🚸 Things you miss from your childhood

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This lasted a day in our house… My brother got it from someone for his Birthday…but refuse to let me have a go, so I grassed him up saying he had shot me in the eye and mum chucked it out … I was a cunt when 7

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Spangles.

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Wembley Tempest was my shooter of choice

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Nice tool !

…Goes without saying…

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Cresta. It’s frothy, man. Vesta chicken paella. Dinky and Corgi toys. Airfix model kits. Class A drugs.

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Ker Plunk

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Surely your mother would deduce you were grassing with two working eyes when making complaint?

Dont miss that. it was shit, like ‘Simon’

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How about pick up sticks

I used to use Prometheus hunting pellets to, um, shoot at cans. They provided a clean kill.

Never killed anything with my guns.

Thinking back, I’ve no idea why I liked guns so much then, I hate them now.

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Mousetrap.

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And catapults - we used to have mass “wars” and strangely I don’t recall anyone getting hit. Clearly we were shit shots.

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We called it Mouse-crap, because it was.

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Still have my one from around 1978… my daughter loved it before she went all teenager…

Gold top milk.

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Milkmen.

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Did you?

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Rag and bone men (perhaps that was just Gosport)

Coal deliveries for my uncle.