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- tibubill, on 10/12/2007, -5/+112One of the games we played in grade school was (sadly) named "smear the queer," where we'd run around and tackle the "queer" with the ball. Of course, if you asked me when I was in fourth grade, I would have told you that a queer was a person with a funny hat. Damn you, society, for forcing your homophobia on me! *shaking fist*
- cblalock, on 10/12/2007, -2/+50The queer in smear the queer isn't a crack on anyone's sexuality.
Queer means different. The one who is different in the game is the one who has the ball, hence he/she is the queer and as thus, must be smeared. - toMatto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45I'm still in shock about the ruling. Getting rid of tag is like slowly killing the kids. You might as well ban fun in it's entirety because you've ***** up their childhood.
- bightchee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42I have gotten funny looks these days when telling people that I used to play "smear the queer" when I was young. It almost made me feel like I was making it up. Thanks for confirming I'm not crazy.
- xtmno3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44They might as well ban running because you may fall down.
Or they could ban swings because you can fall off.
Or ban books because of paper cuts.
There is a reason children heal fast. This may not be the sole purpose for it, but it is a damned good use of that ability. - Cputerace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40My wife is a school teacher, here is her take on the whole thing.
Teachers agree with you that this is a stupid thing, however parents nowadays will come in to school and see their kid running around, or hear it from them at home. The parent then calls the school and says they will sue the school if their kid is hurt running around... My wife has experienced this first hand.
Schools already don't have enough money, they cant afford to pay lawyers to defend stupid lawsuits, so they say "fine, if you are going to sue us we have no choice"...
Its not the teachers or the administration, its the lawsuit happy parents. - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Well I played Russian Roulette...
Tag is for barbarians though... - zeabrid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32I played Wall-Ball (Suicide in the article) in 3rd and 4th grade with older kids who could seriously throw the ball. Getting a bruise from it was a badge of honor.
- MikeFromAmerica, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31The school should single out the children of parents who make stupid complaints like that. Their kids should have to wear red jerseys and sit on the sidelines throughout recess to be ridiculed by the other kids. That'll teach their parents to coddle their children. Maybe it'll even teach the children to stand up to their parents.
- afex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball
- mrops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17hey i grew up in India, and we had this game that translates to "hit and beat".
What the game was, we would take a ball and hit any one close by with that ball. The ball was free for all, who ever gets it gets to hit any one with it, the only rule was that you couldn't move if you had the ball in your hand.
boy, the balls got heavier and harder as we grew older and yes the bruises became meaner and bigger.
Getting hit on the head with a half pound cricket ball is very very painful. - VolatileWhimsy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19And they wonder why children are overweight these days.. :(
- Bokista, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20We got banned from playing (American) football on the playground when I was in elementary school, so we just played "full contact soccer." Teams were divided up into groups of about 20 each (Coke fans versus Pepsi fans) and the object of the game was to not only score goals by any means necessary. You weren't allowed to punch or kick (directly), but you were encouraged to shove, slam, trip, and tackle other plaers. Good times!
- Sparkster185, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Dodgeball didn't make the list? C'mon, throwing a rubber ball at your opponents as hard as you possibly can is much more "dangerous" than tag. Granted in first grade you can only throw so hard, but I saw quite a few mean head/crotch shots during gym class dodgeball.
- Antha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I'm a whopping 4'10", so you can imagine how ruthlessly I would get my ass kicked playing smear the queer in second grade. The boys figured if I was boy enough to play, they weren't going to treat me like a girl. Many a shiner, I received. Good times.
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13the admins think the kids are lazy and need physical activity, but then they ban physical activity... what a contradiction!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Wall-Ball was a time-honored tradition in my Boy Scout troop until my senior year of high school, when some overprotective parent had a problem with 18 year old kids throwing a tennis ball at 12 year olds. Something about hazing...
- JacobsMirror, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I think that getting the hell beat out of you is a necessary and rather healthy aspect of elementary school. It teaches the little girl who's 3'5" guarding home plate to get out of the way of the 200 pound fat kid coming around for home. Beyond just sheer entertainment, I'm sure that there's some sort of practical application that anyone can glean from that.
