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What do children in your neighborhood play with on the street? What are the game trends at the moment? or is it all football and nothing else?

hoola hoop answers please

― erik, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm on New Answers patrol today. (Sorry.)

― Christine "Green Leafy" Indigo, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They just chase the dragon. I really wish I was being sarcastic. The council built a kind of quasi bus-shelter thing at the bottom of our street, ostensibly so kids had somewhere to go if it was raining, but it's now just become a scene from a crap Britlit novel.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yesterday on Gray's Inn Road there were three kids aged 12 or so standing at the lights. Every time a post van came by one of them rushed towards the driver brandishing a big stick. This obviously amused them greatly. I didn't find it funny.

― Richard Jones, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

After the England-Denmark match the other day I heard the kids outside saying "I wanna be Heskey!" and having a scrap about it. Otherwise, it's just mindless graffiti ("Don't drink and drive - smoke spliff and fly") or throwing each other's toys in the wheelie bins.

― Madeleine, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A hoop and a stick.

― Tom, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kids down our way have endless fun knocking over wheelie bins, they slam them down so hard there's no lids on any of the bins on our street. It stinks in many ways.
Other than that, they smash up this weeks selection of abandoned cars or just hit everything with sticks.
There's a floodlit basketball/football pitch at the end of the road but funnily enough no-one ever plays in that.

― Simeon, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

According to our local takeaways the kids on our council estate spend their time knocking over pizza delivery mopeds. This is patently untrue. They are in fact rather lovely & run around playing footie / squirting each other with water pistols etc. The kids on our landing have an annoying tendency to pedal their tricycles up & down when I am laden with shopping but it's not really that bad. Last week a bunch of them knocked on our door in the evening and asked for empty match boxes, I didn't have any (unsurprisingly) but still cannot figure out what they were going to do with them. Suggestions so far include: make a Sindy chest of drawers; new & innovative form of crack pipe.

― Emma, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The traffic

The kids on our landing have an annoying tendency to pedal their tricycles up & down

Well what use would they have with matches when clearly their daddy is the god of hellfire? (obviously they need empty packets to stop anyone becoming suspicious).

― Graham, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In our horribly hypersexualised environment (which still shows signs of worsening) I am worried about this thread attracting the wrong kind of Googlers.

― N., Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Re: N.

Are you refering to the title? Yes, I can understand a little bit of your concern, but on the other hand it becomes nearly impossible to write about children if you put everything in a hypersexualised context. Hypersexual googlers'll soon find out there are no dirty pictures to find here.

In the future I will have more consideration. I was actually refering to the title of the brilliant book about the history of children- games by Mr. and Mrs. Opie. (they also wrote a book about nursery rhyms which I would like to read, but have not been able find)

― erik, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i found my little solider suckin my vibrator, it was covered in my discharge, poor kid!

― gerard garfunkile, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i found my son looking and carrying out some obscene gestures, whilst reading a porn magazine retreived from our local library, totally appauling

― ash, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i learnt everything i knew as a child by reading mum and dad's copy of THE LORE AND LANGUAGE OF SCHOOLCHILDREN by Iona and Peter Opie: viz

Old Mrs Kelly
Had a pimple on her belly
And when you pressed it
Out popped jelly!!!!

― mark s, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

google to thread!

― erik, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

their daddy is the god of hellfire?
???? Does Arthur Brown live in the same house as Emma?

― MarkH, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah I was confused about this too.

― Emma, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[Damien, MarkH]

― Graham, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In the popular film The Omem, Damien, child of The Devil, spends much of his free time pedaling up and down the landings of his adoptive parents house.

DO YOU SEE?????

― Graham, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Michael Rosen to thread...

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The kidz on my street sit on the bench at the end of my road drinking Stella. Sometimes they sit on the bench at the station. They always laugh at me when I walk past because haha I look a bit gay haha (though, secretly, I laugh at them because they spend their nights sitting on benches)

― jamesmichaelward, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yo yos were very popular in Brooklyn about three years ago to the point where local bodegas and delis tried to attract young spenders with hand-lettered signs along the lines of "We Have Yo Yo"

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Currently however hopscotch is still going strong after 50 some years; basketball is popular of course, even with no net; running and chasing each other seems to be quite fun and requires no special chalk or equipment. The older kids in Brooklyn play cee-lo, the dice game.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only kid I've seen around here doing anything was asking for a fag. I never kids much around here, and certainly not with things.

Oh, except mobile phones.

― Graham, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The kids in my neighborhood just eat paint chips.

― Mandee, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The boys and girls in my neighborhod play basketball around the ubiquitous garage-mounted backboard/hoop assemblies and skateboard wearing crash helmets.

Walking through the Lincoln Park neighborhood yesterday, I was impressed by the popularity of sidewalk chalk. My favorite: "WELCOME HOME MOMMM"

― felicity, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Better for Brooklyn: "We have yo yo, yo."

― nabisco%%, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

kids in Dunedin just have skateboards. I don't like those kids, they're rough and scary.

but in some sort of related event, please may I tell you that I recently held a baby and I let him chew my mobile phone and the quantities of drool he produced were positively spectacular! He also played with my hair and cooed and smiled at me.

― rainy, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aw, worra sweetheart. :-) Babies do definitely have their virtues.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really really want to have a baby. But I need to find some co- parents though I want to be "primary" parent - and I guess one of them will have to contribute sperm (and no that does not mean we have to have sexual intercourse). Yeah. Just thought I'd do some advertising for a prospective parent/mother/father and come across really really normal. What do they play with in my neighbourhood? well it wasn't in the street but just before in a shop a little kid was racing around roaring, with a glow-in-the-dark face mask on. And I went to a high(er)-brow toy shop (lots of nature/biology and otherwise educational and/or extremely trippy things) - I really wanted this white ball that claimed it would light up after you held it in your hand for a while and speak to you in a "scry" (sic) voice from outer space.

― haloist, Friday, 21 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a glow-in-the-dark SKULLFACE mask, that is.

― haloist, Friday, 21 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The only thing I ever see the neighborhood kid do outside is ride his bike.

― Christine "Green Leafy" Indigo, Friday, 21 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

on W. 17th Street two little boys just bicycled by and one was talking into what looked like a totally pretend play-walkie-talkie: "Yo! I need backup!"

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Back in spring I came across two very young children playing with a long-dead squirrel. As no one was supervising, I had to approach as non-threateningly as possible and say: "Excuse me, kids, but OH JESUS GOOD GOD STOP PLAYING WITH THAT AND DON'T PUT YOUR HANDS ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR MOUTH, EARS, OR EYES UNTIL YOU'VE DIPPED THEM IN BLEACH."

Actually what wound up happening was that their mother saw me walking up to talk to them, freaked out, ran over to see what sort of dangerous pervert I was, and then saw the squirrel, which was far more squished and maggotty than I will be for hopefully 50 more years.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

nitsuh you forgot to italicize 'dead' for additional effect

― simon trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Come on, most of the boys I knew growing up thought squished and maggotty="Cool!"

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

What, no jesus helping little kidds play with dead squirrels?

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

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