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Crazy games you used to play back in the day?
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24-08-2007 2:25pm#1Hey folks,
Since we're being nostalgic I thought I'd continue the trend and tell ye about a couple of the "fun" games I used to play when I was in the early teens (not that long ago!).
My friends and I used to spend most of the day hanging around in one of the lads' shed, listening to music, drinking, and getting up to general divilment. For the most part harmless, but one thing that I've been thinking about is how careless we were! Something of a headline waiting to happen.
Only 1 or 2 of them smoked, so it was a bit of a novelty, and lighters were of much interest to the rest of us, so we'd have alot of fun lighting the couches on fire! We were sitting on them at the time, and we'd light them on fire and let them burn for a while and then put them out. The shed was full of flammable liquids and the material on the couch went up fairly easily, so I don't know how the hell we managed to avoid... exploding. Any plastic bottles that were lying around were inevitably burned also, releasing all manner of toxins into the air, and this was almost non-stop! Inhaling all that crap isn't likely to have been good for me.....
Like most teenagers we bought fireworks too. But not content with just lighting a rocket and watching it explode, we would break off the stick and chuck it into a bottle and try to close the lid before it exploded. Lots of close calls there as you might expect. We'd also take apart the fireworks and use the components for all sorts of fun.....
We also used to have a big net hanging from the roof, like a huge hammock, and we'd chuck any empty cans or bottles (not glass thankfully) into that, and every so often have a bit of fun by crushing up the cans and throwing them at each other! There'd be 5-10 people in this shed hiding behind the couches and cracking each other in the head! Not as dangerous as the pyro fun, but still not good.
But the one I was thinking of was actually quite dodgey indeed. For whatever reason there was a knife or 2 in the shed, and we created an impromtu game where one person would throw a knife into the air at another person, spinning it around, and the other person had to catch it or else avoid it hitting them! I don't know why the hell we played that, but in retrospect it's a f*cking miracle nobody at least got cut with it, nevermind having it land right in their leg!
Anyways, they're my modest games, I'm sure some of you country folk played games like shooting each other in the knee-cap and the first one to flich loses
So do share your dangerous fun! Who knows, you might even give us some ideas!!! 
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DaveMcG wrote:Hey folks,
Since we're being nostalgic I thought I'd continue the trend and tell ye about a couple of the "fun" games I used to play when I was in the early teens (not that long ago!).
My friends and I used to spend most of the day hanging around in one of the lads' shed, listening to music, drinking, and getting up to general divilment. For the most part harmless, but one thing that I've been thinking about is how careless we were! Something of a headline waiting to happen.
Only 1 or 2 of them smoked, so it was a bit of a novelty, and lighters were of much interest to the rest of us, so we'd have alot of fun lighting the couches on fire! We were sitting on them at the time, and we'd light them on fire and let them burn for a while and then put them out. The shed was full of flammable liquids and the material on the couch went up fairly easily, so I don't know how the hell we managed to avoid... exploding. Any plastic bottles that were lying around were inevitably burned also, releasing all manner of toxins into the air, and this was almost non-stop! Inhaling all that crap isn't likely to have been good for me.....
Like most teenagers we bought fireworks too. But not content with just lighting a rocket and watching it explode, we would break off the stick and chuck it into a bottle and try to close the lid before it exploded. Lots of close calls there as you might expect. We'd also take apart the fireworks and use the components for all sorts of fun.....
We also used to have a big net hanging from the roof, like a huge hammock, and we'd chuck any empty cans or bottles (not glass thankfully) into that, and every so often have a bit of fun by crushing up the cans and throwing them at each other! There'd be 5-10 people in this shed hiding behind the couches and cracking each other in the head! Not as dangerous as the pyro fun, but still not good.
But the one I was thinking of was actually quite dodgey indeed. For whatever reason there was a knife or 2 in the shed, and we created an impromtu game where one person would throw a knife into the air at another person, spinning it around, and the other person had to catch it or else avoid it hitting them! I don't know why the hell we played that, but in retrospect it's a f*cking miracle nobody at least got cut with it, nevermind having it land right in their leg!
Anyways, they're my modest games, I'm sure some of you country folk played games like shooting each other in the knee-cap and the first one to flich loses So do share your dangerous fun! Who knows, you might even give us some ideas!!!
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Back in primary school me and a three of the lads in my class were given a project to do by the principal on trees. At first I thought it was shít but it was actually some of the best fun I've had in school. Any ways we got time during class to go to the library and do research. We'd use this time, not to brush up trees but to have a book fight. We'd spend ages in that library throwing books at each other some of which were quiet big. Good times.
