Things we used to do

[MontyVeda]

Go to different shops to get all your shopping in.

still do that too

 

[steve50]

When I was just a kid spending an entire evening polishing my bike including the steel wheel rims not realising it would effectively stop the brakes from working

 

[Dan B]

*at which I worked.

You worked there too?

 

[Dan B]

When I was just a kid spending an entire evening polishing my bike including the steel wheel rims not realising it would effectively stop the brakes from working

It's not as though they would have worked all that well in the first place, thobut

 

[steve50]

It's not as though they would have worked all that well in the first place, thobut

Very true, especially in the wet.

 

[vernon]

Take lemonade bottles back to the shop to get the deposit back.

Then go to the back of the shop, steal them and take them back to the shop for a second refund. The ultimate in recycling.

 

[Illaveago]

Takes me back to the sixties, when I had a radio control licence. I was seriously into substance misuse. That dope was excellent, as was fuel proofer, which you painted on as the final coat. Another favourite was Radiospares switch cleaner, used to correct noisy variable resistors and deposits of oxide in valveholder sockets. That stuff was the absolute business. The rest of the decade passed in a haze.

I've got a GTN spray, under your tongue biz, the first time I tried it I could remember tasting it before........ Glow Fuel, some of whch contained nitrate.

 

[Bazzer]

Using dolly tub and mangle at my Grandma's.

Feeding the rag and bone man's horse.

Being scared s***less whilst at at my other Grandma's house when I needed to go to the toilet and it was dark. - Outside toilet at the bottom of the yard with no light, other than a torch, or use the inside toilet situated at the far end of the landing. - Victorian house where an inside toilet and electric lighting was an after build accessory, so none of this multiple light, dual switch nonsense.

 

[vernon]

Shinning over the back yard wall of the shop to collect empty bottles that were then cashed in at a different shop.

Was just taking about the very same thing to the Mrs last night ... I was quilty of the same criminal act

Then go to the back of the shop, steal them and take them back to the shop for a second refund. The ultimate in recycling.

[QUOTE 3972446, member: 259"]And repeat until you get bitten by the alsation that was out for a walk first time you did it.[/QUOTE]

What a bunch of ne'er do wells.

 

[vernon]

I've got a GTN spray, under your tongue biz, the first time I tried it I could remember tasting it before........ Glow Fuel, some of whch contained nitrate.

I've got half a gallon of nitromethane awaiting blending.....

 

[vernon]

Remember when Wednesday was half day closing.

It still exists in some of the smaller towns.

 

[vernon]

Washing, peeling and then cutting a potato into regular rectangles before plunging them into scarily hot liquid to make things called chips!

Still do that for the Boxing Day fry up.

 

[vernon]

I was warned off the weekiller and sugar thing -i'm reliably informed it worked very well indeed, but a good few schoolboys (didn't girls ever do chemistry? - Mrs T apart) blew fingers off with it ( I met one) . Gunpowder's a much safer proposition - disapointingly so when I tried it

Ah, crater making. Retardant free ingredients are freely available on Amazon and Ebay. Amazon is cheaper.

 

[vernon]

Not have any problems on the road - when everyone was OK with everyone else in society.

Try telling that to the Mods and Rockers.

 

[vernon]

I made one of them a few years ago, but it was a bit bigger. If I could remember my Flickr login, I'd attach a picture, but you'll have to make do with following this link.

Awesome!

A true big boy's toy.