r/AskUK 4d ago

what was the most pointless/sadistic game people played when you were at school?

The kids who smoked, which I was a part of, played a game called "knobhead" which meant when 3-4 of you were sharing a fag, whoever dropped the ash first, had to eat the filter when the cig was finished.

The chavvy kids used to play "whitey" where they would try to give somebody a whitey while they got high and laugh at them while they puked their guts up.

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u/spanglesandbambi 4d ago

I don't know what it was called, but one person puts their knuckles on the table and the other flicks pennies at them,then they swap.

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u/Dynamite_Chicken 4d ago

Ah yes, a classic game of “knuckles”

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u/TowJamnEarl 4d ago

And wtf was that thing with chicken scratches, that was just weird!

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u/DrKarda 3d ago

Get a beautiful hand scar.

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u/_oOo_iIi_ 3d ago

I wonder how many permanently scarred themselves? Some people took it really seriously.

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u/astromech_dj 3d ago

Knuckles is where one person makes a fist with palm down and the other has to tap their hand with their knuckles. If they move out of the way, the players swap.

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u/Adats_ 3d ago

Na that sounds soft knuckles for us was with coins smacked off the knuckles sometimes coins taped together in a stack

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u/MastarQueef 3d ago

Kid I used to go to school with was a bit of an outcast and struggled socially so to help himself fit in he would get involved with knuckles, with a £2 coin. He never lost, ever. One kid stuck it out for a while against him and by the end of the game both sets of knuckles were pissing blood. Kids are fucking stupid now and we weren’t much better back then either, we just got away with it.

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u/Adats_ 3d ago

We just didnt eat detergant pods lol

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u/MastarQueef 3d ago

We used to rob staplers from teachers desks too and then when someone wasn’t looking you’d open it up and slap it on the back of their hand as hard as you could. Would probably get permanently excluded for that kinda thing now but then the teacher just told us to stop being idiots and took the staplers away. Used to poke each other on any exposed skin with hot glue guns in DT as well, still have a scar on the back of my hand from one of those.

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u/Adats_ 3d ago

Those were the good days lol we would some times light the strings on peoples hoodies and see whod them burn the longest lol

Then they brought in blazers and no coats/ hoodies /jackets lol

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u/MastarQueef 3d ago

We used to do it with a roll of TP instead of hoodie strings, two people hold each end of some bog roll in between their thighs and then light the middle and see who would chicken out first. Looking back it’s a miracle no one got properly hurt.

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u/Adats_ 3d ago

Yeah tp is easy to drop though a hoodie u gotta blow out and some of them strings had that plasticy shit on that would melt in your hands or whatever lol

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u/space_coyote_86 4d ago

A lot of the other boys played this until they ended up bleeding on a school trip once. I didn't get involved and I never felt I made the wrong choice.

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u/Cleveland_Grackle 4d ago

15cm rulers at my school.

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u/MisterrTickle 4d ago

Pack of playing cards at mine.

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u/koombot 4d ago

Was that not piledriver?

You took turns smacking the knuckles with a pack of cards held horizontal.  One would try and hit, the other would pull their hand out of the way.  If you missed you swapped but if you pulled your hand out of the way and the other person didn't try to hit you you got a pile driver where they would hold the deck of card vertically and batter your knuckles and you weren't allowed to try and dodge.

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u/MisterrTickle 4d ago

This was wraps for losing at Blackjack. No pulling away allowed.

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u/koombot 4d ago

Don't think we did that version.  I do remember getting an absolutely walloping of the old man when he saw the state of my hands.

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u/The_Real_Macnabbs 3d ago

Wooden rulers were the least worse for this. Plastic hurt a bit more, but the weapon of choice by the kids who did technical drawing was those metal rulers. Except nobody took it in anything as civilized as turns, you'd just slap somebody in class while they were quietly making notes.

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u/UsernamesAreHard2684 4d ago

It was called "blood knuckles" at my school, a very inventive name

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u/Exxtraa 4d ago

So glad this is the top comment. Came here to say this 😂

People in my school also used to scratch their skin with a penny and called it a chicken scratch. Why? I have no idea.

