I bet cap guns would never be allowed now! I remember you could get the ones that looked like revolvers, and the revolver was metal as well, not cheap plastic, and you could put 6 caps in it, and fire 6 "rounds" with it.
I'm sure if they were still around it would only be a small matter of time before we were hearing about police gunning down an 8 year old who was waving a "gun" around...
Remember them rocket ships you put caps in and they used to pop when they it the ground.
Its funny we called them caps and wonder why that was, when you google caps now, you just get hats,
My Dad and I use to make those using two bolts and a nut. We'd half screw the nut onto one bolt, fold up some caps and put them in the bolt, then close it up with the other bolt, tightening both bolts just enough to squeeze the caps. If you threw it the impact would jolt enough to set of the caps. It allowed you to put as many caps as you wanted, within reason, to make a bigger bang. Then we'd throw them down the stairs to scare mum. :)
We used to do this! We found a massive nut and bolt, must have been some industrial thing. We spent weeks scraping caps in to it. The big day came and two of us were on our bikes holding it between us and then dropped in the middle of the road. The noise was very loud, louder than we expected. This was a quiet residential area. We all scarpered in different directions. Our neighbours had a lot to put up with when we were growing up...
I used to have a cap gun. Our local shop used to sell little rolls you would insert into the gun and would make a bang as they contained a small amount of gunpowder. My mate burned his hand as he stupidly set fire to a roll 'to see what happened' :))
We did the thing with the caps in the bolts also. Someone in school also made a one from caps and folded literally an entire roll and taped it to a sparkler. I bought it off him for one pound, and kept it for ages, somwhat afraid to light it, but also thinking it might not really work. Eventually one day I decided to see if it was going to work, I didn't think it would as it had been in my pencil case for ages. To our surprise it actualy did work and went off with quite a bang.
There's ones you can still buy that make a loud crack if you throw them on the pavement. I saw an annoying little brat doing it last week. Not sure the council would like it as they leave a small black mark on the pavement.
My little nephew loves those little poppers, or snappers or whatever they’re called now. But I remember when I was little you got ones called Devil Bangers, they were much louder and actually hurt, and I think you had to be 16 to buy them. They got banned eventually I think, probably because little kids were throwing them at each other, I’m sure there’s at least one horror story tied to them.
I'm surprised one even gets toy guns these days. Remember those toy Lugers? ..look pretty real some of them.
I am saying here The flying white horse of Tristar Pictures. It was often the most exciting part of a video hire. Can never get that wee tune at the start out my head. Best Ever!
Paper caps... feed the roll on to a pin, so that the pin goes through the center of each little explosive cap until you've done the roll. Then stick a match alongside it with the ignition end of the match hanging off the end. Then wrap the lot in electrical tape. Now for the dodgy bit,,, Remove the pin (SLOWLY!) without generating too much heat that it sets it off. Once done, tape the whole thing to a door, light the match and run like f*ck!.
I remember I had a teenagers birthday party back in the day with a few mates round for a drink and music. One of my old school mates was a bit of a joke and brought round a whole bundle of snappits and the likes. He also had one of those gadgets that snaps back on the snappits when lifting the lid of a toilet. We waited for someone to go in, which ended up being my Uncle (who popped round for a drink). We howled with laughter when all you heard was "Bang" "Arrg!". He nearly **** himself.
For days after my mum kept running into the little snappits, that had rolled under things and not gone off, while hoovering, setting them off and making her jump.
I had one of these with a blue robot. I remember also red robots:
Never had one, but I think Casio is manufacturing them again:
They remind me of an era were (as a kid) we measured the quality of a watch from the number of buttons it had (i.e.: a four button watch was way better than a puny 2 buttons watch).
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I was there, too
An' you know what they said?
Well, some of it was true!
I'm surprised one even gets toy guns these days. Remember those toy Lugers? ..look pretty real some of them.
I am saying here The flying white horse of Tristar Pictures. It was often the most exciting part of a video hire. Can never get that wee tune at the start out my head. Best Ever!
What was that Tristar film with the flying horse about?
Oh that was the logo for hundreds of movies released thru Tristar. So nothing particular. Most notable in the 80s.
I was just being pretending to be dumb...I knew what it was. :-) I used to think sometimes that Tri-star intro was better than the film tha followed :-p
Probably not, these days learning facts, and history makes you an enemy, you have to pretend science doesn't exist, and history needs to be rewritten...
Probably not, these days learning facts, and history makes you an enemy, you have to pretend science doesn't exist, and history needs to be rewritten...
