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Thread ID: 102315 2009-08-15 04:42:00 Common sense prevails in some of our schools somebody (208) PC World Chat
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801231 2009-08-15 04:42:00 It's great to see a return to letting kids be kids, rather than wrapping them up in cotton wool: www.stuff.co.nz somebody (208)
801232 2009-08-15 05:15:00 :thumbs:

Edit: Rather ironically, this (www.kiwiblog.co.nz) turned up in my feedreader immediately after reading this thread...
Erayd (23)
801233 2009-08-15 07:53:00 I used to enjoy our games of bullrush in primary school in the sixties, until they banned it. Part of the reason was the damage to clothes but this may have been simply the reason given to the kids at the time.

Interestingly, we always knew it as barbardor, not as bullrush. This was in Chch. Did anyone else know it by this name?
user (1404)
801234 2009-08-15 08:14:00 We called it 'Running across' - in the '50s. Same game, but not banned... R.M. (561)
801235 2009-08-15 08:57:00 We used to call it Bullrush.

Not bannned.

1959 or so.

I had never heard it called by another name.
Sweep (90)
801236 2009-08-15 16:19:00 I used to enjoy our games of bullrush in primary school in the sixties, until they banned it. Part of the reason was the damage to clothes but this may have been simply the reason given to the kids at the time.

Interestingly, we always knew it as barbardor, not as bullrush. This was in Chch. Did anyone else know it by this name?

I enjoyed it in primary school in the late 90s/year 2000. Also in 3rd and 4th form in 01/02.

At primary it was banned in my final year but we still played it, at secondary there were no issues with it to my knowledge.
Kindel (6640)
801237 2009-08-15 19:46:00 Interestingly, we always knew it as barbardor, not as bullrush. This was in Chch. Did anyone else know it by this name?

I thought it was called "bar the door" in North Canterbury.
John H (8)
801238 2009-08-15 20:37:00 I thought it was called "bar the door" in North Canterbury.

That name makes sense. Perhaps we got a misheard name for it?
user (1404)
801239 2009-08-15 21:50:00 In Northern Rhodesia we called it Red Rover. zqwerty (97)
801240 2009-08-15 22:02:00 In England we called it British Bulldog I'm sure it's the same game we used to play at scouts and occasionally school through the 70's gary67 (56)
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