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[Novania]

Oh a shuttle cock, that's stupid, we would hit each other with our cocks all the time in PE


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That post combined with your avatar is the scariest sh*t i have ever seen....

 

[Lonan]

It can hurt like a paintball from 2 feet away. In the back (one of the grade 12's at my school, one of our supposed "leaders") did that to me, and I was hit even harder with a birdie once. It can definitely do some damage. Not every everyone does casual serves to each other.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

I'm saddened by the lack of empathy displayed in this thread.

 

[Shockolate]

My school has banned dodgeball in Gym class because some random kid broke their glasses. Needless to say, I was pissed by my not being able to play the one game that made Gym fun.

-Grumble grumble-

While never actually losing the entirety of dodgeball out my old school, we DID ban the really good rubber dodgeballs because a girl got hit in the face by the strongest thrower in the class. I got hit in the face by the same guy and we both just laughed. She really did get hurt, but I was a bit miffed because our foam balls were shit.

I remember in grade school though that our favorite game Wall Burner got banned because pedestrians kept walking infront of our playing area and getting hit. To be fair though our areas usually got bigger because we got farther and farther away from the wall.

For those who might be wondering, as it probably has a different name, Wall Burner was where you throw a tennis ball at the wall (Durr) if someone catches, you have to stand on the wall. If your throw doesnt hit the wall, you gotta touch the wall before someone else hits the wall with the ball, or your out. God damn we loved that game.

I remember some of my most epic moments in school being based on Dodge ball.

At one point we were playing Doctor Dodgeball (if you're hit, you sit down. The 'doctor' then tags you and you're back in. If the doctor is out, no one can get up again.) And it got down to the entire enemy team against just 2 of us. The doctor was out. My buddy decided to go suicidal and run off to the right. The entire other team swarmed after him and he got promptly bombarded with dodgeballs. At that time I decided his sacrifice would not be in vain (There was a second rule. There were baskets all around the gym so if someone was to make a basket on the opposite side of the gym with the dodgeball, everyone on their side came in again and everyone on the enemy team had to sit down 'cept the doctor.)

I used all my strength to hurl the dodge ball across the gym and I swished it! Everyone on my team came running in cheering and the other team just sat there for a second in amazement.

I feel so sorry for the newer generation. They won't be able to know such a feeling of epicness.

Try winning the school-wide class versus class dodgeball tournament by defeating the opposing class with atleast 15 people left on it all by yourself.......TWICE!!! It was best 2 out of three and I smoked them both times. The entire school saw one man stomp the grade 12 males gym class all by himself.

I have always been athletic, but I was also always the sleeper. Good at everything, but the one no one notices. There was much respect knuckles.

 

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Try winning the school-wide class versus class dodgeball tournament by defeating the opposing class with atleast 15 people left on it all by yourself.......TWICE!!! It was best 2 out of three and I smoked them both times. The entire school saw me kick the shit out of them.

I have always been athletic, but I was also always the sleeper. Good at everything, but the one no one notices.

Yea. I've never been the athletic type but I was always the best Dodger in dodgeball, meaning I would often be the last person in. The opposing team would often get so pissed about my meaningless stretching out of the games that they would purposely aim for me early in the game.

Dodgeball is the one game that made me feel like I could do something, like I was contributing, and that could allow me to enjoy a sport. The loss of Dodgeball for this generation is one of the saddest realizations I've had.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

There has to be more to the story, to get expelled for hitting someone with the birdie/shuttlecock is the pretty lame. I mean seriously they don't even hurt when you get hit with them.

Maybe he hit him with the racket and then shoved his shuttlecock up his ass down his throat or something.

The innuendo in this post is almost too much to bear.

Like a sledgehammer to the face, just imagine what the world would be like if I was a diplomat.

 

[KimberlyGoreHound]

I got clunked with baseball bats, bludgeoned by baseballs and volleyballs, and got in fistfights, and this kid complains over a fucking shuttlecock? I hate to think that in the 5 years I've been out of elementary school, things have changed this much.

 

[Danny Ocean]

I personally think kids today are wimps and are too sensititve, but what do u fellow escapists believe

Edit: a birdy is the thing u play batt mitten with:http://www.topnews.in/sports/files/badminton.jpg

The kid didn't threaten the other with expulsion, the headmaster did, for fear of reprisal from parents if he did nothing.

It's the parents. People get hurt. It happens. Let it go, for god sake.

 

[Icecoldcynic]

Dodgeball got ruined at my school the instant they introduced the catching rule. Since we used crappy foam balls, it was literally impossible to get any real speed on them, so it actually became MORE risky to throw the ball! The only way to avoid them being caught was to just roll them across the floor, since any time the ball had any time in the air, someone would just snatch it out of the air and you'd be out.

Destroyed the game in my opinion. It's called dodgeball, not catchball.

 

[reg42]

Expelled? You know what would happen if I did that in my school? It'd get taken away. That's it.
Expelled? Jesus Christ, that's fucking lunacy!

 

[mokes310]

Fear the shuttlecock!

 

[Twad]

Its not about the kids who cry.

Its about what they will tell their parents.

Spoiled kids. Misguided, moody parents who are tired to hear their spoiled kid whine about everything.

 

[The_Decoy]

...He was stupid enough to wear his glasses in Dodgeball?...

Hey, I wore my glasses in dodgeball! Two reasons:

1) I can't see past my own wrist without them. A person on the other side of the gym would be largely indistinguishable from the wall.

2) my tactic in any sport (and life in general) involves not being hit in the face by fast moving objects.

Anyways On Topic: yeah, shuttlecocks don't travel fast, so I guess this is a bit extreme. And,as has previously been stated, no one got punished over what happened to us; we were supposed to be practising passing in basketball when someone hurled it at their partner and dislocated/ broke their pinky and ringfinger. Nothing was done about it, the boy just ended up in A&E. Fun times.

 

[T-Bone24]

Edit: a birdy is the thing u play batt mitten with:http://www.topnews.in/sports/files/badminton.jpg

"Batt mitten"? I hate to be a nitpick, now, but it's spelled out in the link you posted! "Badminton".

Anyway, on topic, I have more of an issue of the whole "being expelled" thing for being hit with a shuttlecock. Those things weigh, what, nothing? They could not possibly hurt, and if that kid cried, it's really pathetic. I don't think today's youth are wimps, funnily enough, like everyone else, they're all different!

 

[walls of cetepedes]

Hey, I wore my glasses in dodgeball! Two reasons:

1) I can't see past my own wrist without them. A person on the other side of the gym would be largely indistinguishable from the wall.

2) my tactic in any sport (and life in general) involves not being hit in the face by fast moving objects.

Heh. I concede.
Good points.

That kid obviously didn't have the whole "not getting hit in the face" thing down.

 

[Eri]

Don't youmean "shuttlecock" not birdy

Maybe next time, you should make sure the same thing doesn't have different names for different cultures before saying "no youre wrong"

OT: I'm not sure who I should be worried more for, the kid who is getting expelled, or the kid who cried like a ***** over being hit by cock.

 

[RanD00M]

What a wuss.
I once got hit in the eye with a snowball that was mostly ice.I did cry,but most people would.
And what happened to the kid that threw it? Nothing at all.Why? Because I just cried for a little while and then I joined the snowball fight again.