[Dingle-Dingle]

Submarines you had to load with bi-carbonate of soda which submerged and surfaced at random.
6/8 sided metal cylinder wjth cricket terms on which were used to play a game of cricket without a bat and ball.
Tiny cigarettes from the joke shop to put in the sailors mouth on a cigarette packet to make him smoke.
Pharoah`s secret, again fron the joke shop. When applied to silver paper from cigarette packs and dampened with spit would cause the paper to heat up then burn. Highly carcenogenic, which is why it was banned.
A stick.... dependant on it`s size and shape could be anything you wanted it to be.

DD

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Have you tried any of the current consoles Ska'd? I'd highly recommend buying a Playstation or Xbox to play Red Dead Redemption 2. It's a sandbox (open world) game about a group of outlaws in 1899 trying to escape the people after them including the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

No, I stick to PC for games. RDR2 is available for Windows, but I don't have the spec to run it, unfortunately. I spent a good chunk of lockdown obsessively playing and re-playing Twilight Struggle, the computer adaptation of a board game where you determine the course of the Cold War by influencing other countries and launching coups in those controlled by your enemy. Many an hour of delirious delight was had slapping my Chernobyl, Pope John Paul and Solidarnosc cards down on the Soviets in the final round to make the world safe for hegemonic American consumerism democracy.

[Blue Baggie]

Strange how times change. I still have fond memories of childhood. Many things have almost been forgotten now. Weekly comics and Annuals. Football cards which still appear on odd occasions. Cigarette cards. Stamp collecting and scrap books, Toys in cereals. Green Shield stamps. Gutter ball, kick the can, knock door run, even hide n seek, are children in this day and age missing out on growing up?

[silverbaggie]

Talking about Airfix models; about 5 years ago I started making aircraft; primarily fighters from a bygone age.Still got them an a wall.
As a youngster,many years ago, I made squadrons of Sopwith Camels and German Albatross and fought the WW1 airwar all over again.

What were those small metal toys called (about 5 or 6 of them to a set) which you threw one in the air and had to pick up others before catching the airborne one. They we shaped a bit like those barriers the Huns put up on the French beaches to stop the invasion. The toy ones much smaller of course.

I remember saving footballer cards from bubble gum packets.
Wasn't it a frustration when you only needed 2 or 3 more to complete the set and kept getting ones you already had.
Still got my stamp collection somewhere. I gave up when the Royal Mail kept releasing special sets every few weeks or so. Became too damn expensive.

Another favourite memory was the 1p ice cream cone which you bought on the way home from school.

[Blue Baggie]

Talking about Airfix models; about 5 years ago I started making aircraft; primarily fighters from a bygone age.Still got them an a wall.
As a youngster,many years ago, I made squadrons of Sopwith Camels and German Albatross and fought the WW1 airwar all over again.

What were those small metal toys called (about 5 or 6 of them to a set) which you threw one in the air and had to pick up others before catching the airborne one. They we shaped a bit like those barriers the Huns put up on the French beaches to stop the invasion. The toy ones much smaller of course.

I remember saving footballer cards from bubble gum packets.
Wasn't it a frustration when you only needed 2 or 3 more to complete the set and kept getting ones you already had.
Still got my stamp collection somewhere. I gave up when the Royal Mail kept releasing special sets every few weeks or so. Became too damn expensive.

Another favourite memory was the 1p ice cream cone which you bought on the way home from school.

Jack's IIRC ?

[Baggievicar]

Yes, I think those were jacks.
Did anyone else collect fake silver medals with each of the 1970 World Cup squad on? (Josh, that was in the Fake Silver Age, just after the Bronze Age.)

[Blue Baggie]

The coins were issued by Esso they did them on most world cups. Always plenty for sale on eBay £20-£50.

[Baggievicar]

You could probably have bought the actual squad for £50 in those days (pre-decimal, Josh. I've still got a farthing somewhere.).

[silverbaggie]

Yes, I think those were jacks.
Did anyone else collect fake silver medals with each of the 1970 World Cup squad on? (Josh, that was in the Fake Silver Age, just after the Bronze Age.)

Thanks guys Jacks is the answer although sometimes also called knucklebones apparently.
Guess that name came from across the pond.

[derbybaggie]

The coins were issued by Esso they did them on most world cups. Always plenty for sale on eBay £20-£50.

I had the full set, also a full set of club crests from Esso and some plastic regiment badges from Texaco. There were some 1972 olympic stickers but can’t remember which petrol station those were from.

Best we’re the pg tips cards, race into space, history of aviation, cars, etc, etc. Again I had them all but my ex sold them at a car boot sale!