I was just being pretending to be dumb...I knew what it was. :-) I used to think sometimes that Tri-star intro was better than the film tha followed :-p
Schweinehund! Well I never... Help me understand... Will have to keep an eye on you from now on, ;)
I was just being pretending to be dumb...I knew what it was. :-) I used to think sometimes that Tri-star intro was better than the film tha followed :-p
Schweinehund! Well I never... Help me understand... Will have to keep an eye on you from now on, ;)
I just thought i'd make a silly comment - as it almost is like a scene from a film.
Probably not, these days learning facts, and history makes you an enemy, you have to pretend science doesn't exist, and history needs to be rewritten...
I remember my mum getting me a copy cannot remember what age I was perhaps 9 or 10. Although it was a good magazine and educational, readership was on decline in the 1970s, I'd guess because it was competing with other kids mags such as Look-in.
I used to love handwriting exercises at school, but by the time I reached secondary school, it just became about getting stuff copied off the blackboard - the teacher would be filling the blackboard with questions and I knew he was going to say five minutes before the end of lesson to copy it all down as homework questions - I was a bit of a slow writer. Also remember another teacher would dictate material - and i'd get behind and just have to skip to were what he was saying. Some people have lovely consistent hand-writing, but there is no way I can write neatly and at speed.
I can barely write at all now, keyboards, and the like really have spoiled us. I wrote a lengthy note for my boss a while back and my hand was sore afterwards. Got me thinking I can’t even write a bloody note for someone now, and we probably all used to write pages upon pages when we were younger without so much as a slight twinge.
I used to love handwriting exercises at school, but by the time I reached secondary school, it just became about getting stuff copied off the blackboard - the teacher would be filling the blackboard with questions and I knew he was going to say five minutes before the end of lesson to copy it all down as homework questions - I was a bit of a slow writer. Also remember another teacher would dictate material - and i'd get behind and just have to skip to were what he was saying. Some people have lovely consistent hand-writing, but there is no way I can write neatly and at speed.
Are you by any chance left handed? I am and was never taught to adapt, had to work it out myself. My hand writing was criticised by a couple of teachers. They never offered any advice. Like you I have to really concentrate to keep it neat. I pretty much have to use my art skills when writing.
I can barely write at all now, keyboards, and the like really have spoiled us. I wrote a lengthy note for my boss a while back and my hand was sore afterwards. Got me thinking I can’t even write a bloody note for someone now, and we probably all used to write pages upon pages when we were younger without so much as a slight twinge.
I'm the same, i used to have nice handwriting but it's now almost unreadable. I never write anything apart from the odd note.
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We used to do this! We found a massive nut and bolt, must have been some industrial thing. We spent weeks scraping caps in to it. The big day came and two of us were on our bikes holding it between us and then dropped in the middle of the road. The noise was very loud, louder than we expected. This was a quiet residential area. We all scarpered in different directions. Our neighbours had a lot to put up with when we were growing up...
I am saying here The flying white horse of Tristar Pictures. It was often the most exciting part of a video hire. Can never get that wee tune at the start out my head. Best Ever!
For days after my mum kept running into the little snappits, that had rolled under things and not gone off, while hoovering, setting them off and making her jump.
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I remember playing this game on a friend's watch:
I had one of these with a blue robot. I remember also red robots:
Never had one, but I think Casio is manufacturing them again:
They remind me of an era were (as a kid) we measured the quality of a watch from the number of buttons it had (i.e.: a four button watch was way better than a puny 2 buttons watch).
An' you know what they said?
Well, some of it was true!
What was that Tristar film with the flying horse about?
I was just being pretending to be dumb...I knew what it was. :-) I used to think sometimes that Tri-star intro was better than the film tha followed :-p
Schweinehund! Well I never... Help me understand... Will have to keep an eye on you from now on, ;)
Published 1962 to 1982 apparently. I remember seeing this in my local library for some strange reason back then.
I just thought i'd make a silly comment - as it almost is like a scene from a film.
I remember my mum getting me a copy cannot remember what age I was perhaps 9 or 10. Although it was a good magazine and educational, readership was on decline in the 1970s, I'd guess because it was competing with other kids mags such as Look-in.
I used to love handwriting exercises at school, but by the time I reached secondary school, it just became about getting stuff copied off the blackboard - the teacher would be filling the blackboard with questions and I knew he was going to say five minutes before the end of lesson to copy it all down as homework questions - I was a bit of a slow writer. Also remember another teacher would dictate material - and i'd get behind and just have to skip to were what he was saying. Some people have lovely consistent hand-writing, but there is no way I can write neatly and at speed.
Are you by any chance left handed? I am and was never taught to adapt, had to work it out myself. My hand writing was criticised by a couple of teachers. They never offered any advice. Like you I have to really concentrate to keep it neat. I pretty much have to use my art skills when writing.
@luny@mstdn.games
https://www.luny.co.uk
I'm the same, i used to have nice handwriting but it's now almost unreadable. I never write anything apart from the odd note.