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One for the Weegies (Argyle/Union St junction):
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Wonder if the wifey made it. 


Harry clarke's great grandad was driving the tram on the right. Poor old cow never stood a chance.
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On 13/03/2017 at 15:15, Hedgecutter said:

Perhaps Scotland's towns should copy Paris and drain a bit of canal to see what BFTPs have been thrown in there (like WW2 coins / unexploded mortars / bikes... and cars)?

 

Saw a traffic cone.

Accies fan?

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8 hours ago, Eednud said:

Image result for cap toy rocketsImage result for caps fo0r toy pistols

Caps were the bollocks when you were wee.  I remember those wee rocket things too.  Great fun was had bouncing them off folks heads trying to get the caps to pop.

 

edit: can you still get caps?  Or have we become such a namby pampy pussy state that we don't sell kids small rolls of explosive paper?

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22 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:

Caps? Pffffft.

Real kids had a Black Widow. The Rolls Royce of catapults.

I had one.  My uncle brought me it back from <insert name of far flung place he'd been on holiday>, but he told me not to ever take it out as i'd go to jail.

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3 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

Caps? Pffffft.

Real kids had a Black Widow. The Rolls Royce of catapults.

That was the diablo.

 

12 hours ago, Eednud said:

Image result for cap toy rocketsImage result for caps fo0r toy pistols

 

Wean's nowadays don't know what they missed oot on, most of the stuff we got up to in the 80's would be frowned upon now.

 

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Indeed. The 80s were all about making wee bombs in your garden from toilet toll tubes filled with sodium chlorite weed killer. Definitely frowned up for doing that these days.


Nerd.

There wasn't a better feeling than when your local convenience store starting selling bangers at the start of October. Luckily they didn't care you were 13 and gladly took your money.
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Remember this?

Was a simpler time.  The chemist in our village had a rack of toys and the two I remember most was the Magic Octopus and the trick finger guillotine that you could horrify your gran with.

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20 minutes ago, Zen Archer said:

I can't find an image but there was a DIY store in Kirkcaldy called Dodge City, latterly was B&Q before being knocked down to be replaced by Morrisons.

Do I remember correctly: was B&Q preceded by Jupiter?

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