fingers on lips, fold your arms - primary school

dangerstat · 4 Oct 2009 at 16:37

For some random reason I had a little flash back a minute ago to being in primary school and in assembly they'd always do the "okay cross your legs and fold your arms" and if we had to stop speaking they do "fingers on lips". Was this just my school or did it happen at everyones. I'm just thinking it'd be harilous at work in a meeting with 30 odd people in it, to standard up and just say "OKAY ENOUGH TALKING FINGERS ON LIPS" hehe

asim18 · 4 Oct 2009 at 16:38

Oh yeah. We used to do this as well.

mame · 4 Oct 2009 at 16:40

Might get a different result with adults. Be careful

dangerstat · 4 Oct 2009 at 16:40

mame said:
Might get a different result with adults. Be careful

Ha ha ha ha you have a dirty mind, I didn't even think about that :eek:

rmuir · 4 Oct 2009 at 16:42

ha ha ha... you've induced a flashback here as well.

Did you have wet playtimes at primary school? Was basically a riot in the classroom for half an hour at lunchtime if it was lashing it down outside. Teachers got their usual smoke break in the tea bar and we were left in the charge of older pupils.
Never worked from p5 on we just did as we pleased, in the years before that wet playtimes would be taken up with loooong games of 'heads down, thumbs up'.

mac1st3 · 4 Oct 2009 at 16:42

hehe yea, we had that, such simple times

djmc0 · 4 Oct 2009 at 16:42

You have made me have some kind of 'nam flashback, "You weren't there, man!"

We used to do that as well. In primary school that is, in secondary school I was too busy chucking chairs at people to cross my arms and shiz.

asim18 · 4 Oct 2009 at 16:45

djmc0 said:
in secondary school I was too busy chucking chairs at people to cross my arms and shiz.

Yeah, secondary school was a whole different level. Supply teacher left the room for 30 seconds and dictionaries and chairs used to be flying everywhere.

semi-pro waster · 4 Oct 2009 at 16:50

rmuir said:
Did you have wet playtimes at primary school?

Yep, but for ours we just tended to get sat in front of videos - from that I have no desire to watch Black Beauty, now I come to think about it I didn't want to watch it back then either.

camels5 · 4 Oct 2009 at 16:50

We still do this in my school, it is the only way guarantee that you have their attention!!

Begbie · 4 Oct 2009 at 17:08

Yeah, and heads down thumbs up - epic game

StarSolitude · 4 Oct 2009 at 17:12

Yeah we did this! Along with the drawn out groany "Gooooood moooooooooorning miiiiiisses thooooompsooon" xD

Tr Insanity · 4 Oct 2009 at 17:15

Begbie said:
Yeah, and heads down thumbs up - epic game

+1

So simple , yet so fun

gam3r · 4 Oct 2009 at 17:16

Yup....used to have this as well...so long ago!

I get around · 4 Oct 2009 at 17:36

Yeah, load of rubbish, crossing legs, what better way to make my legs go so dead i fell over afterwards more than once.
Serously, they should make forcing kids to sit on the floor illegal.

Fingers on lips was only infant school though, and no crossing arms.