Things we did as kids but kids dont do now

[pkeeney]

getting a good old ass kicking

[maca]

going to school

[Canker_Canison]

Sharpening your pen knife on a stone.

Playing in the drainage systems where the new motorway was being built.

Jumping off the stairs, daring each other to go one step higher. (I won, but knocked myself out in the process . I still have the scar)

Looking for white dog shit

Shitting over the fence because the neighbour didn't like kids.

Making insane ramps to try & jump over anything that offered a risk to life. (Not easy on a grifter)

[maca]

getting the cane (bring it back imo)

[Lainie]

playing kerby or kirby cannae mind the name. it was you and a pal across a road with a ball and trying to throw it ot hit the kerb across and it bounced back to you.


yes johnboy it was hopscotch, however i think it used to be called beds as well.

conkers theres another one.

oh the memories

[happy_highlander]

Hopscotch was called pauldies in my neck of the kingdom.
Tying the doors opposite each other together in the whole block of flats then knocking all the doors.

Regularly trying to avoid the local copper so that I didn't get a kick up the arse and then have to explain why I couldn't sit earning a clip round the ear for making the copper chase me to kick me up the arse in the first place.

Having competitions to see who could get given the belt the most in one day. Big lump of leather was a much better deterrent than writing lines, I was a proper nightmare after they banned the belt

[gaz306]

Catching a frog ,putting a straw up its arse and inflating it ,got them up to a fair size .Harmless to the frog tho .

[clive_pather]

its called hopscotch or something like that

[mr.mojorisin]

when the weather was hot......pulling the tar from pavements with sticks
also...trying to fry an egg on pavement

[zaphodbb]

putting dog shit on shop door handles an waiting for plod to come check them, after he caught you nicking bikes in the railway station

[paul hick]

getting buggered by my grandad..........

[johnboy1974]

Making drippers and setting fire to the local fields. Dripper= one large stick with polystyrene bag wrapped tigtly around it at the top and then set on fire.

Also large elastic band between thumb and forefinger from which we fired small "u" shaped bits of wire at the pensioners going into the local bingo hall.

[johnboy1974]

[QUOTE=Lainie;1194143]playing kerby or kirby cannae mind the name. it was you and a pal across a road with a ball and trying to throw it ot hit the kerb across and it bounced back to you.


yes johnboy it was hopscotch, however i think it used to be called beds as well.

conkers theres another one.

Remember it well lainie and how the girls loved it back in the day-funny enough i saw a mum and dad with their two kids playing kerbie outside their house just last week. 2 hours they played and the smiles would have lit up a room.

[lagerland]

And me all time favourite of all time chicken...........

[waken]

Saturday matinee, millions of kids hanging off the balconies.

Dragged to Sunday school screaming.

?.s.d. proper money.

Remember proper leather footballs like kicking a medicine ball when wet, heading the ball on the laces followed by medical treatment and possibly 40 stitches.