Are you a Benny tied to a tree?

there was also "what does GAY stand for?" "got AIDS yet?" and (when Rock Hudson died) "How do you get AIDS?" "Rock climbing"

presumably nowadays kids will get bollocksed far more for making homophobic comments than they did when I was at school in the eighties....

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Learning your ABC?

stop hitting yourself.

Do you have HIV?
No
Are you positive?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

ABC gum = already been chewed

why were so many playground taunts so homophobic? we had "there are 3 gays in a bed - doh, ray - who was the other one?"

also, we never had the "Joey Deacon" phenomenon at school, but when i found out about it i had to crack a smile, even though it was DISGRACEFUL. also, talk about something that wouldn't translate to today's kids.

Ah, seeing as how youse lot are all kids at home bcuz of the teechers STRIKE!---

I hope this is England only, or my lads will be wandering the streets all day.

Which makes me feel old, cos I remember the last strike affecting my A levels, and now the school where my wife teaches is shut for a day.

As for playground taunts, there was this one where you were asked "Are you ten, eleven or zero?" Obviously only worked when you were ten or eleven, so the first year of secondary school IIRC. Depending on the answer, there was some kind of demonstration using fingers of your sexual orientation. Don't ask.

xpost to onimo - not sure where you are, but Wales is striking too. Don't think Scotland is though, they have separate teaching unions up there.

I'm in Scotland.

I'd never heard the Benny tied to a tree thing until Carsmile Steve explained it to me. Maybe it wasn't a thing in Scotland.

No Ailsa, I'd never heard of it until Steve explained it either.

Of course, the correct answer to this is "Yes, I am, why?"

Which confuses the questioner completely, being an answer they hadn't expected, so they go away to think about what to say next.

Of course, next time they ask again, primed, say something ELSE and so on...

(We're not dealing with Oscar Wildes here)

"if you had a gay on your back, would you leave him there or would you pull him off?"

this is kind of option designed to leave kids well prepared for voting.

"Yes, I am, why?"

OMG SO YOU'RE A BENNY! LOL EVERYONE, MARK IS A BENNY!

One that translates well enough from Norwegian.

"Are you a homo?"
a: -"Yes" -LOLLZZZZ UR GAY ┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘ "
b: -"No" -"OMG UR NOT A HOMOSAPIEN UR NOT HUMAN!!! ┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘ !!! "

Goddamn kids with their 90-degree arm-angles and dead stares

xpost you took 6 minutes to come up with that?

"What's a Benny, some club you want me to join with you?"

"I think, in a real sense, we are all Bennies tied to trees of our own making..."

"ooh, well if you're the tree..."

This is the number 3 Google hit for 'Benny on the loose', in case you were interested.

An achievement. Of sorts.

*smiles*

I keep hearing this jokes punchline as if it was performed by Thin Lizzy..

aw, I just made myself laugh.. Bad form.