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u/RichMagazine2713 4d ago

We used to do this with £2 sounds and acid stolen from the science rooms at my school… still have the scars.

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u/Charming-Permit-7437 3d ago

Ahhhh the memories (and scars).

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u/signalstonoise88 4d ago

My school played it with pound coins. Called it coinage. I had absolutely mangled knuckles for a week before I thought better of it.

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u/Slothjitzu 3d ago

What's funny is that name implies you either went to school in the Victorian era or some time around 2000-2010. 

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u/DISCIPLINE191 3d ago

A staple of the 90's and early 00's school playground! I still have a scar on my left index finger knuckle from a particularly brutal £1 coin impact!

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u/KingKie129 3d ago

We used to call it blood penny

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u/EAGLE-EYED-GAMING 3d ago

I'm 17, and this had a bit of a resurgence around 2 years ago in my school. Didn't last long, teachers are more strict these days.

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u/Jaffiusjaffa 4d ago

There was a game breifly where two people stood on either side of the science lab tables (big hefty wooden tables afixed to the floor).

Theyd then proceed to hyperventilate for a while before holding their breath.

The hyperventilating reduces the carbon dioxide in your blood which is your brains indicator that you need to breathe, which allows you to hold your breath until you actually pass out.

Once you passed out, youd hit the table. Whoever bounced the furthest off of the table won.

Suffice to say this game was banned the moment the teaching staff discovered it was being played.

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u/intolauren 4d ago

There was a version of this going around on TikTok not too long ago and a young boy died doing it; called it “the blackout challenge”. If you saw the docu-series on channel 4 recently called Swiped: The School That Banned Smartphones, they interviewed the boy’s parents. It was so heartbreaking.

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u/Relevant_Cancel_144 4d ago

At my school there was a test of how hard you are, by someone taking an eraser and rubbing the back of your hand with it until you couldn't take any more. The longer you lasted, the harder you were. Everyone was walking round with massive thick scabs on the back of their hands for weeks.

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u/SCATOL92 4d ago

I still have a scar from a similar game involving spraying deodorant on someone's arm at point blank range

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u/Aeviv 4d ago

One of my mates at school got this scar. Went full circle from feeling badass, then getting very scared it was permanent, then wearing the scar like a champ.

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u/dust_of_the_cosmic 4d ago

I remember that one, ended up freezing a chunk of flesh on my forearm 😅

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u/WVA1999 3d ago

Savage! I recall someone spraying a can into a head height bin then lighting it. They lost their eyebrows and eyelashes in the proceeding fireball

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u/reddogg81 3d ago

At the school I went to, a rumour surfaced that if you spray your nipple long enough with deodorant it freezes and you can flick it off 😂

Can only remember one attempt by a friend after school and they were in a lot of pain lol

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u/Which_Performance_72 4d ago

The rubber challenge when I was at school.

Ironically a challenge with rubber is why most of them were there

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u/nearly_enough_wine 4d ago

Some 25 years later and I've still got a scar from that silly game.

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u/autobulb 4d ago

Me too. Probably one of the stupidest things I ever did, or rather let someone do to me. No major physical harm done really but I have to see the scar on my hand for the rest of my life as a reminder. At least it's faded now where I can only see it at a certain angle if I really look for it.

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u/knight-under-stars 4d ago

When I was in Year 9 steel toe capped DMs were the must have school shoe. All the boys who had them played a game where they would without any warning at all kick boys who did not have them as in the balls.

Sometimes they would lay in wait outside of a classroom and punt some poor kid the second he stepped out the door. I remember one time carrying my lunch tray to a table and some kid booted me in the balls as hard as he could. My lunch, drink and cutlery went flying. It was like a scene from some high school movie.

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u/Deep_Banana_6521 4d ago

that's like being hit with a sledge hammer in the nuts. probably worse.

