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Odd title, but I want to know.
Work is boring today, my boss is now off on holiday until next year so I have little to do.
So I'm sitting there asking what I can do for anyone, and the other 2 PAs shrug. So I offer a suggestion, "Let's go outside and have adventures!" (we have about 5 acres of grounds where I work with forest and lake and stuff).
Well, apart from accepting that going out and having adventures would be excellent, someone said that they don't let their kid outside much to play, in case he gets snatched.
Now when I were a lad, me and my mates used to play out as often as possible as long as we were back before dark.
We used to play war in the forest or play in the stream and along the riverbank etc.
Does this still happen? Or do kids just stay in and play video-games now?
Why do I see small groups of them standing around outside local shops/garages at night?
Do they not have homes they can go to? Someone's house they can congregate in and plan break-ins?
Has the younger generation of today lost interest in "playing outside"? I remember there used to be up to 20-30 kids with guns and knives playing in the woods, but I just don't see that anymore.
Is it me?
Work is boring today, my boss is now off on holiday until next year so I have little to do.
So I'm sitting there asking what I can do for anyone, and the other 2 PAs shrug. So I offer a suggestion, "Let's go outside and have adventures!" (we have about 5 acres of grounds where I work with forest and lake and stuff).
Well, apart from accepting that going out and having adventures would be excellent, someone said that they don't let their kid outside much to play, in case he gets snatched.
Now when I were a lad, me and my mates used to play out as often as possible as long as we were back before dark.
We used to play war in the forest or play in the stream and along the riverbank etc.
Does this still happen? Or do kids just stay in and play video-games now?
Why do I see small groups of them standing around outside local shops/garages at night?
Do they not have homes they can go to? Someone's house they can congregate in and plan break-ins?
Has the younger generation of today lost interest in "playing outside"? I remember there used to be up to 20-30 kids with guns and knives playing in the woods, but I just don't see that anymore.
Is it me?
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Firebalt wrote:
Height: 5ft 1
Weight:
> 5.5 stone (77 lbs)
Shoe Size: 4
Whoa!
Im.
5'6
9 Stone
Shoe Size 9
Mwuah :o)
Height: 5ft 1
Weight:
> 5.5 stone (77 lbs)
Shoe Size: 4
Whoa!
Im.
5'6
9 Stone
Shoe Size 9
Mwuah :o)
I do sort of go outside to entertain myself and my friends, but wouldn't call it "play outside". More like, "go out, get drunk and fall over", or "go out and watch a movie."
Grix Thraves wrote:
Only
> kidding, I was as skinny as anything too when I was your age... probably
> skinnier actually.
You said yuo were ill a lot when you were young. That's why you can't rmember much of your childhood or something?
Only
> kidding, I was as skinny as anything too when I was your age... probably
> skinnier actually.
You said yuo were ill a lot when you were young. That's why you can't rmember much of your childhood or something?
Don't play outside anymore. Used to, but lost interest as soon as I got to secondery school, because all of my new mates live miles away.
As for the 'kids hanging about at night thing' - I think that's something to do with secondery school being so goddam tireing (don't laugh). You can't be bothered to go out at 4pm, you're too knackered. So you go out at night.
As for the 'kids hanging about at night thing' - I think that's something to do with secondery school being so goddam tireing (don't laugh). You can't be bothered to go out at 4pm, you're too knackered. So you go out at night.
RastaBillySkank wrote:
"ME? A person so light that my friends can use me as a battering ram?"
YOU? You'd snap as you hit the door. :0D
Only kidding, I was as skinny as anything too when I was your age... probably skinnier actually.
"ME? A person so light that my friends can use me as a battering ram?"
YOU? You'd snap as you hit the door. :0D
Only kidding, I was as skinny as anything too when I was your age... probably skinnier actually.
I am 4.9 stone!
And i am 12-coming on 13
The 28th of this month ma birthday!
And i am 12-coming on 13
The 28th of this month ma birthday!
ME a fat jabba?
ME? The person who is Ketonic?
ME? The person who is so thin if he turns sideways you can't see him
ME? A person so light that my friends can use me as a battering ram?
ME?!
ME? The person who is Ketonic?
ME? The person who is so thin if he turns sideways you can't see him
ME? A person so light that my friends can use me as a battering ram?
ME?!
Grix Thraves wrote:
> We have a term in Pembrokeshire, called Fat Jabba. It's a result of Return of
> the Jedi and rather obese English teacher.
You, my dear Rasta, are a Fat
> Jabba. :0)
We also have that term in Cambridgshire. But it's the result of my Star Wars fanaticism, the poem "The Jabber-Wockey" and my rudeness to my teacher. :-)
> We have a term in Pembrokeshire, called Fat Jabba. It's a result of Return of
> the Jedi and rather obese English teacher.
You, my dear Rasta, are a Fat
> Jabba. :0)
We also have that term in Cambridgshire. But it's the result of my Star Wars fanaticism, the poem "The Jabber-Wockey" and my rudeness to my teacher. :-)
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