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SkeEEEEEEEtch !!!

  • 04-11-2012 4:39pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭


    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:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Excuse me?


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    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!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    In English, please


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Niles


    A mod's coming - sketch!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,367 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Niles wrote: »
    A mod's coming - sketch!
    Ah, I get ya. Scatter. Or in some cases, scutter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,572 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 332 ✭✭emptybladder


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Niles


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Cheese it, the Feds!


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Omar comin up y'all


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    hardCopy wrote: »
    Omar comin up y'all

    Needs more love, yo.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,409 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭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 :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭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.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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 :D

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭le la rat


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭Chavways


    Are you on drugs OP?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 35 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    Same for me growing up in Ballymun.

    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 :p

    Yeah I certainly do, couldn't stand over that type of behaviour now, however, I'm glad of the education I got out of it. Did you ever have a design head, it was the ultimate blackhead, the best whacker you could have;)


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    I kept sketch pads. Used to sketch orchids and shop fronts, was very good at it too!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Odysseus wrote: »
    Yeah I certainly do, couldn't stand over that type of behaviour now, however, I'm glad of the education I got out of it. Did you ever have a design head, it was the ultimate blackhead, the best whacker you could have;)

    I never had anything of the sort :cool:

    When FAS opened up on the Jamestown Road some of the lads with entrepreneurial skills made a packed fabricating barrel poppers lol.

    Or so I heard :p


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    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.
    MadsL wrote: »
    They sold them to Bill Cullen and cooked meth with the proceeds.

    Or something.
    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.
    Grayson wrote: »
    I robbed them too.

    And we'd always have someone keeping sketch in school.
    Same for me growing up in Ballymun.
    charlemont wrote: »
    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.
    You didn't rob orchards for the fruit. Jeeze. You robbed them for the chase :D

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

    Guess I had a pretty sheltered childhood :o

    Used to rob sweets from the shops and the likes... Doesn't cut it round these parts though.

    Ugh, now I've to admit to the internet I was wrong. I hate you all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    Robbed apples always tasted better than legit apples.

    Good times.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    I never had anything of the sort :cool:

    When FAS opened up on the Jamestown Road some of the lads with entrepreneurial skills made a packed fabricating barrel poppers lol.

    Or so I heard :p

    Yeah, I was in Fas in Ballyer when I was about 16-17, metal work course too, we learned to make all types of things.


  • Registered Users Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Gotya


    What kid wants to eat fruit?

    I'm calling bullshít on this.

    Kids back in the day aren't like kids today, i for one loved plums. There was a garden which had plums and apples trees.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭rolliepoley


    Archeron wrote: »
    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.
    gotchie, have'nt heared that in a long time.
    What kid wants to eat fruit?

    I'm calling bullshít on this.
    any 10 or 12 year old with taste buds.:rolleyes:
    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 :p
    Black heads and mini wipers, they were the days of the gl's also days of a miss spent youth, but good days.:)
    Chavways wrote: »
    Are you on drugs OP?
    Nope are you?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    What kid wants to eat fruit?

    I'm calling bullshít on this.

    The orchard owner, a farmer, would not let us have his apples but he would happily let them fall to the ground and rot. So one day, when he was at mass, we robbed a load of apples, took one bite out of each and left them all lined up on his wall. He wasn't happy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf



    Black heads and mini wipers, they were the days of the gl's also days of a miss spent youth, but good days.:)

    Oh another one who survived to tell the tale!.. GL wheels were the sought after alloys of the 80's :p


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


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

    Hey OP, are you one of the Bash Street Kids?

    Oooh, crumbs!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 343 ✭✭Sorcha16


    Robbing an orchard? -is this After Hours or an extract from Enid f**king Blyton? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Jay D


    sketch the garda on a hot-wired donkey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    When the teacher left the room and told us to sit and be quiet someone had to keep sketch at the door!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    Gotya wrote: »
    Kids back in the day aren't like kids today, i for one loved plums. There was a garden which had plums and apples trees.
    I blame the parents. My cousins were over the weekend with their young kids. Up and down like rockets the moment one of the tykes went around a corner, never mind went to head into the fields behind my house. Makes me sound like an aul fella but I'm in my twenties! Used to be kicked out of the house and told to be back for lunch at 1 so Mam could clean the house or whatever and then out again until 6 for tea.
    These kids though, eldest is 8 and I'd say she's never spent a moment of her life where one or other of the parents knew exactly where she is. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I always kept my sketches. No one else wanted my artwork.


  • Registered Users Posts: 21 Foxwaldo


    Kept sketch a few times getting into certain feilds or old neighbours gardens to get balls. Asking some one for a sketch pad of the did'nt notice a teacher coming their way was also very common.

    Still hear it the odd time when out in clubs when a group of lads have formed to have one of there funny smelling rolled cigarettes ;) theres always one person keeping sketch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Sketch went hand in hand with smoking in school:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    Odysseus wrote: »
    I grew up in Ballyer so it wasn't down the country either.

    ......near us too rob the crips from there.
    .


    You robbed Crips?

    In the Ballyfermot Bloods were we? :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    It all sounds like a 1950's comic strip to me.

    I'd have preffered whipping sweets/chocs to be honest.


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