Today my 7 year old daughter got told off at school for...

RobHu · 22 Jan 2019 at 10:22

I remember playing one particularly stupid game with my friends (the variation at the bottom, they call it quarters in the article): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_knuckles

Looking back I've no idea why we thought it was fun...but it was

. I remember my mum going mad one day when she saw the state of my hand.

V F · 22 Jan 2019 at 10:28

Distracted said:
Knuckles. Slaps. Peanuts. Bulldog. BUNDLE! We had a lot of games that seemed to be designed to hurt one another. Fun tho.

Then there is the standard stuff like being able to kick a ball or play conkers or tag or whatever. The world is going mad.

Nah, the world is fine. Just a certain amount of people that are in control of certain aspects is the problem. Small people and power.

adam cool dude · 22 Jan 2019 at 10:30

Back when I was a kid gladiators and power rangers was the in thing. We used to play gauntlet by using bags as the tunnel to run down. Power rangers was pretending to do karate. Both ended badly and got banned. I know at my daughter's school they are not aloud to play football. We used to play 30vs30 out on the field back in the day!

My daughter is 11 and doesn't even know what kiss chase is. That was a fantastic game

Randomface74 · 22 Jan 2019 at 10:31

oh yeah we had that bloody knuckles game with a 2p coin, brutal

kindai · 22 Jan 2019 at 10:33

Droolinggimp said:
Oh the memories...... When there were 20 of you and 2-4 left standing at the end it got messy, real messy, very messy. Im talking ripped clothes, cuts, fractures on a few occasions. Teachers didn't give a **** and we all ended up ok..ish.

Thats how I got my first broken wrist

adam cool dude · 22 Jan 2019 at 10:35

billysielu said:
oh yeah we had that bloody knuckles game with a 2p coin, brutal

Scabby queen with cards. But he had our own version with pogs or Tazzos if you can remember them.

omnomnom · 22 Jan 2019 at 10:39

AHarvey said:
holding her best friends hand.

Her and 3 friends got told off last week because they were touching each other playing tag.

I've posted about the school before and it's at a point where we're thinking of pulling her out due to how silly it's getting.

Does any other school you know of have rules like this?

We've also got marshmallow clapping where they clap but their hands stop about 5 inches apart...

WTF is wrong with the world

Have you asked the teacher about this? There is loads of different types of clapping, not just marshmallow claps.

Can't help but think people are overreacting. No school will tell a child off for holding hands.

Rimsy · 22 Jan 2019 at 10:47

Swifty55 said:
If that was my daughters school I would be going in and speaking to the teachers.

That is ridiculous.

It does all seem just a little bit sinister to me... Intentionally creating a little generation of children who are in no way armed to deal with the real world? Doesn't make sense.

Street · 22 Jan 2019 at 10:48

omnomnom said:
Have you asked the teacher about this? There is loads of different types of clapping, not just marshmallow claps.

Can't help but think people are overreacting. No school will tell a child off for holding hands.

That's pretty much what my missus said. She's a deputy head at a primary school and regularly has to deal with over reacting parents who don't have the full facts. She said in this case, the kid has probably gone home and just said they were told off for holding hands when what really happened is they were told off for something completely different. Maybe swinging each other round into other kids, being a nuisance when they were supposed to be listening etc. She said the parents very rarely get the proper story from the kids about what they were actually told off for.

d_brennen · 22 Jan 2019 at 10:54

Street said:
That's pretty much what my missus said. She's a deputy head at a primary school and regularly has to deal with over reacting parents who don't have the full facts. She said in this case, the kid has probably gone home and just said they were told off for holding hands when what really happened is they were told off for something completely different. Maybe swinging each other round into other kids, being a nuisance when they were supposed to be listening etc. She said the parents very rarely get the proper story from the kids about what they were actually told off for.

Parents don't get the whole story from their kids when they tell them off about something!

Orionaut · 22 Jan 2019 at 10:57

Rimsy said:
It does all seem just a little bit sinister to me... Intentionally creating a little generation of children who are in no way armed to deal with the real world? Doesn't make sense.

And yet at the same time indoctrinating pre-teens on the virtues of transsexuality, gender fluidity and "Man-Love"/Woman-Love" etc

We are looking forward to having one seriously screwed up generation!

Street · 22 Jan 2019 at 11:06

d_brennen said:
Parents don't get the whole story from their kids when they tell them off about something!

But it's more fun to bash the teachers, because "little Jimmy never lies to us".

Ayahuasca · 22 Jan 2019 at 11:07

The solution is simple, don’t have kids.

thegreysquirrel · 22 Jan 2019 at 11:10

Went to primary in the 90's and knuckles was a personal favourite just for the sheer pointlessness of it all. Bulldog was also great at our school. We'd usually get around 30 people playing (boys AND girls) but I do remember it getting banned just before we left as it was starting to get out of hand with too many ripped clothes and injuries.

Maccy · 22 Jan 2019 at 11:12

Such memories reading through what other people got up to at school :cool:

bjorkiii · 22 Jan 2019 at 11:16

Did use ever play the game of Drink Bleach then jump off the school roof onto broken glass ? Happy days

d_brennen · 22 Jan 2019 at 11:19

bjorkiii said:
Did use ever play the game of Drink Bleach then jump off the school roof onto broken glass ? Happy days

Nope

Plenty of full contact games that often resulted in brushes, blood and ruined uniform

Yet we never roamed the streets shanking our peers for minor violations of respek

Orionaut · 22 Jan 2019 at 11:22

Maccy said:
Such memories reading through what other people got up to at school

Indeed, the level of freedom we had in the 60's would be incomprehensible to milennials today.

And you know what. I dont recall anybody being stabbed, despite the fact that practically every schoolboy would have a scout knife (And a fair few Girls too)

I haven't found an exact image, but think something like this...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Russian-...f:g:K2MAAOSwnv9cCYGa:rk:5:pf:1&frcectupt=true

As for Playground Fun, Check this out...

http://www.streetgames.co.uk/games/strange/split-the-kipper

Can you imagine what would happen today. School would probabally end up being raided by an ARU CW Police Helicopter...

:confused:

fatiain · 22 Jan 2019 at 11:24

Efour said:
THe old PILE ON "xxxx" would result on 15+ people randomly landing on poor "xxxx"

Or a scream of Bundle! would often have the same results

lol you brought back some memories.

We used to do "Jew bundles", dropping money and whenever an unsuspecting kid bent over to pick it up, they got bundled.

I also broke my mate Nigel's finger throwing a golf ball straight up into the air for him to catch.

Maccy · 22 Jan 2019 at 11:25

My dad tried to get me to play split the kipper when I was younger, mum quickly put a stop to that!

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