Pax!

[ar_gemlad]

(Crossposted from facebook, because venta isn't on there afaik, and I'd be interested in her input as well as others

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[ar_gemlad]

Thanks for all the inputs! Here's the facebook post which I've finally discovered the link for:
https://www.facebook.com/gemmajwright/posts/10151891606005820

[undyingking]

Bah, I still suspect all of you of growing up in various children's novels. Truce words would have been quite out of the spirit of our 70s Essex playground beatings games.

[venta]

I think truce is a misleading term. It didn't get you out of anything - just got you (if your playmates chose to respect it) enough time to get your shoelace done back up again so they could resume whatever they were doing. It certainly wouldn't have helped if anything remotely resembling a beating were going on ;)

[susandennis]

I grew up in the 50's in the Southeast part of the United States. We had no truces. The heat of battle ended when you ran home to Mommy!

[bopeepsheep]

Fainites/fains, truce, and "Manser!"*. South Oxfordshire, 1970s-80s.

*Mr Manser was the primary school headmaster until the year I joined. The school carried on using his name as a truce term of sorts until at least when my brother left (9 years after Mr M retired).

[stegzy]

"Gerroff or I'm tellin' on youz" was the cry in the street I grew up in. At school however, being an all boys one, all things were to the death. Or at least until you started crying and ran away.

I grew up in a moderately posh area of Liverpool.