Childhood Rules

Whenever you played football out on the street, if walls were used as goals, then one side was always a completely different size (and shape) to the other one.

In cases where it was just jumpers thrown on the ground for goals, the goals were as high as what your keeper could comfortably reach.

PE wasn't about sports, it was dress up day.

X-Works Jeans were cool at my school until someone got tangled in a climbing frame during PE and got them banned :pac:

Benji


The fcukin smell of Benji off ya!!!!

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

Speak in unison with someone = JINX!

Can't speak until the jinxer says the jinxee's name 3 times and if the jinxee speaks before that, everyone in the class gets to pinch them

This reminds me of (deciding some random kid has a nasty disease that they can pass on by simply brushing their hand against you):

"shields all over for life - even without hands!".

Still don't get the logistics of that one

Every few months a story would go around that a man in a white van is snatching kids. So we'd be watching and you don't walk home from GAA training on your own.

I don't know why the van was always white. You'd think he'd switch once in a while.

Tbh this story still does the rounds. I've seen it on boards.ie and on journal.ie

Vito Corleone wrote: »

One of the worst things was if you got a reputation for being a "goal hanger".

We jeered them and called them Schillaci

last one up on the penny farthing gets no toffee apple.

anncoates wrote: »

When a world cup was on, every goal you scored in the park or on the street had to be accompanied with a made up south american footballer name in a screaming commentator voice.

I remember one called GARRAVACIO!!!!!!

That reminds me - when you jump from a height, you have to shout GERONIMO!!!

all

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Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

I'm not sure if we are on the same wavelength but for some reason we used to say "aaah, taxi" to announce one had taken a good fart.

Almost sure that our custom was when you did a fart, you had to say Taxi befire anybody else or you got a "deadner" on the upper arm.

That evolved into you being able to give a return deadner so you then had to say Taxi No Returns when you farted.