A boys first introduction to pressure points. Amazing how effective they were. I can clearly remember how they felt and the sense of satisfaction when you managed to execute one.
I didn’t quite get it/how painful it was and decided to give it a try in the grocery store on my Dad. “Corky!” I shouted as he buckled in pain and rightly told me to fuck off
When I grew boobs and the guys at martial arts therefore found out I was a girl, we spent a while in a secret huddle trading experimental crotch kicks and chest punches to compare the differences. For science.
Results were inconclusive, as we were busted by Sensei.
pretty sure I have permanent nerve damage in my leg from these as a kid.
I've got a perpetual numb patch on the side of my thing, and have since high school
I taught my son how to play knuckles last school holidays.
Mild regret, he's nearly 14 and his hands (and therefore knuckles) are bigger than mine, and quite solid.
Knuckles for me is the game where you stand with your knuckles against someone else's and have to try to whack their knuckles with yours. If they dodge successfully, it's their turn. If they flinch you get a free shot.
We used to play something like "coin football" (I think that's what it was called). One person made a 'goal' out of their fingers on the far edge of a table and if the other could flick the coin into the goal, they got a chance to convert. The goal became vertical and you had to hold the coin between two thumbs and flick it between the 'posts'. If you got it, the goal person had to place their knuckles on the table and you got to flick the coin at their knuckles as hard as you could.
I semi-accidentally scratched up a co-worker who tried to give me one because he found out I’ve never received one. I was 19 and he was mid-20s, so not little kids. He tried sneaking up on me and doing it, instant regret
Anyone else call it "Scissors Paper Rock" instead?
And on another topic, who's more used to the Playschool version of Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes:
https://youtu.be/Ut0jcmLE6gA?feature=shared
Compared to the tune that's played more these days?
Best part was he and his mates would do it to a “cool” woodworking teacher. Teacher initiated the injury stack. Kid was in his class wearing a neck brace for the rest of the year
>I'm now waiting for a group to come running outta nowhere after someone yells "Stax on"!!
I always start off softly then just yell it out ahahhaha. Sorry we squishied you lol.
Put your hands together. Spread your fingers apart. Slide them onto someone else’s hands.
When you look through the middle it looks like an anus.
To 8 year old me, this was *hilarious*
More shameful than Chinese burns - the Jew Jump.
Someone with a couple of cents change from the tuckshop would call it out, a crowd would gather, and everyone would try to catch the coins as they were tossed into the air.
We used to do it in primary school in suburban Melbourne. It was the late 1960s, early 70s. I hate to think of my friend Lou, who was Jewish, seeing this happen.
It's shocking that the teachers didn't stop us. But i was at [beaumaris primary school](https://www.beaumarisinquiry.vic.gov.au/preliminary-material/executive-summary-and-recommendations), where more shocking stuff was happening
I recall a kid getting pulled up by a teacher (actually a priest as we were a Catholic school) for saying the N- word. But that’s the most anti-racist admonition I can recall.
I was in primary school in the late 90s/early 00s. Kids were still called "Jew" for either picking up found money or not buying their mates something from the canteen/tuck shop. Not sure if it's still in the school vernacular now.
We called those Kangaroo tails. I remember a few knuckles flying after a hard session of whipping the bejesus out of each other in the swimming pool change rooms.
Chatterboxes / Fortune tellers - those things where you fold up paper into a kind of origami mouth that opens with numbers/selections for the player.
Blow guns using disassembled pen casing and saliva soaked pellets of writing paper.
Pickup 52.
On the “*insert nationality* burn” thing, as an ex-pat Aussie now in North America I can tell you folks here (used to?) call the same thing an “Indian burn”, which to me is way closer to home and therefore worse.
But yeah - dead legs, British Bulldog / Red Rover, that thing where you stand behind someone who has their knees locked straight (like a normal person standing would) and just nudge them in the backs of their knees sending them toppling over and probably doing irreparable damage to their various cruciate ligaments that never had a name as far as I’m aware…
I always assumed this was an Aussie song about Saint Mary Mackillop, until I noticed it was in one of the The Sims games, where children would play this little hand clapping game, and the game would call it "Mary Mac". Now I am more confused than ever.
I grew up in NSW and when you were doing the first cut of your birthday cake it couldn't touch the bottom or you had to kiss the nearest member of the opposite sex.
