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Yep, just off to buy some darts 🙂
Watch the film Grown Ups - they used bows and arrows
The other one was widening the gas hole in a lighter so it could create a 1 foot long jet.
Only a foot. Try this one
Bottle of butane gas(for lighters)
Melt a small hole in the plastic lid so it fits over the nozzle. You press down the entire lid to let the gas out. Obviously the open side out.
Ignite.
3'+ jet of flame
To stop it you pull the lid away, this basically takes the flame away from the nozzle and extinguishes it.
At least 1 broken leg from slides in the playground.
Remember spiderweb roundabouts? We had one exactly like this next to school:
Put a couple of kids standing through the centre spokes acting as the 'engine' and you could get it up to hellish speeds. We used to hang on like Ripley in the airlock at the end of Aliens. Until the inevitable happened and one kid fell through it. That was a badly broken leg.
There used to be a good one of these in Keswick's Fitz Park, with a nice soft concrete landing waiting for you IIRC. Handily close to the cottage hospital.
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You can bet your arse this will be some tiktok craze
Yeah it might be as well, but I do remember kids in my junior school doing this in the early 80s, and also putting their heads down below their knees for a bit and standing up quickly to make themselves pass out.
I believe it was in Yr9 that my class' form room became a lab in the, then, new block. And I'm not even talking about the japes in the lab. The corridor where we queued to get in had no windows. Most mornings one of us would flick off the lights and yell, "BUNDLE", just before the teacher came. In the few seconds it took her to find the light switch it was utter carnage and, as the scene was illuminated, most of the class was on the floor in various contorted positions, with only one or two nerds still standing, like butter wouldn't melt etc. Glorious. Same corridor used for 'running the gauntlet' obviously.
Variation on the theme, the school nurse's office was in another building, and also had a very narrow corridor.... I can't remember how old we were when we got BCG jabs but, in brief, each injectee would have to exit the office and get out of the building, whilst trying to avoid punches on the jab spot. Many bloody shirt sleeves next lesson. Much fun was had by all. Especially me, as I had my BCG when I was very young as we lived overseas.
Boys only grammar school, of course 😆
So, a young girl in Philadelphia has died from this tik tok 'Blackout challenge', and it seems that tik tok were pushing this in their algorithms. I'm not going to post a link as I just read the headline on my Google news feed, but it was from the DM if anyone wants to look it up.
R4 had a brilliant article a while back called "Girl Stuck in Basketball Hoop" by Ian Smith. Bloody brilliant listen
Basically saying teens do dumb stuff, some get away with it, some dont. Sometimes I went through a thought process and decided against it, sometimes I went for it. I should be dead really, the stuff I did in cars and on motorbikes is madness. TBH mountain bikes and riding fast on road bikes still does this for me at 55 years old
Here is a bit of it that might explain
So, a young girl in Philadelphia has died from this tik tok ‘Blackout challenge’, and it seems that tik tok were pushing this in their algorithms.
I've just read an article about that and it's horrible. She's not the only child to die from this either.
Like social media in general, there's a lot of good being done out there, but with little or no regulation on shit like this, one does worry for kids (especially) who can be bombarded with this stuff so much more readily than all the word of mouth we encountered in our day.
Sad times.
Not sure it’s all social medias fault… although it does make such crazes spread quicker
I recall a school I went (very early 70s ) to had a phase of kids “wearing “ plastic bags over their heads till they “ nearly passed out”, on more than 1 occasion it was a good job they had slightly more sensible pals who poked holes just in time.
No fatalities I’m aware of but only by pure luck
My belief has been somewhat beggared!
Given what I have seen this year at school this does not surprise me in the slightest.
i remember similar in the late 70's at school. i guess before my generation they had a war to fight/or endure, then we got let loose in Spitfires and Hurricane's in our teens
It's not just the kids at school.... true story... @Singletrack Mark was once a teacher.... and he somehow managed to set fire to or explode the school... I can't recall how. It's his birthday this weekend. But he may be along to defend himself.
Kid at my school died when he over turned the JCB he was joyriding. This was the early 90s.
Just wait until you hear what Year 10-11 get up to.
Kids have been doing ridiculously dumb things forever. This is nothing new and when I think of some of the stunningly stupid stuff my friends and I did I do wonder how none of us were seriously injured, maimed or killed.
I remember in Science soaking giant wads of cotton wool in alcohol then setting light to them and jumping on them. It would spit fire everywhere setting light to trousers stools, walls etc.. I still can't believe the teacher didn't notice - maybe he did and just didn't care.
A friend set light to a whole magnesium ribbon - it was like a new sun forming in the corner of the room and burnt a pit into the wooden desk. Our teacher, not the same one, tried to put it out with a fire extinguisher. He ended up chasing flaming metal around the room burning the floor everywhere.
edit - They actually trusted us with large quantities of flammable substances back in the 90s. Ha ha!
My mate's Chemistry class for some reason had a sulphuric acid fight. Lots of burnt Flying Jackets
We used to play some game where you hyperventilated then held your breath and everyone pushed on your chest until you passed out. It was cool.
we had the same thing - crashouts - also "banned" pretty quickly
A mate of mine had it at his school, one lad apparnetly properly collapsed and they "had to" CPR him and get an ambulance. I think my mate got into the local paper as a hero for saving a kid who inexplicably collapsed 🤣
I remember in Science soaking giant wads of cotton wool in alcohol then setting light to them and jumping on them. It would spit fire everywhere setting light to trousers stools, walls etc.. I still can’t believe the teacher didn’t notice – maybe he did and just didn’t care.
