And you got annoyed when you ended up sitting on the end of the bench because you had to try and dodge the knobbly bits going in places
Unless you were sat on the bobble 😩
And then you moved up to year 7 and got a hard dose of reality
The absolute best was when you were in year 5 and year 6 was on a school trip and you got to sit on the benches for the day
More the PE GAME French and Saundersif yiu know you know
Basically dodgeball
There was another set of benches with metal on all the edges and they would stab into your legs as you sat down it was mild torture during christmas shows and your sat in the corner which I was happy for because ye screw dancing around like a monkey in sight of all the parents.
I was in the second row of a nativity choir (i.e. seated on this glorious thing with a row of short kids sitting in front and a row of tall kids standing behind), and we’re all diligently following the instructions to sit still and sing when we were supposed to, and one boy on my bench a couple down from me does a wee. An impressively voluminous wee. It started running down the bench and we’re all just trying to continue following the “sit still” instruction by shuffling our bums to the edges of the bench without actually leaving the bench, until it caused enough disruption that someone fell off the end.
This bench held more ego than the entire UK parliament
*english. In Scotland our primary school has 7 years so you sat on those in year 7
The Dodge ball benches
r/theapparatus
Are we still making them sit on the floor in assembly? It’s 2025, we have artificial intelligence and private spaceships.
Everyone (in NI anyway) knows you start primary school in P1 and leave in P7 then in Big School it’s either Year 8 – Year 14, 1st Year – Upper 6th or a Frankenstein combination of the two.
Lunch? I don’t eat. I rule
Yea but then you had to deal with little kids sitting on your feet and generally being annoying.
There was one school I did outreach for where the top year also had special jumpers. Now _thats_ royalty.
And it was the most uncomfortable thing in the world, we were all sold a dream
Does it remind you of P.E. Helen ?
Played bench football with these icons
That bench is part of “The Apparatus”
Turn it over and get your plimsolls on!
If you messed around they put us on the floor.
“Sitting on the bench is a privilege, not a right”
I would seriously buy one of these.
Ours got taken away permanently when I was in year 4/5 because the then-year 6’s were misbehaving, can’t remember what but I think it was talking during assembly and sneaking home at lunch and not coming back, just usual school stuff. I grew up seeing the benches thinking “I’ll be sat there one day” and then literally a year before I went up, they disappeared. I never got to know the feeling.
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At the back… on the benches.. untouchable…
Turn it upside down, boom, gym equipment.
And you got annoyed when you ended up sitting on the end of the bench because you had to try and dodge the knobbly bits going in places
Unless you were sat on the bobble 😩
And then you moved up to year 7 and got a hard dose of reality
The absolute best was when you were in year 5 and year 6 was on a school trip and you got to sit on the benches for the day
More the PE GAME French and Saundersif yiu know you know
Basically dodgeball
There was another set of benches with metal on all the edges and they would stab into your legs as you sat down it was mild torture during christmas shows and your sat in the corner which I was happy for because ye screw dancing around like a monkey in sight of all the parents.
I was in the second row of a nativity choir (i.e. seated on this glorious thing with a row of short kids sitting in front and a row of tall kids standing behind), and we’re all diligently following the instructions to sit still and sing when we were supposed to, and one boy on my bench a couple down from me does a wee. An impressively voluminous wee. It started running down the bench and we’re all just trying to continue following the “sit still” instruction by shuffling our bums to the edges of the bench without actually leaving the bench, until it caused enough disruption that someone fell off the end.
This bench held more ego than the entire UK parliament
*english. In Scotland our primary school has 7 years so you sat on those in year 7
The Dodge ball benches
r/theapparatus
Are we still making them sit on the floor in assembly? It’s 2025, we have artificial intelligence and private spaceships.
Everyone (in NI anyway) knows you start primary school in P1 and leave in P7 then in Big School it’s either Year 8 – Year 14, 1st Year – Upper 6th or a Frankenstein combination of the two.
Lunch? I don’t eat. I rule
Yea but then you had to deal with little kids sitting on your feet and generally being annoying.
There was one school I did outreach for where the top year also had special jumpers. Now _thats_ royalty.
And it was the most uncomfortable thing in the world, we were all sold a dream
Does it remind you of P.E. Helen ?
Played bench football with these icons
That bench is part of “The Apparatus”
Turn it over and get your plimsolls on!
If you messed around they put us on the floor.
“Sitting on the bench is a privilege, not a right”
I would seriously buy one of these.
Ours got taken away permanently when I was in year 4/5 because the then-year 6’s were misbehaving, can’t remember what but I think it was talking during assembly and sneaking home at lunch and not coming back, just usual school stuff. I grew up seeing the benches thinking “I’ll be sat there one day” and then literally a year before I went up, they disappeared. I never got to know the feeling.
Painful as fuck
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