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27 May 10
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A pencil case with little selophane sleeves on the side so you can insert letters spelling your name (this may have been why I got beaten up regularly)
Those giant pens that were actually lots of different coloured separate pens that clipped together unconvincingly.
Rubbers that were half a normal rubber and half an 'ink rubber' which completely failed to work, other than by gradually obliterating the paper.
An ADIDAS sports bag...when ADIDAS was really uncool. I write it in capitals because they did, and because we used to speculate as to what it stood for. After Dinner I Did A ****. Or simply ADIDAS I was told.
A balaclava. Everyone at our school in North Yorkshire wore them in winter. We'd have looked like a miniature paramilitary brigade.
Those f*cking rubbish letter stencils that created rubbish versions of all letters with holes in.
Those sheets of paper with letters on such that if you rubbed on the back of the paper, the letters came off, enabling to 'write', in theory, very neatly on things.
Those giant pens that were actually lots of different coloured separate pens that clipped together unconvincingly.
Rubbers that were half a normal rubber and half an 'ink rubber' which completely failed to work, other than by gradually obliterating the paper.
An ADIDAS sports bag...when ADIDAS was really uncool. I write it in capitals because they did, and because we used to speculate as to what it stood for. After Dinner I Did A ****. Or simply ADIDAS I was told.
A balaclava. Everyone at our school in North Yorkshire wore them in winter. We'd have looked like a miniature paramilitary brigade.
Those f*cking rubbish letter stencils that created rubbish versions of all letters with holes in.
Those sheets of paper with letters on such that if you rubbed on the back of the paper, the letters came off, enabling to 'write', in theory, very neatly on things.
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This is a good re-work of a very old thread.
The word 'wracks' (sic) springs to mind.
The word 'wracks' (sic) springs to mind.
the kids in our school had the up market balaclava,the one with leather ear muffs and a peaked visor
Still on what was evidently a large industry in producing letters that looked like type but weren't, there were those (again, entirely hopeless) machines that would print impressions on a sticky tape so you could make your own embossed labels.
I had an Adidas sports bag for my rugby kit, don't recall having any of the others. No need for a balaclava in my day, we used to raid the buttery regardless, winter or not.
Not sure why I'm focussing on the truly crap, perhaps it's because everything else (segs, that horrible school toilet paper) has been mentioned before, but there was this form of 'art' where you scratched on guidelines away at a matt surface to reveal a silver/reflective image beneath. Like painting by numbers but actually requiring even less creative input/ability.
Another thing...I could never do airfix. I was too clumsy and impatient. On the rare occasion I finished a plane it had so much glue on it, it looked like it had been jizzed on by a 747.
Another thing...I could never do airfix. I was too clumsy and impatient. On the rare occasion I finished a plane it had so much glue on it, it looked like it had been jizzed on by a 747.
I was 6 years old and an Airfix mainline glue sniffer,I used to buy massive ship models so I could demand more glue to feed my habit
Did you end up at A&E to have the Ark Royal removed from your nose?
Those letters on tape things were DYMO printers
I was the same with the boats incidentally, by the time I'd finished it looked like they were covered in seamen.
I know you're too young for some of these, sparkmonster. But we should hunt down and bankrupt those tossers who produced the giant multicoloured biros. Fkn useless.
Everyone needs a balaclava. Sooner or later. And a number of the other things were actually a help.
Everyone needs a balaclava. Sooner or later. And a number of the other things were actually a help.
Painting them was hilarious, tiny glass vials,when they needed to be painted that was the beginning of fck up time...next stop the bin
Another thing, in this increasingly angry tirade, were medicines back then completely ineffective or my parents just heartless? Rosehip syrup? Calomine lotion? Vix? A toothache tincture? A remember them all as achieving precisely feck all.
Wintergreen ointment......dogs would run away yelping if they caught a whiff of you
That pink medicine from the doctor cured everything.
I very often had a protractor about my person, but can't remember ever using it.
the savvy kids got on to placebos..but played on 'em anyway
Dentists waiting rooms, the bleakest places in the world. Passing the time unspecified hours away from NHS misery, and had the dentist or their staff thought to provide ANYTHING to take the child's mind away from it. No, it was a three year old copy of Reader's Digest or Women's fecking Own. I remember once being absolutely delighted that there was a Wombles picture book where by tilting image you could see a second scene. Picked it up, 30 seconds later, a heavily sedated child enters the room and accuses me of 'thtealing my boo'.
That violet stuff kids had on there faces (usually from poor homes)
I thought that went on the feet for athlete's foot? Anti-fungal, surely?
that gentian violet could mainly be seen painted on one nostril
Hexamethyl pararosaniline chloride
Gentian violet - anti-bacterial and anti-fungal.
You live and learn.
Gentian violet - anti-bacterial and anti-fungal.
You live and learn.
we were always warned as kids not to go near any other kids wearing it,seems logical
I might be wrong, but I think protractors were pretty much a one company product. Until I was 12 I'd only ever seen a small see-through semi-circle with edges that sloped down, except for the base, which didn't. Then someone came in with a BLUE 360 degree one which pretty much blew my world away.
