The Milner Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 Aaah, see, we in the "Dubford Masseeev" never did this, most of the Gardens round here have 4-5 foot fences, pretty difficult to scale when you are about 8-12 (that was when I got up to the other Hi-Jinks instead of playing playstation like the fat kid I am). We stuck to budding, chickenellie, kerbie and water fights in Scotstown Moor, they were awesome.ah dubford was never good for this, too many hills and rich people, the Newburghs is where this game was at its best, lots of tiny backgarden fences and little walls seperating gardens. (not that im still into that kinda thing....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbroken Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 ah dubford was never good for this, too many hills and rich people, the Newburghs is where this game was at its best, lots of tiny backgarden fences and little walls seperating gardens. (not that im still into that kinda thing....)I miss arsing around in BOD. good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogofish Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 Even from Maryculter you'd be looking 10-15 mins walk, over the bridge another 10-15 mins, I'd say walking half an hour to destroy something to be an conserted effort!Dunno. Back in the day, we used to walk/cycle several miles just to climb the fence and explore the place - It sat unused for a few years between completion and opening whillst the then owners sorted out a variety various planning/licencing issues. Turns out the local planners knew them well - as chancers..Never indulged in any vandalism though. We liked being able to come back, more or less any time. Liked the shooting range in the woods at the back too. We got up to all sorts with the discarded shotgun cartridges we found there. Don't think they would get away with being so sloppy today. o_O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 I miss arsing around in BOD. good times.indeed they were, we had a few regular jaunts we liked to go to target the same folk, we had power slippers in the middletons and Boidy Clarke in the whitestripes, two guarenteed chases if provoked, although by the end boidy did end up with a few opened bottles of lemonade off his window rather than rosebuds.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbroken Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 indeed they were, we had a few regular jaunts we liked to go to target the same folk, we had power slippers in the middletons and Boidy Clarke in the whitestripes, two guarenteed chases if provoked, although by the end boidy did end up with a few opened bottles of lemonade off his window rather than rosebuds....I always heard Milton was a good one to provoke.Always used to be beast when the bulletins would go out the next day at school talking about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 Fucking vandals.I was a pillar of the communioty when I lived in B.O.D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 I always heard Milton was a good one to provoke.Always used to be beast when the bulletins would go out the next day at school talking about it.I actually felt sorry for milton, especially during snow times, there would litterally be groups of kids outside his house batter it with snow balls, i remember some folk writing "milton stinks" on his wall with snow one year.Stealing milk at 6 in the morning was also a fun pasttime, although completely pointless and we never drank any of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbroken Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 I actually felt sorry for milton, especially during snow times, there would litterally be groups of kids outside his house batter it with snow balls, i remember some folk writing "milton stinks" on his wall with snow one year.Stealing milk at 6 in the morning was also a fun pasttime, although completely pointless and we never drank any of it.he did get a lot of shit. But him, angry, was just a sight to be seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 he did get a lot of shit. But him, angry, was just a sight to be seen.Milton in general is a sight to be seen and heard!Good teacher tho, i remember more from his classes than any other, i think because of the way he was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Exposure @ Lemon Tree Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 We took part in garden hopping in New Deer. It was ace fun! My mate got taken out by a near invisible string at shin height (something to do with flowers, not sure why it was there). One of the funniest things I've ever seen. Pelting it through a garden at top speed and just hits the deck for no apparent reason. Lucky for him it was grass...We had a fascination with nicking garden ornaments and leaving them in strange places too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraser Shredwards Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 i used to live next to storybook glen and worked there for a while aswell, this type of thing has ALWAYS happened, and gets fixed by some guy fairly rapidly. On a good spring/summer day they can make a few grand so i doubt its really threatening the business or anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogofish Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 Another place I was at yesterday was the BA Country Store on the Skene road. I never realised they keep their christmas grotto and pirate ship thingy set-up all year - Looked fucking creepy in its unlit state, with piles of other stock all about. Wish I'd taken my camera in now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 Some of the statues at Storybook Glen are properly shit. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are so bad it's unreal. Who made these statues?