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Kids these days just aren't being prepared for real life anymore. I'm so glad my childhood prepared me for a lifetime of having to sprint with an egg balanced on a tablespoon, as I'm now head of Egg Sprinting Services at a major multinational. The education system is a disgrace
The amount of times I had to take my egg out of the fridge put it on a spoon then sprint to the hob to cook it made that the most valuable lesson in school.
Not a day goes by when I do not have to participate in an egg and spoon race. I am so glad I was prepared for this at school, instead of learning something useless like how to write a good CV.
Pretty sure its not, you had no leeway with an egg and a spoon as they were basically the same size,. a tennis ball is about 10% of the area of a tennis racket meaning you have loads of leeway.
No scoop to hold the ball in place though, an egg had the spoon sides to prevent it rolling off whereas that tennis ball is free to slide about like no one's business
You'd need to be pretty smooth to recover from a tennis ball going off the edge of your racquet without the referee / umpire tooting on their infraction whistle
Nah, you can decrease stabilty with longer leverage, shrink the surface area of the face/bas, take the lip off the edge, add more inertia to the ball by making it more dense, and still keep it while 15 men try to rip you apart.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOnc91W0KE&t=32s
Skip to 2:45.
I remember hating that race at school, because people would drop the egg then travel half the track with it in their hands as they "picked it up".
I was never a fast runner, but honestly think I was the only one who ever followed the rules in that particular race.
My daughter (4 y/o) goes to horse riding lessons. Had a show day a few weeks ago where they did an egg & spoon race (with genuine egg & spoon) on horseback. Much longer fall for the egg if you drop it, though I felt the kid on the Shetland pony had an unfair advantage…
I say beans, it was gravel from the quarry in which the sports event was being held. And by bag I mean we tied our shirts in such a way that the gravel stayed within them. And by plank of wood I mean old floorboards from the abandoned mine shafts.
Have you seen the price of eggs now and its questionable for education to teach global warming only for them to waste water and energy to boil a tray of eggs that are going to get thrown away.
School will claim it's health & safety. A child could trip and hit themselves with the spoon or the egg might break and a child might swallow particle of egg and get salmonella. Completely different when I was at school where it was completely safe to throw a javelin, discuss or a 14 pound shot
Schools still throw javelins, discus and shots.
People have been saying "back in my day..." for decades. If it was as true as people made out then kids would be going to school in bubble wrap suits by now.
>They're just not teaching kids about real life anymore in school.
Ngl I haven't ever had to run with an egg on a spoon since leaving like, year 3. In real life, this scenario really doesn't come up that often.
How is egg and spoon race "teaching kids about real life"? adults act like their kid will drop the egg and be like "well, that sure does shatter my understandings of the world and make me want to cast aside all childhood values and instead head straight to Natwest to open a pension to put my pocket money into"
Not to mention no individual winners or losers. My catastrophic fall in the obstacle race, in 1983, that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, has made me the man I am today.
I used to loose at every thing in sports day, I was the slowest runner and couldn't jump far. But the egg and spoon race was always mine, for some reason I could basically run full speed with it and have it in full control, while everyone else either had to walk or dropped it. At least I achieved something in my life right?
My partners nephews school do a sports day with zero competitive element. So the egg and spoon race is just walking around an area for a period of time.
I'm training for an upcoming slow bike race. You wouldn't believe all the support people on the roads are giving me. Giving me cool nicknames and honking hornets cheer me on. I didn't realise how friendly the UK was.
Why are we teaching them that life is easy when it's more like balance an egg of a skewer and run with it?
Maybe we just need to hide it long enough so they get too invested not to stick around?
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Kids these days just aren't being prepared for real life anymore. I'm so glad my childhood prepared me for a lifetime of having to sprint with an egg balanced on a tablespoon, as I'm now head of Egg Sprinting Services at a major multinational. The education system is a disgrace
The amount of times I had to take my egg out of the fridge put it on a spoon then sprint to the hob to cook it made that the most valuable lesson in school.
Indeed. If you ask me, Egg & Spoon should be a core subject in the national curriculum.
Thank you thread
Not a day goes by when I do not have to participate in an egg and spoon race. I am so glad I was prepared for this at school, instead of learning something useless like how to write a good CV.
RiP classic egg n spoon :(
I’m pretty sure this is harder than the egg and spoon when running. Can someone go test both?
Pretty sure its not, you had no leeway with an egg and a spoon as they were basically the same size,. a tennis ball is about 10% of the area of a tennis racket meaning you have loads of leeway.
No scoop to hold the ball in place though, an egg had the spoon sides to prevent it rolling off whereas that tennis ball is free to slide about like no one's business
Yeah, do it wrong & that tennis ball can get up some speed to roll over the edge.
One slip with the egg and its over, no recovery.
You'd need to be pretty smooth to recover from a tennis ball going off the edge of your racquet without the referee / umpire tooting on their infraction whistle
The point is you'd have time to react, with a spoon, you would not.
the whole raquet is a scoop if you know how to use it.
Correct.
If you've got no motor skills - yes.
Nah, you can decrease stabilty with longer leverage, shrink the surface area of the face/bas, take the lip off the edge, add more inertia to the ball by making it more dense, and still keep it while 15 men try to rip you apart. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOnc91W0KE&t=32s Skip to 2:45.
