SkeEEEEEEEtch !!!

rolliepoley

Anybody ever kept sketch.?
I mean when we were small, like robbin the orchard or the local sweetshop.I was always the one to do it because i was the smallest and i was brutal at it cos i was blind as a bat, i dont know why they picked me i was a little fart with glasses. thinking back now when got the sketch it was gas i used to love the scatter everybody screaming and laughing.:pac:


Right!!! everybody spread out in a bunch and discuss. :pac:

The King of Moo

Excuse me?

Mr. Manager

rolliepoley wrote: »

Anybody ever kept sketch.?
I mean when we were small, like robbin the orchard or the local sweetshop.I was always the one to do it because i was the smallest and i was brutal at it cos i was blind as a bat, i dont know why they picked me i was a little fart with glasses. thinking back now when got the sketch it was gas i used to love the scatter everybody screaming and laughing.:pac:


Right!!! everybody spread out in a bunch and discuss. :pac:

Where the fuck did you grow up that had orchards and why would you rob them!?

--Kaiser--

In English, please

Niles

A mod's coming - sketch!

Archeron

Yep, we'd shout Sketch, even if somebody wasnt actually on sketch at the time.
Normally the full phrase shouted was "Sketch, the gotchie", but I dont know if that was a north dublin thing or not.

We wouldnt even be robbing orchards, just playing on the lake swing near the old school that the gotchie guarded with his pack of hell hounds.

The King of Moo

Does "to keep sketch" mean "to act as a lookout?" I think I've deciphered that from the OP.

Chucken

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

Where the fuck did you grow up that had orchards and why would you rob them!?

Orchard:
1. An area of land devoted to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
2. The trees cultivated in such an area.

Did you never see one?

Rob them to get fruit. Its not that confusing really.

Johro

Niles wrote: »

A mod's coming - sketch!

Ah, I get ya. Scatter. Or in some cases, scutter.

Max Power

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

Where the fuck did you grow up that had orchards and why would you rob them!?

Eh there's orchards all over Ireland. They are robbed for apples. I don't understand your confusion.

Skill Magill

You had to have someone keep sketch when you were doin a gushie. :P

The King of Moo

Niles wrote: »

A mod's coming - sketch!

Johro wrote: »

Ah, I get ya. Scatter. Or in some cases, scutter.

We used to say "Run!!" when we were kids.

Crazy.

meoklmrk91

Did it in school for the smokers as I was a non smoker, I'm sound like that.

emptybladder

I think OP grew up in The Beano or something. Robbing orchards? Did Mr Wilson ever catch yourself and Gnasher?

Sulla Felix

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

Where the fuck did you grow up that had orchards and why would you rob them!?

Used to rob an orchard in Naas as a kid when I was visiting cousins. Well, a fsck off garden with apple trees more than a real orchard, still though.

Niles

Rough translation: "Comrades, there is an authority figure approaching, please split up and move to a less inconspicuous position in a prompt manner".

My name is URL

Cheese it, the Feds!

Mr. Manager

Chucken wrote: »

Orchard:
1. An area of land devoted to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
2. The trees cultivated in such an area.

Did you never see one?

Rob them to get fruit. Its not that confusing really.

What kid wants to eat fruit?

I'm calling bullshít on this.

Chucken

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

What kid wants to eat fruit?

I'm calling bullshít on this.

No. No. No.

The fruit (crab apples were good) are for throwing at each other!

Eating??? Nooooooo

Son Of A Vidic

The King of Moo wrote: »

We used to say "Run!!" when we were kids.

Crazy.

Crazy indeed. Ah that famous word from my childhood "Run!!". We used to be all crazy and shít.

hardCopy

Omar comin up y'all

Chuck Stone

hardCopy wrote: »

Omar comin up y'all

Needs more love, yo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmtuRRhtGQw

MadsL

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

What kid wants to eat fruit?

I'm calling bullshít on this.

They sold them to Bill Cullen and cooked meth with the proceeds.

Or something.

Odysseus

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

What kid wants to eat fruit?

I'm calling bullshít on this.

Ah come on, FFS it was a popular past time for most kids when I was growinf up and I'm only in my forties, it is not that far back. I grew up in Ballyer so it wasn't down the country either.

As I grew older we used to rob cider from Bulmers which was only down the road, King's had a factory near us too rob the crips from there.

Yes we ate the apples, but more fun was the thrill of being chased/caught.

Grayson

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

What kid wants to eat fruit?

I'm calling bullshít on this.

I robbed them too.

And we'd always have someone keeping sketch in school.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Odysseus wrote: »

Ah come on, FFS it was a popular past time for most kids when I was growinf up and I'm only in my forties, it is not that far back. I grew up in Ballyer so it wasn't down the country either.

As I grew older we used to rob cider from Bulmers which was only down the road, King's had a factory near us too rob the crips from there.

Yes we ate the apples, but more fun was the thrill of being chased/caught.

Same for me growing up in Ballymun.

We had Hedigan's orchid at Santry Cross, right at the edge of Santry woods and we'd be chased into the woods by the families dogs and it felt like we'd hid there all day.

Then there was Premier Dairies in Finglas where we'd rob ice cream, but since it was nearly always gang warfare between Ballymun and Finglas we took our lives into our hands when we ventured that far.

If you were really brave you'd go to Coolock or Finglas to rob the travellers horses but if you were caught you'd be battered to within an inch of your life.

When we were older it was 'black heads' 'mini wipers' Ford Escorts/Cortina's/Granada's or GTI's ~ and if anyone knows what black heads or mini wipers mean't you were naughty, naughty boys

charlemont

Odysseus wrote: »

Ah come on, FFS it was a popular past time for most kids when I was growinf up and I'm only in my forties, it is not that far back. I grew up in Ballyer so it wasn't down the country either.

As I grew older we used to rob cider from Bulmers which was only down the road, King's had a factory near us too rob the crips from there.

Yes we ate the apples, but more fun was the thrill of being chased/caught.

Same here but from a factory in Munster. They were missions in which somebody always had to keep sketch..Especially at the railing into the orchard.

Anything we ever got was sort of crap, Babycham, Ritz , All gone off too. They would be stacked in crates waiting to be removed and dumped.

Cereal Rapist

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

What kid wants to eat fruit?

I'm calling bullshít on this.

You didn't rob orchards for the fruit. Jeeze. You robbed them for the chase

But not in your new shoes. Never in your new shoes.

le la rat

Georgia Dead Crown wrote: »

Same for me growing up in Ballymun.

We had Hedigan's orchid at Santry Cross, right at the edge of Santry woods and we'd be chased into the woods by the families dogs and it felt like we'd hid there all day.

Then there was Premier Dairies in Finglas where we'd rob ice cream, but since it was nearly always gang warfare between Ballymun and Finglas we took our lives into our hands when we ventured that far.

If you were really brave you'd go to Coolock or Finglas to rob the travellers horses but if you were caught you'd be battered to within an inch of your life.

When we were older it was 'black heads' 'mini wipers' Ford Escorts/Cortina's/Granada's or GTI's ~ and if anyone knows what black heads or mini wipers mean't you were naughty, naughty boys

any chance u could explain what black heads and mini wipers are ?

Chavways

Are you on drugs OP?

heisenburger

You'd hear sketch a lot around school when a teacher was approaching some sort of messing.
School was a funny old place, a bit like what I imagine prison to be like; lots of shouting and a general air of distaste towards authority. Keep your head down and do your time.