strange things we did when we were kids

[stonerblue]

I used to go everywhere with my eyes shut as practice for when i went blind.

Quality. Just spat me tea out.

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You joined bluemoon on my birthday

Also did a lot of leading

 

[steviemc]

Used to pretend me and my mate were CHiPs (american cops not fried potatoes) on our Grifter bikes. Arresting kids in the park for wearing Adidas one stripe too many.

Throwing aerosol canisters in the bonfire, then hiding behind an unsuspecting person in case it exploded in my direction.

Smoking dimps in the house while mum n dad were out, then spraying the dog with a full can of flea spray and making him run around the house to mask the smell. Still got caught :(

 

[burning blue soul]

GENERALLY,

1. play on train lines. leave 2p pieces on the line and have the train flatten them.
2. stand next to the traffic lights and stand on the pressure points so the lights changed to red, just to piss the drivers off.
3. play on the thin ice on the boating lake, the nearest to the island in the middle wins (the trick was to lie flat on it and spread your weight x shaped).
4. play on the polystyrene floats on a farmers pond - playing battleships.
5. climb up and rock face or tree that could potentially kill me.
6. bunk off and get on a train somewhere without paying.
7. garden creeping - my record is 150 houses over 5 streets.

 

[Blue Til Death]

Wag school and get the 192 to Manchester and buy a bag of broken biscuits from the Arndale Centre... Fuck we were rebels without a cause in them days

 

[BlueSniffer]

You don't see kids playing kerby anymore - we used to play kerby until it went dark when we were kids. Double points if you manged to catch the ball on the rebound! Happy days.

We used to go searching the park for the glass pop bottles thrown in the bushes - you'd get 5p for returning them to the shop which would then be spent on penny sweets.

 

[steviemc]

Clearing snow for money. We'd clear a pathway at the bottom of 12 storey flats for the pensioners. They would throw coins down from the higher floors, but we didn't make much money as it always ended up lost in the piles of snow.

Making a stall outside the house and selling crap for 5p. I remember my sister making some kind of piss-water perfume out of petals and water, which seemed to be a hot-seller.

 

[kinkladz-ade]

We used to play a game where one person breathes in and out really fast for 30secs then suddenly holds his breath while 4 of us push on his chest. The person holding their breath would faint coz their heart would momentarily stop.
They would be passed out for a few minutes.

Thinking back now we must have been crazy to do that.
It all stopped when some kids in another class were doing it and didnt catch the kid who fell and cracked his head open.

 

[BlueBearBoots]

Reading through this thread I'm nodding my head and smiling at the memories, but bloody hell it's wonder some of us are still alive! Today's kids are so wrapped in cottonwool their lives must be so dull! What are they gonna tell their kids when talking about their childhood? - something along the lines of "I stayed in and played on my xbox every night, it was fun"

 

[LongLang]

All of this lol. Used to love lighting fires, old houses, piles of rubbish, peoples garden hedges... That was 'tight'. Nicking the sand bags out of traffic cones too, used to rip holes in them and just pour sand out everywhere. I have no idea why. I remember my mates little brother used to love frosty weather, he'd boil kettle after kettle to pour outside and watch from the bedroom window for ages as folk went arse over tit on the patches of ice he had created.

Why did he use boiling water? Why not just make the ice with cold water?

Hot water freezes faster, it's the Mpemba effect.

I thought the mpemba effect was not strictly scientific gospel on account of nobody being able to suitably replicate it. A natural phenomenon if you will.
Hot/warm water only freezes faster in some conditions.

I believe that hot water is used as it freezes clearer than cold water, thus being more difficult to spot for the future recipient of the sore arse.

 

[andy h]

I once made a Howitzer out of a wheel barrow using 321 zero bangers as the charge and batteries as the projectiles.Totally destroyed our neighbours fence with it.
Made a parachute out of bed sheets and washing line one day and climbed onto the roof.Jumped of,landed and twisted my ankle while the parachute remained on the roof.
Killed my mates dads Koi carp by making a depth charge and dropping it into his pond.
Laid claim to making the world first Scud missile in Sale and launching it across the canal and railway line.Buggered off pretty sharpish when it landed in the garden of a terraced house though.

A mate and I found a tv dumped on some waste ground. After scavenging the tube out of it we hid it away. Couple of days later, we filtched some magnesium ribbon from the science lab. On the way home from school, we retrieved the tv tube, wrapped the magnesium ribbon around it. We made a small fire inside a concrete pipe and laid the tv tube/ribbon combo on top and retreated to await the result. Not long after, the tube exploded and made hell of a bang. Split the concrete pipe open too. Strangely satisfying but scary as fuck.