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Did you have any of these things as a kid?
Did you have any of these things as a kid?
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'we'd put our foot into a circle and then go round:'
Kids today, don't know they're born. Five of us there were, but just one foot between us, AND we had to make a circle with it. Hurt like hell, but nobody cried. Times were different. Did anyone say "AYAZ!" when hurt by the way? |
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I also had a fencing mask. I found it in my dads shed when he died. It definitely wasn't his as it was too small. No idea how they fence in them, I had trouble seeing clearly through it.
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Did anyone say "AYAZ!" when hurt by the way?
i used to say 'FUKTHAT' |
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2,3 and 6. btw were your parents in the IRA by any chance?
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That's because it was a colander.
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two jumpers as goal posts
games that finished 19-13 |
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...after 10 minutes
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A.D.I.D.A.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAfIFStgmY |
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Only the (well-described) eraser for me.
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I had a chickens foot with a button on the tendon.
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As a kid I used to have to take this medicine called 'Tedral' for my asthma.
Not the tablet form that now seems to have been discontinued, but a dark yellow/green viscous-yet-slimy liquid that tasted like Satan's ar$ehole. I don't think that I ever managed to down the foul brew without throwing it up within 30 seconds - I have no clue what good my parents thought it was doing me since I never held it down long enough to get it into my system. Jeez, I can still taste it now - ghastly! |
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Tedral is banned now. Had phenobarbital and ephedrine in it.
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after a 3 hour football game in park 36-33 we had a jubilee from corner shop
a pyramid of flavoured ice that took about 2 hours to consume. The melted juice poured into your mouth was a bonus. |
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Tedral is banned now. Had phenobarbital and ephedrine in it.
 Probably a good thing I threw it up then! |
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ADIDAS = All Day I Dream About Sex, surely?
Also did anyone have one of those stencils that had outlines of test tubes, bunsen burners etc to allow you to draw diagrams for chemistry experiments easily? |
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^^^^^^^^
Yes! but they were always too big for the exercise book, so you had to draw your own anyway. |
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The large test-tube outline could be used to draw quite a good knob, though.
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I had a Pollards snake belt.
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I just used my knob when I had to draw a test-tube. Sadly, it was too small for the exercise book :-(
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lol at ip, dip, dog ,sh*t
i played that too |
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Had to use warm water to soften the RAF decals for your Spitfire. Too short and they wouldn't slide off, too long and they wouldn't stick. Tricky!
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Capt F - Re your "jubilee". What you had was a Jubbly! and it was packaged (uniquely I believe) in a cardboard tetrahedron. So there!
Anyone have a Weetabix 3D Viewer. Used to get stereoscopic cards in the Weetabix pack. Animals and such like. You had to send away for the red plastic viewer. The advert was to the tune of "when Johnny comes marching home"............ "The animals came in two by two Hurrah Hurrah, The animals came in two by two Hurrah Hurrah You can get your view from Weetabix it will only cost you One and Six So send for a Weetabix 3D Viewer today". |
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Nobody believes me that when I first went to school, the desk had a pot of ink as part of it. and we were given essentially metal versions of quill pens.
That was the late 1950s. |
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Evil Knieval Stunt Cycle
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Nobody believes me that when I first went to school, the desk had a pot of ink as part of it. and we were given essentially metal versions of quill pens.
That was the late 1950s. We had them in our school (grammar) I thought that technology couldn't go much further when they brought out Kaleidoscopes and pens that wrote in three colours  |
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We still had the ink fountains in primary school, around 1967 or 1968. Well remember the awe we felt when we were all issued with these new `ball point pen` thingys; far too long for small hands, blue and gray, and swelling in size from both ends to form a rather bulbous shape.
Had a blue Adidas sports bag too. After spending years wondering was it `Ad-i-das` or `A-did-as`, was happy to put to rest such a poser by discovering that it`s actually an amalgamation of founder Adolf Dassler`s two names, (he was known as `Adi`). He and his brother set up a shoe company, fell out, with the brother founding `Puma`. |
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I think I was the ink monitor at some point, filling up the ink wells from what looked like one of those old oil cans.
The posher kids had fountain pens, but in some ways they were worse, as they invariably leaked ink in your pocket. |
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For several years we were not allowed to use ballpoint pens and being left handed this did create a rather unique writing style to avoid ink smudges and a blue hand.
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Don't see kids these days with 2 rivers of green snot originating from each nostril, Billy-Two-Rivers we used to call anyone with this affliction.
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Just re-read that - I meant one river of snot from each nostril - two in total ... before some pedant shouts out
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A Platignum Cartridge Pen.
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Also Measles, German Measles, Mumps, Chicken Pox.
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add to that, scarlet fever |
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The walls in all my classrooms when I was at school were peppered with blue ink spots, as we used to flick our ink pens at our fellow pupils.
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I most definitely remember using an ink pen aged from about 7 and having an inkwell on my desk.
I've always been a bit of a "pen chewer" and it wasn't a great deal of fun when it dawned on me I had a mouthful of dark blue Parker ink! |
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Chopper/grafter/chipper
me own brother shoplifted the latter out of Woolies window back in the day - always remember the plods catching up eventually and giving him a stern telling off as loadsa otha stuff lay abandoned in the alley to side of the house that had been looted that day lol  you know who you are bro  |
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I recall having Septic Tonsillitis a few times as a child and having to have the back of my throat painted with 'purple paint'. I also had Scarlet Fever when I was 4yrs old and spent 4 weeks in isolation with my 3yr old brother who was admitted the day after. Our parents could only visit us from behind a glass screen.
You don't hear of these illnesses in this country anymore thankfully. |
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funny what we remember crystal.....
also remember being poorly back in the day.... and no doubt milking it whils't Black Beauty and The Golden Shot kept everyone entertained |
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TheCoat 14 Sep 17 18:50
The walls in all my classrooms when I was at school were peppered with blue ink spots, as we used to flick our ink pens at our fellow pupils. That rings a bell with me - we didn't know at the time that it was 'modern art'. |
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We did that too. Pointillism I think it's called.
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