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That is way too intelligent for a Para
But he has got 3 out of 4 right!
That brought back good memories!
Aaaaah!!! Don’t you just love the smell of burnt caps in the morning. And the sound of kids counting to a hundred as fast as they could so they could rejoin the battle.
I seem to remember having one that was inscribed with the title The Cisco Kid. Happy days
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You know what the Swan Vesta's are like....if they can't fight it then they'll try to f*ck it instead.That is way too intelligent for a Para
Who else used to put as many caps in between the space between 2 l0ng bolts and a nut , then bounce it to see how big a bang you could make?
I seem to recall being able to buy a rocket that you loaded caps into the end that would bang when it came back to Earth after being thrown in the air
also scratching along the top of a cap with a fingernail trying to get it to bang without getting burnt?
kids these days just don’t know what they’re missing
I seem to recall being able to buy a rocket that you loaded caps into the end that would bang when it came back to Earth after being thrown in the air
also scratching along the top of a cap with a fingernail trying to get it to bang without getting burnt?
kids these days just don’t know what they’re missing
At Bridlington the other day, Granddaughter bought some snaps, tightly wound bags of gunpowder that you throw to the ground, Grandson was holding one between his fingers ready to scare his Grandma (his idea, honest) when it went off, shocked him a little but didn’t burn him.
Many moons ago, I was lying in bed in my flat, not too far from the beach, when I heard a huge bang at around 2.00am. Thinking it was the lifeboat about to launch, I looked out of the window just in time to see two shady characters running across the beach, up the slipway & run into the entrance of my block of flats.
Moments later there was a knock on my door & there stood the landlord of the pub I worked at & my best mate, Paul. Both of them could barely stand from laughing & one of them (I won't say which one) had clearly laughed so much, He'd pissed himself.
It took me half an hour to get the story out of them. They'd bought 10 packets of snaps and using some tissue paper used to wrap wine bottles, made a giant snap. There was a house than backed on to the beach, owned by a miserable f**ker who would have a go at anyone on the beach after 7.00pm & often called the police as it was disturbing his peace & quiet. Don't know why he lived there really as there were two pubs almost opposite his front door and a hotel with a public bar next door.
They'd launched the giant snap at his bedroom window, but because they were pissed, missed (thankfully) and hit the wall about 3 feet below, where it exploded, with a noise loud enough to wake me from 200 yards away even though there was a row of buildings between me & the beach. You could still see the scorch marks on the wall of the house weeks later.
Made the local paper but no one knew what had caused either the explosion or how a 4ft round scorch mark appeared 20ft up the wall of a boulding.
Moments later there was a knock on my door & there stood the landlord of the pub I worked at & my best mate, Paul. Both of them could barely stand from laughing & one of them (I won't say which one) had clearly laughed so much, He'd pissed himself.
It took me half an hour to get the story out of them. They'd bought 10 packets of snaps and using some tissue paper used to wrap wine bottles, made a giant snap. There was a house than backed on to the beach, owned by a miserable f**ker who would have a go at anyone on the beach after 7.00pm & often called the police as it was disturbing his peace & quiet. Don't know why he lived there really as there were two pubs almost opposite his front door and a hotel with a public bar next door.
They'd launched the giant snap at his bedroom window, but because they were pissed, missed (thankfully) and hit the wall about 3 feet below, where it exploded, with a noise loud enough to wake me from 200 yards away even though there was a row of buildings between me & the beach. You could still see the scorch marks on the wall of the house weeks later.
Made the local paper but no one knew what had caused either the explosion or how a 4ft round scorch mark appeared 20ft up the wall of a boulding.
It aint gunpowder Derek, the main constituent is silver fulminate
We spread it all over the stage in the school hall for the final assembly day !!!
We always called it gunpowder.