How prominent were wedgies during your time at school ?

heywhatsgoinon

Was talking to my 17 year old nephew there the other day and he says hes never heard of a wedgie happening in real life? when i was in school (70s and 80s lads school in dublin), wedgies were a part of every day life !

How common were wedgies while you were at school ?

dodderangler

Non existent. Was more actually fights and black eyes.
Wedgies was more American

Ruu

Never happened, all about Chinese burns.

heywhatsgoinon

dodderangler wrote: »

Non existent. Was more actually fights and black eyes.
Wedgies was more American

where did you go to school ?

Outlaw Pete

Remember one case in my town that ended up in court actually.

I think the parents sued the school as someone ended up needing hospital treatment I believe. I seen a few but never experienced one, thank God.

To quote The Breakfast Club:

'The humiliation, the ****ing humiliation'

dodderangler

heywhatsgoinon wrote: »

where did you go to school ?

Tallaght community school. Nuff said

AllGunsBlazing

Flicking the back of your ear was more the thing in our school. That and pulling the chair away as someone was about to sit down.

Outlaw Pete

Pile Ons where the thing I dreaded most as I have bad claustrophobia.

Even the mere thought now gives me the fecking fear.

Wibbs

Older and not American, so no wedgies going on in my day and neck of the woods.

FAILSAFE 00

I can no longer have children... Thats how prominent it was.

There was a massive telephone pole right in the middle of the school playground. It was put to some use... Game of Thrones style.

viztopia

We had a thing called polling in our school. A gang of lads would get someone and lift them off the ground by legs and upper body. They would then take a run at the basketball pole with the persons legs spread to get the wobbly bits. Believe it or not if it happened to you it meant you were popular!

Galwayguy35

Was common in the school I went to, most of the first year lads including myself got one during the first week of Sept.

Getting thrown into a holly bush was another one.

One eyed Jack

dodderangler wrote: »

Non existent. Was more actually fights and black eyes.
Wedgies was more American

I remember the remains of "KVI underpants" we used call them, being strewn about the basketball court in secondary school. I genuinely never thought of it as American, 'twas almost threatened as an inevitability for every first year coming into the school to be hung up by their y-fronts out in the bicycle shed

It never happened that anyone actually was hung up by their underpants (those paisley underpants were ridiculously stretchy!), but definitely there were some lads that if it could have been done, they would have done it! Farmers the whole lot of 'em :pac:

Ah there were a few fights alright between the townies and farmers, but it was always good natured afterwards.

I think the most annoying was the fella behind you sticking a compass in your arse, or the lighter just inches from your arse, or I got a right crack on the arse one time from a fella with a shatterproof ruler! I felt terrible afterwards for laying him out as I really wasn't a fighter at all, jesus even thinking about it now I gave him an awful wallop, way OTT

suicide_circus

So prominent that the principal had to call an assembly in order to outline the dangers of wedgies. Not joking.

finooola

There were no wedgies. There was a terrible craze of "crispies" though in my school, which were a hard slap across the forehead.

osarusan

It happened, but to the best of my memory, it was just a bunch of 'hard' lads who would do it to each other but not to anybody outside that group, so they wouldn't get in trouble.

reason vs religion

The odd time. Far more popular were, 1) pocketings, whereby your breast pocket would be ripped off your shirt, 2) baggings, whereby you would return to find your bag turned inside-out with the contents inside, and 3) tyings, whereby your tie would be yanked downwards, ruining the knot and making it difficult to untie. More irritating than painful, I suppose.

reap-a-rat

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Flicking the back of your ear was more the thing in our school. That and pulling the chair away as someone was about to sit down.

And the old thumbtack on the chair was another one.

Penny Tration

Never happened because we had to wear skirts.


Pulling skirts up/down and throwing people into a big thorny bush in the yard was common though.

riffmongous

We had the 'sack tap', in some rooms you had to sit on a bench attached to the desk, making you vulnerable to a kick in the goolies from the person sitting behind you if you let your guard down, it quickly developed into the Sack Wars, a period of shifting alliances, heroic defenses, innovative tactics and treachery.

antodeco

A fond one in our school was coin crack. Someone would be leant forward showing off their arse crack. Queue dropping as many things down his crack without him realising. It would be great when it would be full and theyd stand up. Queue loads of stuff falling out the trouser leg.

The inside out school bag was a popular one as well!

Turtyturd

Fairly popular in school alright alongside

Jocking (pretty much the opposite of a wedgie)

Thumbtacks on chairs

Kicking the back legs of a chair when someone was leaning back with the front legs off the ground causing them to fall.

Letree

Getting put in a headlock was a big thing when i was a school. There always seemed to be someone being dragged about the corridor in a headlock

Shenshen

Never happened. To be honest, I don't think I ever witnessed any physical aggression in school once I was out of primary. And in primary, it was usually just giving people a push or something.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Not a wedgie to be seen or heard of when I was at school. Fights yes but wedges are an Americanism

Lone Stone

people use to straight up punch you in the nuts in my school

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

We used to heat up a coin with a lighter then drop it down the back of someone's shirt collar. Or stand in dogshyte and ask someone to give you a 'boost' over the wall and you put your ****ty runner into their hands.

