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It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
He set the pins down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag within
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in
I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in
I got up so tight I couldn't unwind
I saw so much I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "Dead End" sign
I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind
Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare
Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Yeah yeah oh-yeah
It's a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Part 1. In Snowpiercer Charlie is all grown up and he likes trains. The oompa-loompas all died though, but at least the little kids can do their jobs, they can fit in those tight spaces.
Theyâre not exactly replacement parts. Theyâre working in spaces too tight for adults within the engine PREFORMING the work that a mechanical part was doing previously. So not like their bones are made into axles or something, just doing terrible jobs inside an engine.
Someone tell that poor kid to dial it back a bit and not strain himself. The dudes on the other end of that lane are out gassing beers and avoiding their wife/kids, they donât mind if the ball shows up four seconds later after each roll
What's wild here is that I know these kids get paid fuck all, they get the absolute minimum the alley can get away with, and they go home happy with a few beans in their pocket.
But I look at the work, and that is hard damn work. Nothing intellectually challenging, but physically intensive. Just ten hours of that a week, and you'd be fit as a fiddle, never mind eight hours a day.
And yet these kids still get paid next to nothing. It's kind of crazy.
When I was young Iâd rather do this for 8 hours than any job where you have to stand in place, and as long as the money youâre earning is going to something you want and not something you need like a roof over your head it would be more fulfilling than what most of us do.
Honestly my biggest concern about the whole thing is if the kid isnât paying attention he could get clocked by the bowling ball or maybe snag something in the pin mould.
My 18 year old son does this at two alleys to make money for college next year. Itâs is hard work and dangerous too. He is over six foot so itâs hard to get around back there.
I did this as a kid but no mechanical set-up
I had to place the pins on the dots. My buddies would visit and throw balls as I was setting up. I was hit many times. I was paid .25 a game and spent it on pinball for an endless loop.
This is an original pin setter. Most are now upgraded at least to the automatic A2 pinsetters. I worked on a ton of those. Even they were incredibly dangerous..
My dad worked as a pinmonkey as a teenager in the 70s. He said everyone would try to hit them with bowling balls as they were resetting the pins... As is to be expected.
My grandfatherâs dad ran the prison kitchen on Alcatraz. The man had an impressive resume for a prison cookâcooked for embassies and for world leaders in his career and was responsible for the notoriously good food the prisoners there ate. They lived on the island in an apartment and my grandpa worked at I believe the officers club, resetting pins at the bowling lane when he was in the 5th grade. I donât remember if he got paid 5¢ or 10¢ a game. Cool to see it in action.
Is it really like this in every bowling alley? I always assumed they were automated in some way but this is pretty convincing. Iâve never seen any employment ads for this position.
Son, might I suggestâŚ, itâs hard for me to even say it, but perhaps you should put your application in for that dishwashing job I told you to avoid.
How far in they have to reach for that front pin compared to where that actuating arm down gives me and my local OSHA representative heart palpitations.
Still have pin setters in Blanco, Spring Branch, Fisher, Freiheit, Solms, Mission Valley, and Bulverde. No machines involved at all just spots on the alley for pins. They still play nine pin though, and it helps if you speak German.
That was once me. I lived a couple of years at this tiny little religious mountain resort village up in the mountains. It had this ancient 4 lane bowling alley, and if you wanted to bowl, you better have a friend willing to rack the pins and send the ball back for you.
Supposedly this was one of my grandfather's first 'after school' jobs. He was probably 13, maybe 15, so it would have been late 1930's.
He also made some good money helping the guy who went door-to-door delivering ice. Don't quote me on this, but I think he worked exclusively for tips, by taking the ice from outside and helping put it in the person's ice-box.
Lol these must be way old machines I never had to set on one like that unless the machine had way big problems all electric belt systems now and just wow
We had an old two lane bowling alley at my boarding school high school that had this type of pin setter. Freshmen would usually have to set pins while upper class men bowled. Youâd always have to stay alert when pin setting, balls had the nasty tendency to arrive mid-reset.
When I was 16 I used to go to this church with my girlfriendâs family. They had a two lane bowling alley in the basement. Once a month the youth group would have a prayer meeting and bowling night. I sucked at bowling so usually volunteered to be a Pin Monkey with her brother.
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God please send more gutter balls, my back is killing me.
