How did we ever survive the 80s/90s? The games we used to play at home were actually deadly and while there were plenty of stitches, broken bones and severed fingers (sorry Niamh), they were the good aul days.
Yesterday on Snapchat, Fergynad send me a photo of his little girl, who was looking all gorgeous and gummy, waiting for the Tooth Fairy. And she's a brave little one; she allowed him to tie a string to her tooth and then to the door and the wobbly tooth came flying out when he slammed the door.
I haven't heard of anyone doing this since the late 80s; in fact, for all I know it may have been made illegal. Games were way, way more dangerous back in the day and almost everyone has a tale of times their siblings tried to kill them.
**Please don't allow any children to try most of these; some are so dangerous they'll make your eyes water and wonder how these listeners are still alive**
- “Morning Paula how's it going. I convinced my older brother that a golf umbrella was just as good as a parachute and got him to jump off the garden shed. He's 3 years older than me and really should've known better!” - Ray listening in Limerick
- “Tied a rope 2 the back of a bike and was told 2pedal like hell. Flew over handlebars!” - Paul Mullingar
- “Hammering a rusty nail out of the wall. My brother on standby. It landed vertically in his mouth.”
- “I grew up in Birmingham and my siblings made me play chicken with the traffic on the busy dual carriageways of Brum en route to school! Jesus when I think of it now frightening!” - Birmingham lad
- “Good morning Paula myself and my older brother used to go everywhere on a bicycle, usually with me on the cross bar. One day going down a very steep lane with no brakes on the bike, my brother jumped off the bike and left me go straight into a pile of nettles. The pain was unreal! Now to name and shame him... Kevin Foley!”
- “Hey Paula we used to use around feeder for feeding cattle like a hamster wheel. Running down the hill with it was great fun until one of the girls fell and broke her pelvis”
- “Hi Paula. My aunt’s house had train tracks outside her house in Wicklow. We would run out and sellotape 10p and 5p coins to the track so the train would squash them together. Great times!”
- “Paula, many moons ago whilst in the midst of a squabble, with my sister, she sat on my head in a desperate effort to win this battle. I couldn’t breathe so left with no other choice, I bit her arse as hard as I could haha! Oh boy, that did the trick but I got in some shizzle for it! Great show!” - Mylo in Tipp
- “Morning Paula. My brother and myself used to cycle past a slow moving tractor. One day I got out in front of it before him so when he got around it he pushed me into the hedge broke my front teeth and bent the bike wheel. The crack we had. Out in the morning, home when hungry. How times have changed!”
- “Morning Paula, myself and my sisters used to slide down our stairs in a baby-bath. There was a sharp turn in and you would have to try and get to the bottom, onto the landing before the one at the bottom would slam the door shut. When we got better at it 2 of us would go in the bath. It was great we still talk about it now. This was in the 70s!” - Love Jacky in Mayo xxx '
- “Good morning Paula love the show listen in from 6 - 7 every morning on the way up to work. When I was younger me and my sister were mess fighting next thing I know bamb she hit me a heal kick to the face and knocked my two front teeth out!”
- “Morning Paula, we used make younger brother sit on a 6 foot high wall and try knock him off backwards with a soccer ball - how his neck is not broken is a miracle!” - Brian in Kilkenny
- “Paula, my younger sister is 8 years younger than me. My older brother and I threw her through a window once, via the “Leg and a wing method”. In a later incident, she jumped through the same window, as she may or may not have being chased by me. She also received stitches in her ear due to an in-house biking incident that I, again, may or may not have been involved in. #saynothing!!” - Larry from Waterford
- “Paula after watching an action movie, myself and my brother decided to replay the scene so he pushed me and I proceeded to dive through a glass door panel and survived with scratches lol!”
