The daft things we did as kids ...

axisus

I can relate to so much of this video ...

Dominic

Loved that .................just so true ;we can all relate to it
Only problem is ........what do you do when you have a 23 year old like this ?

Nitefly

So silly.

Excellent 

McToot

I still do the wax thing on the finger tips now and I'm 52. But in my case it's to avoid leaving finger prints when I rob banks. 

rogd

Most of that. I once stuck my finger onto the bar of an electric fire to see if it was getting warm. my first experience of 240volts!! Ended up as a bloody spark. Figure that out!

guitars4you

Yes I can remember some of these

3/30 and the vibrating ruler - Had so many telling off's in class for that - I loved it 

Surprised the comb and a bit of paper to make a 'mouth organ' is not there

Recall in the school library once we found a new roll of sellotape (unused) - Think it said 25m so me and a few mates thought we'd better check it was correct and un-did the whole tape, bit by bit against a 6" ruler and then threw it all away 

skunkwerx

Haha accurate! 

I used to mess with staples a fair bit too. Either loading the stapler like it was a heavy support weapon and clicking it, ready to fire, or trying to manually separate the staples individually lol.

axisus

I remember that if we found a box with some matches we would do that thing where you flick one off the box and it lights and flies through the air

Kittyfrisk

axisus said:

I remember that if we found a box with some matches we would do that thing where you flick one off the box and it lights and flies through the air

Yeah, definitely lacking a few pyrotechnics, projectiles & other dangerous fun things that we used to get up to.

Axe_meister

Remember cap guns. Taking the gun powder for rolls and rolls of the stuff and making a small bomb.

stonevibe

Me and my mate put milk in a Soda Stream, drank it and vomited the lot up within seconds. It was the the early ‘80s we’d Soda Stream anything!

Neill

The things we did as kids with no money:


Does anyone remember making a matchstick gun out of a bit of wood and two hair grips?

What about firing V shaped bits of paper across the classroom with an elastic band ("You could have somebody's eye out boy..!")

Making a drainpipe "sing" with some lighted newspaper... 

Hours of fun with half an old tennis ball turned inside out to make it spring off the floor.

Matchstick diver out of burnt match and an old pop bottle filled with water.

Making a garden cane sling with a length of string with a knot in the end - send it for miles.

Musical drinking straws - flatten and cut the end into a V to create a reed.

Even cheaper - use a blade of grass between your hands.

Cheaper still - learn to wolf whistle and hoot like an owl.

"Soap box" carts made from old pram/pushchair wheels.


TBH I haven't even scratched the surface - and you try telling the young people of today...

boogieman

Putting glue on my fingers and peeling it off always fascinated me. Copydex worked best or we had stuff called Cow Gum at school that was similar. 

Freebird

Kittyfrisk said:

Yeah, definitely lacking a few pyrotechnics, projectiles & other dangerous fun things that we used to get up to.

Shooting paper pellets with an elastic band, and causing explosions in the chemistry lab.

axisus

In the infants we had a bottle of milk every day and a little red straw to drink it. We would hold the straw in our teeth and stretch it to about a foot long. 

stonevibe

axisus said:

In the infants we had a bottle of milk every day and a little red straw to drink it. We would hold the straw in our teeth and stretch it to about a foot long. 

Thatcher the milk snatcher!

The milk was epic when I was a kid, loved my little bottle daily at school.

Funkfingers

guitars4you said:

Surprised the comb and a bit of paper to make a 'mouth organ' is not there.

It's stuck in Crosstown Traffic.

guitars4you

Neill said:

The things we did as kids with no money:

What about firing V shaped bits of paper across the classroom with an elastic band ("You could have somebody's eye out boy..!")


Even cheaper - use a blade of grass between your hands.


"Soap box" carts made from old pram/pushchair wheels.

Had hours of fun with mates and a soap box and went on quite side roads with them, especially with some incline - Still have a few bruises to prove it - Summer holidays were great back then 

Forgot the blade of grass - might try it again

Either fire the laggy band on its own, from you finger, or as you say a paper V missile catapult style 

proggy

There was actually a real tournament for that 'bouncing ruler' thing when I was at school. It was held all over Europe.
I made it to the final one year and had to go to France.
They held it in the Dordogne......

"Taxi"

Kittyfrisk

@Neill   'Making a drainpipe "sing" with some lighted newspaper.' Hard to replicate with plastic downpipes, but with cast iron the sound was glorious 
Making blow darts out of pins and a bit of knitting wool bound with cotton & fired out of Bic biro tubes. Would pierce a school blazer and stung like hell.
My matchstick gun used an old fashioned dolly clothes peg, a pop bottle rubber seal & a single hair grip.
Making catapults (catties or gatties) with 1/4" square elastic (laccy). Genuinely dangerous...
Putting 6" nails on the local railway line to flatten them, then making them into knives or spear tips (no, not for 'hood turf war stuff, just for chucking about).
Happy days 

munckee

We used to make rocket launchers from drainpipes and fireworks. Seems really stupid now I think about it : )