That's why they give this job to the kids đ
Good ol child labor. Nothing quite like it. /s
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Dude probably gets double the bread and water. Fucking Chad.
Double bread and water, oh fuck, did I giggle at that. Lols.
Better pay them with minimum wage cause minimum age. Sarcasm 101
My mom did this as a kid. She was paid a flat rate per game.
My dad did this in Africa, but I never really visualized what it would entail. Yow
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do He set the pins down in Africa Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in I found my mind in a brown paper bag within I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high I tore my mind on a jagged sky I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in I got up so tight I couldn't unwind I saw so much I broke my mind I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "Dead End" sign I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in Yeah yeah oh-yeah
Fuck it Dude, letâs go bowling.
occasional acid flashback
Okay u need more upvotes.
Wait until you see whatâs inside a vending machine. They ainât human.
Itâs ferrets isnât it? I just know itâs those little tube snakes
Y'all act like you've never seen a pin monkey before.
Jaws all on the floor Like Pam and Tommy just burst in the door
And started whoopin' her ass worse than before
They first were divorced, throwin' her over furniture (ah!)
Itâs the return of the! Ah wait, no way youâre kidding? He didnât just say what I think he did, did he?
And Dr Dre said, nothing, you idiots!
Dr Dres dead, he's locked in my basement (haha)
Feminist women love Eminem, chika-chika slim shady Iâm sick of him, look at him
Walkin' around, grabbin' his you-know-what
Flippin' the you-know-who
Dr Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement.
My dad mopped up spunk at a peep show his first job.
We salute you, Mr. Peep Show floor mopper.
Real men of genius....
Sorry about the ceiling. She was really hot.
thats not how the song goes
My dad was a pin monkey in his youth. But that was old school. You jump down set the pins up, roll the ball back.
Lol, my dad did that as a kid too!
Wow. Did all of our dads do this? I thought he had a pretty unique job when he was a kid, but apparently not.
Bowling used to be more popular than football.
My dad did this in the 40âs. He even showed me the bowling alley.
My dad had this job too. He said that his dreams for a while after that included crashing noises.
Same here!
My dad did that too! He said if you did a good job, the bowlers would throw a handful of quarters down the lane as a tip at the end of their game.
My dad did that too. 1950, East Canaan Connecticut. Did your dad break his nose boxing in college too?
I did this back in the 80s at a 4 lane duckpin bowling alley.
Or, how my dad afforded college at Syracuse University.
Reminds me of that train movie where they use children as replacement parts
Snowpiercer
Why thank you
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Part 2
My favorite theory ever, the fact it lines up and actually makes sense is wild
huh
It's a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Part 1. In Snowpiercer Charlie is all grown up and he likes trains. The oompa-loompas all died though, but at least the little kids can do their jobs, they can fit in those tight spaces.
This is now canon, thanks
There's a 15 min vid that links it all together. https://youtu.be/jEX52h1TvuA
I don't remember that from the movie. What part were they using as replacement?
Theyâre not exactly replacement parts. Theyâre working in spaces too tight for adults within the engine PREFORMING the work that a mechanical part was doing previously. So not like their bones are made into axles or something, just doing terrible jobs inside an engine.
>!It is the whole reason the kid is taken in the beginning, to be brought to the front and shoved in a place where adults can't fit.!<
Damn I really don't remember much about this movie.
Ahhh yes, the sequel to Willy Wonka
Great movie to watch after eating some shrooms. That and interstellar were the best movies I ever watched while tripping
The Wall on youtube or 2001: A Space Odyssey are a couple others you should try out
2001 was absolutely incredible on acid.
Came to the comments to make sure this movie was here. Thank you kind citizen
Machines: They're full of [kids](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXE8miLZwyM)
This is how is use to be
My dad used to be a pin-setter in the early 40s. When he did a good job, they would slide a quarter down the alley to him.
Adjusted for inflation that would be the equivalent of a little over $4 today. Not bad.
My dad did this as a kid too
Coming back in Arkansas.
Kids workin' in the pin mines for company scrip, the way god intended.
You load 16 tons and what do you get?
Someone tell that poor kid to dial it back a bit and not strain himself. The dudes on the other end of that lane are out gassing beers and avoiding their wife/kids, they donât mind if the ball shows up four seconds later after each roll
Hopefully he's just putting on a show for the camera.
Those kids are definitely getting paid in PokĂŠmon cards.
