#i just think olden times thrill rides r funny as fuck | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

feline-evil · 2 years

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I love seeing footage and learning about early thrill rides and amusement attractions, because those things were just. Absolutely made by people thinking 'how fast can we make a human body go?' and very little else

Like nowadays we make these shits with "comfort" and "rider enjoyment" and even "safety" in mind, back then it was just "we're already doing laudanum shots and snorting ye olde powders, may as well jump on Old Jims Brain Scrambler Train and get dropped and spun at a faster rate than a centrifuge"

Oh you want us to put trim breaks in here? Safety restraints? No. Go in the salad spinner and meet god.

#THEY GO SO FUCKIN FAST MAN #LIKE. YOU SEE THRILL RIDES NOW AND YOU GO SHIT THESE THINGS ARE FAST #NAH DUDE LOOK AT THEIR ANCESTORS. THEIR EARLY RELATIVES #FUCKING. BANANAS THOSE THINGS GO SO FAST THEY'D TURN MODERN AUDIENCES INTO PASTE #also hi if this post sounds like im lamenting for a time gone by in the amusements industry im super not lmao #trim breaks and safety restraints UNVERSALLY GOOD FANTASTIC THINGS #i just think olden times thrill rides r funny as fuck #just. inventing machines to do things to the human body no loving force could ever concieve of fdghdfkjghfdjkg

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