Yay! This! It’s like Stranger Things

Trawling through the library index first to find the right encyclopedia / reference publication then building your footnotes / bibliography to support your submission. Roughly 30 minutes for per reference...

well then...

We made those for our dads, for mom we made potholders.

I remember when there was only BBC and ITV

This was "normal" in the UK in the 80s and 90s. Uniform was a skirt for the girls. In winter they simply wore woolly tights, which was also part of the uniform and had to be a certain colour. Boys wore trousers and it was only if it was really hot we could wear shorts and very occasionally it would be declared a "no tie" day.

You think that's bad. When I was a university, I didn't have a phone and used the public call boxes at the end of the street. Doesn't sound too bad until I say that I lived in the red light district and got propositioned whilst on the phone to my mother! LOL

The amount of times I would burn my hands on the monkey bars from the hot Aussie sun 😤 the blisters! But my god was it fun!!!

My English teacher could have thrown a board rubber for the olympics

Ha. There was one bus stop in the entire village. Apart from the one and only school bus, the remainder of the bus service flipped between one an hour to two busses a week! I walked to primary school, including on my own from about aged 7 or 8, and cycled to secondary school which was 3 miles away in the nearest town. This is probably why I have such little patience with the Chelsea tractors (SUVs) doing the "school run".

Smoking “sections” on airplanes!!

Exploring outside for hours on end was the best.

The one I remember was mostly a toy: molded plastic seat, one inch plastic strap with a buckle, and a plastic steering wheel with a squeeky horn button.

That was a student prank. Our chemistry teacher had some mercury in a beaker and we stuck our hands in it. Not sure that touching it is a big deal, but you don't want to ingest it.

Thank god!

Hamburger jail was awesome!

AND you could pick up the phone and listen in on their conversations!

Probably because they were hunting rifles, used for hunting and not assault rifles, used for God knows what.

Whiskey on teething baby’s gums

Omg the warning notice is full on

lawn darts are still a thing tho

Yup. BB guns, bow and arrows, and running with sticks could get you a eye patch too.

What an ironic choice to have the primary jart on the box pointing directly at the head of one of the people.(For those too young to remember, the biggest danger of Jarts is that they were very capable of penetrating your skull.)

Lawn Darts rock!

And in middle school, see if you could throw them blind over the house! Without warning or seeing if anyone was there! I cringe and am amazed we survived those years. And I still think its better than the sheltering that too many kids grow up with now.

How DID we survive? (eyeroll)

Dang. Missed out on those. But we did have Superelasticbubbleplastic with that lovely toxic smell.

Back when people had common sense...

Lawn Darts! So fun!

And then they took it off the market when people got injured, but they won't do that with AK47s

There was one little girl in the US who, according to an old “The Onion” article, “who ruined Jarts for everyone”, by getting badly injured (or did she die?), and they were banned thereafter. True story, just hilariously tasteless headline!

I picked those up at a garage sale!

Yeah, in the hands of little boys they could be leathal but fun.

BTW. this is perfect reolica of roman weapon : plumbata. Used in close combat to hit soldiers behind the shield wall from the top.

The original Jarts were great! The new ones bounce. 😠

These caused ONE child death in the US and were banned almost instantly. Semi-automatic weapons however...

Over the house parts was next level!

Oh, we used to have these when I was a kid!

I loved these!!

My father landed one of those in my uncle's knee.

I miss jarts.

"It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye," said every grandmother everywhere.

Nobody ever read the "warnings!"

Oh c**p. The dogs got loose. Hang on a mo while I get him. Oooowwww!

Why do you think that guy is rubbing his head? 😂

Have you still got both eyes?

Wow! Look at the leg room.

" I Thought He/She Was With YOU ! "

There is one of these near my sisters, in a park, it is 3 feet wide. Spin on that fast and you will vomit and feel ill for the rest of the day.

Fortunately, the jet injectors do no use a needle, but instead use a high pressure spray that penetrates the top layers of skin to deliver the vaccine. They used to be used for mass vaccinations, but now only a fraction of people in the States use it for insulin.

Well at least the nurse tried to calm her down, though a newborn should not be near smoking!

Buying smokes for my grandpa. 43 cents a pack! Now almost $20 here.

"most" :-(