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[Wattie]

Twins?

 

[MaseratiGent]

Wow, she looks just like my Missus. Separated at birth?

I couldn't afford Swedish so settled for South African (back during the credit crisis). Yours speak with a Saffer twang too?

 

[Wack61]

Growing up as a child in the 60'S

I made a cap bomb out of 2 bolts and a nut when I was about 8 , screw them together with a cap in the middle throw it up in the air and bang when it lands.

Only i took it into town , threw it up and it landed on a shelf on the war memorial about 10ft up

A few days later my dad wanted to know where the bolts out of his new car spotlight kit had gone

Er

 

[philw696]

I made a cap bomb out of 2 bolts and a nut when I was about 8 , screw them together with a cap in the middle throw it up in the air and bang when it lands.

Only i took it into town , threw it up and it landed on a shelf on the war memorial about 10ft up

A few days later my dad wanted to know where the bolts out of his new car spotlight kit had gone

Er

Dean that is a Cracking story and only as a child growing up in the 60'S and 70'S would know

 

[zagatoes30]

I made a cap bomb out of 2 bolts and a nut when I was about 8 , screw them together with a cap in the middle throw it up in the air and bang when it lands.

Yep we did that but we had another source, just down the road was a timber yard and we use to pop down in the evening hop over the fence and search the ground, we were looking for, what at the time we thought were, little bullets with different coloured tops. Turns out they were from the nail guns and they were always getting dropped. Collect them up and take to school next day, place on the floor and drop a brick on them and BANG!!!!, the colour determined how big the bang.

 

[philw696]

To be fair most of us from our Generation one way or the other shouldn't be alive today !

 

[Silvercat]

Yep we did that but we had another source, just down the road was a timber yard and we use to pop down in the evening hop over the fence and search the ground, we were looking for, what at the time we thought were, little bullets with different coloured tops. Turns out they were from the nail guns and they were always getting dropped. Collect them up and take to school next day, place on the floor and drop a brick on them and BANG!!!!, the colour determined how big the bang.

I progressed from cap bolts to throwing half empty gloss paint cans with their lids firmly hammered on into a bonfire. Went up like a rocket. 300ft+ into the air with the added advantage of atomised paint spray everywhere. Don't think the locals were too happy though! That was back in the good old days of the early 70's. No health and safety and kids could just be kids...... happy days.

 

[Wattie]

I couldn't afford Swedish so settled for South African (back during the credit crisis). Yours speak with a Saffer twang too?

Is her name Candice.....

 

[philw696]

Happy Days indeed.
Easily entertained well before the internet was thought of.

 

[zagatoes30]

Happy Days indeed.
Easily entertained well before the internet was thought of.

We once dammed a stream to make a pond to sail boats on but forgot to re move the dam when we went home. It then proceeded to rain for the next 3 or 4 days and when we went back we came a cross a farmer with his tractor about 2 foot deep in a lake trying to clear our dam. His language and facial expressions convinced us to make a hasty retreat and not mention that we might have been responsible.

 

[philw696]

We once dammed a stream to make a pond to sail boats on but forgot to re move the dam when we went home. It then proceeded to rain for the next 3 or 4 days and when we went back we came a cross a farmer with his tractor about 2 foot deep in a lake trying to clear our dam. His language and facial expressions convinced us to make a hasty retreat and not mention that we might have been responsible.

Ah the innocence of children

 

[Ebenezer]

As well as the aforesaid bolt and cap combo which was very unwise given the size of the bolts that we found and the amount of caps we folded end on end, we also discoverd the joys of Potassium permanginate and Glycerine.
In an empty coke can = smoke, adding the KMnO4 to Glycerine in the bottle and then screwing the top back on = Bang
Such lovely children
Eb

 

[GeoffCapes]

We once dammed a stream to make a pond to sail boats on but forgot to re move the dam when we went home. It then proceeded to rain for the next 3 or 4 days and when we went back we came a cross a farmer with his tractor about 2 foot deep in a lake trying to clear our dam. His language and facial expressions convinced us to make a hasty retreat and not mention that we might have been responsible.

Every summer holiday we (about 8 of us) used to go down to the river (that we now know feeds the local sewerage farm) and dam the river.
We got pretty good at it we used to bring stuff the improve our designs. Like 5 shopping trolleys. Filled with rocks.
One summer thunderstorm later we caused a partial bursting of the river banks, that consumed the local war memorial.

