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" GAMES PEOPLE PLAY "
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26 Jun 2008 Thu 06:34 pm |
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Quoting yilgun-7: My last post was on "GAMES PEOPLE PLAY".
This topic was taken up by the international TIME Magazine, Europe issue, June 30 - july 7 2008.
You can see it if you get this issue.
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You mean TIME Magazine saw YOUR post on TC and decided to use your idea in their June 30th issue!!!!
WOW!!! I hope they gave you a byline!
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26 Jun 2008 Thu 06:38 pm |
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No...You´re wrong about that.
I have taken this topic from TIME for you.
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26 Jun 2008 Thu 06:44 pm |
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Quoting yilgun-7: No you are wrong.
Too wrong.
I have taken this topic from TIME for you.
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Oh I seeee!! I was confused as you posted this topic on 23rd June - sorry, easy mistake to make 
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26 Jun 2008 Thu 08:35 pm |
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Quoting yilgun-7: No...You´re wrong about that.
I have taken this topic from TIME for you.
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Just for LIR??? What about the rest of us!! I'm jealous! 
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27 Jun 2008 Fri 03:26 am |
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girleegirl, as you see, sports and games have changed our world.
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27 Jun 2008 Fri 09:29 am |
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Quoting yilgun-7: girleegirl, as you see, sports and games have changed our world. |
Changed our world? That's something you don't talk about in your post. All you do is list a number of games without saying why. If you were interested in TC lot's hobbies, you could have dug out an old thread about it in the off-topic forum.
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27 Jun 2008 Fri 11:08 am |
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Quoting lady in red: Quoting yilgun-7: Sports and games have changed our world.
We have all played games.
Play is part of what and who we are.
Your life is game.
Your life is race.
What kind of game do you like best?
- Football
- Basketball
- Skyscraper Never heard of it
- Gymnastic
- Dance sport
- Tango It's a dance or a drink in my country
- Aerobatic Do you mean ACROBATICS?
- Cricket Not as boring as it used to be
- Golf Not a sport to me - just an excuse for a long walk, stupid clothes and drinks at the 18th hole
- Racehorse I never played racehorse
- polo Pony I never played polo Pony either
- Sport Boxing Boxing is not a sport it is men hitting each other
- Olympic Games Synchronized swimming is good
- Chess
- Iranian Dama Got me there!
- Politic Game Ne??
- Lotto, Lottery Winning is good but I never do :-S
- Business Risk
- etc
I prefer football and basketball |
My favourite games as a child were 'war' and 'cowboys and indians' My sister and I were the only girls in our road so we tended to be a bit tomboyish!
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Quoting Libralady:
As usual I am a little late reading this thread, so I want to add my favourites games (or I will stamp and scream until I am sick!)
* Cowboys and Indians - we made bow and arrows from willow and reeds (even with the threat of wiels disease) and guns from sticks
* British Bulldog - tag game, a very "ruff" tag game
* Cops and robbers
* Football
* Snowballs (in winter of course )
* Make tree houses
and of course,
* fishing
So many I can't remember.........
oh and yes, I too was a tomboy, being the only girl in my school year ( just in case you were wondering, and if you are not asleep already, I grew up in a VERY rural area and no we are not all related )
and sports
Athletics
* 100m, 200m, 100m hurdles
* shot put and discus
* Netball and hockey
and I think you are all being a bit mean on Yilgin!
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Dear DD
Yilgun appears to have edited his original post but the above quote gives the full original version. Even though the original is edited, it still mentions how "sports and games have changed the world". The above quote shows mods LL and LIR entering into the spirit of what Yilgun intended when he began the thread.
Several members have enjoyed looking back on their childhood and sharing the games they liked to play. Such trips down memory lane aren't useless because they often bring a smile to our faces. I've enjoyed reading this thread, I'm only sorry I didn't make more of a positive contribution when I posted the youtube link (Sometimes Yilgun's threads appear comically difficult to understand - I think).
