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Felonious Crud

Felonious Crud

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philw696 said:
Just Brilliant Adam.
Your Wit is so sharp mind you don't cut yourself :)
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I'm just nervous that Dave will be telling us about the 'vests' they were taught to make at school, Phil. He has expressed a few strongly held views about the UK's place in the EU, and I'd hate SM to be harbouring a disaffected young man who feels alienated and ignored by society. Should we report him? We have the reputation of the forum to think about. 'A nest of radicals' is not the tagline I'd like to see on Forum merchandise and branding at events.
 
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Felonious Crud said:
I'm just nervous that Dave will be telling us about the 'vests' they were taught to make at school, Phil. He has expressed a few strongly held views about the UK's place in the EU, and I'd hate SM to be harbouring a disaffected young man who feels alienated and ignored by society. Should we report him? We have the reputation of the forum to think about. 'A nest of radicals' is not the tagline I'd like to see on Forum merchandise and branding at events.
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Dave "young" you obviously have never met him
 
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zagatoes30 said:
Our other favourite game was tick (or tag) on he Manchester Ship Canal locks at Latchford. This game entailed about 20 kids racing around a working lock, running across the piers and lock gates avoiding the lock operators, jumping over the capstans, ropes etc. There was one point where we had to jump a gap of about 8-10ft to shortcut the main route.

Recently I took my kids down to these locks to show them where we played and realised a few things

  1. The lock gates themselves are only about 18" wide and only have chain railings (in the middle there are no railings),
  2. The drop on these locks is about 30ft, so one end the canal was at pier level and at the other there is a 30 ft drop )no railings and
  3. the short cut was at the 30 ft drop end, so we were jumping across a 30ft chasm made worse by this being in a sheltered area which, when we visited, was wet and covered in oily greasy mud.
I walked around this playground and thought how the **** did none of us die.
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Almost as mad.....I remember me and some of my mates used to regularly play 'chicken' on the main London to Sheffield railway line, running across 8 tracks and dodging the trains. Think I was about 11 years old then.Thankfully it was in the days before electrification. We also found out that if you put your ear to the rail, you could hear the train coming before you could see it!!..Nuts.....
 
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Anyone else recall what their Careers Teachers suggested as your vocation.

A job at Rists Wires part of the Lucas group... stuff that!

Went into Law enforcement and ended up as a Senior Manger working in the ministerial team in Justice.

There was zero encouragement in the nort in those days to go onto further education. I had trouble with spelling but regularly came first in the school at science, but was refused permission to O-levels due ro the punitive marking for spelling errors; Got top marks in my CSEs and non grammar Os... often think given the opportunity where could I have got??
 
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Silvercat said:
Almost as mad.....I remember me and some of my mates used to regularly play 'chicken' on the main London to Sheffield railway line, running across 8 tracks and dodging the trains. Think I was about 11 years old then.Thankfully it was in the days before electrification. We also found out that if you put your ear to the rail, you could hear the train coming before you could see it!!..Nuts.....
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Did the same thing. On the Liverpool Street to Southend line.
Also put stones on the tracks to see how far they could be 'shot' by a train running them over. Although apparently they could derail I train! :oops:

We also played a game call 'mud fight' which involved two teams chucking mud (as the name suggests) and stones at each other under a bridge with a river separating us, with only the pillars as protection. When the game was 4-8 a side you did well not to be hit.
I got one kid right under the eye with a stone one day, and inch higher and he would have lost his sight. The next day I hit the same kid on the other cheek and sliced it open! :oops:

Other health and safety classics were being towed by either cars or motorbikes whilst on our skates. According to one mate he said his dad towed about 6 of us on the back of his XR4x4i at 40 mph! Think a few of us might have been dead had one of us touched skates!
I remember having a tyre burn up my calf and inner thigh for about 6 months from a similar incident whilst being towed by a motorbike, but he had to brake heavily and my left leg touched the rear tyre! I can still remember the scab!

Kids these days just don't know what they're missing! :oops::rolleyes::as003::rofl5:
 
midlifecrisis

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GeoffCapes said:
Did the same thing. On the Liverpool Street to Southend line.
Also put stones on the tracks to see how far they could be 'shot' by a train running them over. Although apparently they could derail I train! :oops:

We also played a game call 'mud fight' which involved two teams chucking mud (as the name suggests) and stones at each other under a bridge with a river separating us, with only the pillars as protection. When the game was 4-8 a side you did well not to be hit.
I got one kid right under the eye with a stone one day, and inch higher and he would have lost his sight. The next day I hit the same kid on the other cheek and sliced it open! :oops:
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You weren't in Davyhulme in 1979 were you. Hence my scar under my left eye...
 
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