[HN Gopher] Children's Games (Bruegel)
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       Children's Games (Bruegel)
        
       Author : lermontov
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2023-05-26 04:29 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | serallak wrote:
       | I did a one thousand pieces puzzle of this painting this winter.
       | 
       | Suffice to say, it did take a while.
        
       | dvh wrote:
       | "stirring excrement with a stick"
        
         | jonsen wrote:
         | One of my classmates in elementary school lived close to a
         | closed factory. The backyard with lot of scrap was a wonderful
         | adventurous playground. The city train station was further down
         | the street and the trains passed just behind the fence furthest
         | in the back. When someone heard a train approaching he would
         | yell "Train's coming!". Whatever play would cease immediately
         | and we all ran to pick up one of our poops on a stick and line
         | up at the fence. Great was the joy when one of us hit a window.
        
           | smegsicle wrote:
           | > Whatever play would cease immediately
           | 
           | just like the christmas truce of 1914
        
         | theodric wrote:
         | Arguably, that's more of an adult's game now, at least in the
         | Slashdot comments section
        
         | mistrial9 wrote:
         | no way to avoid poop on a farm with animals all around.
        
         | wslh wrote:
         | Never played that. It seems for promoting composting? [1]
         | Looking on Internet without a concise answer [2]. Research [3]
         | 
         | [1] https://fitznaturalist.com/2021/01/01/poop-in-the-woods-
         | does...
         | 
         | [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_stick
         | 
         | [3]
         | https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=+sti...
        
           | sdwr wrote:
           | For promoting composting? Jesus, I don't think you've ever
           | been within 50 feet of a child, nevermind having been one at
           | some point in the long-distant past.
           | 
           | It's fundamental play. Sight, smell, touch are stimulated, in
           | the context of incremental, controlled danger, and tool
           | manipulation.
           | 
           | The poop is "bad", but it's stationary, so safe to approach
           | and investigate the edges of.
           | 
           | Subgames include:
           | 
           | - breaking the crusty layer on the surface, revealing fresh
           | shit inside
           | 
           | - getting close enough to smell the poop, learning how the
           | hedonic treadmill works
           | 
           | - breaking it into pieces
           | 
           | - smooshing it back together
           | 
           | - trying to pick up pieces with the stick
           | 
           | - showing the poop to other kids, seeing if they are
           | disgusted or interested
        
             | wslh wrote:
             | Another culture... other games. Don't overestimate your
             | experiences and culture please.
        
               | harperlee wrote:
               | If you (re)read the grandparent comment, you'll find that
               | most of what is being talked about is not related to
               | culture, but with nature.
        
               | wslh wrote:
               | If you read my message it talks about experience. This is
               | an ad hominem attack.
        
             | pessimizer wrote:
             | Pretty sure we played all of these as kids.
        
             | Izmaki wrote:
             | This reply is more thorough and wholesome that I'd imagine
             | a reply to "poking excrements with a stick" could be - or
             | should be.
        
           | bibanez wrote:
           | I only remember doing this as a kid out of curiosity and to
           | annoy other people :)
        
         | Y_Y wrote:
         | "shitstirring"
        
       | ianand wrote:
       | If Bruegel painted it today it would just show an iPad.
        
       | pawelb87 wrote:
       | "Inflating a bladder to create a balloon or ball" wow
        
         | acheron wrote:
         | I think Laura Ingalls Wilder talked about that in _Little House
         | in the Big Woods_.
        
           | pessimizer wrote:
           | https://magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/2014/06/throwback-
           | thurs...
        
         | mklarmann wrote:
         | Yes. Funny to find this here. This is actually still quite
         | common in my home-town Riedlingen in Swabian Albs during
         | carnival festivites. You can see in the picture [1] that they
         | have attached the bladders to a stick, and the tradition is to
         | hit people on the head with this :o)
         | 
         | [1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrenzunft_Gole
        
       | fiforpg wrote:
       | Curiously enough, another painting by Bruegel, _Hunters in the
       | snow_ ,
       | 
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunters_in_the_Snow
       | 
       | is prominently featured in Tarkovsky's Solaris, which is
       | discussed in another thread on the front page of HN today.
       | Cultures and ideas move in mysterious ways.
        
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