"Rough and tumble games dying out"
Traditional childhood pastimes such as climbing trees playing in the park and swimming in a lake are all things of the past a study has found..."
(small snippet, not archived).
This is a conker fight, does the USA do this?In the same issue was a story of an English Town Council placing the following notice on the trunk of a horsechestnut tree because a conker had fallen on the head of a passing schoolgirl.
The Telegraph are slack twats and have yet to archive this but the local papers have picked up on it.
Council 'bonkers' for conkers alert
We learn about conkers before we can read and they are a good thing because they improve mind-body co-ordination both in the game itself and in the collection of said conkers by throwing branches and rocks into the branches to make them fall down. Everyone KNOWS THIS aged about 4 or 5..
It gets worse.
"Killjoy officials accused of 'nanny state' madness as they take children's conkers"
"Rather than risk children damaging themselves or property by collecting conkers, Newcastle Upon Tyne City Council is responding to residents' requests to get to them first.
Conker thieves.Residents requests my arse. NO member of the British public would make any such request since we ALL did it in our childhood.
Martin Callanan, the north-east's Tory MEP, said: "Words fail me. It's the nanny state gone mad. I used to collect conkers as a lad and I never injured myself and nor did any of my friends.
"Children do get injured climbing trees and it is laudable the council wishes to stop that happening but there must be better things they could do with their time. They could clean the streets for a start."
London Evening Standard on Conkers Bonkers
To be fair, the Council that stole the conkers did deliver them to schools to enable conker fighting (but it ain't the same as getting your own), no doubt dished out to ensure gender and racial equality. But the Council that posted the "BEWARE" notice stuck it on the tree itself, thus requiring you to place yourself in "danger" of falling conkers in order to read it.
4 comments:
Conker fighting ??? Nope not here.
Our "Nannies" are taking the kids shoe laces away here. They just can't let the little dears trip and hurt themselves.
Fuckwits.
Sorry, that's all I've got.
Pathetic is really the word for it Banned. Never ever did I climb a tree to get a conker, as I just looked on the ground and I've never been hit by a falling conker in my life.
Pathetic - School of Frankfurt mate I'm sorry to say.
"Residents requests my arse. NO member of the British public would make any such request since we ALL did it in our childhood."
You forget that we now have 2 generations with no common sense. All it would have taken is for a SINGLE complaint by some fuckwit busybody for the council to leap into action (or a cherry picker).
This country is a radically different place from the one that you and I grew up in....
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