- jmzook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11These people are bastards, plain and simple. In school, I played dodge-ball and a number of other games that sometimes resulted in scraped knees and other minor injuries. Nobody died, the cuts healed, and we had a lot of fun. If you don't want fat kids, you need to let them play. Sometimes they will hurt themselves or be hurt by other kids, something that over-protective, dumbass parents need to get used to.
- Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Are they getting rid of it because of potential physical injury? Or just to make that one fat little kid not feel sad because he keeps getting tagged when the other kids start getting too tired to chase each other?
- dose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Anyone play that Quarters game in the caf back in the day? You spin a quarter and then the next guy has to keep it spinning and if he fails he puts his fist down on the table and you get to slam the quarter into his knuckles? Always left the table bleeding...
Oh and suicide was the best when you learned how to throw the ball so it would bounce up before it got to them so it would hit em in the nuts.
Good times. - NeoZenkai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It's not they kids' safety they're worried about, it's lawsuits. Partly the schools' fault for being so chicken-*****, and partly the fault of lawsuit-happy people who take people to court any chance they get. Lawsuits are a plague on this country.
- gharding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@ThinkBox:
My friends and I played USSR Roulette! It's like Russian Roulette but with a full chamber! And they say Trotsky died from an ice pick!! - mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12we always called it Kill the Carrier...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Most of the games we played involved hurting people..
British Bulldog is always a classic - all you had to do was run to the other side of the playground, firstly 1 guy would be the catcher who had to catch people when they ran across, and everyone he caught joined him. Being caught also involved getting a beating.
Docker Square was always good - all you had to do was kick a football (soccer ball for all you yanks) - you only had one touch, and you couldn't kick it out the square. If you did double touch or knocked it out (usually the result of someone kicking it at you) - you had to run and touch a post maybe 50m away without getting caught (and getting a beating). - procdaddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8http://www.duggmirror.com
- migs87, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9i used to play a game called punch your friend in the tant and the game worked like this..... You punch your frind in the tant.
- szembek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10When we played smear the queer I think we all knew it meant gay. I'm pretty sure that was half of the point.
- eggo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Our favorite pastime when we were about 12-13 was climbing radio towers. Yeah, those red and white 300+ foot towers with all the warnings about "harmful radiation". No safety gear, just balls and the kind of death grip you wouldn't believe. Looking back, we were incredibly stupid, but none of us ever got hurt.
They are bitching about TAG? ***** tag? That game where kids run around, laughing etc? And people wonder why this country is obese. - doorock42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I used to regularly use "queer" to mean "strange". Imagine my surprise when I turned 13 and found out it now meant "gay".
- carcrazy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I played that, too!
Tag was one of the most fun, though. We used to play on these playgrounds that had sand as the ground (no wussy mulch or fake mulch like nowadays) and we would dig little holes and cover them and then lure unknowing people in that direction!
There is also a loading dock (for big semi trucks) near my house with the ones that go up and down....lots of fun. Some people weren't too fond of that activity, though. Same with climbing in dumpsters. I don't get it.
And there is a five-hole golf course nearby (Navy course with a jogging trail and clumps of trees in the middle) and when it rains hard and long it floods. Firemen didn't like it when we played in the water, but we used to build rafts and go out there anyways. The water would get like five feet deep in some places. We also used to build forts in the clumps of trees. Based on the amount of golf balls in those areas, we're lucky no one got hit.
Which reminds me of another time when me and a couple friends were messing around on a softball field (basically next door; I love my neighborhood....always something to explore) with golf clubs and golf balls. My best drive of my whole life: hit my friend in the forehead! His parents didn't care. Soon after I accidentally gave him a black eye when shadow boxing.
I could go on with fun activities I did. building ramps for bikes, climbing all over buildings and so many other things. - nothing7899, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7When i was a kid we use to have rock fights.
We'd divide into teams and just throw rocks at the other team. The only rule was just that rocks had to be smaller than a golf ball.