- “Hi Paula, we played all sorts of wrestling & general fighting games, but the worst one we played wasn't fighting at all. We used to put each other in an old cement mixer and turn it on. Several broken teeth and a few bad head injuries as a result. But great fun!” – Michelle
- “Morning Paula.! When I was 10 years old , my brother and I were herding cows into the shed on a particularly bad winter's night. He told me to pick the hailstone out of the cow's fur to keep her warm. I can still remember the kick from the cow as I went flying out the shed door!” - Sean in Tralee
- “Paula. After watching a Star Wars movie, I stuck the poker in the fire till it was red hot, took it out and switched of the lights. Ta Daaaaa – a light sabre! I was swinging it around the sitting room fighting all the bad guys. Then Darth Vader (my little brother) came in. I had to defeat him. Don’t know how it happened but I ended up branding him with the poker into his face cheek. Man did I get in trouble that day!” - Paul
- “Morning Paula. When we were children, we stretched a blanket between two pieces of furniture and told the youngest (3) that it was a trampoline and had her test it. 3 stitches on her forehead!” - Paul in Maynooth
- “Hi Paula. We used to have eating competition - who can eat the most food. I actually ate so much that my stomach burst! 2 weeks in hospital!” - Dave from Tipp
- “Hi Paula. My older brother thought he was great at darts. He convinced my other brother to spread his hand across the dart board and that he would get the darts between his fingers. Needless to say hand firmly pinned to board!” - Alan Celbridge
- “Morning Paula. My sister "accidentally" threw a dart as I walked passed and it lodged in my ass cheek. I slowly walked and cried to my Mom. I was 10.” - Annette Cork
- “Hi Paula when me and my brother were fighting when we were younger I threw a dart that lodged in his head. He kept it secret for years till his best mans speech at my wedding. My Mam’s face!!” - Stephen (Dublin)
- “Morning Paula ,my older brother and his best friend decided it would be great fun to cut my hair with the hedge clippers. Upon seeing the job they did, I picked up my hurley, swung violently and broke my brother’s nose. Needless to say, I got my ass kicked by my dad! When truth came out a small time later, the brother got a worse one... sweet!” - Peter in Cork
- “Paula, neighbours of ours used to play chasing with an old dart. Whichever brother was on would run round with the dart till he stuck it in someone!” - Anthony in Cork
- “Hi Paula, my brother and sister were always fighting. One day he threw the remote down the stairs and hit her between the two eyes leaving her with a huge bruise. The following day our other sister was called out if her class and asked if there was 'problems at home'. The teachers thought our parents were battering us. Told that story at his wedding a few weeks ago. Still laugh about it!” - Dave in Longford
- “Myself and my cousin got into a hedge to see what the blade of the hedge cutter looked like from within. The operator copped us as it went over our heads by about 2 foot. He stopped and shouted at us and we ran off and gave him the fingers. The stupidity of youth!” – Alan
- “When I was a baby in the cot, my older brother used to deposit coins in my mouth like I was a vending machine.” - Mick
- “Hi Paula. I remember when we had freezing temperatures, we would throw down basins of water on our footpath, let it freeze then hide in my bedroom and watch the carnage as people walked onto the ice!”
- “Hey Paula, me and my older brother used to take thorns from the thorn bush at our bus stop while we waited from the bus to school. We then proceeded to stab our friends on the bus with them. It all escalated into our friends bringing on pins so they could defend themselves! To say our mother wasn't impressed is an understatement!” - Joe Wicklow
- “Hi... when we were kids we used to have a rotating washing line that we used to spin around on. But to reach it we used to have to stand on a table. As I was patiently waiting my turn, my brother swung around and kicked me off the table. I face planted the edge of the concrete path in the garden, knocking out teeth and lots of bruises...I looked like I had gone ten rounds with Ali!” – Ciaran
- “Hey Paula we used to all stand in a line holding hands and the first guy would catch the electric fence some crack had!” - Fintan at the slate quarries.
- “I still have the scar on my arm when my older sister stabbed me with a knife as I tried to steal a sausage of the frying pan one Saturday morning when I was about 12!” - T
