Things we used to do

[slowmotion]

Put stolen .22 cartridges on the rails at the level crossing.....and ride like the wind before The British Transport Police came to collar you.

What larks.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Were you hitching lifts on grainers?

No, they took the end floors out of those years and years ago. Brakes just mounted to the frame, now. I used to photograph lots of trains, for many years. After 2001, it was assumed I was out there because I was a terrorist or something, so I quit doing so, as railroad police have nothing better to do than chase off railfans and hide in the trees with binoculars and spy on the employees. Plus, in the U.S. we're down to about 4 major railroads, so the old variety just isn't there. The new bike trail that crosses our county parallels the Union Pacific mainline, so we'll see how chasing people away from trains works in future.

 

[vernon]

When my eldest lad was small, about five, I brought him a large bucket of Lego, cost me a fiver, and kept him and his brother occupied for hours, one of the best fivers I've spent.

Duplo is far more 'barefoot friendly'.

 

[accountantpete]

As a schoolboy, wandering into Boots The Chemist for a tin of Cymag pellets to go Wasps Nesting ( the grubs are great for fishing) .

Cymag pellets were a fantastic plaything producing 98% Hydrogen Cyanide when moist and the wasps would soon clear off leaving the 'cake' of grubs behind. You had to be careful to stand upwind though

 

[Markymark]

Duplo is far more 'barefoot friendly'.

The trick is to wear slippers made of lego. That way when you step on a piece you simply grow a little bit.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Rember when you purchased something electrical and you had to wire the plug up yourself?

 

[PaulSecteur]

Pea-shooters.

 

[ianrauk]

Pea-shooters.

Spud guns

 

[PaulSecteur]

Spud guns

Turnip missiles

 

[Nigeyy]

Look into wing mirrors.... that really were at the far side of the wing!

Hear the clunk of a (very) solid car door -1980's excluded.

Watch the Six Million Dollar Man and actually think it was a great tv show (oh boy, is it crap now if you see an episode. And the special effects and filming locations? Soooo cheesy. You would have thought given it's popularity and the amount of money they must have been making they could have got some better special effects and better filming locations. Locations that clearly weren't "behind the Iron Curtain", but some Californian back lot and it was so obvious!). BTW, here's a challenge: bet you can't stop hearing the theme music in your head nor picturing the images of the opening credits of Steve-a-man-barely-alive running in a tracksuit!

 

[Nigeyy]

Or being a lazy git, lie on your back on the carpet in your living room after putting an Airfix model plane together with far too much glue, tipping the plane right over your head and getting a huge glob right in the eye. Cue panic stricken idiot kid running around screaming "I'm going blind!".

Yeah, don't ask.

Almost getting glue in your eye as you tried to pierce the small rubbery bulb of glue that you got with the plastic kits with a pin.

 

[vernon]

Buy white eggs.

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 4158133, member: 259"]"...and a jar of carbon tetrachloride please".[/QUOTE]

That was a great liquid solvent for Airfix kits.

 

[vernon]

Use blotting paper.

 

[Illaveago]

That was a great liquid solvent for Airfix kits.

Did the old glue have Trichloroethylene in it?