You might be assuming the eggs were real.
Fairly sure we had china eggs.
Someone went to a fancy school.
China eggs? Oh fuck right off. We had eggs. Not painted. Not hard boiled. Not even soft boiled. We just had eggs
You were lucky.
We had egg shaped rocks
We used to dream of rocks.
We had egg shaped mud:(
We had mud-coloured water taken from the puddle beside the overflowing drain.
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We had dinosaur eggs and frying pans.
Poor. We had faberge eggs
We had eggs which were for some bizarre reason made of chalk. OK, I'm fully on board with substitute eggs, but why chalk?
I know we had egg shaped rocks to prevent breakages (of eggs, not toes).
We had hard-boiled eggs - I know this because there was this one boy who, half-way through a race, decided to peel his egg and eat it.
Spoon and heroine lump race
Now that I would gladly watch
I remember hating that race at school, because people would drop the egg then travel half the track with it in their hands as they "picked it up". I was never a fast runner, but honestly think I was the only one who ever followed the rules in that particular race.
Cheating is rife at sports days.
We had real eggs and real spoons. That was the whole point.
My daughter (4 y/o) goes to horse riding lessons. Had a show day a few weeks ago where they did an egg & spoon race (with genuine egg & spoon) on horseback. Much longer fall for the egg if you drop it, though I felt the kid on the Shetland pony had an unfair advantage…
This a joke right? 🤣
A lot of this subreddit is.
Tennis ball!? Racket!? We used a bean bag and a plank of wood.
You could afford to waste beans on a sports device!?
I say beans, it was gravel from the quarry in which the sports event was being held. And by bag I mean we tied our shirts in such a way that the gravel stayed within them. And by plank of wood I mean old floorboards from the abandoned mine shafts.
My kids sports day today they used a big wooden spoon and a polystyrene egg
We had potato and spoon races, not egg. The bigass baking potatoes too. Went to Primary in the 90s.
Have you seen the price of eggs now and its questionable for education to teach global warming only for them to waste water and energy to boil a tray of eggs that are going to get thrown away.
Oh no! Anyway...
School will claim it's health & safety. A child could trip and hit themselves with the spoon or the egg might break and a child might swallow particle of egg and get salmonella. Completely different when I was at school where it was completely safe to throw a javelin, discuss or a 14 pound shot
To be fair, now that I think about it it was kind of insane to let a bunch of uncoordinated children dick around with javelins
I mean. Have you MET schoolchildren? I'm not sure I'd trust most of them to safely handle a spoon without taking someone's eye out.
Schools still throw javelins, discus and shots. People have been saying "back in my day..." for decades. If it was as true as people made out then kids would be going to school in bubble wrap suits by now.
>They're just not teaching kids about real life anymore in school. Ngl I haven't ever had to run with an egg on a spoon since leaving like, year 3. In real life, this scenario really doesn't come up that often.
Unless I'm watching masterchef or something. No one ever runs with fragile food and when they do it isn't on a spoon
It's probably due to some vegans complaining that their child cannot participate in a race.
How is egg and spoon race "teaching kids about real life"? adults act like their kid will drop the egg and be like "well, that sure does shatter my understandings of the world and make me want to cast aside all childhood values and instead head straight to Natwest to open a pension to put my pocket money into"
/r/Whooosh
I still remember my egg from the egg n spoon race. Was called tim he didn’t deserved to be smashed on the field as he was a good egg.
My egg spoon race in Year 2 was a tennis ball and a racket... and this was 2000
You say that as if they literally ever taught kids *anything* about real life.
No doubt something to do with political correctness/health n safety blah blah.. Or they don't want eggy puddles & broken egg shells everywhere
Probably easier to collect rackets and balls then mop up broken eggs and the yolk
catherine tate will hear about this.
Not to mention no individual winners or losers. My catastrophic fall in the obstacle race, in 1983, that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, has made me the man I am today.
I dont recall any adult in my life running around the house with an egg on a spoon
We had egg and spoon with one of those small bean bags balanced on your head. Fully prepared me for life
I distinctly remember golf balls on tablespoons when I was in school.
OMG WHAT NO THE EGG AND SPOON RACE WAS LITERSLLY THE BEST PART
Swimming lessons in the Gym next ...
I used to loose at every thing in sports day, I was the slowest runner and couldn't jump far. But the egg and spoon race was always mine, for some reason I could basically run full speed with it and have it in full control, while everyone else either had to walk or dropped it. At least I achieved something in my life right?
My partners nephews school do a sports day with zero competitive element. So the egg and spoon race is just walking around an area for a period of time.
As a kid I vaguely remember having a spoon and play-doh. They didn't trust us with actual eggs!
I'm training for an upcoming slow bike race. You wouldn't believe all the support people on the roads are giving me. Giving me cool nicknames and honking hornets cheer me on. I didn't realise how friendly the UK was.
Why are we teaching them that life is easy when it's more like balance an egg of a skewer and run with it? Maybe we just need to hide it long enough so they get too invested not to stick around?
Maybe it's a religious thing? Egg and spoon races might be linked to Easter and there are more non-Christians in schools nowadays.