I don't believe this thread is useless and I think some of us have been mean - sorry LL and sorry to Yilgun for the useless youtube link I posted.
btw as a young child I climbed local rocks and lived in my roller skates. I later progressed to racket sports and distance running.
Some information (full article: http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2002/03/24/stories/2002032400020100.htm )
As the debate rages over the benefits or otherwise that such modern games have on impressionable minds, there is also a call to return to more traditional games. Traditional playground games in primary schools in some places in the U.K. are being promoted in the hope it will curb bullying and promote greater co-operation among children. Ancient games such as hopscotch, skipping, London Bridge and hide-and-seek are now being encouraged for they help suppress dominant characteristics among pupils. Other traditional games such as skipping and marbles are also being brought back in other primary schools.
Such advocates, however, are still in a minority. On the other hand, another long-time children's party game of musical chairs has been accused of breeding violence and of rewarding only the "strongest and fastest". It remains a fact that play in any form has faltered to a stop in schools because there has been such a great emphasis on literacy and developing numeric skills.
Open spaces for children to play are rapidly being encroached on all over. . . . Far too often, schools cope with playground problems such as noisy children colliding into each other by clamping down.
But while school playgrounds may look like chaotic places, playtime is one of the few moments in children's lives when they can just be themselves. As some educational consultants are beginning to suggest, playtime constitutes a kind of "informal curriculum" and needs as much sensitive nurturing as the subjects taught formally indoors. Sadly, in recent decades, this has come to receive less and less emphasis.
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THE 34th International Children's Games is being held from June 29 - July 3, 2002 at Plock, Poland. "
There is a great wealth of literature out there on this subject . . . the way games impact on our lives in both positive and negative way. It's one of those debates that will rage on ad infinitum.
Just my thoughts  and sorry for the long post.
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27 Jun 2008 Fri 12:23 pm |
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Sorry but I think Yilgun's amended post is even more ridiculous then his original one
Quoting peacetrain: There is a great wealth of literature out there on this subject . . . the way games impact on our lives in both positive and negative way. It's one of those debates that will rage on ad infinitum.
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How on earth can Jumping, Car-driving, 'Long Walk' and Ping-pong have any kind of impact on the way someone lives their life?? The only vaguely competitive one there is ping-pong but that's just what you call table tennis when you can't play it properly! Sorry but I can't take any of Yilgun's posts seriously - and now I expect I will be top of his 'meanest TC members' list!
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27 Jun 2008 Fri 02:25 pm |
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Dear Peacetrain,
Being a teacher you must know the difference between authoritative stating that games changed the world and providing arguments for it. If Yilgun says his post showed how the games he listed changed the world, I find it absurd. There is absolutely I am not to judge how useful or useless Yilgun posts are to everybody, I am speaking for myself only as I simply find his style somewhat annoying and see no point of listing things the way he usually does. I'd love to read about the impact of games on the world, but his post was nothing like it.
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27 Jun 2008 Fri 02:58 pm |
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I would like to make a comment here and show my sensitive side.
I think some of the posts above are a bit harsh aimed at Yilgin. He is a long term member of this site, who tries to post things that he feels are important. He does not provoke argument or squabbles nor does he display his political side. He is working hard to learn English and to understand the sense of humour that is portrayed here.
May I suggest that if you do not like this type of thread then don't add to it.
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27 Jun 2008 Fri 03:40 pm |
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Quoting libralady: I would like to make a comment here and show my sensitive side.
I think some of the posts above are a bit harsh aimed at Yilgin. He is a long term member of this site, who tries to post things that he feels are important. He does not provoke argument or squabbles nor does he display his political side. He is working hard to learn English and to understand the sense of humour that is portrayed here.
May I suggest that if you do not like this type of thread then don't add to it. |
Revealing my insensitive site, I can only say that if it hadn't been for Yilgun's harsh comments in his previous posts (the little girl patronising posts concerning films) he wouldn't be getting such a negative response now.
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