Tell Me Something............Anything!

[Macca]

Was walking home from school with some mates on a snowy day, one dropped behind us without being noticed and stated chucking snowballs at our backs. We chucked a couple back and one youth says to him 'I dare you to chuck one at this car that's coming.' So he turns round and lobs one at this bright green Capri that's tooling up the road towards us and it impacts right on the windscreen.

The Capri screeches to a halt and this enormous bloke - he must have been a weightlifter or something - jumps out screaming, bright red in the face, and starts legging the youth up the road. We shot off in the other direction thinking that if he couldn't catch him he'd come back for us, but we were laughing so hard we could hardly run.

[struth]

yeah back in day when you did get a lot of good snow every year it was fairly common toss them at cars etc. buses were a safer bet tho. if car driver caught you he would give you a doing too and often did. nowadays the driver would as you say, get jailed, but then if you told parents they would give you another doing so nowt was said and you learned not to do it; or run faster

[Macca]

Running away from a potential beating was an essential skill in those days.

[Macca]

That same youth got into all sorts of scrapes as he always wanted to be popular so he'd never refuse a dare. It would always work out spectacularly badly for him, but he never learned.

No idea what he's doing now, probably Chairman of ICI or something.

[walpurgis]

Slingshots were popular the rest of the year when there was no snow.

[Macca]

That must have died out by my day, don't recall anyone ever having a catapult. I was in detention once and they set some youth's polyester blazer on fire with a magnifying glass. It really went up too. he was running around yelling and trying to get it off. That was pretty funny.

[Pigmy Pony]

Here's a table of the new gender neutral personal pronouns. Get memorising, there'll be a test tomorrow:

You'll have to put me down as a fail as I don't understand the question.

[Pigmy Pony]

I'm trying to visualise what kind of person with nothing better to do thought that lot up.

Think of a Magnum lolly with the chocolate bitten of and an angry face drawn on what's left, and you'll be close.

[Pigmy Pony]

i was going to say a lot of bullshit, but i better be safe and say cattleshit

The sheep aren't happy about you excluding them, they're having a meeting

[Pigmy Pony]

cool.. mine was via this which is probably similar ..Latin ferula (“giant fennel (whose stalks were once used in punishing schoolboys); rod, whip”), from ferire (“to strike”).

wouldnt have been normal at my school. belting was common but not the cane; it would have got you in real trouble. in fact one teacher did hit a boy with one once and he got in real trouble. suspended and threatened with court and loss of job. once i reached 2/3 yaer i didnt take belt of any of them. if they tried it on then i'd defend myself..i once flung the pt teacher in swimming pool for trying to push me around he complained bitterly to rector, who asked me nicely not to be so rough... all he wanted was trophies for his display, which i gave him, so i got to do what i liked within reason.
i rarely actually went to classes i was a very naughty boy

Bloody hell Grant!