The Backwards Man

Wedgies?! We had nothing to wear but a potato sack to school and we were damn glad of it.

jester77

Dead arms and legs were the in-thing in primary school. And flicking the hand down someone's arse was also quite frequent, burnt like mad if done right.

Secondary school was more immature, shampoo in shoes, woodwork involved screwing school bags to tables, those sort of things

biko

Sticking your hand down the back of someone's trousers and pull at their underwear?
Sounds gay.

SEPT 23 1989

Blinding people with the innards of a vicks inhaler was a favourite of mine

approach victim from rear and a swipe under each eye to produce a mustard gas attack style reaction

mud

Grabbing someone by the back of the bra and pulling them around (if you were outside) or just snapping it really painfully (if we were in class)

We were no strangers to tit-punches either.

Used to see fellas getting polled when I spent a year in a mixed primary.


Only ever saw a wedgie on the hurling field and even then it was more of a case of short-shorts/hungry arse.

CantonasCollar

Wedgies were reserved for birthdays at our school, quite the birthday treat. Only really started in earnest once the year above me were in their 2 final years. Too many headcases with testosterone levels off the charts. It mostly involved the rugby teams, and anyone outside that circle unlucky enough to be known by the headcases.

Having a summer birthday I managed to avoid a wedgie, buy have many friends not as lucky. The trick was to pre cut the groin (not completely through though) so that it didn't require much effort or cause too much discomfort to give the headcases that sense of victory they wanted.

One fella decided to go commando to try and deter them, he hadn't thought it through and ended up with his trousers being ripped off, which was probably more painful than the wedgie. He was the both the first and last to attempt that tactic.

Dr Bob

Never saw it myself in the 70s /80s, may have been a 90's onwards thing of copying American TV?

Conall Cernach

Lone Stone wrote: »

people use to straight up punch you in the nuts in my school

"What's the rule?"
"Huh?"
"Guard your tool." WHACK!

pajor

biko wrote: »

Sticking your hand down the back of someone's trousers and pull at their underwear?
Sounds gay.

I went to boarding school for 2 and a half years. Many a pair of boxers were ripped off a lad from wedgies. Also sack tapping. And the terror of the "goochenator". A half folded wire hanger to snap at someones "gooch" (taint).

There's a reason why I stopped boarding after 2 and a half years. :pac:

The_Valeyard

Never wedgies.



Remember staples fired from elastic bands. They were soar.

saabsaab

Never heard of it in the 60's and seventies.

riffmongous

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Never wedgies.



Remember staples fired from elastic bands. They were soar.

Majestic

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pickarooney

A regular birthday occurrence in my school in the late eighties. Pole jobs were thankfully a bit rarer.

20Cent

We had a thing where a few lads would link arms and block the top of the stairs. Everyone coming in from lunch would get stuck behind them. Then they would do running stage dives into the crowd. Was like a mosh pit, first years rolling down stairs like bowling pins. Big pile of bodies was like the squash scene in game of thrones. Amazing no one ever got injured.

rjpf1980

Everyone got a wedgie on his birthday and got the birthday bumps on the edge of a hurley.

rjpf1980

Letree wrote: »

Getting put in a headlock was a big thing when i was a school. There always seemed to be someone being dragged about the corridor in a headlock

Lyaiera

Wedgies only existed for a limited few years, and were only ever practised by the rugby playing crowd who were generally considered none too bright.

Pantsing was popular for as long as the associated pants were popular. The ones with buttons down the side that could be pulled apart. Of course the heads of fashion industry realised that letting them come unbuttoned the whole way wasn't a particular advantage of the style, and so changed the design to stop the top third from being able to come undone. This didn't stop the ardent pantsing enthusiast who saw this as a challenge to be overcome rather than a difficulty, which generally resulted in pants being forcefully ripped off the lucky panstee.

Now I'm in my thirties I would have thought this schoolboy behaviour no longer exists among my peer group however I do know of one person in his thirties who his quite in favour of the friendly gooly tap as a means of showing affection.

Galwayguy35

Dr Bob wrote: »

Never saw it myself in the 70s /80s, may have been a 90's onwards thing of copying American TV?

Not around here, I was a first year in 1987 and it was common then.

Galwayguy35

pickarooney wrote: »

A regular birthday occurrence in my school in the late eighties. Pole jobs were thankfully a bit rarer.

Never heard of that one.

Filmer Paradise

Popular activity at my old school in the '80s.

I remember finding one poor chap hanging from a classroom doorknob by his Y- fronts. Totally unable to get down & was there for ages.

That was rough......but I still laugh at the memory.

MRnotlob606

In our school we used take things out of peoples bags and then turn them inside out and zip them up. Some lads done it one time and found a knife in his bag, guy found out, went nuts and punched the other guy, breaking his own arm. Fun Times.

One eyed Jack

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Never heard of that one.

Someone explained it earlier in the thread alright, basically four lads grabbing a fella by the limbs, spreading his legs and running him up against a basketball pole...

Jesus for all our rugby playing, some of us were never that dumb, or that cruel, there's limits like!

Getting jocked was more common , never heard of wedgies happening

MilesMorales1

No we had proper fights, happy slaps, inside out bagging.