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Friends older brothers used to throw darts at our feet while we were playing the mega drive. Punctured the air bubble in one my shoes once (or whatever the cheap knock off of an air bubble was at the time
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Wasn't really fun at 10, wondering if you'd get a dart into your foot at any moment.0 -
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this got me reminiscing and it seems i've played my fair share of stupid games
we used to climb scaffoldings to about 3 or 4 metres then hang from the protruding bars and try and get the other guy to let go. i lost, fell on barbed wire and got ten stiches in my forehead.
we used to play around with petrol lamps flicking petrol around till one blew up on me and i got second degree burns on my entire body, even my tongue was burnt. i was bandaged from head to foot for about 6 weeks.
we used to dive off a cliff and catch a protruding tree, swing on it, then climb down. my friend lost and broke his arm.
we used to get 3 people on 2 skate boards, two people sitting down, one standing (usually me) on the steepest slope of our neighborhood and bomb it down. invariably we'd crash and i'd end up completely bloody.
tons of other things we used to do, all of which were pretty dumb and most led to serious enough injuries, but those are the first that spring to mind. I can't imagine the anguish i put my parents through, and now that i'm a dad, i'm dreading my son being as stupid as me when it comes to that kind of stuff!!! 0 -
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Shrapnel222, how the hell are you still alive?
I remember a game that was really popular we played all the time. Wacky Races we called it, everyone would race down a friend's very steep driveway (it was huge cuz the house was on a hill) on a kiddies vehicle (lil' tractors, trycycles, that little red car with the yellow roof, etc)
We also added the element of Road Rash, as in you could kick the shít out of your opponent and ram into them causing them to crash (which was very painful as this was an incredibly fast game)
Once we got bored with the usual down-the-hill thing we set up obstacles on the hill like Wheelie bins and all that. Much carnage ensued as you'd be flying down the hill behind everyone when suddenly a painful pile-up of bodies, bins, and toy vehicles occured and next thing you're looking at a rogue toy tractor flying in the air towards your head.
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hahaha, now that's the kind of stuff I'm talking about!shrapnel222 wrote:this got me reminiscing and it seems i've played my fair share of stupid games
we used to climb scaffoldings to about 3 or 4 metres then hang from the protruding bars and try and get the other guy to let go. i lost, fell on barbed wire and got ten stiches in my forehead.
we used to play around with petrol lamps flicking petrol around till one blew up on me and i got second degree burns on my entire body, even my tongue was burnt. i was bandaged from head to foot for about 6 weeks.
we used to dive off a cliff and catch a protruding tree, swing on it, then climb down. my friend lost and broke his arm.
we used to get 3 people on 2 skate boards, two people sitting down, one standing (usually me) on the steepest slope of our neighborhood and bomb it down. invariably we'd crash and i'd end up completely bloody.
tons of other things we used to do, all of which were pretty dumb and most led to serious enough injuries, but those are the first that spring to mind. I can't imagine the anguish i put my parents through, and now that i'm a dad, i'm dreading my son being as stupid as me when it comes to that kind of stuff!!!
Another game we used to play back in primary school involved throwing rocks at each other. No fancy rules or goals in the game other than you throw rocks at the other team! There was a gentlemen's agreement to aim below the neck, but other than that anything goes.
But accidents do happen and they're inevitably unpleasant when playing a good old game of Rock Throw™ and I got hit in the face, right underneath my eye, on the socket. Cue blood everywhere and running home crying to my ma! A former friend also ended up getting hit, on the head though. Cue blood everywhere and running crying to MY ma, cos we were playing across the road from my house!
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Always have to out-do me........... :mad: lolshrapnel222 wrote:this reminds me once we were playing in the barn of the farm we used to go to during the summer and my cousin climbed on the combined harvester and started starting it up. anyway, being the sensible boy that i was:D , i tell him to stop (farm machinery was a big no go area) and put my hand on the cogwheel to stop it. this wasn't enough and part of my hand goes through the cogwheels (they were huge like 2 foot across) and is grounded to a pulp. I start screeming and running towards the house holding my injured hand. i get to the house, our parents had some friends over and they were all sitting in the living room. i walk into the living room crying only to hear my aunt saying, "it's probably nothing, just a wasp bite" so i let go of my injured hand, blood falls everywhere, she faints and i'm rushed to the nearest hospital 50 kilometers away. ahh the good old days!!!:D
Did your hand get better or what?
LordChessington wrote:Nothing too crazy, apart from a game we borrowed from Jackass called Spearball. Basically 2 people play; One throws the ball (small enough to easily hold in one hand) to the other, then charges at him and tackles him as hard as possible, while the guy being tackled has to stand still, ball in one hand, arms in the air and take it. If they held onto the ball, they got a point. If they dropped it, the 'tackler' got a point.
