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[–] LargeAdultRedBook@hexbear.net 39 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

How the fuck did workers clean those things?

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 31 points 3 weeks ago

Clean them? Half the bodily fluids in the ball pit were from the workers. Fucking in the ball pit was how the night shift passed the time.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago

Half heartedly.

[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 30 points 3 weeks ago

Top: Life under socialism.

Bottom: The BurgerReich Gulag.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I kind of want to make an adult playplace

Scale up the tubes and slides and everything

Really cash in on that nostalgia and revitalize space in our abandoned warehouse districts

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Adults are less trustworthy than kids to not make it a disgusting mess within a week. Mostly cause most participants will have most likely been drinking and another large portion are gonna try to fuck in there, there is overlap. But it's gonna be a health hazard in no time.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Easy, just slap biohazard stickers on it and make people sign a waiver first, then just watch your profits come rolling in!

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

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[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I can confirm that as a young adult I did some drinking inside playground hardware after midnight

I didn't make a mess but one time I did ruin a sweatshirt because there was a pre-existing human turd in a slide at 2AM

[–] Katzimir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

that exists! i live near a giant indoor playground (abandoned big sport/spa-warehouse type) it is pretty crowded with kids usually but there are a few days i month for grown ups (no booze no drugs rule tho)

[–] HATEFISH@midwest.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

Look into the City Museum in St Louis, it's basically this.

[–] PurrLure@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

They could even do Five Nights at Freddy's and other indie horror collab events at night for additional sales where dressed up staffers chase you around in the dark. Just have people sign waivers first.

Hell, let people pay extra to watch the security cameras with staff to really get into the roleplay.

[–] dis_honestfamiliar 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Here's a video that provides some context. Sorry about the source though.

Link

to;dr: they used to advertise to children, but don't anymore.

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

Broken culture for a broken people

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

Capitalism always innovating and making things better!

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

Given the way things are going with H5N1, this is probably for the best.

[–] buh@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

the waving happy meal box makes it 10% more ominous

[–] trungulox@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I worked at a McDonald’s that had a play place back in the day.

Almost every day some kid would shit, piss, or puke in it.

[–] TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As is their right as free citizens. My forefathers didn't swing on the gallows for a hardback chair and an iPad. They died on the gallows because they stole horses.

[–] trungulox@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Horses are creepy

[–] Dialectical_Idealist@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They no longer need to advertise to kids because the kids they used to advertise to grew up

[–] TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Most of them still haven't though.