nothing filled me with more dread in primary school than the realisation that I had left my P.E. kit at home and would have to parade down the corridor and to the main hall in my pants and tshirt. Was there anything more humiliating?
Also, I remember my first P.E. lesson of secondary school. We were told to put on our brand new gym knickers (why can't I wear my shorts or netball skirt?) and go through to the gym. You're nervous, you don't know many people, you're 12,you're super self-concious, you walk into the gym and there are the year 8 boys waiting for the co-ed lesson to begin. This has stayed with me for 14 years now. Therapy?
Well, I remember having to wear a pair of dirty has been
lost property PE shorts, so being in skants wasn't that bad...
SCREW THAT, FORGET ABOUT THAT.
Luckily I never forgot my PE kit in all my years, for this reason. I was very rememberful. And scared. I liked laughing at those that had though.
I bet it's illegal to do that now
also see P.E. teachers who watched you go through the showers.
this indeed ^
I used to hide in the bogs, stand on the seat and get changed stand on that and silently creep out to the sink and splash water on my face and wet my hair.. it was ok, it was training to be a secret agent.
I had seen the P.E teacher force people to undress then he would pick them up and throw them in the showers and make sure the washed!
the same guy that would do 'circuit training' .. for boys only! and he would often say "if you want you can take your t shirts off"
He was also a fundamentalist Christain and was the most feared teacher.
He also cried once when nobody did the R.E homework.
^this.
Those that forgot at my school just didn't do P.E. and sat around watching and making snide remarks.
Yeah and you forgot your trainers
so you had to do it in your school shoes. Then they got red ash all over them. Then you fell over on the blaze pitch and got horrible blaze pitch STUFF all in your knee and ugh. Blaze pitches are the worst creation ever.
What in the name of Hugh Scully is a 'blaze pitch'?
Is this just Scottish for field? You accept it'll have been torched by neds so you just call them all that anyway?
No, they make you play
football on a burning pitch these days. That's why this country is failing to produce good young talent.
It's like sort of grit
a sea of red horrible ash/grit type stuff. Like imagine if the red foamy stuff they have underneath swings was made out of rocks. That sort of consistency. It's horrible. It completely scrapes your knees off if you fall.
That kind of pretend astroturf
you only tend to see on five a side pitches?
Sounds like one of those veteran baseball players.
We had a
'trog box'. A cardboard box full of abandoned, stained, stretched and ripped pe kit that you'd be forced to wear if you forgot your own. Absolutely horrifying.
^
brilliant.
we had similar
though it was referred to as the bargain bucket.
both valid terms
the turin shroud
was actually discovered in the biblical version of the bargain bucket.
i got a quality pair of joggers
out of our lost property box. and i still have them to this day. brilliant.
sometimes i think i had a tough time as a boy at school
and then i hear about what it must have been like as a girl and i suddenly feel much better.
you will never understand the terror
of gym knicks.
the only memories i have of gym knicks
are as a 16 year old and they are thoroughly good memories.
Wait... you're a girl
How was that ever allowed? That's weird. Oh, the olden days.
Because seeing underdeveloped flaps is illegal
but an underdeveloped sexy acorn isn't?
I have no words
Wanna see my mighty oak?
I have no words
I went to a pub called the mighty oak last night
It was underground and really awesome.
so it's ok to make boys
parade around in their pants?
nah
but boxer shorts are obviously a lot less revealing than girl-pants.
do 8 year olds wear
boxers?
?
Girl pants come in a wide variety of types. Or is it all thongs these days? In my day, girls still wore bloomers.
And petticoats?
And trainer bras!
Bras that look like trainers?
Nike Pair Max?
Reebok Humps?
Ummm....
British Norks?
This part of the thread should be cordoned off by SOCO.
We've murdered comedy, right here.
its just wrong really isnt it
What?
When we didn't have our kit we just had to either (a) wear the smelly ones they had spare of (b) have to do homework because the kit they had was too small.
For me it was always the latter. Rejoice for being 6ft 6" aged 15 :)
I fucking hated PE
The fire alarm going off when you are in the middle of a swimming lesson :(
*shudder*
Ha! Yeah, that was a right laugh
It was a drill.
A fucking drill!
It would be OK if it was a real fire, but no, a PE class scarred for life, for no good reason.
You had a swimming pool?
I'm such prole scum
^this
we had to go to a local pool which was horrible and the learner pool was about a foot deep
The swimming pool
was far from luxurious. We also had the fattest PE teacher ever, if someone was drowning she wouldn't have been able to do a thing. Except maybe bob up and down on the surface.
