free games no longer played by children,

[Alfred]

I am of course referring to horse chestnuts  ( conkers) did you ever play this game when you were young and various remedies for making the conker harder was to soak it in vinegar , whether or not it worked remains a mystery ,
i remember having a sixer, to which the boy i was playing against went on to get to twelve before his champion conker got smashed to bits,


simple but great days , and the cost was simply finding a horse chestnut tree, ?

[Michael Rolls]

I played it, as did schoolmates, but FAR too dangerous for today's twittering class
Mike

[crabbyob]

i come from a quite aggressive part of the country
one of our favs was slappy, you put your palms together and touched fingers with your opponent
then he tried to slap the back of your hand but you withdrew at velocity...lol... when he missed it was your turn...

[Alex22]

Hopscotch  ?  😃

[Michael Rolls]

Could never understand it
Mike

[crabbyob]

in Scotland hopscotch is called beds. i know-not why

[klondike]

We played a game bunging a ball at others who were running. I don't recall either the name or rules but do remember busting a school window and having a letter and presumably bill sent home.


There was another one where everybody had crossed arms and hopped around trying to knock others over.


On the grosser side the boys toilets were outside in the playground. Walled but no roof. This lead to competitions. Nobody ever stood near the boy's toilet walls.

[crabbyob]

those were the days pal
now we need a quartered viagra to make sure we dont pee on our slippers

[zoony]

i come from a quite aggressive part of the country
one of our favs was slappy, you put your palms together and touched fingers with your opponent
then he tried to slap the back of your hand but you withdrew at velocity...lol... when he missed it was your turn...

My dad used to play that with my older brother and I as kids..A variant being 'knuckles' (which he didn't play with us). Our hands would be red and sore (he was a big steelworker) but we wouldn't want to stop despite tearing eyes. These sessions were usually ended by mum yelling at the three of us..Dad was a sadist and we were stupid..Just didn't understand 'men' my mum. 

[crabbyob]

yes knuckles rarely ended with both smiling..

[biglouis]

I can vividly recall playing a game of hopscotch with  group of friends where we all used differently coloured chalk. Unfortunately we were playing in front of a neighbours house when she had just washed her front door step and the pavement as well. She came to complain to my mother.

My mother asked if I had written the numbers and I told her that yes, the ones in pink chalk were mine. I was then made to get a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and scrub the numbers away. Later the whining neighbour came back and complained that I had not made a complete job of it.


My mother told her:-

"I dont like the way you blame my daughter when there were other children involved. She used pink chalk and washed it all away. I punished her for what she did but Im not going to punish her for what her friends did. You are going to have to contact their parents to make them remove the rest."

"But I dont know the names of her friends."

"My daughter is not a snitch" and my mother slammed the door.

[richmond62]

Conkers are now banned by the over-protective British Nanny state.

I got my knuckles bashed so many times I lost count: but I did, once, have a 50-er.

And that, my friends, was worth a 1,000 bashed knuckles. 

The UK governments, both Labour and Conservative, have been screwing the life
out of all those super kiddo games we all played as bairns.

My best friend and I used to go down to the dump, catch 2 rats, and race them through old drain pipes.

The rats seemed very appreciative of the cheese rinds my Mum would give me to feed them.

Still haven't managed to develop Leptospirosis. 

[richmond62]

"in Scotland hopscotch is called beds. i know-not why"


Aye, and in Arabic it's called 'Higla'.

[Michael Rolls]

And in Swahili it’s called white oppressors!
Well, perhaps not
Mike

[richmond62]

Hyuck, hyuck, hyuck . . .   

Happy kids, unb*ggered about by British 'Elf N Safety regs.