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran_imray Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 he did get a lot of shit. But him, angry, was just a sight to be seen.MILTON WAS/IS A FUCKING LEGEND!!! Imo the best teacher in that school, though the shit my class did to him was amusing I felt really sorry for him because I genuinely felt that he was an excellent teacher and a pretty funny guy at times. He was truly hilarious when pissed off, that much is true. What were the best pranks you/your classmates played on him?On the chasie note, either of you guys ever hear of anyone getting chased by Rattray? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 On the chasie note, either of you guys ever hear of anyone getting chased by Rattray?Fucking right. Pretty sure I got chased by his alsations once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 MILTON WAS/IS A FUCKING LEGEND!!! Imo the best teacher in that school, though the shit my class did to him was amusing I felt really sorry for him because I genuinely felt that he was an excellent teacher and a pretty funny guy at times. He was truly hilarious when pissed off, that much is true. What were the best pranks you/your classmates played on him?On the chasie note, either of you guys ever hear of anyone getting chased by Rattray?that name is familiar, are there twins with that last name, sure they were in my year...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofdeon Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Milton :"It would be a two hit fight - i hit you, you hit the floor....!!"Rattray was a lunatic. The whole idea of going near his "grounds" scared me. Still does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 I remember going on a trip to Storybook Glen with my playgroup when it was still being built, must have been 81 or 82 I suppose. I was always too busy being a hit with the laydeez/playing in cool bands/sitting at home watching Star Trek as a teenager to bother walking over to Storybook Glen, but I know a lot of folk from my school did. As far as I'm aware they just took drugs and freaked out though, as opposed to trashing the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Milton :"It would be a two hit fight - i hit you, you hit the floor....!!"Rattray was a lunatic. The whole idea of going near his "grounds" scared me. Still does.classic milton line!"take your bag off your sholder, sholder against the wall" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexytunk Posted June 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Some of the statues at Storybook Glen are properly shit. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are so bad it's unreal. Who made these statues?!Do you have kids? Yeh to an adults eyes they may be shit, I'll give you that! But my kids love them, all the ones that aren't wrecked that is. All I hear about from my little ones for days after is about Story Book Glen, they love the place, it's a great way for them to interact with the countryside and keep them interested and occupied for hours on end. They certainly don't think its shit, and at the end of day it is meant for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 I don't have kids, no. However, I'm pretty sure the last time I went I was only 9, maybe? And I still thought it was bad. Maybe I was just a cynical little shit, though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexytunk Posted June 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 I don't have kids, no. However, I'm pretty sure the last time I went I was only 9, maybe? And I still thought it was bad. Maybe I was just a cynical little shit, though? Well a little tip, keep it that way, and never have any. he he Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Exposure @ Lemon Tree Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 You guys talking about "Milton" - we had a teacher of the same name who sounds very similar. They must be related. I know it's not the same guy cos he lived near the Broch.He had classic lines such as:"I'll rip your arm off and hit you with the soggy bit""I'll rip your head off and throw you out the window head first"That sort of thing. Cracking teacher and always a good laugh...Could go nuts like the best of them though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexytunk Posted June 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 You guys talking about "Milton" - we had a teacher of the same name who sounds very similar. They must be related. I know it's not the same guy cos he lived near the Broch.He had classic lines such as:"I'll rip your arm off and hit you with the soggy bit""I'll rip your head off and throw you out the window head first"That sort of thing. Cracking teacher and always a good laugh...Could go nuts like the best of them though We had a teacher at School who has been all over the papers during the last decade, because it turns out he was a pedo bum boy, by the name of Paul Firth! He was a scout leader and used to take boys into the countryside and abuse them. He scared the shit out of me, but looking back he was probably pretty horrible to me as he didn't want to drill my ass.In fact, there are a few people on this very site who used to go on trips with him, and have probably lost the ability to do a noisey fart due to Paul Firth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest droid Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 We had a teacher at School who has been all over the papers during the last decade, because it turns out he was a pedo bum boy, by the name of Paul Firth! He was a scout leader and used to take boys into the countryside and abuse them. He scared the shit out of me, but looking back he was probably pretty horrible to me as he didn't want to drill my ass.In fact, there are a few people on this very site who used to go on trips with him, and have probably lost the ability to do a noisey fart due to Paul Firth!Pity it took about 25 years to convict the dirty bastard!He fucking hated me too.Which is just as well cause my old man would have probably stabbed him if he had came near me....lolz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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