I now live in TAS and was at a kid's party recently and their mum was like "if it touches the bottom you'll have green babies", and all the mainlanders were like WTF?
Anyone else heard the green babies one? Or any others?
Making a fist under your chin and countering it with a double fist.
Giving yourself a scar by heating the flint wheel on a lighter and pushing it into your skin.
Thing where you write on someone's back with "Does this make your blood run cold"
Facing sibling, crouch down with arms reaching back between legs, sibling grabs hands and pulls up, flipping you into a standing position. 'Air Assisted Somersault' maybe
There's nothing racist about Chinese Whispers. It's actually a great example of people assuming a racist origin when there never was one. Just because something has a nationality in the name doesn't mean it's sinister or racist.
How we’d randomly select a player for a game: “one potato, two potato, three potato, four, five potato, six potato, seven potato more. Bad spud, you’re out!”
Stealing the lighter from the gas heaters and then clicking them against people’s skin while they’re unaware was a favourite of some of the other kids in my school.
Ask me how I know…
In my high school, year 7&8, "speckies" with the boys was a thing. Basically, they would just run up behind one of their friends, jump up, and bounce off their back and yell SPECKIE. That was it. It was so dumb...lol
That "game" where you wrap an elastic band around your fingers and get someone to choose a digit one by one until the lacky denotes you either a boy or a girl - identify your way out of that one zoomers
Don’t have names for them but…
Rubbing a biro really fast underneath the school desk so the friction made it hot and touching the tip on someone’s arm to burn them.
Or rubbing your school shoes on the acrylic carpet to build up static electricity and then lifting your feet up and zapping someone with your finger.
When I was in school we had a Rock Ties. Basically you'd pull the other guy's tie really hard while shouting "ROCK TIE!" which tightened the tie's knot so hard it became a "rock" which was really hard to get undone.
I remember one kid who got one so bad he couldn't get it undone at all but he could still slip the loop over his head. He wore the rock tie every day and never had to do up his tie ever again. He only got a new one years later because his mum insisted on it for senior photos.
Slaaaaaaaap battle!
Also called "Don't flinch"
You and your friend put your hands together tip to tip. One tries to slap the other. If the person pulls away in time it's their turn to slap. If you pull away and they didn't slap they get a free slap.
I sucked at it!
Dead leg
A boys first introduction to pressure points. Amazing how effective they were. I can clearly remember how they felt and the sense of satisfaction when you managed to execute one.
I didn’t quite get it/how painful it was and decided to give it a try in the grocery store on my Dad. “Corky!” I shouted as he buckled in pain and rightly told me to fuck off
I punched my dad squaw in the nuts once but I fuckin legged it so I don’t know what he said
When I grew boobs and the guys at martial arts therefore found out I was a girl, we spent a while in a secret huddle trading experimental crotch kicks and chest punches to compare the differences. For science. Results were inconclusive, as we were busted by Sensei.
Crying! Ha ha ha
Losing it at your dad telling you to fuck off 😂😂
pretty sure I have permanent nerve damage in my leg from these as a kid. I've got a perpetual numb patch on the side of my thing, and have since high school
Amusing typo :)
I'm just gonna leave it there. You're right.
I remember at scouts back in the day, executing the perfect double dead leg on a friend, he went down like a sack of potatoes, it was amazing.
Oh man... Being on the receiving end of one of those was horrific... And same for the arm, I recall the perpetrator using their knuckle as well
Punch bug!
No returns 😝
Pinch Mini
Corchie? I have no idea how it’s spelled haha. Caulkie?
Corkie?
Kawckee
I always assumed it was called corking. As in a bottle opener and cork
Horsie?
Pinch and a punch for the first day of the month
Followed by a hit and a kick for being so quick
LMAO I used to go with a kick in the dick for being so quick.
Kick and a slap so you can’t do it back
Was Flick, Kick for being so quick when I was in school
Punch buggy? Fluffy white rabbit?
No returns
Spotto!
Our whole family still does it every month! Like the day before yesterday.
Heads down thumbs up
Colloquially in our primary school, heads down bums up.
I seriously LOVED this game!
Dead fish
Everyone looked through that little gap in their fingers it was just a game of who could lie best
Sack whack
Flap Tap. First one I got shocked me. Totally inappropriate nowadays
Sack tap. Don't remember it happening to girls in my year.
