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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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3 4 6 7 for me. 7 were called Letraset and were expensive. |
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This is a good re-work of a very old thread.
The word 'wracks' (sic) springs to mind.  |
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the kids in our school had the up market balaclava,the one with leather ear muffs and a peaked visor
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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
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Did you end up at A&E to have the Ark Royal removed from your nose?
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Eric is that you? ( the Mayflower?)
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Those letters on tape things were DYMO printers
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I was the same with the boats incidentally, by the time I'd finished it looked like they were covered in seamen.
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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. |
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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
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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.
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Wintergreen ointment......dogs would run away yelping if they caught a whiff of you
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That pink medicine from the doctor cured everything.
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I very often had a protractor about my person, but can't remember ever using it.
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the savvy kids got on to placebos..but played on 'em anyway
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I used protractors to carve desk art
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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'.
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I do miss gripe juice, if truth be told.
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That violet stuff kids had on there faces (usually from poor homes)
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gentian violet?
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thats it!
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I thought that went on the feet for athlete's foot? Anti-fungal, surely?
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Potassium permanganate for athlete's foot
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no ,lots of poor kids sported it on their fizzogs
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that gentian violet could mainly be seen painted on one nostril
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Hexamethyl pararosaniline chloride
Gentian violet - anti-bacterial and anti-fungal. You live and learn. |
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we were always warned as kids not to go near any other kids wearing it,seems logical
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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.
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we had brass ones
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Gentian violet sounds like the paint Orioles has his summer residence painted in.
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and wintergreen walls
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lol
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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. |
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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 |
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'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!
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and i used to check my mum wasnt around before i said it
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