What crazes did you have when you were at school?

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These were a craze when I was in school (showing my age) :)
 
Boot bags were massively popular at one point, as were those fake leather Head/Jaguar bags and, when I was in 6th form, record bags.

The more sporty at school used to bring in a plethora of expensive new technology in the form of tennis rackets. First it was aluminium rackets, then glassfibre, then carbon.
 
Back in the 70's when i was at primary school it was tag, hide and seek, marbles and conkers.

Didn't really do much in secondary school, just lark about. We talked about computers like the C64 and Speccy when they started coming out and a few of the lads picked them up.
Also the Defender and to a lesser extent Pengo arcade machine was popular at the local video shop down from the school.
Thinking about it the guy that owned the machines must have made a mint from them. :)
 
marbles
conkers
Starwars figures
Panini stickers
Bulldog
transformers
peg guns (the metal bit of a peg attached to a rubber band, and a 'gun' to fire it with, would probably have been banned anywhere else real quick, but the school in our little farming community was more concerned with the affect that Street Hawk was having on us)
yo-yos (when coke-cola did all the freebies)
 
billyboyd said:
Back in the 70's when i was at primary school it was tag, hide and seek, marbles and conkers.

Didn't really do much in secondary school, just lark about. We talked about computers like the C64 and Speccy when they started coming out and a few of the lads picked them up.
Also the Defender and to a lesser extent Pengo arcade machine was popular at the local video shop down from the school.
Thinking about it the guy that owned the machines must have made a mint from them. :)
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Cor that's going back a bit. Green faux leather Jaguar bag, with zip off bit at the end for your PE kit. Always used to sag in the middle, and had to wear the strap across your shoulder.

Still, better than the razor wire United Colours of Benetton bags that everyone had (or Naf Naf lol).

Malevolence said:
Now that brings back some memories. Riding around the streets with a Police siren on from my Chopper and Bomber.
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Always wanted a Raleigh Wildcat too.
 
DanielMMS said:
Oh how times have changed. To my kids, a panini is a light snack served in the school bistro, generally with bacon and mozarella :eek:

Number two son goes to my old school where they still play "Colombian". Basic premise is to kick a tennis ball around and if it passes between someone's legs, everyone else gets to kick the carp out of them until they manage to reach the base. There was also a wall of death involved somewhere along the lines - not quite sure why - where everyone would line up along a wall with one person having to run between the wall and the line of people being kicked as he went. There were three or four hospitalisations per term from this little game - strange that it never got banned. Hmmm boys' schools are such formative places :D
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In my day this was called British Bulldog. Must be 15-20 lads lined up and one on his own a few meters away. The line runs towards the solo lad and his job was to stop, by any means necessary as many people as he could before the line reaches the other side or designated area. The people that were stopped then joined the solo lad and they had to stop as many as they could next round. I remember being one of 3 last to get stopped. That round was not pretty.:( I hurt. I hurt real bad.:(

Another thing we used to do was play coins. Cannot remember the name but it involved chucking/lobbing/flicking coins at a wall. It was for two players and was a great spectator sport. The two people playing decided what denomination to use. 1/2p, 1p, 2p, 5p, etc. Each had an agreed amount of cash, lets say a quid fifty. They then took it in turns to chuck a coin at the base of the wall and the nearest one wins and collects the money. Easy. Money was to be made. All the winnings went on 'singles' from the paper shop anyway.

Anyone remember 'singles'? 10p each?;)
 
After the ruler fights I remember we worked out that you could flick stuff across the classroom with rulers, particularly effective with wads of toilet roll soaked in paper. Then we worked out that Biros with the middle pulled out made good peashooters and went and raided our kitchen cupboards for ammo. The school was littered with rice, mung beans, blackeye peas and little balls of chewed-up paper.
 
Droolinggimp said:
In my day this was called British Bulldog.
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I think DanielMMS meant the bouncy corridor, where everyone would be lined up on either side of the corridor and you'd try and run through it while everyone tried to knock you over. BB was more of a playground game :D

Anyone else used to play slapsies or knuckles?
 
Primary school:

Pogs
SPL Stickers

Secondary School

Pokemon (Hate it with a passion)
Yo-yos
Tyre valve caps (Shinier the better.... so sad on hindsight)
Mobile phones had just kicked of so them to I guess!
 
Jonny69 said:
I think DanielMMS meant the bouncy corridor, where everyone would be lined up on either side of the corridor and you'd try and run through it while everyone tried to knock you over. BB was more of a playground game :D

Anyone else used to play slapsies or knuckles?
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Never heard of the corridor one before. :( Playground. lol reading that word took me back a bit. Anyone remember the introduction of 'Flight trays'?

Not a craze by any stretch but one thing that happened to me at Secondary school was this. There was an Indian lad called 'JamJar'. We couldn't pronounce his proper name, he was ok with this nickname anyway. One dinner time I was walking past him with a few of my mates and he suddenly spat on my trainers. The words, "fight, fight, fight, fight" broke out and he hit me and my glasses fell off. Cant see **** all without them and was swinging my arms like an octopus. Needless to say it was broke up by the dinner ladies. I said "ill get you back." Later in the week we had sports and it was track and field, 100m, discus long jump etc. Anyway. It was his turn to do the long jump. As came pelting down the track and jumped high and on the landing we all heard a 'CRACK'. The sand was now red and I had a smug look. LOL. Broke his leg bless him. He had to spend the rest of the summer in a leg cast.

Oh another craze we had was 'Flat-tops' I had one... :eek::eek::eek:


Edit: On re-reading my post I have JUST THIS SECOND realised why they were called flight trays... OMG. How dumb am I!!!
 
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