One for those over a certain age

[Jazzy Jag]

As a kid I remember looking at loads of air pistols and rifles in my mum's club book..

[cuprabob]

Jazzy Jag said:

As a kid I remember looking at loads of air pistols and rifles in my mum's club book..

Are you sure that's what you were looking at in the club book?

I wonder what the PlayStation generation would make of "Super Flight Deck"?

Edited by cuprabob on Sunday 19th November 23:26

[Morningside]

Anyone else make rockets with bicarbonate, vinigar and water. Foot pump, fairy bottle and drainpipe ramp?

[Jazzy Jag]

cuprabob said:

Are you sure that's what you were looking at in the club book?

I wonder what the PlayStation generation would make of "Super Flight Deck"?

Edited by cuprabob on Sunday 19th November 23:26

I'll take the 5th on the club book

Actually Super Flight Deck was really boring.

[Nimby]

Morningside said:

Anyone else make rockets with bicarbonate, vinigar and water?

Yes, while the nitrogen triiodide was drying.

[Bluedot]

Jazzy Jag said:

cuprabob said:

Are you sure that's what you were looking at in the club book?

I wonder what the PlayStation generation would make of "Super Flight Deck"?

Edited by cuprabob on Sunday 19th November 23:26

I'll take the 5th on the club book

Actually Super Flight Deck was really boring.

Yes, agreed. Once you'd set it up and landed it a couple of times so the flags rose up there wasn't much else to do.
It didn't quite live up to the hype of the advert or the images on the box
Much like thousands of other toys though - hornby, scalextrix, subbuteo etc all stunningly jaw dropping on the TV, never quite the same in the real world

[davhill]

Hornby 00 trains with smoke... I had an 0-6-0 tank engine with it. Technically, it was steam, the engine was vaping.

[P5BNij]

I had one of these...

[Jazzy Jag]

P5BNij said:

I had one of these...

Me too!!

The yellow ends used to fall off the little pods on the shoulders
There was a "mic" that dropped down off the hat peak.

[motco]

We bought our first 'fridge and cooker from Rumbelows in Greenford

[generationx]

Bluedot said:

Much like thousands of other toys though - hornby, scalextrix, subbuteo etc all stunningly jaw dropping on the TV, never quite the same in the real world

I can't let this one pass. I must have spent a cumulative total of years playing with Scalextric, it was the toy of champions for me.

Oh and by the way: Spelling (this seems such a common mistake both spoken and written) and capital letters.

[GetCarter]

generationx said:

Bluedot said:

Much like thousands of other toys though - hornby, scalextrix, subbuteo etc all stunningly jaw dropping on the TV, never quite the same in the real world

I can't let this one pass. I must have spent a cumulative total of years playing with Scalextric, it was the toy of champions for me.

Oh and by the way: Spelling (this seems such a common mistake both spoken and written) and capital letters.

I still have a cupboard full of the stuff. 6 lanes and all!

[Bluedot]

generationx said:

Bluedot said:

Much like thousands of other toys though - hornby, scalextrix, subbuteo etc all stunningly jaw dropping on the TV, never quite the same in the real world

I can't let this one pass. I must have spent a cumulative total of years playing with Scalextric, it was the toy of champions for me.

Oh and by the way: Spelling (this seems such a common mistake both spoken and written) and capital letters.

Point taken, I was rushing and Scalextrix looked right, despite it appearing on countless spelling tests many years ago

Don't get me wrong, I loved my Scalextric but it never looked quite the same as the glitzy TV ads at the time.

[driverrob]

Tearing up newspaper into small rectangles to hang on the nail in the back of the toilet door

[The Don of Croy]

P5BNij said:

My Mum bought one of those evil things - the blades were carp and it just pulled lumps off your barnet. A cruel and unusual punishment for having a healthy head of hair.

[GetCarter]

The Don of Croy said:

P5BNij said:

My Mum bought one of those evil things - the blades were carp and it just pulled lumps off your barnet. A cruel and unusual punishment for having a healthy head of hair.

I wish you hadn't reminded me. There will be (was) blood.

[motco]

GetCarter said:

The Don of Croy said:

P5BNij said:

My Mum bought one of those evil things - the blades were carp and it just pulled lumps off your barnet. A cruel and unusual punishment for having a healthy head of hair.

I wish you hadn't reminded me. There will be (was) blood.

Multus sanguis fluit

[GetCarter]

motco said:

GetCarter said:

The Don of Croy said:

P5BNij said:

My Mum bought one of those evil things - the blades were carp and it just pulled lumps off your barnet. A cruel and unusual punishment for having a healthy head of hair.

I wish you hadn't reminded me. There will be (was) blood.

Multus sanguis fluit

Whereas our school motto was ‘learn to live’... which turned out very quickly to be ‘learn to bunk off at every possible opportunity’.

(Which I did)

[davhill]

We had, 'Palma non sine pulvere.'

Meaning? The palm of victory isn't won without the dust of battle.

If you say so.

I preferred, 'Omnes in faecibus sumus, sole profundis variat.'

Work it out...

[nonsequitur]

driverrob said:

Tearing up newspaper into small rectangles to hang on the nail in the back of the toilet door

Yes. You had to choose your newspaper VERY carefully.