No-one could enforce PE kits in my school
I was a solitary Chelsea shirt in a sea of Arsenal and Man Utd red
Tory
I'M SOFT ON YOBS
I'M HARD ON CRIME
I'VE GOT A HARD ON FOR CRIME
I once 'forgot' my PE kit
as I had these real snazzy y fronts that I wanted to show off. They had all these crazy switches, dials and a laser gun in a holster printed on them.
i regularly had to springboard the horse with my little underdeveloped todger hanging out.
Still do.
DOG IN THE PLAYGROUND
FIRE ALARM
SOMEBODY COMING IN TO SPEAK ABOUT FIRE SAFETY
WHEN IT SNOWS AND YOU THROW ONE SNOWBALL THEN ARE ALL CALLED IN
PLAYING FOOTBALL IN THE RAIN
THEN HAVING TO SIT IN CLASS WITH ITCHY-TROUSER SYNDROME
DAY TRIP TO THE PAPER RECYCLING PLANT
GOLDEN TIME AT 2:30 ON A FRIDAY
BRING IN A GAME
YOUR MUM FORGETTING TO PICK YOU UP SO YOU HAVE TO SIT IN THE JANITORS ROOM
THE JANITOR JOKING WITH THE SPORTY BOYS BUT BEING MEAN TO YOU
GETTING HOME AND CRYING, JUST CRYING
SO ALONE
ALONE
SOCIAL PROTEST?
Social protest was really a reaction rather than an action
I just didn't like how the primary educational system operated at that time, you know man?
Are you in scrubs?
PAINTING WIV POTATOESSSS.
ALL THE CATHOLIC KIDS DOING THEIR COMMUNION
SO YOU AND THE MUSLIM KIDS ARE OSTRACISED AND MADE TO DO "WORKSHEETS"
HAVING AN EXISTENTIAL BREAKDOWN AGED 11
CONSIDERING TAKING UP CATHOLICISM TO HAVE FRIENDS AGAIN
SO ALONE
:D
i didn't like getting changed because of my big fat HELLBELLY
Jesus without the suffering, eh?
yeah it would be ok if i had been in ISOLATION!
Just as long as you hide the KNIVES.
Um...James Joyce is fucking my sister?
I have just remembered that one day in year 2
when we were told to get changed for PE, my friend Leah must have forgotten that she was not a home and got naked. A bit worse than calling your teacher mum.
Leah-ve her alone!
I almost did that once.
I was thinking we were going swimming.
those were the days when you just got changed
in the classroom too. I've had many a nightmare when I've been naked in a classroom, but she did it for real.
:D
when i was at school
i always did P.E. in super-short shorts that left nothing to the imagination.
trampolining was awesome because my junk would be bouncing around everywhere and everyone would be looking at me.
the mental image i have is distressing
Too much junk in the trunk?
Bump Bump Bump Bump Bump
GETTING A LIFT HOME WITH YOUR FRIENDS MUM
SILENCE ALL THE WAY HOME
GOING IN "MUM MODE"
"THANKYOU MRS CAIRNEY. BY LIAM"
SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS
TREAT THEM NICELY
You forgot: SUBSTITUTE TEACHER HAS A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
AND REFUSES TO TEACH 7IG EVER AGAIN
When i went to big school...
I got my old lady to get me some cycling shorts insted of normal ones. Firstly because i'd seen George Hagi wearing some under his football shorts, but also because i was scared of my cock and balls hanging out. This was a big mistake.
I remember begging my Mum
to get me cycling shorts because Summer in Baywatch had some. I also remember asking why you couldn't see her pantie line and her explaining that she probably didn't wear any. I was 9. I was disgusted.
Our PE kit consisted of gym knickers
and a tshirt, no exceptions allowed, even in the freezing cold. The worst thing was doing high jump in PE pants...horrible memories!
ALWAYS ONE KID THAT SMELLS OF SOUR MILK AND WOTSITS
ALWAYS ONE KID THAT COMES BACK AFTER A SERIOUS ILLNESS AND YOU HAVE TO TREAT EXTRA-KINDLEY
EXTRA KIDNEY??
PANTS AND VEST!
good job everyone wore a vest back then.
I think it was worse at secondary school where you had to borrow a kit out of the rancid bin of old sweaty smelly PE kits that were never washed.
If you had forgotten your towel you had to use one of these as your towel too.
I don't think we ever had this
We must have had a 'no kit, can't play' rule.
Oh, wait, I did forget my swimming trunks once and have to do it in my rugby shorts. No idea why I had rugby shorts in my swimming kit bag, mind.
And one day I'll recount how I once walked into an (empty) girls' changing room by accident. Although I feel I've already telegraphed the main points.
I'm still pretty much in the dark.