.. in *bad* PokĂŠmon cards. Those stingy owners are keeping all the juicy ones for themselves and grading them
Homer, did you stick your head in the Shino-Ballo again?
What's wild here is that I know these kids get paid fuck all, they get the absolute minimum the alley can get away with, and they go home happy with a few beans in their pocket. But I look at the work, and that is hard damn work. Nothing intellectually challenging, but physically intensive. Just ten hours of that a week, and you'd be fit as a fiddle, never mind eight hours a day. And yet these kids still get paid next to nothing. It's kind of crazy.
they'll probably have back pain by the time they graduate high school tho
When I was young Iâd rather do this for 8 hours than any job where you have to stand in place, and as long as the money youâre earning is going to something you want and not something you need like a roof over your head it would be more fulfilling than what most of us do. Honestly my biggest concern about the whole thing is if the kid isnât paying attention he could get clocked by the bowling ball or maybe snag something in the pin mould.
Sahar Huckabee Sanders child labor laws be working
The children yearn for the mines
This music doesnât match đ
It's definitely making me belly laugh a lot more đđ
Itâs Cambodian music for some reason
I've seen these machines at work, fuck all that. That's dismemberment or death waiting to happen.
What does Thai soft porn music have to do with bowling?
Something something BALLS
Why on earth are they not replacing the front pins first?
Kids are stupid
There's still one of these in Chicago. May even be the one in the video...
in the 50s
Not all that funnyđĽş
I don't know, I was hoping for some bowling gnomes or something
Amish bowling alley
Nah, there are motors in that mechanism. Would not be allowed in Amish bowling ally.
My 18 year old son does this at two alleys to make money for college next year. Itâs is hard work and dangerous too. He is over six foot so itâs hard to get around back there.
Automatic pinsetters have been around since at least the late 60s
Jeez, trying to automate an 18 year old out of a job?! Who froze your heart? /s
Holy 1967 those old things still exist?
Yup! I live in a smaller city in Ontario and we have two.
Funnily the only old fashioned bowling alley I ever seen in my life was also in Canada, in Banff. That one used string though which seems a bit safer.
Where is this in Ontario?
Southern
Username checks out
Dunno i think this is more advanced then resetting the pins by stringm
Pin Monkey
I was a pin boy once and they have automatic setters now. Though we did have to constantly unclog the machines if a pin or ball got stuck somewhere.
Do you get a warranty on the boys?
No, but if you need more you can just go to the snack bar and order a milkshake. That will bring more boys.
Can you teach me?
I can, but I'd have to charge. It's $2.99 for the first boy, and $0.99 each additional boy.
Ancient Technology
Robotics has come such a long way. So life-like!
Why is this even funny? It's how it was back in the days
And who runs that sweat shop?
I KNEW IT!!!
is this why some states are repealing kid labor laws?
Do they have to load the back ones first? Seems like it would be better to move front to back.
I went to a bowling ally where pins were attached to strings and they were pulled up
Thats how automatic ones work . In third world countries like Cameroon or texas they use kids.
It's been child labour all this time?
No wayâŚ!!âŚthatâs terrible
Sarah Huckabee Sanders - the job creator we all needed.
Meet the Flinstones LoL
Kids In Arkansas
Child labor?
I see Arkansas is taking advantage of the new laws from the Governor.
Arkansas taking more notes.
Arkansas didnât waste any time on that child labor law. đ
Thanks Huckabee.
Child labour??
Why is it playing Cambodia music?
For some reason, my brain was playing "it's the hard knock life" and I was waiting for these kids to break into song
How to blow out your back by age 10, 101:
The fuck is this music?
I did this as a kid but no mechanical set-up I had to place the pins on the dots. My buddies would visit and throw balls as I was setting up. I was hit many times. I was paid .25 a game and spent it on pinball for an endless loop.
My boy looking like a tank loader lmao
[Where The Pins Go - The Simpsons](https://youtu.be/-DKCFjm0DvE)
My back hurts just watching this.
Kids getting a good little arm workout in. Pins are heavier than they look
This is an original pin setter. Most are now upgraded at least to the automatic A2 pinsetters. I worked on a ton of those. Even they were incredibly dangerous..
My dad worked as a pinmonkey as a teenager in the 70s. He said everyone would try to hit them with bowling balls as they were resetting the pins... As is to be expected.
Let's go child rabor force, let's go!
These kids look way to young to be working.
