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Does anyone remember 'snakey'? (Not the one-eyed trouser snake).

There was a line of kids all holding hands and the leader would get the 'snake' running. He'd then turn suddenly and the tail of the snake would swing out and the kids on the end would go flying.


joe
 
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2 coach bolts, one large nut, screw nut about a third of the way on bolt, cut heads of matches off, and load nut to about 2/3 full, tighten other bolt on, then chuck the whole assembly onto the road, quite impressive! Or cut up numerous caps, and sellotape them onto the end of a dart which had had the point cut off. Yes, I was one of those kids. :confused:

Oh yeah, making stink bombs, iron filings in a boiling tube pour on battery acid, bubble the resulting gas into aqeous ammonia. Excellent.

Oh and finally making an ammonium nitrate bomb, that one was very ill advised though!!

I'd like to say all good clean fun, but I'd probably be locked up under the new anti terror laws now.

Oh yeah, I've just remembered about the supersize "electro-magnet" One large steel bar, one plug, one end of the bar connected to the neutral, one to the live. Piece of newspaper over the top, sprinkle on iron filings, turn on and see the pretty, well was supposed to be patterns, not the intense light show from the old fuse box. :oops:
 
well, I used to play shops, making cakes and pies out of mud up the back lane and sell them to tourists for a penny. It seems quite tame to some of the examples here.

We also used to play games where you stand in twos facing each other and clap and slap hands, palms and backs to rhymes.
I also used to build dens.
Used to get lectures about not playing beside the sea or the gravel pit or the woods...
 
'mazing how we're all still alive. I'm sure your pursuits these days would probably have earned you an ASBO, or a trip to the magitrates for demaning money with menaces or selling goods without the HSE blah blah etc etc. Seems all the innocence has gone.
 
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hubby tells me where he used to cycle to as a young child (he is 41) and its unbelievable.
WAs there less traffic then or not much difference to now?
 
Well yes I'm sure there was an awful lot less traffic, but now everyone seems so preoccupied that on every street corner lurks some maniac peadophile. Not true. I know that of course it's instinctive to try to protect our children from any harm, but some of the stuff we do these days, I reckon is perverting and stifling their minds. I suppose the question could be boiled down to what level of risk are we prepared to accept for our children, and what implications does that level of risk have?
 
OMG far less traffic in those days. We used to play tennis across the road (one on one kerb and one on the other) as there were hardly any cars. Nowadays you have to wait 15 minutes before you can get off your drive :rolleyes:

My brother used to make home made bombs and blew a huge hole in the lawn. He also had an air rifle and shot this woman's washing. Her daughters boyfriend came storming up holding out his future M-I-L's enormous bra riddled with pellet holes and yelled at my mother - she was mortified :LOL: His favourite past time was to tap the telephone though and he'd spend hours listening to my mother waffling on and then go and repeat the conversations to her hahahaha
 
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