Gentian violet sounds like the paint Orioles has his summer residence painted in.
Rubbers that were half a normal rubber and half an 'ink rubber' which completely failed to work, other than by gradually obliterating the paper.
That's all I'll admit to having at school, and they were facking useless.
I had a balaclava some years later, but it only had holes for the eyes, which was a facking nuisance if I wanted a cigarette.
That's all I'll admit to having at school, and they were facking useless.
I had a balaclava some years later, but it only had holes for the eyes, which was a facking nuisance if I wanted a cigarette.
we'd put our foot into a circle and then go round:
ip
dip
dog sh*t
dirty
b*stard
f*cking
g*t
whoever was left was it
ip
dip
dog sh*t
dirty
b*stard
f*cking
g*t
whoever was left was it
'How I learned to smoke through my eye' - the autobigraphy. A hole for the mouth and you'd have looked like a black and white minstrel, which would never do!
and i used to check my mum wasnt around before i said it
'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?
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?
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.
Did anyone say "AYAZ!" when hurt by the way?
i used to say 'FUKTHAT'
i used to say 'FUKTHAT'
2,3 and 6. btw were your parents in the IRA by any chance?
two jumpers as goal posts
games that finished 19-13
games that finished 19-13
A.D.I.D.A.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAfIFStgmY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAfIFStgmY
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$ehole.
I don't think that I ever managed to down the foul brew without throwing it up within 30 seconds - I have no clue what good my parents thought it was doing me since I never held it down long enough to get it into my system.
Jeez, I can still taste it now - ghastly!
Not the tablet form that now seems to have been discontinued, but a dark yellow/green viscous-yet-slimy liquid that tasted like Satan's ar$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!
Tedral is banned now. Had phenobarbital and ephedrine in it.
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.
a pyramid of flavoured ice that took about 2 hours to consume.
The melted juice poured into your mouth was a bonus.
Tedral is banned now. Had phenobarbital and ephedrine in it.
Probably a good thing I threw it up then!
Probably a good thing I threw it up then!
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?
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?
^^^^^^^^
Yes! but they were always too big for the exercise book, so you had to draw your own anyway.
Yes! but they were always too big for the exercise book, so you had to draw your own anyway.
The large test-tube outline could be used to draw quite a good knob, though.
I just used my knob when I had to draw a test-tube. Sadly, it was too small for the exercise book :-(
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!
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".
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".
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.
That was the late 1950s.
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
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
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`.
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`.
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.
The posher kids had fountain pens, but in some ways they were worse, as they invariably leaked ink in your pocket.
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.
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.
Just re-read that - I meant one river of snot from each nostril - two in total ... before some pedant shouts out
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.
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!
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!
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
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
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.
You don't hear of these illnesses in this country anymore thankfully.
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
also remember being poorly back in the day.... and no doubt milking it whils't Black Beauty and The Golden Shot kept everyone entertained
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'.
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'.
We did that too. Pointillism I think it's called.
Capt__F 28 May 10 10:49
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.
You mean JUBBLY !
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.
You mean JUBBLY !
^. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jubbly&rlz=1C9BKJA_enGB762GB762&oq=jubbly+...
did anyone have a cap bomb ? and did ya overload it with caps ?
i used to have one of those superballs that bounced like fook ,as a nipper i thought i would go to the 20th storey of the towerblock where i lived and dropped the ball out of a window and expected to catch it as it bounced back up fookin thing split in half as it hit the ground
fookin thing split in half as it hit the ground
had one of those metal pop guns with a cork on the end of a string .............if any of your mates had a "blackmans pinch,or coloured gentlemens pinch for the pc brigade " you knew he had stuck his finger down the barrel and pulled the trigger ,you only did it once !
I remember the spud guns jamesdean!
Does anyone remember Battle tops?
Does anyone remember Battle tops?
Sekenden (?) guns which fired plastic ball-bearings and held lots of them for continuous use.
Mates and I had many hours of fun with those. Stung like a bugger if you copped one on the bare leg or arm though.
Mates and I had many hours of fun with those. Stung like a bugger if you copped one on the bare leg or arm though.
Sorry was a Sekiden gun apparently or so Google tells me
Still around today
https://www.amazon.co.uk/departure-input-silver-automatic-SAP-50/dp/B00264UD96
https://www.amazon.co.uk/departure-input-silver-automatic-SAP-50/dp/B00264UD96
Hope for the world? Lost it somewhere along the way..
I used to build a lot of airfix. I wonder if they are in the loft somewhere...
Did a fantastic job on an FW190, got an airbrush effect without an airbrush, was very proud :)
Did a fantastic job on an FW190, got an airbrush effect without an airbrush, was very proud :)
"(this may have been why I got beaten up regularly)"
hahahahahahah^^^^ sorry but that's funny
hahahahahahah^^^^ sorry but that's funny
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