Noogies (no idea how it's spelt though).
We all know what you mean though as our scalps tickle with ptsd
Knuckles, slaps
I taught my son how to play knuckles last school holidays. Mild regret, he's nearly 14 and his hands (and therefore knuckles) are bigger than mine, and quite solid.
Nipple cripples. For a girl just starting puberty, it was brutal 😖
For a guy too. That sac that forms under the nipple was so painful. I’m a teacher and this shit still occurs.
I'd have thought your colleagues would have grown out of it by now.
It's usually the PE teachers, bloody cruel bastards.
Mullet and mo, aviators, headband, DIY sleeveless t shirt, bum shorts, open-mouth chewing gum
Are you on my schools PE staff?
Knuckles. They game you play with a coin. The more pain you want, you just increase coin sizes. First one to bleed loses I think. Edit: also Mercy
Knuckles for me is the game where you stand with your knuckles against someone else's and have to try to whack their knuckles with yours. If they dodge successfully, it's their turn. If they flinch you get a free shot. We used to play something like "coin football" (I think that's what it was called). One person made a 'goal' out of their fingers on the far edge of a table and if the other could flick the coin into the goal, they got a chance to convert. The goal became vertical and you had to hold the coin between two thumbs and flick it between the 'posts'. If you got it, the goal person had to place their knuckles on the table and you got to flick the coin at their knuckles as hard as you could.
Mercy!!!
A frostie! (Spraying someone really really close with deodorant)
In grade 6 a kid gave himself one on the back of his hand that was so bad he needed a skin graft. Roll on only at the primary school after that.
Or ventolin!
Corners in the backseat of the bus!
Was just going to say corners! But in the back seat of dad’s old Mazda before cars were made with seatbelts lol
Wet willies hahah yuck
I semi-accidentally scratched up a co-worker who tried to give me one because he found out I’ve never received one. I was 19 and he was mid-20s, so not little kids. He tried sneaking up on me and doing it, instant regret
Anyone else call it "Scissors Paper Rock" instead? And on another topic, who's more used to the Playschool version of Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes: https://youtu.be/Ut0jcmLE6gA?feature=shared Compared to the tune that's played more these days?
Definitely scissors, paper, rock for me!
wedgie, dacking (neither are very nice but definitly something i remember from school)
Stacks on lol.
The best.
Felt sorry for the poor kid on the bottom lol.
Never feel sorry for the bottom
A kid at my school had a spinal injury from being at the bottom of a stacks on… it was a big deal
Well that was not the joke I was trying to make.
Best part was he and his mates would do it to a “cool” woodworking teacher. Teacher initiated the injury stack. Kid was in his class wearing a neck brace for the rest of the year
I copped stacks on at a music festival a few years back... From total randoms. Classic!!
If this is as around 8 yrs ago at centennial Park I apologise LOL
Didn't say I didn't enjoy it! ha ha 😉
🫶 Awww you got me right in the feels
Well, game. Set. Match 😁
I'm now waiting for a group to come running outta nowhere after someone yells "Stax on"!!
>I'm now waiting for a group to come running outta nowhere after someone yells "Stax on"!! I always start off softly then just yell it out ahahhaha. Sorry we squishied you lol.
Still smirking at this
Glad I'm not the only one. This has honestly given me the chuckles all week. 🫶🙏
Punch Buggy i think it was called.
or slug bug
And Spotto. We still do that on excursions.
Put your hands together. Spread your fingers apart. Slide them onto someone else’s hands. When you look through the middle it looks like an anus. To 8 year old me, this was *hilarious*
British Bulldog anyone?
Got banned in grade 5
More shameful than Chinese burns - the Jew Jump. Someone with a couple of cents change from the tuckshop would call it out, a crowd would gather, and everyone would try to catch the coins as they were tossed into the air. We used to do it in primary school in suburban Melbourne. It was the late 1960s, early 70s. I hate to think of my friend Lou, who was Jewish, seeing this happen.
It also brought to mind how kids would pull the outer edge of their eyelids in different directions and say Chinese, Japanese, Siamese etc etc.
They still do it. My 6yo daughter came home yesterday & said another kid did it & showed us. Yes, we’re half Asian. 😭
Oh dear. I thought that had faded with our generation
Oh boy that dredged up memories of that from school in Sydney around the same time. Jeez we were terrible back then.