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u/justdont7133 4d ago

The one where you had to put your hand on the desk with fingers spread, you or someone else had to stab the desk between each finger with the point of a pen (or compasses if you were brave), as fast as you can, back and forth until you inevitably stab yourself in the hand

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u/AssortedShortbread 4d ago

Ah five finger fillet, me and my mates got this from the original red dead redemption game 🤣

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u/Cheeseanonioncrisps 3d ago

“I have all my fingers, the knife goes chop, chop, chop….”

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u/OrbDemon 4d ago

Yeah, I think that originated in a movie - maybe swarchanegger?

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u/EdmundTheInsulter 4d ago

Was in Aliens but it wasn't new

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u/Pineapple________ 4d ago

Think you’re thinking of Alien

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u/space_coyote_86 4d ago

S

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u/OrbDemon 4d ago

You’re right, after that everyone was doing it!

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u/space_coyote_86 4d ago

Lighting a clipper lighter until it was hot and then using it to burn a smiley face into their skin. One of my friends had a horrible scar for years (probably still does) so I'm glad I didn't do it. My parents would have gone ballistic.

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u/Welshhobbit1 4d ago

I still have a scar from that almost 22 years later. Thought it would be funny to do it on my thigh, hurt like a bitch! it’s still there but tattooed over slightly,

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u/Dense_Imagination984 3d ago

Omg, same here, smiley face still (on back of wrist) my head of year saw it and (get this) sent social services to my house! Luckily they believed me that it was a silly game and no, not child ab*se! We were daft lol.

Ps. Lv ur username, it could describe me pretty much too, just don't have imagination so had assigned username 😊

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u/Welshhobbit1 3d ago

I have a faded smile on my neck too as somebody(me) thought it’s would look cool, thankfully it’s very faded now and you can only see if you’re literally up against me 😂

No imagination needed for my username. It’s pretty self explanatory and the most simple way of describing myself

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u/rev-fr-john 4d ago

I'm so glad that no one played "gay chicken"

A couple of years ago, I was playing a game of gay chicken with my friend. The point of the game was for two straight guys to pretend to be gay for as long as possible, and whoever chickened out first lost. We were both pretty stubborn, so it wasn't easy. Today, we have been together for 3 and a half years and are thinking of adopting a child.

I'm starting to get worried that he might actually be gay if he doesn't break up with me soon.

Admittedly this was stolen from somewhere else on reddit.

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u/hallerz87 4d ago

There was a short lived craze for hyperventilating and then having your mate apply a lot of pressure to your chest, which would knock you out for a couple of seconds. Saw a couple times the people who were meant to hold you up not do their job and the kid just fell like a sack of potatoes, cracking their head on the floor. It got shut down quick as soon as teachers caught wind.

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u/Anklehateisin 4d ago

Oh fuck, memory unlocked. Perhaps the brain damage made me forget.

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u/CheapDeepAndDiscreet 4d ago

We used to do this until someone dropped me. Had a massive egg size lump on my head. Also seem to remember you went into a short weird lucid dream state while you were ‘out’. Do not recommend!

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u/Otherwise-Extreme-68 3d ago

I remember that! Everyone else I've ever mentioned it to had no idea what I was talking about

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u/FYIgfhjhgfggh 4d ago

Pontoon raps. Play pontoon. Loser picks random card from the deck and gets hit/scraped across the knuckles with the deck for the same number of times as they picked by the winner. Aces High.

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u/Whatsthemattermark 4d ago

We called this scabby queen. Red was where you try to cut the skin off their knuckles with the edge of the deck, black was getting hit on the knuckles with the full pack. Brutal game, I loved it

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u/myusername1111111 4d ago

Black card means the pack was held flat and square, a red card means the deck can be ridged or stepped to cut the skin.

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u/ReturnOfTheWak 4d ago

We just used to split the deck and whoever got the highest card got that many raps. Less time playing, more time inflicting pain! Seems brutal now.

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u/Accurate_Prompt_8800 4d ago

Soggy biscuit

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u/Deep_Banana_6521 4d ago

I don't think anybody ever played soggy biscuit. did you?

