24-02-2021, 04:34 PM
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Re: Those good old days
Originally Posted by Fruitcake
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Imprisoned for sex offences. I bet he isn't laughing now.
24-02-2021, 04:55 PM
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Childhood was freer - less organized, more self-deterministic, and with a much bigger territory:* Finding a piece of old wood that became the basis for building a raft that would never sail.
* Playing hiding games and eating oranges in the orchards behind the house.
* Building high forts in the eucalyptus trees with cast off wood from building sights, and making other forts with tumbleweeds stacked sky high.
* Making boats and other structures to sail down the gutters, usually peppered with some kid daring some other kid to drink the gutter water.
*Playing board games until someone threw the board,
*Riding bikes doing modifications like adding a playing card attached to the spokes with a clothes pin or just turning them upside-down to spin the wheels, clean or make other supposed "repairs."
* Drawing bike and roller skate courses on the street with chalk and having to wash them off at the end of the day because someone's mom said we had to,
* Making catapults and launching things - or just using the see-saw to launch stuff.
* Spending twenty minutes establishing and fighting about rules for football, four square, baseball, etc. and never really getting on with the game.
*Stealing utensils from the house to dig holes to China or otherwise dig pits.
*Establishing some territory and club that was all about defending said territory by amassing clods of dirt, snowballs or other items to be launched against a never-seen enemy. Plenty of discussion about who was in charge.
Life was better when there were no screens.
24-02-2021, 05:06 PM
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The things we played during games lessons.Football, Rugby, Cricket, Rounders (the original tough version not the softy American version called baseball), Basketball, Volleyball, Pirates (when every piece of gym equipment was set out as an obstacle course and the person who was "It" would try and catch everyone, or make them fall in the water (the floor), Hockey against the girls, but only the once. We boys went back to the much gentler game of rugger after that.
24-02-2021, 05:09 PM
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Re: Those good old days
Originally Posted by Fruitcake
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Hockey against the girls, but only the once. We boys went back to the much gentler game of rugger after that.
24-02-2021, 05:36 PM
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Re: Those good old days
Originally Posted by Surfermom
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Dodge ball.The most evil game ever invented. Lord of the Flies at its worst.
In Rounders, the ball was thrown at the batter/runner, not to someone standing at the corners. It was not usually a soft ball.
24-02-2021, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Fruitcake
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I remember that as well, although I think the girls sang "turn" rather than "go".You didn't go to primary school in Lincolnshire in the early sixties did you?
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