Bouncy Castles: C or D

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― get bent, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

hey, no fair, that one comes with weapons!

― kingfish, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

bouncy weapons!

― get bent, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Not as C as those big activity centres or whatever they're called with all nets and tunnels and ball pits and crashmats and stuff. I really wish they made those for adults.

― chap, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

bouncy castles vs ball pits in urine content fite

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

Ball pits are always D, I was always too tall for them.

― Mippy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

Fucking dud. I live in a housing estate and every kids' birthday party has a bouncy castle, which means the adults wait for the kids to go to bed and then they get tanked and bounce all over the castle all night, screaming their heads off in the back garden till five in the morning. I hate them.

Yes. I hate fun.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

I do miss the ball pits & bounce castles, fuck a 5'9" stature. Actually I like my stature.

The Mormon book distribution center had a big ball pit in the middle, because for once in the history of the church they realized that being stuck in a giant store full of scriptures was almost as anesthetizing as being stuck in a fabric store. Ball pit fun, yeay! Unlike in fabric stores, where I had to make up a game: every bolt of fabric I touched was immediately transferred to some textile-starved alternate universe, and I could pass the time by giving them material for clothes and couches.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

i prefered the ones where the whole thing was enclosed in a big bubble and when you went in through the door slit you got a rush of suction. it was kinda scary to get trapped down the edge of those ones though.

― jed_, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

When I was a freshman in college and a lot of my friends were seniors in high school, a friend of some friends worked for a company that rented inflatable bouncies. His boss was out of town one weekend and through some convincing peer pressure, he was persuaded to bring one of the castles and one of the slides over to a friend’s house for a little get together.

With three days notice, a few of my best friends and I organized what was to be called MUDFEST 99. However, when we delegated the task of putting up directional signs to a poor speller, the party forever became known as MUDFEAST 99.

The house already had a pool which had hosted several high school parties in its day. An ill conceived mud wrestling pit was created in the back yard, three bands were asked to play, and a sound system was borrowed by another friend who worked for a mobile deejay service. However, everything really came together when the bouncy castle was placed at the foot of the slide and a simple garden hose was added to the top of the inflatable slide, transforming it into a water-slide empting into an inflatable safety-net.

We expected it to be fun and for lots of people to show up, but the result exceeded our expectations in spades. With only three days notice the multitudes of Tucson's youth showed up in droves. There were kids from high schools clear on the other side of the city. I cant even begin to describe how much fun the inflatable slide was with water running down it. I must have waited in line for it a hundred times.

About 90% of the kids there were in swim attire and less than 5% were consuming alcohol of any kind. There were a few LJ-style sexual shenanigans, and the pool's filter got trashed since the pool pretty much became where you cleaned the mudd off, but for the most part it was good, clean, sober fun.

MUDFEAST 99 was one of the three of four best nights of my life.

― g®▲Ðұ, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Not as C as those big activity centres or whatever they're called with all nets and tunnels and ball pits and crashmats and stuff. I really wish they made those for adults.

I got lost in one of these as a kid. Screamed for my mom for about 30 minutes before someone noticed me.

But yeah, those rule!

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

totally classic. they should have them at gyms instead of all that other stupid equipment.

― blueski, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

so OTM. not that i've been to a gym.

― jed_, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Dud. Small kids get bounced to kingdom come by the bigger, bullying types and end up on their arses, unable to right themselves for longer than 5 seconds. So they crawl on their hands and knees aiming desperately for the wall, where they cling saucer-eyed, wondering how they will make it to the exit. After edging timidly past screaming kids that are throwing themselves dementedly at the walls, they finally make it out and sag to the ground with relief, only to find some bastard has STOLEN THEIR SHOES.

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

it's a metaphor for LIFE

― get bent, Thursday, 22 March 2007 04:59 (eighteen years ago)

More classic than trampolines plus basketball

― Drooone, Thursday, 22 March 2007 05:05 (eighteen years ago)

Kids would grow up soft if they didn't get banged around at all while having fun. I can see a complaint against ball pits because the balls are hard and sometimes kids pee in there but inflatable play arenas are just about unimpeachably classic.

― A B C, Thursday, 22 March 2007 05:23 (eighteen years ago)

classic for this (need to wait until the 2 min mark)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCW6Kte2o1A

― gershy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

"erotic castle"

― haitch, Thursday, 22 March 2007 05:42 (eighteen years ago)

wtf

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 22 March 2007 05:44 (eighteen years ago)

Erotic Castle come alive
Jump so pretty you & me

― Abbott, Thursday, 22 March 2007 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

Wow. That is scary and huge.

― Hard like armour, Thursday, 22 March 2007 06:49 (eighteen years ago)

that's what she said

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 22 March 2007 06:53 (eighteen years ago)

god I need to get to bed.

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 22 March 2007 06:54 (eighteen years ago)

that's what she said

― get bent, Thursday, 22 March 2007 07:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/bouncy.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 22 March 2007 07:08 (eighteen years ago)

that's a daddy and his two little girls, btw. I know because i hung around with my creepy camera long enough to watch them get out of the tent, and he helped them both put their shoes back on. Made me wish I had little girls so I could jump in the castle, too. :(

― kenan, Thursday, 22 March 2007 07:19 (eighteen years ago)

waht

― g-kit, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

totally classic. they should have them at gyms instead of all that other stupid equipment.

blueski

Steve, this a genius idea. Bouncersize! Cardio Castle! I would so go.

The last time I went on a bouncy castle was at a house party. The people had hired a castle and inflated it in the front room. It was brilliant.

― Anna, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

Bouncy Castle is one of the smells my brain remembers extremely clearly.

― Madchen, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

Sadly, the first thougth that came to my mind was:
http://www.bouncycastle.org/images/home_logo.gif

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

Where have you gone, Pogo Dimaggio...

http://i.imgur.com/zoBg5mI.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 1 June 2015 13:55 (ten years ago)

Has anybody mentioned the sinking Titanic style of inflatable/slide. Seems to be in really iffy taste, looks like the ships funnels at a 45 or 30 degree angle and I think the name Titanic visibly down the side of the unit.
One turned up here in Galway at the time of the Volvo ocean race last year or the year before which i thought odd timing. Might just be reading too much into it but the idea of celebrating a ship that sank causing that much loss of life at the same time that the big ocean going boat race is in town suits a little oddly.

― Stevolende, Monday, 1 June 2015 16:49 (ten years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/WwZk6jG.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 1 June 2015 17:04 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Da2R21WTo

― how's life, Monday, 1 June 2015 17:08 (ten years ago)

Of course, I live in a world where this is happening, so

http://i.imgur.com/cfupyKb.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/mhBu3Zp.png

― pplains, Monday, 1 June 2015 17:10 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az6TdgHJ8R0

― how's life, Monday, 1 June 2015 17:12 (ten years ago)

I've seen that Titanic one in action, at an apple festival in north GA. So insane.

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