Law of the Playground

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sock mi lad!

Original ID   : 5341
Created On    : 2005-11-04
Last Modified : 2005-12-02


This was a game played in the changing rooms, after the class had spent an hour and a half running around in freezing mud. Proceedings would commence by flinging a wet muddy sock into the air. If the sock landed on someone, there would follow a cry of, “Uuurgh! You got sock, mi lad!”, and the game would continue.

There were only two possible end scenarios to this game. Either somebody would get beaten up, or a fight would break out. In either instance, acts of violence will be largely ignored by the games teacher, in a “let them sort it out amongst themselves” kind of way, faintly reminiscent of the interracial basketball match scene in the film Scum .

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