I remember that happening on the playground when I was a child. I had to pester mum for some of her tights so I could join in.An odd memory I have concerning tennis balls is in the early 70's, my sister was 12-14. I recall her playing a game with a neighbour where they had a tennis ball in the toe of a stocking or one leg of a pair of tights. They took turns with their backs to a bare wall to swing the ball like a cosh to hit the wall, in turn oI ver each shoulder, next to each hip, then next to each knee, finishing with one between the legs and one over their head. This was accompanied by a 'skipping' song. Each participant would follow the pattern until the tennis 'weapon' hit the body, when it became the next players turn.
Though an impact would sting, it was a non-lethal version of the old "knife-point between the fingers" thing.
Sorry a bit off topic but it says that your 73 year old brain works as well as most other people's. You were watching the game not the ball.Has it yet been mentioned that as we age we are more likely to see things with a yellowish cast?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthopsia
I first came across the notion in an article in a quilting design book concerning it being something to be aware of when working out a colour scheme.
Back to the balls ... I feel very stupid to admit this as it's not so very long ago that I sat through day after day of Wimbledon matches (TV) and on first reading the question I realised I just hadn't taken sufficient note of the colour of the balls to actually remember! oooops! In fact the more I tried to call to mind activities on court the less certain I became. I'd realised that dirty white wasn't the answer but I was buggered if I could picture them as being otherwise.
Not sure what that says about my 73 year old brain but there you go. I thought I may as well own up and answer the question honestly.
There's also one with two men carrying a large wooden panel or summat outdoors, and at some point one of the men hands an end of the object to someone else who 'happens' to be passing.Sorry a bit off topic but it says that your 73 year old brain works as well as most other people's. You were watching the game not the ball.
Watch this video:
Thought I'd posted it elsewhere but can't find it (My 70 year old brain!)
I made it 12 passes and, amazingly, the ball didn't hit the gorilla once!Sorry a bit off topic but it says that your 73 year old brain works as well as most other people's. You were watching the game not the ball.
Watch this video:
Thought I'd posted it elsewhere but can't find it (My 70 year old brain!)
Maybe I'd seen it when you posted it before as I knew what to expect so the 'game' for me had turned into 'spot the gorilla' and I failed to count the passesThought I'd posted it elsewhere but can't find it (My 70 year old brain!)
It's glass in Manx. There is also geayney which is for artificial green.Interestingly, in Irish there are a few words for green, but natural green, as in grass, foliage, etc, is glas, sounding like gloss.
We used this video extensively during the early 2000’s as part of the cultural change programme that was gradually introduced into the construction industry. It was used to demonstrate that whilst people are looking, they don’t always see.Sorry a bit off topic but it says that your 73 year old brain works as well as most other people's. You were watching the game not the ball.
Watch this video:
Thought I'd posted it elsewhere but can't find it (My 70 year old brain!)
The kids mostly were as well.Yup, when I was a kid (60s/early '70s) tennis balls were white/grubby grey...
Whats a cultural change programme?We used this video extensively during the early 2000’s as part of the cultural change programme that was gradually introduced into the construction industry. It was used to demonstrate that whilst people are looking, they don’t always see.
In construction it is the process we attempt to use to change people’s culture, make them more caring for the fellow workers, look out for one another as well as their selves and never walk by and ignore something you see that has the potential to harm someone.Whats a cultural change programme?