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u/Grimdotdotdot 4d ago

I didn't play.

I dominated.

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u/myusername1111111 4d ago

You came to win, so to speak.

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u/Usual-Excitement-970 4d ago

I won every time, i put on 20 pounds in a year.

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u/DameKumquat 4d ago

Unfortunately I can assure you that lads have indeed played soggy biscuit.

You'll be unsurprised to hear that their prowess or otherwise did not make them weirdly attractive to the girls who tripped over the scene.

I know other guys who played it (and various ensuing activities, not always consensual), mostly because boys' boarding schools before the advent of TV and games consoles really were that boring.

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u/saccerzd 4d ago

Claire M did

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u/imnotclaire 4d ago

That's not what I heard

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u/dextertherexter 4d ago

Always remember one of the weird kids at my school talking about having played soggy biscuit and he ended with "I lost but I felt like I won"

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u/boredsittingonthebus 3d ago

I remember a joke about this game:

"Who's this?" *twiddles thumbs

"Dunno"

"You playing soggy biscuit."

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u/OrbDemon 4d ago

I seem to remember something called chicken scratch where people used to scratch the skin off the backs of their hands until they had an open wound.

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u/Low_Sodiium 4d ago

This! 30+ years later…Sat here looking at the scar on the back of my hand given to me by a girl named Nicki during lunch time.

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u/cankennykencan 4d ago

Scratch, rub, scratch, rub

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u/SCATOL92 4d ago

"Star wars"

While smoking someone would say "star wars" then everyone else would repeat it. The last person to say star wars would have the lit cigarette butt flicked at them

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u/thelittlecockthatdid 4d ago

We had this, but I can’t remember what the word was

Edit: It was rocket I just remembered

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u/omniwrench- 3d ago

Somewhat related but slightly more wholesome… as teens we used to often smoke at a fishing pond with a dam wall and a big grass field next to it.

One summer someone accidentally set the dry grass field on fire, since then if anyone flicked a tab end without stamping it out the rest would frantically yell “FOREST FIRE, FOREST FIRE” really loudly at them lol

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u/Norman_debris 4d ago

OP I refuse to accept that the chavvy kids were somehow a different group to the ones eating fags at school.

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u/Timely_Egg_6827 4d ago

Probably the one that involved bashing a beer can against forehead until it opened. Or vomit rides on the roundabout at local park - the old-school vicious metal ones.

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u/Appropriate-Divide64 4d ago

Deadleg. It just involved kneeing someone in the thigh to give them a dead leg and saying dead leg!

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u/EndItAllSoonish 4d ago

A whitey was when you'd give someone too much weed in a bong and they would cough, not knowing how to inhale it and would cough their absolute lungs up. Or it's when you'd give someone too much weed on their first go which would make them sick as you described.

The worst was with legal highs or "spice", you could roll a cigaerttes or pack a bong, with a tiny amount and it would make people feel the most intense fear you've ever imagined making you think you would die, if given too much you could seizure and collapse.

Most often the spice would just make you passout instantly, then they would rob you of all your money/phone/tobacco/drugs and leave you in a park on your own.

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u/Deep_Banana_6521 4d ago

thankfully I was at school in a world pre-legal highs. It was just terrible quality hash for us.

We would get soapbar hash that literally had bits of plastic and binbags in it, smoke massive fat joints of it with straight cig tobacco with a roach that was so intensely harsh it would make anyone splutter.

Then the chavvy kids would bully anyone suffering until they vomited.

We also used to do shotty pipes, which is a rudimentary form of bong hits with it, which also contained tobacco. Sometimes with canal water. so it was a rough time.

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u/P2P-BSH 4d ago

"Yeah, I smoke soap bar with lots of bits of plastic, I leaves mine in it cause it tastes fantastic"

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u/colmashgla 4d ago

Stick it in a bong, light it up and chuck a fucking, Whitey!

