The FOC thread.

[Rory Bluelow]

I received that box as a Christmas gift back in the day.

There was a comprehensive instruction manual included, and ingredients were there to make explosions happen.

Methylated spirit was needed to fuel the bunsen burner, and they helpfully warned the creation of a bang would mean sacrificing a test tube.

No safety glasses were included, and boiling up hydrogen did indeed destroy a test tube when a match was dropped in.

I had that too, but I’m certain mine had a little brass Bunsen burner you connected to the gas hob…eeek.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

I'm old enough to remember the time when shops didn't even open on boxing day. They weren't open on Wednesday afternoons either, come to think of it.

Fucking old cu - I mean ooooooh that's interesting Pops.......... ;-)

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Jaws was released 50 years ago today.

We’ll have to get a bigger forum!

Jaws was released as a Christmas film!?!

 

[Vienna_70]

Jaws was released as a Christmas film!?!

Apparently so.

That’s what the presenter (I forget who) said on Boom Radio on Friday.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Apparently so.

That’s what the presenter (I forget who) said on Boom Radio on Friday.

Released on Boxing day 1975 in UK, but in June 1975 in USA

Perhaps the septics released it on Jesus's actual birthday rather than the official one.

 

[bladdered]

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Strange way to spell West Ham

I spell it the way they say it!

 

[normskih]

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Great photo. A sledge made out of an old pram:) Funny thing really, when we were children, there was always old prams around that older brothers could use the wheels to make bogeys with.

 

[DiscoSteve]

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dunno what those wire frame boxes are, in the mid 70's we used upturned plastic milk crates as stepping stones in the local pond - great until they tipped over! And thats an old corrogated tin roof - we used asbestos ones up a tree to build a tree house (over same pond)- asbestosis? whats that? cough cough...

 

[DiscoSteve]

Also, did anyone else do this?

Will Placing a Penny on the Tracks Derail a Train?

No, but what has resulted, however, are the deaths of those who've engaged in the practice.

www.snopes.com

 

[normskih]

I'm old enough to remember the time when shops didn't even open on boxing day. They weren't open on Wednesday afternoons either, come to think of it.

That’s true because my sister worked at a shop called Yates’ (not the wine lodge) and she had every Wednesday afternoon off.
Didn’t the Outdoors open on a Sunday afternoon, sort of pub hours?

 

[flook]

I got into Green car park after the Wiiiist Hiiim game and my fuckin' car had been nicked. I wandered about a bit and thought of telling the guys on the gate when I realised that I had parked it on the other side and not the same side as the Brentford game.

I did similar in Ashton, and I was only bloody 19, what chance have I got now???

 

[bladdered]

I can't remember doing this but if I did shoot me now...

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Yay, Birchfield Road roller rink.

 

[Eccles Blue]

That’s true because my sister worked at a shop called Yates’ (not the wine lodge) and she had every Wednesday afternoon off.
Didn’t the Outdoors open on a Sunday afternoon, sort of pub hours?

One of the flower shops in Eccles still has Wednesday afternoon off.

 

[KS55]

One of the flower shops in Eccles still has Wednesday afternoon off.

That’s to give the horse and cart a rest and gather the droppings for the rose garden.

 

[normskih]

I can't remember doing this but if I did shoot me now...
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Those look like proper skates like we had, no matter the size of your shoe they’d fit you because the underneath was like a ratchet system that pulled to fit the size of the boot or shoe of the wearer of the skates. I was rubbish, couldn’t really balance myself but my sisters were good.