The fight back against namby-pamby nanny state socialism continues!

[nodrog:Me]

Ha Ha, if you're not careful you'll get it again for spelling and puncuation !!!

yeah my speling isnt two flash, but yoo shod sea me hotwire a tractor, good ole Norfland edumuckation.

[The Pastor]

so what is bullrush? I remember talking about it at school......

[imdying]

Bit like thugby but without the ball.

[avgas]

My kids play it now.They just carry a ball and call it rugby.

are they overpaid too?

[avgas]

Bunch of redneck assholes who obviously don't think about anything beyond their tiny limp dicks....

Te Awamutu? Turangi?
Where you talking about?

[Sparrowhawk]

Sorry mate, much more libertarian... Less government intrusion in our life, more personal responsibility...

THAT I agree with!!

[Badjelly]

Bullrush was banned at the school I first taught in as a year one teacher (1975) after the ten thousandth kid busted a collarbone and/or arm etc...the list of injuries was, quite truly, too high a price to pay...so the game was stopped. I doubt that anyone in a position of responsibility could let that sort of injury rate continue unless they were some kind of idiot. Believe it kiddies, the injuries were very very common and not just minor scrapes and bruises......the game had to be stopped.......this was in rural mid Northland BTW.....and they did play it on the asphalt come to think of it......among other places....

And yet it never had to be stopped in the century before that?

Kids' games follow fashions and sometimes they get out of hand. Instead of banning rough games like bullrush for ever, how about curbing the excesses as and when necessary? Eg: No bullrush on the asphalt? No bullrush for a few months while things calm down? No it had to be stopped because safety isn't only important, it's the only thing that's imporrtant.

[Dooly]

Man I loved bullrush at school.
I used to like being one of the first in the middle. Was neat watching everyone run towards you, you lined up a victim and whammo.......was excellent tackling practice for rugby.

[slofox]

im from a mid Norfland school where bullrush got banned. did you ever give the strap to a standard 3 boy for knocking out a standard 4 pupil and throwing him in the effluent drain next to the main road? if so i would like to say that that farkin shit hurts man, and look out im bigger now

WASSN' ME!!!!!!! I was not in the habit of using the strap anyway...and we had no effluent drain near the school....but I would have liked to see that feat of yours.....

[slofox]

And yet it never had to be stopped in the century before that?

Kids' games follow fashions and sometimes they get out of hand. Instead of banning rough games like bullrush for ever, how about curbing the excesses as and when necessary? Eg: No bullrush on the asphalt? No bullrush for a few months while things calm down? No it had to be stopped because safety isn't only important, it's the only thing that's imporrtant.

I think what killed it at that particular school was the gruesome compound fracture that happened to be the third fracture in one week........and who said it was banned forever? Not me......
And don't think we hadn't tried to tame the game......but it WAS Northland after all...ask Nodrog!!

[Badjelly]

And yet it never had to be stopped in the century before that?

Kids' games follow fashions and sometimes they get out of hand. Instead of banning rough games like bullrush for ever, how about curbing the excesses as and when necessary? Eg: No bullrush on the asphalt? No bullrush for a few months while things calm down? No it had to be stopped because safety isn't only important, it's the only thing that's imporrtant.

I think what killed it at that particular school was the gruesome compound fracture that happened to be the third fracture in one week........and who said it was banned forever? Not me......

How dare you respond to my eloquence with facts?!

But I get the impression bullrush is widely banned to appease the great god Safety. So what I said still stands, I think, though perhaps it doesn't apply to the case you were talking about.

[alanzs]

Te Awamutu? Turangi?
Where you talking about?

No place in particular, but if the location fits....

[alanzs]

THAT I agree with!!

And riding motorcycles...

[slofox]

But I get the impression bullrush is widely banned to appease the great god Safety.

Oh yes, you are right there BJ.....e.g when I was teaching we had no safety stuff under the jungle gyms and adventure playgrounds - worked on the theory that it discouraged falling off if there was hard ground beneath. And funnily enough, very few kids busted their bums on those things....it is only in more recent times that things like OSH have come along and turned everyone into victims....if some kid climbs your tree on your property and falls out of it and stubs his/her toe it is YOUR fault for having the tree, NOT the bloody kid's fault...that sort of mentality totally makes me PUKE!!! Dammit, we climbed everyone's trees with or without permission and if we fell out we got the hiding for trespassing and being stupid enough to fall out anyway......nobody is expected to take responsibility for their own actions any more. F**king stupid in my opinion.....grrsnortrantraveoinksqueeeellllll!!!!