation? The rise in obesity, We became a society that consume consume and consume. And in US of A, the society of lawsuit.
Hans Rancke wrote:
True, I’d say. And truth be told, it’s easy to see where Ye Thuza’s attitude stems from.
In response: ‘Challenge Accepted! Yuna hook you’re reactor up to this thing and Hold On. We’re going Plaid!’
bogwombler wrote:
Well, the non-left do seem extraordinary loud and talkative for someone not having free speech rights.
I do agree with a good part of what you wrote there, but this one… Quite untenable when judging from a neutral point of view.
As far as guns go: I would agree that usually a doctor doesn’t have any grounds of asking whether there’s a gun in your house. That is not to say he should be forbidden to, free country after all. But he’s in no position to demand an answer. (I could see it with insurance agents though.)
An exception would be if the doctor’s found something with the patient that would make him incapable of safely handling a gun, and then the question should be “Do you own or use…” Or found a gun or any substance that usually accompany them to be an immediate health hazard to the patient (rare allergy comes to mind).
No, “bullet wounds” do not count in that regard.
And personally I do like guns and am a competitive target shooter with some amount of success on an amateur level. I also think that the bar for acquiring a firearm should not be unnecessary high. (Were I live you have to file an application for a purchase at your local police that may be valid for up to three guns each. But it’s only so that they can check, whether there are any legal reasons for you not to be allowed ownership. Usually gets handled very quickly and costs about 70 bucks total fee and necessary documents. And many people consider that a harsh barrier.)
That being said, I’d be absolutely in favour of a sensibly designed central weapons register. I don’t think it would make crime plummet. But it would prevent at least a few misdeeds, speed up and ease the work of the police in some cases where it didn’t (thus probably save more than it costs, counting everything) and give me as an owner a way better chance to get a weapon back in case it got stolen.
I’ve noticed in a world that tries to suck all the fun out of being a kid, it’s the adults that are the least mature.