The Private Magic of Treehouses (opens in new tab)

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44 pointsHBlix7y ago12 comments

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Antimachides7y ago· 5 in thread

Some of those look incredibly unsafe.

Haha you should have seen the treehouse my friends and I built when we were in about fifth grade. It was probably 15 feet off the ground and put together with as much carpentry skill as a group of 11 year old boys had, using boards and plywood scavenged from our garages or vacant lots. Fun times. Pre internet era, nobody had a phone and video games meant pac man at the arcade if you had money to play, or maybe Pong on a TV set.

newman8r7y ago

yeah I built one of these out of pallets when I was 10 and it had to be torn down when a neighbor kid stepped on a rusty nail. Fortunately they didn't sue my family. I understood the concept of a hammer and nails, but that was the limit of my knowledge.

grawprog7y ago

Don't you know the rule? Safety third, after having fun and looking cool.

sandermvanvliet7y ago

I’ve built an underground hideout using discarded washing machine panels for wall support when I was about 11 or 12 years old or so. Safety was a word I’d never heard of back then...

posterboy7y ago

pics or didn't happen

zeta01347y ago· 1 in thread

I got one image into this article and tried to block the "Like us on Facebook" element. While I was doing that, a full-screen nag popped up and, upon being blocked, I discovered that scrolling was now permanently broken.

Refreshing the page works, but scrolling breaks again when, presumably, this popup tries to come back.

sigh

This is normal now, isn't it? Does this kind of crap really generate quality leads? I don't understand why it's so pervasive.

escherplex7y ago

The simple solution on Firefox was to simply click on the 'like' popup "X" button which resulted in no popups for the rest of the session. Also, most of the images were not of what would be called 'tree houses' since they were not in trees but just in the context of trees.

tenaciousDaniel7y ago· 1 in thread

A tree house, a free house,

A secret you and me house,

A high up in the leafy branches

Cozy as can be house.

A street house, a neat house,

Be sure and wipe your feet house

Is not my kind of house at all--

Let's go live in a tree house.

anonytrary7y ago

Sorry for my low quality comment, but reading this in Snoop Dogg's voice is wonderful.

jonny_eh7y ago· 1 in thread

Some of these look like cottages/cabins. Shouldn't they be solely supported by trees to be considered a proper treehouse?

Joe-Z7y ago

Not solely maybe, but I agree with you. Some of them are more in-between-tree-houses.

Still nice to see what people come up with!

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