Re: Who remembers what?

polksaladallie · ‎02-02-2014

@spotweldersfriend wrote:
I don't think they exist anywhere polls.We all used to play on them and sometimes fell off etc but for the life of me I can't think of anyone I know ever being seriously hurt.We did all sorts of silly things back then,but we all survived. Being a boy,you like that little bit of 'danger'. That's what makes it fun😊

They might exist somewhere if set into the ground. Younger children not fast enough got hurt, and small children got caught underneath and badly hurt.

boris1gary · ‎02-02-2014

i don't know how many hours we spent trying to see if we could push each other on the swings all the way over - never did manage it.

spotweldersfriend · ‎02-02-2014

I did four years of Latin,Boris.I wish we would have had Spanish at school.I would've done that instead.

spotweldersfriend · ‎02-02-2014

The laws of physics won't allow those swings to go all the way around,Boris.We tried it too.Later on at high school I used to go right around on the gym bars😊

boris1gary · ‎02-02-2014

only did 6 months i think, we had the scariest teacher of all - the only thing i can remember (apart from terrifying teacher) was "to work" which in Latin sounded like a swear word, so every time he made me say it I would start laughing, then he would want to know what was so funny and he spat a lot when he yelled in your face. It was a selective high school, which Dad reckoned selected a lot of idiots.

boris1gary · ‎02-02-2014

law of physics, why shatter one of my hopes and dreams.

lis351 · ‎02-02-2014

@polksaladallie wrote:
@spotweldersfriend wrote:
I don't think they exist anywhere polls.We all used to play on them and sometimes fell off etc but for the life of me I can't think of anyone I know ever being seriously hurt.We did all sorts of silly things back then,but we all survived. Being a boy,you like that little bit of 'danger'. That's what makes it fun😊
They might exist somewhere if set into the ground. Younger children not fast enough got hurt, and small children got caught underneath and badly hurt.

They still had them well into the '80s and early 90's. I dont remember when I noticed they had disappeared. Many bumps and bruises, but the thought of being caught underneath terrified me.

polksaladallie · ‎02-02-2014

School (primary) balls, the strict Methodists were not allowed to take part. Dancing was sinful! I wished I was one of them, because the boys had dirty clammy hands.

spotweldersfriend · ‎02-02-2014

Amo,amas,amat,amamus,amatis,amant😃

cherry*135 · ‎02-02-2014

icy... I remember the KFC ad, pretty popular back then, catchy tune.

boris - do you still live in W'gong. I live south of there.

We had a dukeboxes in the coffee lounge/ sit in & eat and/or takeway food places when i was at high school. From memory there were small units in each booth where you could make your song selection.

My Mum & siblings weren't allowed to attend dances as youths .. that was in the 1920-1930's though. No playing cards either!