Things we survived as children # 2381 - DECKCHAIRS

[Manks]

Having just procured some new garden chairs I am reminded of my childhood, when "garden chair" meant "deckchair" of the ilk that had stripey fabric, notched rear legs and a sort of "prop" type adjustment. If you didn't use it properly it could sever fingers.

It seems that it is now very difficult to buy garden chair that will maim kids. Which got me to thinking, "what other things did we survive as children?"

Manks

[s3fella]

Grandad got one to fold up on my three year old at the weekend! There were lots of tears but it was quite amusing!!

Ours are Homebase hardwood ones and pretty good quality for the price.

[Laurel Green]

Mud pies and worms.

[Jag-D]

Thatcher

[UncleRic]

Childbirth.

[Timmy35]

Games of "British Bulldog".

Which I believe has now been pretty much outlawed in schools across the UK.

[Poledriver]

Climbing trees.
Walking to school alone.
Drinking milk.
Eating chocolate.
Having fun (no longer allowed).
Competetive sport at school.
Playing conkers.
Climbing ladders.
Riding a bike on the road.
Being in a room with a smoker
Lead paint
Fireworks
Leaded fuel
Corporal punishment
Bullbars

Edited by Poledriver on Friday 6th August 11:59

[anonymous-user]

Scrumping, which incidently, seems to have died out due to modern day scrotes having easy access to guns and knives

[Jesus TF Christ]

Jumping off swings or the top of a slide onto tarmac. The slides were more than five feet tall as well.

[cal72]

My youth.

[chevykevv]

Timmy35 said:

Games of "British Bulldog".

Which I believe has now been pretty much outlawed in schools across the UK.

I used to love playing that on our concrete playground at school, & survived to tell the tale.
The scars are a fond memory.

[Timmy35]

Summer sunshine without being smeared head to toe with factor 50.

[Laurel Green]

Playing cowboys & Indians in the woods unsupervised.

[chevykevv]

Also from the age of around 9 or 10, I used to disappear across the fields around our village, I used to be gone all day every weekend / school holiday & nobody used to worry.

[slomax]

we stil have a million year old deck chair in the garage. IIRC it is a green fabric with orange stripes (very eighties).

The pop gun (cut the string, goes further than you expect)
The NERF gun (modified it a bit with a drawing pin blu-tacked to the end and shot my brother)
Spud gun (shot my mother in the eye with it once, she was fine but it got thrown in the bin)
Kettle car go-kart (the chain drive was open and very closely positioned between your legs)
Elastic band with paper pellets (everyones got into a lot of trouble with these)

Also, that big netting that they had at playgrounds made of that blue rope that you had to climb up. I got my head stuck in between the mesh once and couldn't get it out. That hurt a lot, but was very funny.

[itsnotarace]

Playing cricket without wearing helmets (compulsory now I understand)
Snowball fights

[davemac250]

Poledriver said:

Climbing trees.
Walking to school alone.
Drinking milk.
Eating chocolate.
Having fun (no longer allowed).
Competetive sport at school.
Playing conkers.
Climbing ladders.
Riding a bike on the road.
Being in a room with a smoker
Lead paint
Fireworks
Leaded fuel
Corporal punishment
Bullbars

Edited by Poledriver on Friday 6th August 11:59

Add.

Riding a bike without a helmet.
Drinking 'full fat' coke.
Murder Ball - variations on the theme.
Dodgeball.
Going on holiday in term time.
Climbing trees.
Swimming unsupervised.
Go-kart races on the local hills in summer.
Toboggan races on the local hill in winter.

[davido140]

davemac250 said:

Poledriver said:

Climbing trees.
Walking to school alone.
Drinking milk.
Eating chocolate.
Having fun (no longer allowed).
Competetive sport at school.
Playing conkers.
Climbing ladders.
Riding a bike on the road.
Being in a room with a smoker
Lead paint
Fireworks
Leaded fuel
Corporal punishment
Bullbars

Edited by Poledriver on Friday 6th August 11:59

Add.

Riding a bike without a helmet.
Drinking 'full fat' coke.
Murder Ball - variations on the theme.
Dodgeball.
Going on holiday in term time.
Climbing trees.
Swimming unsupervised.
Go-kart races on the local hills in summer.
Toboggan races on the local hill in winter.

I'm amazed I'm still alive

[davemac250]

davido140 said:

davemac250 said:

Poledriver said:

Climbing trees.
Walking to school alone.
Drinking milk.
Eating chocolate.
Having fun (no longer allowed).
Competetive sport at school.
Playing conkers.
Climbing ladders.
Riding a bike on the road.
Being in a room with a smoker
Lead paint
Fireworks
Leaded fuel
Corporal punishment
Bullbars

Edited by Poledriver on Friday 6th August 11:59

Add.

Riding a bike without a helmet.
Drinking 'full fat' coke.
Murder Ball - variations on the theme.
Dodgeball.
Going on holiday in term time.
Climbing trees.
Swimming unsupervised.
Go-kart races on the local hills in summer.
Toboggan races on the local hill in winter.

I'm amazed I'm still alive

Shocking, isn't it.

I was chastised at the weekend for setting a bad example to some friends kids for demonstrating a wheelie on my mountain bike.

Not for the act itself, mind you. For doing it wearing flip-flops and shorts, and not the full cycling kit.

[Manks]

davemac250 said:

davido140 said:

davemac250 said:

Poledriver said:

Climbing trees.
Walking to school alone.
Drinking milk.
Eating chocolate.
Having fun (no longer allowed).
Competetive sport at school.
Playing conkers.
Climbing ladders.
Riding a bike on the road.
Being in a room with a smoker
Lead paint
Fireworks
Leaded fuel
Corporal punishment
Bullbars

Edited by Poledriver on Friday 6th August 11:59

Add.

Riding a bike without a helmet.
Drinking 'full fat' coke.
Murder Ball - variations on the theme.
Dodgeball.
Going on holiday in term time.
Climbing trees.
Swimming unsupervised.
Go-kart races on the local hills in summer.
Toboggan races on the local hill in winter.

I'm amazed I'm still alive

Shocking, isn't it.

I was chastised at the weekend for setting a bad example to some friends kids for demonstrating a wheelie on my mountain bike.

Not for the act itself, mind you. For doing it wearing flip-flops and shorts, and not the full cycling kit.

Kudos to you that you can do it. I did an endo on my MTB to impress my 4-year old and he said, "oh, I thought you could do a proper one, not a little one like that".

I struck him.