As an aside to a current debate on The Poppy thread what games did you used to play as a kid that wouldn't pass health and safety these days? We used to play British Bulldog and it was a glorified means of kicking the sh1t out of everyone in the playground. Another favourite was where you throw a tennis ball at each other and once hit you had to stand still until someone crawled through your legs to free you, if you were the last one not stood still you went through "the tunnel" which was the rest of the school lined up leaning against the wall and you had to make it from one end to the other while having the granny kicked out of you. The rules were adaptable to many other games as long as some poor chump went through the tunnel for a sound beating.
We played "Redcoats and Zulus" which is similar to your "British Bulldog". Basically, a mass kicking.
British Bulldogs, murderball, 1,2,3, kerbsy, thunder n lighting (thumpin the **** out of peoples windys), buddin. I remember playin Robin Hood after prince of thieves came out. We made ****ty wee shields and swords in my mates da's garage. Broke into 2 groups and basically chased after each other and fought. We spent so much time making all the **** and it was over after about 5 mins when someone took it to far and thumped another in the face
We had a game called IRA/UDA ... P7 where the iRA P6 where the UDA It involved kicking **** out of people for bomb codes ... one from each side where given a code each day It was stopped after a teacher found Stephen McLeod with his nose broken (bounced off a sink)
Do kidsstill play "knuckles"? Basically you touch fists with your opponent, and try to rap him on the back of the hand before he can pull away. If he moves his fist before you do, you get a free go. If you miss, it's his turn. Keep going till your paws are the size and colour of hams.
We had a welsh lad start at my primary school, he introduced us all to a game he called "crush", it was just another excuse to pile in and kick **** out of each other.
Despite the obvious clue that you had to scuttle about like a crab, I was under the misapprehension for years that crab football was actually called crap football.
A sectarian expansion!! Also, Snipes ... Basically, you hit each others knuckles with cards. First to draw blood won!
we had this and slaps. You held teh hands in prayer and slapped then, if they pulled away you got to slap there face...
I got the belt loads of times at school mostly for being sarcastic. Im thinking of claiming compensation as the memories haunt me to this day and have resulted in being a paranoid schizophrenic anxiety ridden depressive. Oh and I was on Jim'll fix it in 1975.
Snipes. I remember it well. If you got caught playing snipes at our school (the bleeding knuckles being a bit of a give away) ye got six of the belt to teach you not to harm each other in that way
Teacher logic Teacher at my school, if he caught ye smoking, would take yer ***s of you and give you a money to get sweets or fruit ... So, when u were down to yer last snout, you'd make sure he caught you so you could get another ten deck!
