Childhood passtimes…
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- ********0
My friend tags spent a summer living in his garage stealing milk from the milkman and then pissing in the bottles, dirty fucker had a whole collection of piss bottles filled to varying degrees, it was like some weird pagan calender.
- courtesyflush0
crawling down long narrow underground pipe
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pyromania was big on our agenda. We ended that one after we made the national dailies and I'm still scared of admitting that on a public forum in any great detail.
- ********0
My favourite pyromania punchline after setting a hedge on fire was "WOAH – She's gone up like a hedge on fire!!"
- simply switch 'hedge' for whatever you were alighting - easy!********
- LOLHorp
- simply switch 'hedge' for whatever you were alighting - easy!
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Also used to break into the MOD land near where we lived to go mountain biking and hang out. Again, never got caught, but nearly got squashed by a tank.
Used to find smoke grenades and bullets and things like that. Non of which we could ever make 'go off' but we gave it a damn good try.
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I also had lots of guinea pigs that would roam free in our garden all summer. My sister and I would keep a log book of their offspring, over two summers I believe they totalled 88 guinea pigs.
randy buggers!
We were the neighborhood GP suppliers
- e-pill0
Roman Candle Battles!!! get a bunch of kids with fireworks and bad aim and you have a very fun filled day!!!
- raf0
We would tediously fill used up .22 shells with match sulfur, seal the end with pliers toothpaste tube-like, put it in a small bonfire, hide in a bush, wait for the splosion.
I remember once a friend got up to fix the fire because "nothing was happening" and it went off. Nothing happened to him, he was lucky he didn't get up a few seconds earlier as he'd get the splosion in his face..
It was all in a park, we had no "what if someone walked by" scenario.
- ********0
My parents once spent quite a sum of money fumigating the house against an onset of woodworm.
Now let's keep this quiet but, what if.. what if it just happened not to be woodworm afterall but some bored lad throwing darts at the skirting board and furniture?
hypothetically of course!
- Raniator0
does trying to hide the smell of cigarettes from my parents count as a passtime?
- cresp0
A good dollop of Vick's VapoRub or Olbas Oil under the eyes would reduce you to a red faced teary giddy mess, and you could barely open your eyes.
Our teacher once came into the classroom to find 15 of us laughing and crying hysterically with tears streaming down out faces. She didn't know what to do. Must have been a bit creepy.
- Horp0
Simple pleasure...
Did anyone ever play squares? You designate a smallish play area and kick a football. You can only touch the football once and then someone else has to touch it. It was half about keeping the ball into play as a team, but half about trying to put someone in a position of letting the ball out of the area or accidentally kicking it twice. The pack would turn on one person and get them out, then someone else would be picked until there were only two left.
There was also a game on bikes where you'd designate a fairly tight area of play and everyone would ride their bikes round but you couldn't use brakes, put your feet down or make contact with anyone else. The last one riding was the winner.
I'd give my right arm for a nice game of either of those right now.
- they sound remarkably shit in written form, here in 2009 though.Horp
- yes both of those games!********
- we called it four-square in texasscarabin_net
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we once threw our skateboards off this big viaduct onto the grass, we said to our docile friend Terry that he should wait til we went down and then throw his board down to us so we could watch, which he did. While he was making the 10 minute walk down the tracks and around, we smashed the living shit out of the nose of his board and told him it hit the pavement.
well... it was funny at the time. I think.
- e-pill0
we used to fill up plastic garbage cans half way with coloured water and pull it to the middle of a street light a long wick M-80 or Pineapple in close the lid and run like hell!!! the explosion was so amazing!!! colour everywhere in seconds so cool!!!
:)
- kelpie0
setting fire to plastic bags and flicking them about so the molten plastic flew off and made a star wars esque noise, which was irresistibly cool untill one of your friend's got a dollop of the stuff on his hand and it melted in and he had to walk around for 1 year with a burns gauze wrapping his lower arm
- HAHAHAH YES!!!!Horp
- this is why kids aren't allowed outside anymore. that and the peadoskelpie
- lol, we called those zip-zappers because of the noise, fertilizer bags were the best!********
- admittedly, it's a shit name.********
- ah yesMal
- I prolly still have a burn on my right shin from those. Covered by hair, so dunno.raf
- ********0
Boff Bombs were another good invention.
We would empty the highly flammable innards out of old cushions and stuff it into small plantpots and then douse it in petrol or lighter fluid, set fire to them and then kick them off cliffs, when you kicked it they would make an amazing "BOFFFFF" noise, hence the name.
- there's a whole makeshift arsenal in this thread, if only the kids of today had any gumptionkelpie
- Horp0
^ Kelpie you just reminded me of another classic.... fill a Lyle's Golden Syrup tin up with wax from melted candles, combined with any flammable solutions from the garage, then stick it up the garden and shoot at it with an air rifle once it gets to a point of being insanely, explosively hot. Each time a pellet struck the tin it sent a streak of molten hot liquid up into the air with a really mad screaming noise.
had to be golden syrup though. Drinks cans wouldn't do it because the pellets would penetrate and everyhting would leak out.
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Also, your Dads collection of the Who records would make good downhill transport if the tarmac was smooth enough and the hill steep enough.
- Mal0
lighting fires
faking sickness to get off school
climbing rocks/trees
scaring my sisters shitless at every opportunity
dog turd in burning paper bag