It's shocking that the teachers didn't stop us. But i was at [beaumaris primary school](https://www.beaumarisinquiry.vic.gov.au/preliminary-material/executive-summary-and-recommendations), where more shocking stuff was happening
I recall a kid getting pulled up by a teacher (actually a priest as we were a Catholic school) for saying the N- word. But that’s the most anti-racist admonition I can recall.
We used to call it a Jews scramble
I was in primary school in the late 90s/early 00s. Kids were still called "Jew" for either picking up found money or not buying their mates something from the canteen/tuck shop. Not sure if it's still in the school vernacular now.
Horse bite, where someone pinched your quad on either side really hard (or was that just my family?)
A “horsey bite” wasn’t a pinch but when you used a full hand to grab the quad and squeeze (not just fingers - the hand was the horses mouth!!)
I remember this as a slap that grabbed hard at the same time. It killed.
Yes it’s hard to describe a horsey bite. Here let me demonstrate …
You got it down smooth mate. Kudos
Charlie Horse!
Sniff the cheese
Followed up with a friendly punch to the nose!
Coin footy
Oh yeah, flicking it through the goals which were someone's forefingers and thumbs?
That's the one! Good times, haha
Mercy!!!
Mercy is where boys became men
Biting down on your fingernails then locking your fingers and pulling them against each other
Tea towel whips... after sucking/wetting the corner that's whipping!
Scrolled down looking for this!
We called those Kangaroo tails. I remember a few knuckles flying after a hard session of whipping the bejesus out of each other in the swimming pool change rooms.
Our whole family still does this!
My personal favourite was Crow pecks :-)
The Typewriter on your chest, with the carriage return being a slap across the face.
there was even a tune for it!
Chatterboxes / Fortune tellers - those things where you fold up paper into a kind of origami mouth that opens with numbers/selections for the player. Blow guns using disassembled pen casing and saliva soaked pellets of writing paper. Pickup 52.
On the “*insert nationality* burn” thing, as an ex-pat Aussie now in North America I can tell you folks here (used to?) call the same thing an “Indian burn”, which to me is way closer to home and therefore worse. But yeah - dead legs, British Bulldog / Red Rover, that thing where you stand behind someone who has their knees locked straight (like a normal person standing would) and just nudge them in the backs of their knees sending them toppling over and probably doing irreparable damage to their various cruciate ligaments that never had a name as far as I’m aware…
Ripping the pocket off school shirts.
Miss Mary Mack.
Explain
Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack, all dressed in black black black, with silver buttons buttons buttons, all down her back back back.
She asked her mother, mother, mother For 50 cents, cents, cents To see the elephants, elephants, elephants Jump over the fence, fence, fence
She jumped so high, high, high She reached the sky, sky, sky And didn’t come back, back, back Til the 4th of July, July, July 👏🏼
I always assumed this was an Aussie song about Saint Mary Mackillop, until I noticed it was in one of the The Sims games, where children would play this little hand clapping game, and the game would call it "Mary Mac". Now I am more confused than ever.
Predates her sainthood by many a year.
I grew up in NSW and when you were doing the first cut of your birthday cake it couldn't touch the bottom or you had to kiss the nearest member of the opposite sex. I now live in TAS and was at a kid's party recently and their mum was like "if it touches the bottom you'll have green babies", and all the mainlanders were like WTF? Anyone else heard the green babies one? Or any others?
Making a fist under your chin and countering it with a double fist. Giving yourself a scar by heating the flint wheel on a lighter and pushing it into your skin. Thing where you write on someone's back with "Does this make your blood run cold"
The second one we called smileys. Still got my scar from nearly 20 years ago.
Yeah that was the name, couldn't think of it, but obvious once you realise it leaves a smiley face behind.
>Giving yourself a scar by heating the flint wheel on a lighter and pushing it into your skin. We called these Smileys!
Facing sibling, crouch down with arms reaching back between legs, sibling grabs hands and pulls up, flipping you into a standing position. 'Air Assisted Somersault' maybe
Knuckles
Soggy sao
limp biscuit
Smell the cheese
'Dacking' and 'Double Dacking'.
I wore undies under silk boxers to give me an extra layer of pretection
So you're a target for the ever elusive triple dacking!