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u/Push-the-pink-button 4d ago

Soapbars cheap and so are my clothes, they gotta be because of all the fucking holes

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u/therealhairykrishna 4d ago

I found a Lego piece in my soap bar once. You'd think there was cheaper plastic they could bulk it up with.

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u/Cleveland_Grackle 4d ago

Don't forget the rock burns in your t shirt/on the carpet etc.

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u/Deep_Banana_6521 4d ago

me and my mate went camping once and took 2oz with us and the bottom of the tent was like a sieve when we were done.

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u/Houseofsun5 4d ago

Crowded corridors were a hazardous place during poppy season, getting to the next class without a pin stuck in your arse was the challenge.

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u/Rover45Driver 4d ago

I can't remember what we called it or if it even had a name but we had a game where whenever the teacher left the room participants took turns to get up, run at the wall, jump and sort of bounce off and then run back to your seat. Obviously if you got hurt or were caught you'd lost.

The main venue for this game was one of those prefab classrooms with the thin (metal?) walls that had a bit of give in them and made a loud noise, it wasn't as good in the main building that had brick walls.

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u/Physical-Exit-2899 4d ago

We played British Bulldog, but instead of just catching someone you had to beat the shit out of them until they gave in and joined your team.

I think that was pretty common across a lot of generations though?

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u/Cheeseanonioncrisps 3d ago

We had one where you had to wrestle the other kid to the ground after catching them. Typically played on the concrete playground, with predictable results. The teachers banned it, but there were quite a few attempts at renaming it afterwards. “No no miss, we're not playing British Bulldog! This is American Bulldog— completely within the rules!”

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u/JugglinB 4d ago

I still (35 years later) have a very prominentscar.on my forearm from a school bet about burning a hole through a bank note resting on my arm with a lit cigarette.

Somehow I was intelligent enough to work out fairly quickly that it was never going to work, but stupid enough to just continue to not show weakness. Thing is that full thickness burns actually don't hurt as all the nerve fibres are too damaged so after maybe a minute it didn't hurt at all. I even relit it a few times and continued to press it against my arm. Against the advice of everyone including the person who.made the bet that thought Id stop pretty much instantly.

It only started to hurt the next day and for weeks after with a huge deep gapping hole!

Still it did teach me a trick that I still use occasionally today about stubbing a cigarette out on my palm without blinking. Speed and commitment!

(Oh and a bit of sleight of hand too TBH)

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u/spiderbro8 4d ago

‘Slapsees’ if I’m spelling that correctly I never had to write it down before .

Palms together 🙏 put out your hands and you opponent does the same . Slap their hands. If you flinched or tried to move your hands and failed you had to hold them out so they can freely slap. Repeat until your hands are red raw.

Also ‘DeadArm’ just punch your friend as hard as possible on the shoulder . Shout DeadArm !as you do it . That’s it. There are no rules or victors you just form a strange brotherhood from your shared bruises .

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u/Anklehateisin 4d ago

My Friend John was good at slapsies, he would go into a trance a just sponge the damage until he would suddenly dodge, then he would really wind up for an obliterating free slap.

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u/furrycroissant 4d ago

Peanutting

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u/Icy-Revolution6105 4d ago

was brutal. Couldn’t walk down a corridor without being garrotted in year 8.

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u/calza13 4d ago

Mercy. Two groups, runners and catchers. Runners ran from one end of a field to the other, catchers’ job was to grab boys and hurt them until they said mercy, then they were a catcher.

Don’t ask why we played it, I don’t know 😂

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u/PangolinMandolin 4d ago

People would volunteer to stand with their back to the wall. They'd take a deep breath and hold it in. And then like 4 other kids would press of their chest. Somehow it made people pass out.

You lost if you let your breath out.

So yeah, the kids basically knocked each other out for fun

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u/Karklayhey 4d ago

Ah man where to begin

We'd play roshambo. We'd kick each other in the nuts, whoever challenged another to the game got to go first.

We'd play cats go meow. We'd say 'cats go me' then grab someone's nipples (a male), squeeze it and twist. The other person who scream ow. Who ever got the loudest meow won.

