Toys from your childhood

[ysmsa]

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Many a bruised knuckle with these !

Knockers :-)

 

[Marklr]

Knockers :-)

clackers knacker yer knockers.

 

[Cotontoquinn]

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My mam wouldnt let me play with it in the house though. Outside only!

Same with me….but I was allowed to throw it at Catholics and Falkirk fans…

 

[mexico1970]

 

[TravisBickle]

Sawdust thrown in the air and lit creates a pleasing little mushroom cloud fireball.

An entire dust pan thrown in the air and lit with a flame on a stick long enough to secure your eyebrows future and you have a fireball mushroom cloud tall than a two storey house.

Thank fuck we went with "medium" in the stairwell otherwise it might have been different before we set off Big Bertha outside.

No one was going to ground though me as it was my own house.

I agree...very pleasing indeed ;)

 

[Bluethemaway]

 

[threespires]

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Flight Deck. We couldn't afford the deluxe version "Super Flight Deck".

Another one I had forgotten about. Vague memory that it was an absolute bastard to try and keep the plane from rotating and actually land it properly? Pretty sure me and my brother spent more time trying to jab each other in the eye with the fighter than landing it.

 

[pirate]

Seeing as we're all semi pro pyromaniacs, outside of my chemistry I was obsessed with trying to make fireballs with deodorant, the idea was to cup my hands together and have a mate spray inside, it would then be lit and and I'd try and throw it whilst shouting hadouken

Not sure that i should admit this but when i was working at GSK (it was just Glaxo then, pre mergers) as a sandwich student, the students used to take it in turns to soak our hands in ethanol or some other solvent, set them on fire and run round the lab pretending to be the human torch from the fantastic 4. The trick was to beat the flames out before all the solvent burned away and your skin was burned. You also had to be careful solvent didnt run down your arms and set your lab coat on fire

 

[maccieblue]

What is it about chemistry sets getting confiscated, I remember my older brother getting one for Christmas, and WE (as in me as well) were grounded and early bed because my stepdad, a diabetic, had found someone had injected something into his insulin, it coincided with the first ever showing of ‘The Sweeney”, so missed that, was gutted but even more so when I got into school the next day and all my mates were saying how brilliant it was.

The Sweeney is quite often on itv4 so it's not too late to watch It

 

[KS55]

I suspect small scale IEDs played a bigger part in childhoods a few decades ago than many of us would like to admit. We stopped when we accidently put a smallish crater in the local bowling green, if some of the old fellas had found out who had done it we'd have been torn limb from limb.

If you did some of that stuff these days you'd be hauled off on a prevent programme or stuck on some sort of watch list.

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