Fads when you were growing up...

mmj_uk said:
Half of the stuff back then wouldn't be allowed today because you get one or two idiots who do something stupid and it gets banned on safety grounds.

Do they still do those children's chemistry sets? lol
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I was a bit late for the radioactive ones but I was around for the explosive ones and the toxic ones.

Younger people will probably think this is some odd kind of joke. It isn't. Children's chemistry sets used to include poisons, explosives and radioactive susbtances. Seriously. They really did. Different times.

Terminal_Boy said:
Raleigh Chopper bicycles [..]
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How did I forget those? I half lived on one for a while. Ridiculously bad design from a functionality and safety point of view. Not suitable for children, who are bound to do something silly on them. In my case, I decided to get up to speed and then stand on that long saddle and pretend I was surfing. I'd been watching Hawaii 5-0, so it made sense in my head. I regained consciousness in a skip at the side of the road. I don't remember what happened, but it's likely that the combination of the small front wheel and long handlebars resulted in the front wheel rotating enough to bring the bike to a hard stop and I was flung off the bike and into the skip that happened to be at the side of the road at that point. It was much safer when I was pretending I was Erik Estrada in CHiPs because I had my hands on the handlebars.
 
mmj_uk said:
I vaguely remember some kind of chewing gum that came with a temporary tattoo sticker, I think you wet it or something?
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I remember that now you mention it. Although I don't remember the chewing gum, the temporary tattoos must have come with some kind of sweets. I also vaguely remember that the "tattoos" rarely came out well. I wonder if I can find out anything about it online...

...not quickly. Lots on old sweets from the 1970s and lots on temporary tattoos today, but a quick look didn't find the two together.
 
Marbles, fruit-smelling erasers, assorted sweets like rhubarb and custards.

Trading card thingies that were in, for example, the world cup mags.
 
We had a fad of kids bringing in bags full of those small red dynamite style bangers they'd bought back from ski trips and the like.

Basically anything we could get our hands on was blown up from toilets, fruit, backpacks, shoes, lockers etc etc.

Also remember taking a full replica fully auto ak47 bb gun for some demonstration in English class. Few other kids did the same and we spent lunch time having bb wars in the one building before getting caught by teachers and simply told to stop and clean up.

Nowadays I'm sure they'd have the bomb squad and the SAS swinging in through the windows.

One of the stupider ones was forcing yourself to faint. Crouch down and then stand up and blow hard on your thumb. Dread to think how many braincells were lost

All good fun until one kid didn't wake up for 5 minutes. I think he did eventually after a line of about 10 kids queuing up to try and slap him awake like that scene in airplane.


Triangle monostrap backpacks was another, I'm sure that's why I've got one terrible shoulder/neck.
 
Ah yes, bb guns :)

My mate (who always had the cool toys) had a couple of pistols, then got an auto MP5 replica that you had to pump up (but could also get gas canisters for). I had one but I can't remember what it was - it looked like some kind of SMG IIRC but it wasn't automatic - it had a pump action like reload. I used to set up targets at the end of our garden and try to compensate for the huge amount of deviation due to wind that you'd get over maybe 10 metres.
 
soundb0y said:
One of the stupider ones was forcing yourself to faint. Crouch down and then stand up and blow hard on your thumb. Dread to think how many braincells were lost
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wasn't going to post about this because it was so stupid!... but I remember in primary 4-5, so 8-10 yr old when the teacher was out of the classroom someone would stand against the wall and take a deep breath and hold it then someone else would push on their chest and they would faint... hopefully getting caught as they fell...mental, something eventually happened that resulted in the teachers finding out and I think it stopped then
 
Angilion said:
I was a bit late for the radioactive ones but I was around for the explosive ones and the toxic ones.

Younger people will probably think this is some odd kind of joke. It isn't. Children's chemistry sets used to include poisons, explosives and radioactive susbtances. Seriously. They really did. Different times.
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Yeah an age when parents were responsible for teaching and taking care of their children and not the nanny state through banning all of the fun stuff. :(

It kind of makes you wonder if the west is like it is today because the nanny state of the last few decades, in its zealousness for extreme safety, has prevented natural selection from take place.
 
adam cool dude said:
Totally forgot about these. Can you imagine how these would go down today with the woke brigade. We all felt cool with a chocolate fag sticking out of our mouths when we were kids :p
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Or the hard candy/chalk like stuff, I think we used to get Flintstones ones which were oddly tasty.
I think they still sell them but as candy sticks or something rather than cigs.
 
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