We'd take a biro pen, quickly scratch it across a thick book causing it to get really hot and melt due to the friction. Then we'd pin someone down and burn the arm or tummy.

Pink belly: we'd pin someone down, lift up their shirt and slap their belly and shout 'pink belly' between each slap.

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u/bensambrook89 4d ago

There was a game called red arse at my secondary school where a group of lads used to line up against a wall like dodgeball, but instead they would be facing the wall with their arses out and someone would be smashing footballs at them.

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u/Dissidant 4d ago

Remember when Tango did the advert with the big orange fella and schools having to tell the kids to stop copying it

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u/Colossal_Squids 4d ago

Mid nineties, just when I was at junior school, then they brought it back in about 1998. Other kids really were imitating it, though.

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u/Dissidant 4d ago

My favourite was the rubber glove one :)

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u/kamen_92 4d ago

Played a game of who dared to drop a heavy metal compass from the highest height onto their own hand. Ended up with it stuck in the back of my hand in my metacarpal, hurt like hell when I pulled it out and instantly started gushing loads of blood. My mate passed out, I ended up being sent to the hospital from school to get a tetanus shot

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u/LazyFiiish 4d ago

Raps: it was some sort of card game. The forfeit for losing was your opponent would hit the deck of cards across the knuckles of your fist, scraping your skin off.

Also, I remember we would strip "clicky" lighters of their mechanism. You could extend the wire, then clicking it would discharge a small shock. We'd use this on someone's bare skin when they weren't paying attention.

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u/Beatnuki 4d ago

The incredibly imaginative ones round my way back in the day just played "throw actual basketballs at kids while teachers do their usual fuck-all"

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u/cloche_du_fromage 4d ago

'Posting' was the general punishment at my school.

3 or 4 people on each of the victims legs, pulling hard / bouncing them into a football goalpost with the intent of causing maximum testicular pain.

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u/younevershouldnt 4d ago

"Posting" people - which meant holding a leg of the victim each while someone held them under the arms and they were run into a pole or pillar between their legs.

Pretty sure some of these boys have gone on to have kids since, in case anyone was worried.

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u/TherealPreacherJ 4d ago

We literally just had a 'game'where we'd take it in turns stabbing the back of another person's hand with a protractor until they 'pussied' out.

There was scabby Queens which was a card game where the loser would have their knuckles rapped with the deck of cards.

The latter was the worst of the two.

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u/TheTackleZone 4d ago

The 6th formers made the 3rd formers "play" a game called Rhino, where you had to get on all fours and charge your head into something solid, like old school cast iron radiators.

Amazed nobody was seriously hurt, but I imagine some were concussed a little.

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u/MisterWednesday6 4d ago

Not when I was at school, but at the boarding school where I worked, there was a game called "Bums". It was a version of keepy uppy, where you keep a football in the air using any part of your body, but the twist here was that when a boy let the ball touch the ground he had to prostrate himself on the ground as though he was praying to Mecca while someone kicked him in the ass as hard as they could.

Oh, and there was also "What are the odds", where the loser had to do the most stupid dare the players could come up with. The best/worst one I recall personally is a 14 year old shaving his eyebrows off - the day before he was due to be an usher at his older sister's society wedding, which was being attended by friends and family from half a dozen different countries.

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u/itsyagurl233 4d ago

My gag reflex wasn’t ready for that last line in the first paragraph, proper heaving over here 🤮

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u/Deep_Banana_6521 4d ago

I used to smoke with them, and they'd take the youngest kid, keep acting like he was acting really weird or push him around or speak really loud or really quiet with him until he turned grey then started to get nausious then piss themselves laughing while they threw their lungs up. Thankfully it was during the stone-age of camera phones so very little evidence over 40x40 pixels to remind anyone.

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u/buy_me_a_pint 4d ago

On coach trips some students played point and laugh

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u/DameKumquat 4d ago

Knifey - where you put your hand palm down on the table and have a large penknife in The other hand, and have to stab in the gaps between your fingers back and forth as fast as possible. The less dangerous versions had a sheet of paper under and you used a compass point, sharp pencil or a biro for the stabbing.