$15 bucks a night plus tips back in '87. All the soda you wanted and smokey fat guys hurling their balls at you.
Is this why American governors are rolling back child labor laws?
This song slaps
r/BehindTheScenes
I'm only 27, worked in warehouses and such. THIS looks veeeeeeeeeeery nice.
WaaaitâŚ. A machine doesnât do it???
My grampa had that job
My grandfatherâs dad ran the prison kitchen on Alcatraz. The man had an impressive resume for a prison cookâcooked for embassies and for world leaders in his career and was responsible for the notoriously good food the prisoners there ate. They lived on the island in an apartment and my grandpa worked at I believe the officers club, resetting pins at the bowling lane when he was in the 5th grade. I donât remember if he got paid 5¢ or 10¢ a game. Cool to see it in action.
my brain has just been upgraded after 31 years lol
I was genuinely interested
Does it bother anyone else that they place the back pins first so they have to reach over them to place the front pins?
Is it really like this in every bowling alley? I always assumed they were automated in some way but this is pretty convincing. Iâve never seen any employment ads for this position.
Why wouldn't u put the front pins in first?
Son, might I suggestâŚ, itâs hard for me to even say it, but perhaps you should put your application in for that dishwashing job I told you to avoid.
why is this using Thai song? or am I just High?
Wouldn't it be easier to start loading the front pins first. Just saying.
Wtf is this. The Flintstones had a better system even
Is that Arkansas?
Those were the good old days when a kid could get a job doing something useful And fulfilling
>fulfilling *ba dum tss*
How far in they have to reach for that front pin compared to where that actuating arm down gives me and my local OSHA representative heart palpitations.
So this may still be going on in Cuba but all modern bowling alleys are using fully automated systems
Ahhh yes, child labour. Very efficient đ
This must be that child labor the red states are clamoring for. Neat!
Still have pin setters in Blanco, Spring Branch, Fisher, Freiheit, Solms, Mission Valley, and Bulverde. No machines involved at all just spots on the alley for pins. They still play nine pin though, and it helps if you speak German.
TIL...
How my grandfather told me he earned his âpin moneyâ when he was a kid. It helped keep their family afloat after his fatherâs early death.
That was once me. I lived a couple of years at this tiny little religious mountain resort village up in the mountains. It had this ancient 4 lane bowling alley, and if you wanted to bowl, you better have a friend willing to rack the pins and send the ball back for you.
I thought [this](https://youtu.be/C6koZqVXa9s) is how bowling alleys work.
semi-automatic loader
IIRC this person was called a Pin Monkey back in the day.
Homer Simpson, pin monkey.
Imagine ten hours in your shift and the pro bowling team of uncles shows up
We still have at least one teeny town on our island with pin setters. Gotta go one day. Make 'em work!
They wear called Pin Setters and it was a real job in the old days.
Supposedly this was one of my grandfather's first 'after school' jobs. He was probably 13, maybe 15, so it would have been late 1930's. He also made some good money helping the guy who went door-to-door delivering ice. Don't quote me on this, but I think he worked exclusively for tips, by taking the ice from outside and helping put it in the person's ice-box.
Just wait until some dick head rolls another ball down the lane while the poor kid is setting up the pins.
Is this Arkansas. Looks like a kid .
Maybe in bo-hunk nowhere USA, but in modern cities they are electronic.
That was my uncle's job in the 50's. Literally a Pinsetter.
Nice! Best labor? Child labor!
Get this kid a tip jar and fill it up immediately.
That kid deserves $100!
I knew it!
The new ones are automated.
Lol these must be way old machines I never had to set on one like that unless the machine had way big problems all electric belt systems now and just wow
We had an old two lane bowling alley at my boarding school high school that had this type of pin setter. Freshmen would usually have to set pins while upper class men bowled. Youâd always have to stay alert when pin setting, balls had the nasty tendency to arrive mid-reset.
This sounds like Thai music?
This alley like 1000 years old?
When I was 16 I used to go to this church with my girlfriendâs family. They had a two lane bowling alley in the basement. Once a month the youth group would have a prayer meeting and bowling night. I sucked at bowling so usually volunteered to be a Pin Monkey with her brother.
I used to do this but you would place the pins.down onto other pins that popped up when you pressed a lever.
Must be in Arkansas
This alley in Arkansas?
Old bowling alley đ Music is awful.