Fads when you were growing up...

keyser said:
Ah yeah I thought maybe I should have explained that one, I bought them from a joke shop near my grans house, they were are a black pellet that you light outside and it creates looong black ash that looks like a snake :) also a lot of smoke. I could light them with my magnifying glass! good times. Eventually they were banned, not sure why. They might have another name outside of the UK.

Turns out they were probably a load of sugar :)
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Ah right, the mention of snakes made me remember these. Not quite as impressive. :p

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mmj_uk said:
Ah right, the mention of snakes made me remember these. Not quite as impressive. :p

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lol yeah you can still get those I think, probably coz they must cost 2p to make :) kids love those once they get the idea of trying to control it and it moves like a snake.. or at least price vs entertainment factor!
 
RxR said:
Air pistols - in the late 60's early 70's.
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The infamous Gat Pistols… Could fire corks (or anything else that would fit in the flared muzzle), .177 pellets or very dangerously, those .177 darts.

They weren’t dangerous because the Gats was particularly powerful, they were dangerous because they were so inaccurate to the point that the only safe spot was 25 yards in front of the shooter as the pellet/wouldn’t carry that far.
 
My school went through a phase of trousers with belts like these attached! I think they were like flowy, summer pants but with the classic brown/black fake corset belt style. They were the kind of things you could get for like £5 in the local market in 1000 different colours!!
 
Raleigh Burner BMX bikes
Spud guns
Star Wars figures
ZX Spectrum 48k
Double-deck tape players
 
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ball boppers headbands my sister was obsessed with them in the 80s even then i said this look is preposterous :p
 
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