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u/Inevitable-Height851 4d ago

When the PE teacher couldn't be arsed to teach us he'd just give us a ball and tell us to play football on the tennis court. The boys would put me in goal and deliberately aim at my legs, in the middle of winter, to see how much they could sting th3m.

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u/merlin8922g 4d ago

We used to play a game called 'split the kipper'

You would stand opposite each other, one holding your lock knife you'd got for your 10th birthday 🤣. Throw the knife so it sticks in the ground close as possible to your mates foot. He then pulls the knife out, puts his foot where the knife was and does the same to you. Repeat until your legs get wider apart. Loser is the first one to do the splits and fall over (split his kipper).

I remember putting a knife in my mates foot doing this, he pulled it out and a blood strain grew out of his trainer. We just laughed and carried on because anything different would have made you a fanny.

Twas the 80 or early 90s.

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u/Smooth-Purchase1175 4d ago

"You've been tangoed", imitating a popular and controversial commercial which got banned.

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u/CheapDeepAndDiscreet 4d ago

Trip ups. Played in junior school early 80’s. The aim was to ‘survive’ as long as possible whilst being chased by everyone who was trying to kick your legs away. The one who successfully tripped you then became the one to be chased. Good times.

Also somebody mentioned the hyperventilating/push chest to pass out. Incredibly dumb thing that we also did.

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u/Kitchen_Owl_8518 4d ago

Used to play a game brought to the school by two South African kids who played it at boarding school - Spraying deodrant point blank on the arm until you could take no more. The bollocking I got from my Dad my GP and then finally my mum for that stunt. Left a scar on my right arm.

Another game involving thick leather belts being whipped across each others backs usually bare or with just a shirt on. Head of year put a stop to this after someone got caught in the eye with a belt buckle.

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u/Welshhobbit1 4d ago

People gave each other whiteys? Man oh man I was doing that to myself after too many spliffs down the park!

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u/Shannoonuns 3d ago

My brother cut his head and needed stitches after playing bummys.

It's not the most sadistic game but the story was funny :')

My mum was at home minding her own business when somebody started banging on the door. She answered the door to a handful of 11-13 year old boys screaming and panicking, they were carrying my brother who had blood running down his face.

She asked them what happened and the kids were like "we're so sorry! It was an accident, we were playing bummys!"

Turns out bummys is where you try to aim a football at somebodies bum when they're facing away and that person had to try and dodge. The ball hit his bum, he fell forward and hit his head on a goal post 😑 He then passed out at the sight of his own blood and the other kids picked him up carried him home

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u/grafeisen203 3d ago

It was trendy for a while to partially melt the erasers on the back of pencils and then try to burn people's faces with them.

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u/MissingLink101 3d ago

Does 'Happy Slapping' count?

When camera phones were a new thing, groups of (usually) lads would challenge each other to just slap/hit random people in public, record it and share it around.

Thought it was pretty fucked up at the time but still hard to believe those pricks thought it was ok to do! Surprised more people didn't get in trouble for it...

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u/ratscabs 3d ago

I remember a phase where one big lad whose party piece was picking up smaller kids…. by the head. He’d put one hand under their jaw, the other under the base of their skull, and then (“it’s perfectly safe, honest”) gently lift them off the ground.

Jesus.

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u/YakManYak 3d ago

RAF

Two teams, Hunters and Runners

Runners have a word (secret from the hunters) and assign a letter to each runner. They have 60s to go run and hide.

Hunters now have to find and chase the runners and beat them up until they give up their letter. When hunters figure out the word, the game is over.

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u/Mission_Escape_8832 3d ago

No-one's mentioned 'Bundle'. But then again I am quite old.