A friend set light to a whole magnesium ribbon – it was like a new sun forming in the corner of the room and burnt a pit into the wooden desk. Our teacher, not the same one, tried to put it out with a fire extinguisher. He ended up chasing flaming metal around the room burning the floor everywhere.
edit – They actually trusted us with large quantities of flammable substances back in the 90s. Ha ha!
My dad talks with glee about being in a science lesson (late 50s early 60s) scence teacher doing something on the bunsen burner and he decided to open another tap and blow hard down it. I guess there wasn't no return valves or something but he claims the teacher got "a bit" of a surprise.
Yep
Middle class vomp in the 80s.
Pretty much all of the above. Plus some memorable specials. Nearly killed the head of English with a rubber glove with 3 or 4 kgs of water in, launched from 3rd floor window
Radiator removed from wall ad it was a snowy day and we all wanted out, no heating meant no school
Someone went through a window.
Police involvement aftet a few ambitious incendiary experiments.
Removing the roof tiles off the gym to make death stars which were randomly launched at head height across the playground and feild.
Ligher fuel butane inhaling till ypu conk out
Peace pipe of camabis. See above.
Setting of fire alarm when the local mp was doing some awards thing.
School fights armed with rocket launched fireworks, knives. Chains, baseball bats.
Filling the sinks with gas from the bunsen burner
Connect the bunsen burners to the watet mains
Pull off the bunsen burner rubber hoses, set fire to the twin taps then sit between with 2 jets roaring past your ears. Ian werner aka sinjin.
Some inventive use of air pistols
Sure there were worse things that i forgot.
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Connect the bunsen burners to the watet mains
My dad told me about that one on my first day in Y7 so that can definitely be chalked up to the parents.
My youngest collapsed at school recently - and got taken to hospital.
He'd got cold outside while building a snow sculpture and then fainted when coming into a warm building.
The sculpture was a large cock and balls.
WHile unconscious he missed the tannoy announcement about this behaviour not being acceptable, letting the school down etc
Was hoping we'd get summoned for a visit with the head - and I could then say I'd have been disappointed if he hadn't created such a sculpture.
Adults need to chill.
Funny how often chemistry crops up 😁 In one of my classes, one kid poured conc nitric into another kids blazer pocket… But teachers weren’t immune from risky stuff either - one demonstration of the explosive power of acetylene ended up with a child with Perspex (from the protective screen) embedded in his forehead. The teacher was ok though, as he was at the back of the classroom with everyone else.
Actually on a more negative note, many students starting at university these days have had little or no experience of practical chemistry at school.
A friend set light to a whole magnesium ribbon – it was like a new sun forming in the corner of the room and burnt a pit into the wooden desk. Our teacher, not the same one, tried to put it out with a fire extinguisher. He ended up chasing flaming metal around the room burning the floor everywhere.
🤣🤣🤣
A late contender for post of the week.
We also had the sugar/nitrate mixture craze. Made small daft explosives til one kid on bonfire night filled a paint tin, tried to hammer a nail through the lid to put a firework fuse in it and it went off. Took off his hand and a bit of his forearm.
The kids are fine. its adults you gotta watch for. You know, starting wars, invading countries, killing people, etc, etc, etc
On the subject of fireworks, some of the braver youths would light a rocket in a concrete walled car park and watch it bounced around until exploding. Luckily one never exited down the ramp in to the shops/ houses below.
Our school took a percentage of its intake from central London where it was located until the 70's until moving out to the burbs. Some of the kids could be somewhat challenging. A favourite was to dismantle the carriage of the train and jettison it out of the windows by the time they got back to the Smoke.
And I'm in no place to criticise as my early teens were spent pissing about on the railway. Met up with some of my old mates recently and all spoke with relief that we made it in one piece.
A schoolfriend died after being strangled on a washing line and the suggestion was that was done to auto asphyxia games.
My dad used to get the train to school in the nearest town during the late 50s and 60s. They would take plates from the station cafe and frisbee them out of the windows as they crossed the viaduct into town. 😃
As others have commented you would get arrested and an ASBO for that today.
Forgot about messing about on train tracks. We had the windy tunnels. Basically a small gap in the middle of a tunnel between two lines. We’d stand in it and when trains came passed you’d have to hang on for life as you got buffeted about. Jesus! Even typing it I’m thinking WTF were we doing 😳
The sculpture was a large cock and balls.
pretty much every year group does this when we use playdoh in class (secondary biology). I mean I still make them at the beach.
The kids are fine. its adults you gotta watch for. You know, starting wars, invading countries, killing people, etc, etc, etc
they’re the ones who didn’t get it out of their system at school..
We used to do that, the OP that is. Bend over, hyper ventilate then stand up against a wall and someone would grip your neck till you passed out. Did it once, after coming to it was like getting a headrush when you're all fuzzy and your tongue goes tingly but lasted the rest of the day, was horrible. Next time I felt like that I'd swan dived about 2m onto my head at a BMX park.
Yes it was bloody stupid and I'm pretty sure someone banged their head doing it and that was the end of it. We weren't so stupid as to do it at the top of some stairs though.