Not our finest moment that.

 

[outrun]

I progressed from cap bolts to throwing half empty gloss paint cans with their lids firmly hammered on into a bonfire. Went up like a rocket. 300ft+ into the air with the added advantage of atomised paint spray everywhere. Don't think the locals were too happy though! That was back in the good old days of the early 70's. No health and safety and kids could just be kids...... happy days.

We used two upturned cups and electrolysis in a fish tank to make pure hydrogen. Of course, as hydrogen is colour and odourless, the only true way to determine whether it was a success was to attempt to light it and see if there would be a small bang. Turns out we had perfectly hydrogen manufacture perfectly first time leading to a burst tank, several dead fish, a great deal of water flooding the room and a very very upset Auntie.

To be frank, like Phil, I’m surprised to have survived what for me, was the 80s as I’m not as old as some of you lot.

We burned down a garage, set a friend on fire, made fireworks from fertiliser and sugar, shot each other with air guns and blue tak, got arrested two nights in a row at the same place (doing the same unmentionable thing!), made aeroplanes out of flies and matchsticks. You name it, we tried it!

 

[philw696]

And I thought we had all the Fun in the 70'S you kids of the 80'S just had to go one further

 

[Felonious Crud]

There used to be a Friday night disco in the sports hall around the back of the local school. We used to get ********* on cider from the local offie and break into the school and trot around causing mayhem. Sometimes the police would turn up, but as we were pretty good at breaking out again they never pinned anything on us. We had to hide on the roof one time until they left.

Thinking about it, it doesn't say much about the quality of the disco.

 

[zagatoes30]

There used to be a Friday night disco in the sports hall around the back of the local school. We used to get * on cider from the local offie and break into the school and trot around causing mayhem. Sometimes the police would turn up, but as we were pretty good at breaking out again they never pinned anything on us. We had to hide on the roof one time until they left.

Thinking about it, it doesn't say much about the quality of the disco.

Sound better than our Discos we use to spend most of the time trying to breakout when we realised they were as **** as the previous week

 

[zagatoes30]

Our other favourite game was tick (or tag) on he Manchester Ship Canal locks at Latchford. This game entailed about 20 kids racing around a working lock, running across the piers and lock gates avoiding the lock operators, jumping over the capstans, ropes etc. There was one point where we had to jump a gap of about 8-10ft to shortcut the main route.

Recently I took my kids down to these locks to show them where we played and realised a few things

1. The lock gates themselves are only about 18" wide and only have chain railings (in the middle there are no railings),
2. The drop on these locks is about 30ft, so one end the canal was at pier level and at the other there is a 30 ft drop )no railings and
3. the short cut was at the 30 ft drop end, so we were jumping across a 30ft chasm made worse by this being in a sheltered area which, when we visited, was wet and covered in oily greasy mud.

I walked around this playground and thought how the **** did none of us die.

 

[Saigon]

Our other favourite game was tick (or tag) on he Manchester Ship Canal locks at Latchford. This game entailed about 20 kids racing around a working lock, running across the piers and lock gates avoiding the lock operators, jumping over the capstans, ropes etc. There was one point where we had to jump a gap of about 8-10ft to shortcut the main route.

Recently I took my kids down to these locks to show them where we played and realised a few things

1. The lock gates themselves are only about 18" wide and only have chain railings (in the middle there are no railings),
2. The drop on these locks is about 30ft, so one end the canal was at pier level and at the other there is a 30 ft drop )no railings and
3. the short cut was at the 30 ft drop end, so we were jumping across a 30ft chasm made worse by this being in a sheltered area which, when we visited, was wet and covered in oily greasy mud.

I walked around this playground and thought how the **** did none of us die.

Quite, how did none of us die. I remember cutting open my Dads shotgun cartridges and collecting the powder, then putting a match to the stack of powder. The flash was tremendous, how utterly stupid.

 

[Scaf]

We had growing up as kids, but not sure my neighbours would agree:

• take a whole roll of caps, place on pavement under a large washer then stamp on it when an unsuspecting adult was passing by.
• attaching fishing line to neighbours letterboxes, reeling it out to a hiding place across the road, then rattling it multiple times (knock down ginger without having to run away)
• cowboys and Indians in the woods with home made bows and arrows and spears (I still have some scars to make sure I never forget)
• nicking empty beer bottles from the back yard of the off license and the returning then for the deposits through the front door.

The list goes on ........... Happy Days