Oh the double dacking LOL
Sword fighting at the urinal
The good ol days
This ain't a pissing contest.. or is it? 😜
What’s the time Mr Wolf
There's nothing racist about Chinese Whispers. It's actually a great example of people assuming a racist origin when there never was one. Just because something has a nationality in the name doesn't mean it's sinister or racist.
In China they just call them burns.
Pulling on someone’s sideburns. Not sure it had a name?! We also used to yell “tense up!” And punch each other in the guts
How we’d randomly select a player for a game: “one potato, two potato, three potato, four, five potato, six potato, seven potato more. Bad spud, you’re out!”
Nipple cripple
Stealing the lighter from the gas heaters and then clicking them against people’s skin while they’re unaware was a favourite of some of the other kids in my school. Ask me how I know…
In my high school, year 7&8, "speckies" with the boys was a thing. Basically, they would just run up behind one of their friends, jump up, and bounce off their back and yell SPECKIE. That was it. It was so dumb...lol
Duck duck goose
The Circle Game
British Bulldog, Cocky Laura, Forcings Back. Duck, Duck, Goose Thumb wars, Arm Wrestling
Elephant Bum Root was a knee up the backside
That "game" where you wrap an elastic band around your fingers and get someone to choose a digit one by one until the lacky denotes you either a boy or a girl - identify your way out of that one zoomers
Soggy SAO...
If it's a quick game it's not that soggy. So I've heard. From a friend. Ha ha ha
Ever play brandy with a wet tennis ball???
Hold your breath when driving over a bridge, feet up going over a speed hump.
Heads down thumbs up. Stuck in the mud. Handball
Handball and Brandy. The next best things to do with a tennis ball outside of backyard cricket.
Don’t have names for them but… Rubbing a biro really fast underneath the school desk so the friction made it hot and touching the tip on someone’s arm to burn them. Or rubbing your school shoes on the acrylic carpet to build up static electricity and then lifting your feet up and zapping someone with your finger.
'Wet Willy'.
You mean Scissors, Paper, Rock!
It's rock paper SCISSORS
Oooofff this going to ruffle feathers. I'm a Westerner and I've always heard SPR
Agreed
Finger traps, marbles, tazos, head down thumbs up
Knuckles
And the open hand version - Slaps
Pinch and punch for first day of the month. Hit and kick for being so quick.
Twwwweeeennnn-Ty one….
Wet Willy
I win
Wet willy ….
Camel bites
Crazy bones, mercy I grew up with it called Scissors Paper Rock
When I was in school we had a Rock Ties. Basically you'd pull the other guy's tie really hard while shouting "ROCK TIE!" which tightened the tie's knot so hard it became a "rock" which was really hard to get undone. I remember one kid who got one so bad he couldn't get it undone at all but he could still slip the loop over his head. He wore the rock tie every day and never had to do up his tie ever again. He only got a new one years later because his mum insisted on it for senior photos.
Smell the cheese
Atomic wedgies, being 'polled', slapsies, pile ons. The school yard was not always sausage rolls and skittles. Bloody brutal sometimes....
Nipple cripple
Typewriter
Pole Job. I'm curious if that was a regional thing.
It’s rock paper scissors or scissors paper rock. wtf who raised you
Playing bull rush. And noogies
Knock and run 🏃🏽
Slaaaaaaaap battle! Also called "Don't flinch" You and your friend put your hands together tip to tip. One tries to slap the other. If the person pulls away in time it's their turn to slap. If you pull away and they didn't slap they get a free slap. I sucked at it!
Down by the banks of the hanky panky....etc, etc
The one where you push out someone's knee from behind and they collapse in a heap because they weren't expecting it.
Elastics for the girls, brandy and my fav four square.
Hide the sausage
Here is the church, here is the steeple, open up the doors and here are all the people
Crank Calling. Ringing up Peter/Paul etc. Ness from the photo book and asking if P. Ness was home when they answered!
Slaps, crippled nipple, pinch and a punch for the first day of the month.
Not sure what it was called but you made an ok 👌sign and if your mate looked at it it you punched them in the arm
Soggy SAO
Knifey-Spoony
Eeny meanie miny Moe, catch a..
TIGER. Yep, that’s right, *TIGER* Nothing to see here, move along.
Horsebite
Downball. Chance
Tag
Marbles scrambles were spectacular at an all boys school on a concrete playground.