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When you think about it, it’s amazing what you could buy easily as a kid in the 60s : airguns, fireworks, matches, cigarettes (“they’re for my dad”). I was making my own home made explosives from weedkiller and sugar when I was 12.
One of my teachers at school had been in the RAF during the war, and another had served in Korea. And the Cold War was still in full swing... war culture was absolutely everywhere.
The world has changed, and not entirely for the worse.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Out of respect for him, I have never asked about it & he has never mentioned it.
Some things do not change.
I suppose part of giving a boy toy weapons is that one day that he might need to use the real thing. Young vikings given wooden swords so they could swing metal swords as adults. Perhaps in the 1970s I was given a plastic gun and a copy of Warlord because my parents thought I'd be fighting in the trenches one day.
Yep, Warlord, Victor, Hotspur.... it was a very different world.
I had a big collection of penknives, even a crappy switchblade, often took them to school. Any kid could buy them at the local shops.
When we went on holiday to Spain in the mid '70s, the souvenir shops were full of knives and guns (with caps much louder than the paper-strip types we had in the UK). I almost managed to persuade my dad to buy me a sword. I wonder what they'd have made of that going through Customs - probably not much, in those days.
I did have that, but it wasn't called Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots in the UK at the time (just checked Wikipedia and it seems it was called Raving Bonkers, which doesn't really ring any bells).
It was OK. I think it was reasonably well made, it didn't immediately break but it got boring pretty quickly.
I think that's one of the few things parents are usually right about. When they say a toy's a waste of money they may just be trying to save cash but they also realise the novelty value of most toys evaporates very quickly.
.........even though it sounds like a 70's Porn Film
When I was in the CCF Corps at School I had a Marksman badge from the School Rifle Range for .22 and 303 shooting .I was taken Stalking on some wonderful Estates years ago but I just couldn't pull the Trigger on a Deer or a Rabbit .
We have a Syndicate here on the Farm but I lost the taste for shooting of any kind 30 years ago.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Don't know what we were supposed to do with them if we ever found any.