What is it with "forts"?

[ms.peachy]

So mr.p and I were talking with some friends today, and they were saying how they recently got a new refrigerator and of course (of course!) their two kids have commandeered the giant box and are now fighting over whose "fort" it is.

And we were having a laugh about how, like, when you're a kid, any vague structure you can cobble together (dining room chairs and a blanket, anyone?) becomes a fort. If you're outside, you make a tree fort. If it's snowing, you make a snow fort.

But why is it always a fort?

[King of Rock $]

I don't know, but its a good question

Maybe its because when you're little the world is a scary place and you want to defend yourself against it by building a fort, like as long as we stay in the fort nothing can hurt us. I was always building huge fortresses with boxes of lego and cardbord boxes and stuff when I was little

[sab0tage]

I remember making forts.........seems strange to me as a castle or something seems more appropriate un the UK

Can also remeber getting under the duvet which apparantly created a boat!!

[hardnox71]

Maybe its because when you're little the world is a scary place and you want to defend yourself against it by building a fort, like as long as we stay in the fort nothing can hurt us.
^ That's pretty good.

When I was a kid my stepbrother and I were making forts out of everything. Cardboard boxes, huge pieces of styrofoam, dining room chairs and a couple of blankets, you name it.

I loved making forts.

[ms.peachy]

I loved making forts.
Everyone did; this is what I'm saying. It's this universal thing. Like how anytime you see a boy pick up a stick, the first thing he does with it is whack his buddy with it; or, if no buddy is available, a tree.

[TAL]

Yes, the good old whacking the wood.

[hardnox71]

Like how anytime you see a boy pick up a stick, the first thing he does with it is whack his buddy with it
Well, that particular pasttime is not reserved just for kids. I whack my buddy Rob with a stick just about every other day for some reason or other.

[ms.peachy]

Well, when I said boy, I did mean it in the broadest possible sense of the word.

[hardnox71]

Well, when I said boy, I did mean it in the broadest possible sense of the word.
Yeah. Alot of words are applicable to me only in their broadest possible sense.

[Sarky Devotchka]

kids want something of their own, where they can have a special spot, because nothing really seems to belong to you when you're a kid. there's something comforting and fun about creating a little nook for yourself.

refrigerator boxes are king.

[ampm]

Mrs. AMPM and I always build forts for the children.

[zorra_chiflada]

i would like to make a fort now. and i am 20.

[Knuckles]

My boy and I built a sweet fort today. He has all these plumbing parts (pipes and connector pieces) that we use like giant tinker-toys. We made a massive structure with them and then put blankets over the top. The thing had three rooms! (y) I wish I'd taken a pic of it.

[ToucanSpam]

I never built forts.


I built supreme battle stations.:cool:

[Ace42X]

Fortifications are important, because they convey a sense of security, and territorial ownership. When you are young, and aware of your vulnerability, this is reassuring.

[fucktopgirl]

yea fort,man this was awsome to do.I remember kid,when big storm where falling,and then the city truck where removing the snow from the street and making huge mountain of snow .We where in there ,building a fort with the neiborrhood kids.We build seat,bed,little secret hidding place for food and drink,secret hole to spy outside.Cool memory.

This winter we did an igloo with ALix.We buy that green plastic mould.Its take us like 4 hours,at the end it did not look like a perfect igloo,hehehe,but still it was cool.We did go in at night with a flash light,ALix was tripping hard.But the next mother nature decide to sprinkle rain,it was the end of it!Its is a good family activity,there is no age for that!

[TurdBerglar]

we use to build forts in the woods by my house. all the kids in the area did it. we had battles and shit. serious turf battles. kids would get hurt pretty badly sometimes. the main idea was to have a fort and defend the woods from everyone else making forts IN YOUR WOODS!!!! so there was a lot of time spent destroying other's forts. my and my friends usually had control over the woods :cool: i miss being a kid. i really do.

[kaiser soze]

haha

I built a fort with my neice a couple weeks ago

[synch]

I didn't use relatives, I used mostly pillows and cardboard.

[fucktopgirl]

haha

[hardnox71]

My boy and I built a sweet fort today. He has all these plumbing parts (pipes and connector pieces) that we use like giant tinker-toys. We made a massive structure with them and then put blankets over the top. The thing had three rooms! (y) I wish I'd taken a pic of it.
I wanna come over and play with you guys. ^That shit sounds cool.(y)

[Kid Presentable]

Yeah, so I still find forts funny.

[beastie girl 1#]

my brother makes those tree 'forts' all the time
I have no idea why he calls it a 'fort'?:confused:

[Knuckles]

I wanna come over and play with you guys. ^That shit sounds cool.(y)
Anytime man:D

[synch]

my brother makes those tree 'forts' all the time
I have no idea why he calls it a 'fort'?:confused:
It just is ok? :mad:

[discopants]

Up the Romans!

[sab0tage]

In the Simpsons episode where Homer has a crush on a co-worker called Mindy he tells the bell boy at a hotel

"All I'm going to use this bed for is eating, sleeping and maybe building a little fort":D

[CrankItUp!]

I too would like to make a fort now, and I'm almost twice Zorra's age. :D

Fort is the ultimate childhood game.

I didn't know that girls "fort-ed" ! :D