Poll
Question:
What do you call this game?
Option 1: Kerbsy
votes: 28
Option 2: Kerby
votes: 6
Option 3: Cribby
votes: 4
Option 4: Other
votes: 7
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2sCpFAWwAIEsZn.jpg:small)
Just seen this on the news. Never heard it called Cribby. It was always Kerbsy around our way.
What do you call it?
Also, what were the rules round your place? We had a rule if you hit both kerbs, you won the game.
Just Kerbs down here.
we didn't have kerbs.
We called it Cribby in Belfast
Kerbsy.
Kerbsy in Sperrin Close back in the day.
Aye kerbsies here. Kribbie must be a city thang. Fcukin chip munchers
There was points for a kerb hit that rolled back,
More points if kerb hit and came back an you caught it
And as u say maybe more again if both kerbs hit....
Ah the memories. Nigh on 30yrs ago now *gulp*
Kerbsie. A crib is something you stick on your hall table at Christmas
Cribby in Belfast. City thing
Quote from: armaghniac on March 28, 2019, 06:53:03 PM
we didn't have kerbs.
Neither did we, I didn't grow up in a housing estate though.
it's a curb afaik
100 points if you hit the kerb over a moving car.
It's Kerby.
Kerbsie in Portadown. We also played a version of football using lampposts as goals called polesy.
Country yokes didn't have foot paths or any need for it, their local game was shagging sheep
Quote from: Harold Disgracey on March 28, 2019, 08:59:47 PM
Kerbsie in Portadown. We also played a version of football using lampposts as goals called polesy.
That reminds me. We used to play 'cratesy', mainly in the winter when the grass was in gutters. Borrow a couple of milk crates and play on the road. You had to hit the crate for a goal, rather than using them as goalposts.
Quote from: Mikhail Prokhorov on March 28, 2019, 08:38:43 PM
it's a curb afaik
Bite the curb Scene from American History springs to mind. I think we call it kerb here.
Quote from: Harold Disgracey on March 28, 2019, 08:59:47 PM
Kerbsie in Portadown. We also played a version of football using lampposts as goals called polesy.
what colour were your kerbsies?
Quote from: BennyCake on March 28, 2019, 09:07:50 PM
Quote from: Harold Disgracey on March 28, 2019, 08:59:47 PM
Kerbsie in Portadown. We also played a version of football using lampposts as goals called polesy.
That reminds me. We used to play 'cratesy', mainly in the winter when the grass was in gutters. Borrow a couple of milk crates and play on the road. You had to hit the crate for a goal, rather than using them as goalposts.
Kerbsies. We played gates as well. No goalies and the gates were the goals. Used to drive the auld ones wild with the ball battering off their garden gates!!!
Cribben where I grew up! Guessing someone misheard something somewhere along the way and it stuck by the looks of it!
Kerbsy
In the country we just played football. Probably explains why we always humped the townies. They were too busy throwing the ball against a kerb.
Kerbsy. Never heard of cribby until this week. In Belfast when the local lads painted the edge of the footpaths with their choice of colours... what do they call them? Cribs or kerbs?
Anyway, we had loads of different rules. Catching the rebound before it hit the ground = Double points. Throwing it behind you and over your shoulder - 50 points. Every 20 you get to go to the middle of the road. If you miss while in the middle of the road your opponent gets the chance to hit you before you get back to the safety of your own side. If hit you return to zero. Great craic. Probably a lost game now.
I remember the old fella's used to play quoits in the summer evenings. Another game that has gone now.
Quote from: armaghniac on March 28, 2019, 10:47:37 PM
Quote from: Harold Disgracey on March 28, 2019, 08:59:47 PM
Kerbsie in Portadown. We also played a version of football using lampposts as goals called polesy.
what colour were your kerbsies?
Kerb coloured! We couldn't afford paint on the Garvaghy Road.
https://twitter.com/paddyb_ireland/status/1111552062867816448
Generally Kerbsy in Tyrone.
Of course we don't accept any other version. Maybe have a bit of a twist over use of a K or C.
in mayo its call Girly
In Derry City its called kerbsy or padsy. Never heard cribby until this week
Quote from: lurganblue on March 29, 2019, 09:40:14 AM
Kerbsy. Never heard of cribby until this week. In Belfast when the local lads painted the edge of the footpaths with their choice of colours... what do they call them? Cribs or kerbs?
Anyway, we had loads of different rules. Catching the rebound before it hit the ground = Double points. Throwing it behind you and over your shoulder - 50 points. Every 20 you get to go to the middle of the road. If you miss while in the middle of the road your opponent gets the chance to hit you before you get back to the safety of your own side. If hit you return to zero. Great craic. Probably a lost game now.
I remember the old fella's used to play quoits in the summer evenings. Another game that has gone now.
Ever see the big sign at the side of the road saying "Tannaghmore Tossers Quiots Club" near the Mile House?
Quote from: hardstation on March 28, 2019, 08:23:49 PM
Cribby isn't just the name of the game. It's also the name for the kerb stone. For example, you might fall and hit your head off the cribby.
Is that the same for kerbsie etc or is that just the name of the ball game?
Yous fcukers put sy or sie at end of every buckin thing.