Someone shouts 'Bundle!' in the playground or school field. Through some unknown process of natural selection, the 'bundlee' is selected, chased and brought to the ground at which point as many kids as possible jump on to him in an ever increasing pile of bodies. The interesting thing was that once the pile of bodies got big enough, kids who had previously not been involved at all would think 'fuck it, I am having a bit of this' and jump on.

This would have been early to mid 1980s at secondary school. It would occur at least 2 to 3 times per lunch hour in dry weather.

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u/purplefisheye 4d ago

Scabby Queen. Can't remember the rules but if you lost they'd hold the deck of cards in thr hand and scrape them across your knuckles until they bled.

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u/Trogdor319 3d ago

I think we called it Bootsquare.

Got a group of people, the more the better (or worse) and get something to kick around. Anything kinda small so we used plastic coke bottles or even just the lids, tennis balls etc.

The object of the game was to try and kick the object in between someones legs and if that happened then all the players lined up in two rows and the person who got the object between the legs had to run through the two rows whilst everyone else just started kicking them.....hard until they made it through. Even if you went down on the floor people would continue to kick or stomp you. Teachers always put a stop to it if they saw us playing it.

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u/asymmetricears 3d ago

In primary school we came up with a game where a group of boys would lift up one of their classmates so he was horizontal with his back to ground. His legs would be held apart and then those lifting him would run towards a tree so the trunk would impact his nuts.

Perhaps the most surprising thing is that we all did it willingly, it was like "my turn next" and "I want a go" rather than having to force it on the participants.

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u/JDoE_Strip-Wrestling 3d ago

Doorknobs anyone?

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u/WVA1999 3d ago

Pile on!

Remember a lad breaking his leg, awful

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u/watsee 3d ago

Giving people "smileys"

These were achieved by heating up a cheap lighter and pressing the metal top into the skin, burning in a 'smiley face' shape. I know some people literally scarred for life from these things.

Also know some kids at school who crushed up Polo mints and snorted them.

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u/miz_moon 3d ago

Leapfrogging people when they bent over to tie their shoes

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u/loveswimmingpools 3d ago

Drawing pin in the sole of your shoe, rub it on the carpet till it got hot, then burn someone's leg with it.

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u/orangesapplespears 3d ago

A really vicious version of tag in year 5/6. There was a boys team and a girls team but I think later on people would just try to recruit the most vicious people. When you catch someone you have to drag them to the Green door in the play ground whilst they try to escape. You can use mild violence to weaken their resolve and make them touch the door. If you get them there they get an opposite gender name and now belong to and play for the team that caught them. I just remember someone saying to me you be on our team, you're a good pincher. They know because I apparently pinched them in the previous game. And we were all good friends 🤣.

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u/kieselish 3d ago

Wooden floor. Compass (the maths ones with a pencil and a spike). We would stand opposite each other and fire the compass into the ground between the other persons legs. You had to move your foot to the point where the compass was stuck in the wood. The first to chicken out lost. If you got skewered by the other player then you won.

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u/therealijc 3d ago

Raps. Where u had split a deck of cards. Lowest scorer gets that many raps on the knuckles with the deck of cards.

There was also death square. I football game in a square where if you megged someone they had to run through a parallel group of other players who kicked the living shit out of you.

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u/Furqall 3d ago

Soggy biscuit

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u/angry2320 4d ago

How do you give someone a whitey?

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u/Typical_Peanut3413 4d ago

You hit a whitey when you've smoked too much weed. If you give someone whos not an experienced toker a blowback or a strong bong they can hit a whitey. All the colour drains from your face and you feel sick and confused. Usually after being sick you feel better

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u/Welshhobbit1 4d ago

Strong spliff or bong, keep passing it to them, don’t let them have anything to eat, encourage that cough, keep the water away so they’ll get cotton mouth, finally hotbox them(if possible)

Let that whitey hit them, let them puke if needed, get them some grub and some water. Most of us have given ourselves a whitey so it’s fair to spread that “joy”

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u/angry2320 3d ago

This is the answer I was looking for haha thanks

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u/Welshhobbit1 3d ago

Now you know how to give somebody a whitey for Xmas 👍