We would also take members of the other team prisoner and steal their shoes and make them stand in a gravel lot so they couldn't run away.
good times. - Trigonometron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Not just sad pussies, but worthless saps. These games form the building blocks of teamwork, communication, competition, drive, etc. I see a generation of selfish diabetics in our future. At least they'll know how to file lawsuits.
- siszam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's pathetic how wussified kids are now. My sons would go out in the snow wearing shorts (against my advice) and play full contact football without pads. They got sniffles now and then. They even broke bones bad enough to need surgery a few times. All of them were normal weight.
My brother in laws son is sixteen and still runs crying to his daddy when he doesn't get his way. He brags that he's not able to to do one sit up. I kid you not! He's not allowed to go outside when its below 60 degrees without a coat. He might get sick. MY GOD!!!!!!!! You guessed it, super wussy is almost perfectly round. His parents thing I am a bad parent for letting my 18 yr old ADULT son go places without permission.
Some people are just too stupid to have children. - jmarcin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6As I recall, my teacher taught our class how to play Suicide. We all thought it would be lame, but it was so much fun we played it on our own recess time.
Just thought I'd point out the irony that, less than 20 years ago, games like Suicide used to be taught and promoted by teachers. Now kids can't even play tag. Huh. - mr.hostility, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Let's play everybody sit quietly in their own inflatable bubble.
- RoscoeP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Anyone remember Jarts (a.k.a. lawn darts)? Six inches of steel projectile delight, for kids of all ages. I'm not sure, but I think they were made by the same company that produced Bag o' Glass.
- MaxK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8My schools played much more dangerous games than tag. "Soccer", "football", "hockey", "baseball" and even "softball."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5oh, we played with a raquetball. Harder to catch! Tennis ball? Ouch man..
- MikeFromAmerica, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yeah, but what about the kids that were born sad little pussies? Someone has to stick up for them and keep them from getting hurt at recess.
- robcornelius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5over here in Britain we have several fun games.
British Bulldog involved getting from one end of an area to another without the opposition holding you so all your arms and legs were on the ground or holding you off the ground depending one who was in charge... Basically mass fighting.
Slapsies (take a look at the end of Blurs Parklife video) involves hitting one another as hard as you can across the back of the hands. Knuckles is the same but instead of slapping you rap your knuckles on your opponents... hard to tell who comes off worse
And then there is playing football (it is NOT soccer and never will be) at the age of 4 or 5 and full contact rugby at the age of 10 or 11.
When I was about 17 we took up playing gridiron (american) football for fun. Full contact no pads of course. We decided to stop after the second fractured skull. - ricree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4When I was in Boy Scouts, we used to play these games all the time. Eventually, someone's parents complained about it, so we changed it to "maul the kid with the ball".
Another game we played was tiger in the cage. Basically, we'd take a bunch of rope and make a big circle. The person inside the circle would be the "tiger", and everyone else would be allowed to try to push them as hard as they could, but if they were tagged by the guy in the center, they had to become the new tiger. It was a lot of fun, but I'd be surprised if it is still allowed now. Then again, it was banned like five or six times while I was in scouts, and we'd always start playing again after a while, so maybe it is still played. - tsf5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This generation of kids is going to grow up to be a bunch of pansies because of their overprotective parents.
- thejokell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Raquetball is definitely the ball of choice for wall ball. If thrown hard enough, it can even draw blood!
- spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4We played dodgeball in Team Sports in highschool. dodgeball gets fun when you can get hurt by getting hit. Of course you could sit out if you wanted. I guess it was "violent" or something?
- chapium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Recreational football games in the US rarely involve protective gear.
- MikeFromAmerica, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Damn... AOL didn't even exist until I was in high school. And even then, it was on floppies. I'm so old....
- bussche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I was just thinking about it the other day, Red Rover is actually a pretty violent game lol. Running full speed into another group of people with the intent of breaking through them........., I can remember some pretty crazy Red Rover games when i was like in grade 2:p
- ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Pathetic. Kids are being turned into sad little pussies.
- carcrazy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I used to play wall ball with racquetballs. And in racquetball courts sometime. Funniest thing playing wall ball was when my friend got pegged in the eye while running to the wall (the ball beat him and bounced off the wall into his face). Priceless!
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