Memories of Childhood

(30-01-2019 23:40 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Playground chants. I was trying to remember some of them from years ago. I don't know if you remember these but I recall two, one was "Bumper car, bumper car, number 48, whizzed round the corrrrrrrrrrrNER, slammed on its brakes!" Another was "As I was going to the Aki, the Aki-taki fair, I met a senorita with feathers/ribbons in her hair..." and a way of chosing people for games etc which went "Ip dip, sky blue, whose IT, not you, not because you're dirty, not because you're clean, my mum says you're the fairy queen, so O.U.T. spells OUT!" I hasten to add this was mostly said by girls. and finally another girls one "Firecracker, firecracker, boom boom boom"(repeated) and then I can't remember the rest of it except at the end it went "boys go kiss, kiss, girls go WOW!" and on that they lifted their skirts and flashed the boys-highly memorable that. No idea where it came from. Does that or any of those others jog your memories?

The girls never did things like that in my school playground, I’d have been horrified if they did.. but then as I’ve hinted at in previous posts in this thread, I was a bit of an evil sod. Until I got to a certain age, I looked at girls and felt the kind of revulsion normally reserved for seeing a giant splatted steaming dog turd right where you’re about to put your shoe.

I remember a lot of girls having pigtails and I just could not resist pulling on them. I always got into trouble for it but couldn’t resist the temptation. When I think back I was probably the second worst behaved lad in our class, behind the lad who couldn’t stop farting day in day out, and I’m talking real meaty stinking raspers...poor sod had the habit in Comprehensive as well...no wonder he never had a girlfriend.

They were slightly more brazen hussies at my school then mind you we used to play a lot of 'war games' in the playground and it started with two lads walking around chanting "who wants to play, warrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"? the more that joined in the merrier.

(30-01-2019 23:58 )GreenMachine Wrote:  They were slightly more brazen hussies at my school then mind you we used to play a lot of 'war games' in the playground and it started with two lads walking around chanting "who wants to play, warrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"? the more that joined in the merrier.

Oh my God now that DID happen

I don't recall any chants but I can remember playing games like Bulldog and Kingy in the playground.My nephew told me games like this were banned at the primary school he attended.

(31-01-2019 00:13 )rpj316 Wrote:  I don't recall any chants but I can remember playing games like Bulldog and Kingy in the playground.My nephew told me games like this were banned at the primary school he attended.

Yeah Bulldog...we called it British Bulldogs and it more often than not ended up with fists flying.

Something similar was called Elephants and Hunters. You start off with say a group of kids and the idea was for the Hunters to 'shoot' the Elephants or in this case take a ball and throw it, aiming for the legs. If you were hit you then had to join the hunters.

Do you remember ALL PILE ON! ?

The one word that could send the playground into a frenzy "BUNDLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

(31-01-2019 00:42 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Something similar was called Elephants and Hunters. You start off with say a group of kids and the idea was for the Hunters to 'shoot' the Elephants or in this case take a ball and throw it, aiming for the legs. If you were hit you then had to join the hunters.

Do you remember ALL PILE ON! ?

Yep,in Kingy it was tennis ball below the knee in order to get them to join you.

Great days.

I remember Bundle! but not heard of kingy before. We were allowed to be rough and ready back then, and if you got a scrape, graze or bruise so what, part of growing up and the rich tapestry we called LIFE.!

(31-01-2019 12:37 )GreenMachine Wrote:  I remember Bundle! but not heard of kingy before. We were allowed to be rough and ready back then, and if you got a scrape, graze or bruise so what, part of growing up and the rich tapestry we called LIFE.!

Those were the days before the health and safety nutters..

Things were as you said a lot more ‘rough and ready’ and made Generation X kids a tough, resourceful and resilient bunch of people. We had to be tough to make it through those times but we did it. We are living proof of it, and I am glad I for one went through it. I would hate to be growing up in today’s namby pamby snowflake health and safety sanitised world where even simple verbal communication is beyond so many of today’s youngsters.