Play fighting with cheap plastic swords and shields....and after a short time fighting the sword would buckle at the joint between the blade and hilt, turning into an infinitely more deadly plastic whip.
Random things from childhood.
- Thread starter John from Bootle
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I'm still glad to have 10 fingers and 2 eyes! I look back on those times with horror, especially now that I have a rambunctious 8yr old.We used to play manhunt with air pistols.
It became very frightening and deadly serious, when you were the last one to get caught and about a dozen lads were after you with air pistols
John from Bootle
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We lived behind a high school. There was always footies on the roof, so we used to climb up there. Only way up was via a glass skylight that had a narrow strip of roof up the side. After a while, we just started pegging it straight up the glass. Was all fun until my brother went crashing through the thing! Got up and climbed out though. Was sound, apart from the fact he needed ten stitches in his arse (buttock).
I think we were all clinically insane.
BlueInNZ
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Hinchcliffe's Corner
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Absolutely wellying one into the top corner and peeling away yelling YEBOAAAAH
This! I was telling my son about it recently. If you went anywhere where you were not from, the local lads HAD to have a go, it was basic tribal law.
Putting a mattress (or plural) outside the flats, and progressively jumping from a higher and higher floor number.
Kiss chase in the playground 
Few sexual harassment cases if allowed now I imagine.
Few sexual harassment cases if allowed now I imagine.
Alanbileysfeathercut
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That was heartbreaking for us ugly lads.Kiss chase in the playground
I never got chased...
This made me hit the photo archive.
80's in'it...black light posters, BMX and a Robotic Operating Buddy, all the while looking NEA with my world class posture on show. I'm guessing this was XMas day, I had to have been 10 as the NES released in late '85 and I was spoiled by my grandmother but R.OB. was not around long as I took it apart because "curious". This must've been around when my blonde Swedish hair began to go light auburn/chestnut. That lamp....lots of stuff dates this but; that lamp...WTF. I think my mom still has that side table/nightstand hogging room somewhere in her home because it was real wood and not IKEA pressboard.
This is the kind of
you get from me at 2:30AM.
@DualityNSNO ("once a metalhead" etc)
80's in'it...black light posters, BMX and a Robotic Operating Buddy, all the while looking NEA with my world class posture on show. I'm guessing this was XMas day, I had to have been 10 as the NES released in late '85 and I was spoiled by my grandmother but R.OB. was not around long as I took it apart because "curious". This must've been around when my blonde Swedish hair began to go light auburn/chestnut. That lamp....lots of stuff dates this but; that lamp...WTF. I think my mom still has that side table/nightstand hogging room somewhere in her home because it was real wood and not IKEA pressboard.
This is the kind of
you get from me at 2:30AM.@DualityNSNO ("once a metalhead" etc)
Thought it was the lads who did the chasing??
Night fishing on Princes park at the weekends, mid to late eighties. Seen some sights and worked out what was what pretty quickly but didn’t half have some laughs, especially in the summer holidays.
tommye
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You must've heard Frank Caine's Mrs, Margy, getting banged by all the other fishermen on the island while Frank merrily fished his spot, happily whistling away while Margy got the back rattled out of her.
#FunTimes
notrevE5
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being pushed downhill on a steep gravelled surface hill inside a makeshift Go-kart make from a old broken pram with 4 of us on board and using forward pointing feet as brakes. occasionally flipping over and getting badly battered and bruised with the fuming parents screaming from a distance
being scared s*i* less of every conceivable background noise while walking during dark evenings as convinced it was ghosts
when they could be found bashing clusters of frog spawn with rocks as they reminded me too much of tapioca
being scared s*i* less of every conceivable background noise while walking during dark evenings as convinced it was ghosts
when they could be found bashing clusters of frog spawn with rocks as they reminded me too much of tapioca