The middle aged thread

Nah, it's flick knives now,

Hankies with knots in the corners tied to remember some forgotten thing.

Pumice stone for removing ink from hands

Dip pens and ink wells

Back then you'd carry a knife from the age of 6 till about 12. Now you start at 14 and finish at 19.

loads of kids from Uganda arriving in my school, and learning my first forrin words from them

Dip pens and ink wells

We were the last year to learn writing this way. We also had those old fashioned desks with a little hole to hold the ink.

Playing splits with penknives or compasses on the wooden class room floor. Who needed video games?

Monsters and woodpeckers that sat on the end of your pencil (not a euph).

Setting fire to things

setting fire to lots of things

(My best mate was a pyromaniac)

Making 'Ninja throwing stars' in metal work with tin-snips and sheet steel. Then chucking them at other kids when the teacher wasn't looking.

Spitting.

Setting fire to things

..half of l'ancresse headland after stuffing airfix stukas with lighter fluid..

ahem

Pirate Radio

radio luxembourg, ah

The first time I ever heard John Peel, completely changed my life

flea darts?!
those grass things that grew on verges and the bits of 'green' space that weren't quite big enough to build another council house on, throw them at pikey kids and they stuck in their clothes and they caught fleas.

Why did it take me almost a day to discover this thread?

Too many pages to read, so probably a re-post.

Coke can ring pulls all around the ground outside the local papershop, thanks (in no part) to the amazing ability to snap the ring pull in two and use one part to flick the other.

those mini frisbee things out of a packet of cereal, and scooby doo key fobs you put in the oven.

this thread is for you if you can remember: 3 tv channels on your rented black and white TV, black forest gateaux, free school milk, the zx-80, klackers, vinyl car seats and Elvis dying.
a thread for nostalgia, reminiscing and 'were mars bars really 10p or did i imagine it?' type posts.

just watched leggs & co on 1976 TOTP, never did understand why my old man watched top of the pops, i can appreciate that now.

Q;if you can remember: 3 tv channels = Yep

Q; rented black and white TV = **Yep ** and a rotary tuner for them I was nine when we got a push button telly :) later had a Rented with a 50p slot meter on the side

Q; black forest gateaux, free school milk, = Yep

Q; the zx-80? Datsun 280zx slang = Yep Mk1 Cortina, Mk11 Jags

Q; klackers, vinyl car seats and Elvis dying = Yep all three

Q; were mars bars really 10p? = I remember them being 6D and changing to 2.5p in decimalisation :D

Where the really old gits that remember Old pennies, thruppeny bits, Tanners and Half Crowns, Ten bob notes, white fivers :) going to school in the dark when they didn't change the clocks for a few years.

age 8, catching the bus into town, with two mates, fare two new pence. Watching the matinee then walking the three and a half miles home...

..taunting the 'benny' (paedo) we met on the way back then scarpering when he chased us

Benny from crossroads. and miss Diane

And when they told about AIDS on telly and then nobody would sit with that boy in the high school cafeteria...

Do you remember going to the cinema and seeing two films? I remember there was always a short film (not a trailer) before the 'Feature Presentation'.

and going to the loo sneaking back in to see it again