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Well f*** off back to your diesel thread then
I want to "love" this ....
Well f*** off back to your diesel thread then
Exactly that. Still got my dads in the garage.Probably this one:
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Plastic rockets with caps in the nose cone that detonated on impact with the ground, so you wedged as many caps as you could and threw it as high as possible to make the most noise when it landed.
nostalgia my arse
most of it was s***e
s*** clothes, allways cold
s***e houses, old windows
crap heating
even s***ter cars
s***te food
shiitee technology
no thanks nostalgia is for old pharts who have f*** all else going forward
I fear he is beyond that.Seriously...seek professional help.
He will. His favourite car manufacturer JLR, want to put 2500 of its workers on a 4 day week and get them to take on extra efficiencies. As soon as that news reaches him, he will surely be along to gloat.Well f*** off back to your diesel thread then
Chemistry sets - well known to be completely dangerous now but great fun as a kid
I remember trying to make fireworks with them but was never successful!
Nah, for that you need potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal.Chemistry sets - well known to be completely dangerous now but great fun as a kid
I remember trying to make fireworks with them but was never successful!
Nah, for that you need potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal.
Something in my distant memory is reminding me of the "Ice cream" warsMr Whippy big enemy was Tonibell ice cream. (Tonibell time)
Well and there was me thinking ( and have been told a few times) that I am a grumpy old fartno thanks nostalgia is for old pharts who have f*** all else going forward
I was trying to remember the "Stink bomb" formula It was Iron filings flowers of sulpher and something else??Nah, for that you need potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal.
Fair point, well presentedPS we don't want to be telling the youngsters all the secrets, do we
Written By a Mr Fawkes by any chance?PPS I had a library ticket that allowed me access and borrowing privilege from a wonderful reference library........a book dating from I think early Victorian period called the "Pyrotechnists Treasury" was a wonder to read......
So have I, and it still works.Exactly that. Still got my dads in the garage.
I was trying to remember the "Stink bomb" formula It was Iron filings flowers of sulpher and something else??
That's the fellaTartaric Acid.
That's the fella
Cigarette ash and vinegar were also pretty bad, but not on an assembly hall scale.I was trying to remember the "Stink bomb" formula It was Iron filings flowers of sulpher and something else??
That happened in the '90's when some teen found one of those "cookbooks" online. Big stink on the news, and a parental campaign to have the site removed, followed by victory celebrations when it disappeared.One even blew three fingers off his hand.
Oh yes remember them well especially having to lick the stamps (yuk) to put them in the book. We hardly ever seemed to get the single stamp that meant the page was full.
Trying to remember what shops you used to get them at.
That happened in the '90's when some teen found one of those "cookbooks" online.
The Co-op did their own stamps. IIRC, petrol stations were a source of Green Shield stamps (can't remember if anyone else did them).i think it was the co op
Ouch! I bet that requires more than a plaster!One even blew three fingers off his hand.
Sir Jack Cohen, the founder of Tesco, signed his grocery chain up to the Green Shield Stamps scheme in the 1960s.IIRC, petrol stations were a source of Green Shield stamps (can't remember if anyone else did them).
Ouch! I bet that requires more than a plaster!
I heard reports of the class idiot bringing a shotgun shell to school and trying to fire it into a tree with a nail. Fortunately for him, his co-ordination wasn't that good.he held it and hit it with a hammer.
Our Green Shield redemption shop became Argos. School milk small bottles had a waxed cardboard top and a straw sized pop out centre. Collected them for craft class, wrapped raffia round, stitched them together to create placemats, teapot stands etc. Early 50s school days. Collecting NHS baby milk tins, Mum covering them in fabric joining them together to create pouffes. Still got 'Swinging on a Gate' by Humphrey Littleton floppy 45 Country Life margarine give away. Beatles fan club Christmas floppies are still saught after. Still get Cinnamon Balls and other sweets from a shop in Whitby, there was a shop in Saltburn Station also.Ouch! I bet that requires more than a plaster!
Sir Jack Cohen, the founder of Tesco, signed his grocery chain up to the Green Shield Stamps scheme in the 1960s.
I was about to say, someone I worked with back in the '70s, her husband was "paid" overtime with luncheon vouchers.
But it seems they are still available and used to "avoid" tax in some places
I thought they were long gone, obviously not!
Did you have groups of boys behind the bike sheds "genie-ing" bangers?
PG Tips collectable cards. You could buy an album to stick them in and sometimes they came with a big folded up poster. I think you could send off for cards that you might be missing.
Errr keep it clean this not the prawn channelthe white splatter on the fence 50 yards away. NB one "load" even punched a whole in the fence!
Let me help you with thatPS @Cobra
research poisonous snakes and the effects of the different types of venom,
I was trying to remember what they were call horrible things!Still get Cinnamon Balls
You have answered your own questionthey looked like polystyrene but I can’t remember what they tasted like.
Errr keep it clean this not the prawn channel
Let me help you with that
I was trying to remember what they were call horrible things!
You have answered your own question
They were made of Rice paper with sherbet inside IIRC
- now wash your brain out with carbolic soap.................
I knowthe different toxins and their effects made for fascinating reading.
nothing wrong with cinnamon ~
rice paper..................great on the bottom (shut up at the back there )
almond macaroons.........mmmmmmmmm! yummy
I managed to collect just about all the petrol station freebies sets in the seventies. Cleveland petrol (remember them?) gave away miniature busts of footballers and Kings and Queens as well as little facsimiles of military campaign medals.PG Tips collectable cards. You could buy an album to stick them in and sometimes they came with a big folded up poster. I think you could send off for cards that you might be missing.
Collecting coins, usually to do with footbal,l or other freebies when you bought petrol. You got a card to press the into. Added bonus of actually managing to get a full set, unlike the cards and albums you get from newsagents now, that always have rare cards that no one has a chance of getting to complete their album.
This turned up on FB
I can remember nipping out of college at break time for a WIMPY brunch.
I guess the prices have gone up a little since then?
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1970/71 - Arsenal do the double
Errr keep it clean this not the prawn channel
I heard reports of the class idiot bringing a shotgun shell to school and trying to fire it into a tree with a nail. Fortunately for him, his co-ordination wasn't that good.