Reminds me of a less goal-oriented game we used to play! On a football pitch, one person grabs the crossbar with both hands and hangs like that, as if going to do pull-ups. Then someone else charges at him and spears the sh*t out of him!!! That hurts, lol0 -
DaveMcG wrote:Always have to out-do me........... :mad: lol
Did your hand get better or what?
i was lucky the bone only got chipped and wasn't crushed cause the hand was facing outwards rather than inwards, but all the fleshy part of the palm went to mush- nice big scar to show for it though0 -
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Ah the good aul Peg Gun Femmy...
We however would use the steel part of another peg and put that on the elastic band.
When that thing hits you, it hurts.
Another thing we used to make was "cherry poppers" - Cut off a bottle top & about 3 inches of bottle, cut a finger from a marigold glove and wrap it around the part you drink from.
Pop a berry in, pull and BLAM. Berry flies out.0 -
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Ha! Twice in the last two or three weeks have I reminisced about these old things.
Peg guns and cherry poppers are a must in any child's upbringing. We made peg guns with one close peg, a rubber band, a metal spring from a close peg, a piece of timber and two or three nails. There were different ways of making them. We were so ingenious!
Way one. Use one rubber band and attach spring. Nail peg to one end, facing the other. Put nail at the top. Done.
Then we found out that only one peg wasn't enough. so we attached loads! We'd get a square piece of timber and put one on all sides.
Then it turned out that only being able to fire one peg at a time wasn't enough. So we'd put two pegs on each side and a nail on the outside edge of the pegs. This meant you only needed to push from one side to fire the peg. So you could fire two or more at once. great memories all together.
Hmmmm... what else. Ah yeah, there were a few trees on our road that hung quite low. During the summer, and autumn (while the leaves were still on the trees) we'd get one person to hide up the three, and jump down in front of passers-by to scare the living daylights outta them. We got most of it on film. We'd go round the local supermarket and hide behind the trolleys and do it too. Got told to clear off all the time.
Don't think we did nothing dangerous, apart from lighting fires out the back, crazy that my parents let us. I'd never ever let my kids do that... when I have kids that is.0 -
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jebus some of the dumb things that i look back on and ponder how we still alive.
One fun game was where Clondalkin train station is there used to be a wall instead of a ehh train station.
The wall had a ESB old wooden pole on it, we cut the power cable and ripped it from the pole and used to swing over the train tracks on it, kinda dumb and seriously dangerous especially as after that got boring we spiced it up by doing when trains where going by underneath us :eek:
In Clondalkin up in the dutch village is woodford hill a 500 metre steep hill, impossible to skateboard down it while standing up as the board would wobble and throw you off. Found that out the hard way so we went down it sitting down and used the roundabout at the bottom as your brakes your board hit and you shot off onto the grass. I hit a moving taxi one time and the driver smacked ME for hitting his cab :eek:
The mill shopping centre before it was a mill was an old mill
we used to skateboard on the roof off until a lad from school fell 50 feet from it and died.
Another sweet god how ****ing dumb we were was at the entrance to Cappaghmore was hanging onto the back of coal trucks as they left the estate, until a lad fell under the back wheel and died.
Kids are dumb.
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"swingball" as myself and my cousin christened it.
Anyway what you do is get one of those, kick up footballs, the ones where the football is attached to the string (especially for kick ups).
Ok then go on a swing set, start swinging while someone hold the kick up thing. You kick the football in mid air whilst your swinging. No the string is only so long, so it will travel a bit and then come flying back at you.
First person to fall off the swing loses.
Seriously was the funniest game ever, especially when the other person gets a full belt of a football in the face. Also the swingset was coming out of the ground because we were going so high, made it more interesting.
We stopped after the time when the football came back, went behing me and the string wrapped around my neck and i nearly suffocated.
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We used to go into the gym and kick basketballs at each other as hard as we could, no such thing as points or anything like that but it was just so funny to see someone get buckled with a basketball. Just something to do to pass the time 0
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well, i was dragged up in Rathfarnaham, just on the bottom of the Dublin mountains....looooads of hills all over the kip. we used to get used tractor tyres, take the two most gullible s*yts you could find, but them inside the tyres and roll them down the hill. We would piss our self laughing at the screams of the poor feckers Rollin down the hill at about 90 mph, super f*ckin funny. It was even more funny when the tyre went all the way down the hill and out on to the main road....that was if there was no cars on the road. But when it was busy....we some how taught that if we tensed up our body or moved our body from left to right that the tyre was some how going to mimic us.:rolleyes: :rolleyes: . It never worked. the only way the tire stopd was if a car hit it...or it went crashin into the side of a house. 0
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