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Cyclops Jul 2018 10:52pm, 9 Jul 2018 3,510 posts	0 Cyclops Oh bulldog :-). Plenty of broken limbs playing that.
Sharkie Jul 2018 10:53pm, 9 Jul 2018 13,488 posts	0 Sharkie Rallyo and Staggio are a bit like BB. Basically tick/catch with added fighting!
57.5 Degrees of Pain Jul 2018 11:35pm, 9 Jul 2018 3,949 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain Kerbie was a favourite around our street. Then the frisbee arrived and took over for a time. The worst DOMS I ever had (with the possible exception of my first marathon and first Comrades) was after a street Olympics. Long jump onto hard tarmac anyone?! We left skipping etc to the girls. Boys formed a line with arms round shoulders and walked around chanting 'who wants a game of Japs and Commandos, no girls!'. If you wanted in you joined one end of the line. I remember this better than the war games themselves.
57.5 Degrees of Pain Jul 2018 11:38pm, 9 Jul 2018 3,950 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain I discovered the other week that there are still Blue Peter Badges. I was doing school dental inspections and one of the 12 year olds was wearing one. My (nearly 50 year old) nurse and I were both impressed, neither of us knew anyone who got one as kids.
GregP Jul 2018 6:28am, 10 Jul 2018 104,335 posts	0 GregP British Bulldog. Which is, kinda, a spectator sport in India. I started a Fetch kabaddi thread once. It wasn’t a success. I’ve loved reading back on the last 30-odd posts. The only time I thought ‘what?!’ was Sharkle’s head-patting one.
GregP Jul 2018 10:18am, 10 Jul 2018 104,351 posts	0 GregP V'rap? And anyone else in bike touring for that matter? Can you do me a favour and have a look on Smell, sort of bottom of page 16749? I was trying to find one of the old bike threads to revive but gave up because it's basically just the Smell crowd and you anyway
steve45 Jul 2018 11:46am, 10 Jul 2018 2,674 posts	0 steve45 It seemed that that there were clear separations in respect of games for girls and games for boys although things like "mob" and "sardines" included both. There wasn't any nastiness or exclusion for either gender--it just seemed to happen and was accepted. No games were "better" but merely different and I don't recall any boy or girl wanting to fit into a different group. Rightly or wrongly. It was interesting at some stage when groups of us played "doctors and nurses" and the boys were tended by nurses in quite a risqué manner on occasion--I can't recall anyone ever being a "doctor" but the boys were generally the patients!
macca 53 Jul 2018 11:53am, 10 Jul 2018 26,722 posts	0 macca 53 Mrs macca was dragged up in Wythenshaw, Sharkie (but then went dead posh and moved to Sale); I’m a Bury boy but like most urban folk around here I guess, we spent hours playing around half-demolished slum clearance sites.
Sharkie Jul 2018 12:07pm, 10 Jul 2018 13,491 posts	0 Sharkie Tee hee re Sale, Macca. My Dad was from Wythenshaw, Mum from Middleton. I was brung up between Gorton and Hyde - or between Shameless and Life on Mars as I sometimes put it. Slum clearances were good play sites. Quite a few abandoned or run down factories and mills too. A few broken windows were an open invitation to add a few more. Not that I ever did. Obviously. We had fields too on the A57.
Columba Jul 2018 12:32pm, 10 Jul 2018 15,920 posts	0 Columba I could never do handstands, though several little girls could and did (dress tucked into knickers, as Sharkie said). Handstands were called tiss-ups.