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When I saw these photos I was all set to get out my excellent Photoshop skills and put on a label saying that tube in the middle photo was a water slide from some other room. But no, I can’t do that. Why not? Because IT ACTUALLY IS. IT’S A WATER SLIDE GOING FROM THE MASTER BEDROOM TO THE POOL.

Why don’t all houses have water slides dumping you straight from your bedroom into your pool? Sure, it sounds fancy and bizarre, but think about it — a century ago if you told people that in the future we’d all be pooping in closets in our houses and liking it… wait. Let me start that over.

Take two: if you time traveled back a century and told people that in the year 2010 we all have indoor plumbing in the developed world, they’d be surprised, right? But it’s gone from being just for the rich to completely standard. (Note: I have done no research and this is all based on faint memories of The Great Brain books.) So why can’t indoor water slides be completely standard, too? And why can’t we not bother waiting until 2110, but get them now?

I have seen the future and it is indoor water slides. I can’t wait.
Found by: Gert

Loveliest comment, by Angel: Oh, the humidity!

OMG I am such a bad parent. I’ve been making my kids play with bits of string and sticks and a mud puddle all this time. Sorry, guys.

Found By: Bec

Loveliest comment, by Anodean: The gnome cricket pitch takes this to a class all it’s own – especially with the little stands for the gnome figurine spectators. Made of awesome. I’ll guess that the track with the half-tire flyovers is for racing radio-controlled cars – which itself proves the indomitable spirit of the Aussie, as apparently they can’t get slot-cars there, and have topped it with an outdoor version. I feel a song coming on – all tangled with the story about Rip Van Winkles’ little friends…
Do you come from the Land Down Under?
Where gnomes bowl with pools under?
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear that thunder?
When the lion roars, you better take cover…