What Larks... the things we used to do.

[Parafox]

I'm fairly long in the tooth and I was reminiscing about my youth/childhood days and the things we would get up to.

Like putting coins or stones on the railway track to see if they got squashed

In th old days buses used to have open platforms at the back and we used to jump off whilst the bus was moving or hold the rail and run like F*** alongside then jump on.

Riding the conveyor belt at the gypsum works near our house. If you laid down you could go through the gap and into the factory.

Any others?

[Sam500]

I imagine this was pre health and safety

[Parafox]

I imagine this was pre health and safety

Oh yes... well before any welfare intrusion.

Also, we had a school dentist, used to strap us down by our wrists if he had to do any work.

[Sam500]

The youth of today get it so easy

[Guest Bilo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=a8JeiOfNMzM&feature=endscreen

[Webbo]

I remember playing chicken lying in the middle of the road, not at peak time obviously. On reflection it was f@cking stupid.

[Parafox]

in the days of salt in blue bags in crisp packets, i have been know to lick a discarded, open sachet of salt from the pavement.

[skinnydipper]

I'm fairly long in the tooth and I was reminiscing about my youth/childhood days and the things we would get up to.

Like putting coins or stones on the railway track to see if they got squashed

In th old days buses used to have open platforms at the back and we used to jump off whilst the bus was moving or hold the rail and run like F*** alongside then jump on.

Riding the conveyor belt at the gypsum works near our house. If you laid down you could go through the gap and into the factory.

Any others?

I jumped off a moving bus as it approached the stop. I was quite pleased with myself too until my momentum propelled me headfirst into the bus stop leaving me with a bloodied face. Think the passengers still on the bus found it quite entertaining though.

[Rincewind]

One for Ozleicester. Pull the legs off daddy long legs. Only occasionally though and it was a phase I went through. I never ate them so I was kind in that respect. May have done other stuff but overall I was pretty boring and behaved myself. Not like a normal teenager.

[rico]

Used to go garden-hopping down Uppingham Road,prob be shot at now for being on someones property

[Parafox]

Scrumping in Appletons orchard. Apples, pears, plums, damsons... great stuff, getting 5 a day was fun back then.

Walkers crips factory used to be just down the road from us, we used to go to the pig-bins and fill bags up with discarded crisp shrapnel. All flavours mixed in together... Only plain, cheese and onion and salt and vinegar then, I think.

[Webbo]

Scrumping in Appletons orchard. Apples, pears, plums, damsons... great stuff, getting 5 a day was fun back then.

Walkers crips factory used to be just down the road from us, we used to go to the pig-bins and fill bags up with discarded crisp shrapnel. All flavours mixed in together... Only plain, cheese and onion and salt and vinegar then, I think.

I had a mate who did that, I never had the nerve. They weren't much bigger than crumbs.

[I am Rod Hull]

Scrumping in Appletons orchard. Apples, pears, plums, damsons... great stuff, getting 5 a day was fun back then.

We used to go scrumping for chickens at a local farm

[Rincewind]

There used to be some sort of orchard Belgrave Boulivard area and got a few apples there.. Also I used to get train numbers somewhere near there from an embankment. Think it was Thurcaston Road.

[Parafox]

I had a mate who did that, I never had the nerve. They weren't much bigger than crumbs.

i know and you could stuff your mouth full of over-flavoured soggyness

[lavrentis]

Curbies was class, used to love playing 'raw arse'. Sounds so wrong that

[Rincewind]

Sounds like a public school activity.

[Parafox]

I know it's disgusting now but, drooling on people below from the upper tier in the cinema .

[Vacamion]

Lifting our bikes over the wall so we could go round Saffron Lane velodrome.

Chucking sticks up the trees in peoples gardens to get conkers to fall down.

Fishing with our hands to pull sticklebacks out of the water at the canal.

Rope swings on trees over the canal.

Playing knock-a-door, run.

Playing on, near and around railways.

Climbing trees and making tree dens near the top.

[Parafox]

Was just about to mention knock-door-run. Used to really piss-off the grumpy git down the road.

Some things were really stupid, looing back. Chucking bangers at each other (fireworks not sauasages)

As a teen I worked Saturdays in a bakery. We used to lock the shop idiot in the big freezer. And my mate pissed in a bucket of glace cherries.

[Parafox]

Climbing trees and making tree dens near the top.

Ahh, tree dens. We used to find planks or bits of wood to make some kind of structure. We also used to try to make tunnels under the field at the back by digging a trench and covering it with sticks the piling soil on top. It never really worked for some reason.

[Parafox]

And I've actually played chicken on the railway!!!

Trains were slower in the days of steam

[Rincewind]

or electric

[I am Rod Hull]

Used to love going birds nesting and amassed quite an impressive collection (of eggs, not nests), we`d be out all day searching woods, hedgerows and such.

Also used to take crow, magpie and jackdaw chicks from their nests and rear them, my brother had a tawny owl chick once, it sat on his wardrobe waiting for its new dad to shoot birds (dinner) on the back garden from out of his bedroom window. I did get upset once when a brother threw my magpie into his ferret pen, bastard

[TheSomersetFox]

One for Ozleicester. Pull the legs off daddy long legs. Only occasionally though and it was a phase I went through. I never ate them so I was kind in that respect. May have done other stuff but overall I was pretty boring and behaved myself. Not like a normal teenager.

Was?