Ok, so I turned 35 last week - no big deal .. another year older. Then I realised i've been a fully fledged member of the adult community for nearly more years than I was a child. Then I thought - why do I still feel like i'm 15?This then led my complicated brain process to move onto (after thinking about sex and doughnuts) what has happened to the innocent school children that we used to be like. I was on a bus to the station and it was populated with a dozen children aged between 12-16 all with their mobile phones, bling, and street talk (all I could hear was the occasional 'innit though', 'realize', 'bring it') and I thought - has everything changed this much?
Ok - onto the nostalgia now - in my day.. etc etc.. but it seems that they all seem so grown up. So that made me compile a mental list of things that me and my friends used to do and whether they still exist in playgrounds and classrooms of 2008. I'm not trying to make any big statement, and its really just a good excuse to be nostalgic again. Ok here goes..
1) Table football/rugby with a coin.
A simple game based on shove-happeny - where you move a coin accross a table and then spin it and try and get a goal through the other players fingers. Rugby or football depends on how they place their hands and whether you go over or under.
2) Gambling - Flipping coins for money, to paraphrase the immortal line 'wanna ten'. You choose heads or tails, winner takes the money. This led to many complex 'spinning' techniques were certain coins always fell heads up or tails up depending on how you spun it. At one time we thought it should be an olympic sport. Used to win and lose many lunch money, and led to my fruit machine fixation and subsequent cocaine and herion addiction.
3) Bundle - Needless and unecessary chance to jump on the smallest kid and then everyone else pile on top. Someone always ended up with a split lip, and teachers always stopped it before they got too violent. The point was there was no point - that was the pure fun of 'bundle'.
4) Viz/Spit - Getting excited every time the new viz came out and poring over every strip. There was a time when there were 2 or 3 other similar comics - not as funny - but still used to be read religiously. A clear memory is the first time I read jelly head crying with laughter on the bus.
There's plenty more - so please feel free to add any you can think of!
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