Things kids don't do at school anymore..

[Centralscrutinizer]

.. I just found the small glazed pottery ashtray I made

 

[Borotommo]

Saw through one of the legs of the teacher’s chair

 

[Lemmy_kilmister]

Sit totally befuddled by log tables, sines, cosines and tangents.

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Another thing I reckon isn't allowed now is being allowed to play with Mercury. We used to pour it onto the table and flick it about

 

[JackG]

Another thing I reckon isn't allowed now is being allowed to play with Mercury. We used to pour it onto the table and flick it about

I think schools are a bit more careful with radioactive materials in physics lessons. Do they still have dissection in biology?

 

[El Guapo]

Drink slightly off milk

 

[Stocko]

Play British bulldogs.

 

[mattiethomp709]

Maggie thatcher milk snatcher, thank christ still cant bare warm milk

 

[bumface]

Have to wipe their @rse with wafer thin tracing paper.

 

[JackG]

Have to wipe their @rse with wafter thin tracing paper.

Izal and Bronco

 

[Itsscirea]

Hand under armpit
Flap arm like a birdie
Result: Impressive fart noise

 

[bumface]

Have to learn how to dodge out of the way when a blackboard rubber was thrown straight at your head if the teacher thought that you weren't paying attention in class.

 

[bumface]

.. I just found the small glazed pottery ashtray I made

I was quite anti-smoking back then and I made my ashtray in the shape of a coffin and presented it to my dad, who was a smoker. in an attempt to persuade him to quit. He did quit a few years later and now I smoke about forty a day.

 

[HarryVegas]

Put up with male teachers dealing with their mid life crisis by trying to get cheap laughs by singling out some poor sap and yelling "Are ye thick, lad?!"

 

[The_Tiler]

Music teacher at Boynton used to throw a sweaty sock at you if he caught you yawning. He'd also threaten to stick it in your mouth.

 

[bumface]

Watch one of your mates getting dangled out of a second floor window by an angry maths teacher.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

Clackers.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

Get caned.
Never did me any harm.

 

[Boro_Interlinked]

wear segs in heels.. and do spark demos at breaktime

 

[Spikelangelo]

I think schools are a bit more careful with radioactive materials in physics lessons. Do they still have dissection in biology?

I'm still traumatised by our Biology teacher, Ron Berryman, (Embassy Mick), walking into the lab from the prep room, fag in hand, carrying a box. He extricated a rat from the box, and "prepared it for dissection" by swinging it by its tail and breaking its neck on the edge of the bench. We then gathered round and watched him cut it up. Lovely. I, a delicate snowflake, dropped Biology in favour of Latin a year or so later. Was about 1970 I reckon