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Do You Remember.....?
« on: December 17, 2018, 01:55:11 PM »
pedal pushers
jacks
slips with tubes near the hem.  You inflated the tubes to make the dress flare out.
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Re: Do You Remember.....?
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2018, 06:39:18 PM »
pedal pushers
jacks
slips with tubes near the hem.  You inflated the tubes to make the dress flare out.
Pedal pushers, yes. Jacks as in the game? I was a huge fan. I don't rember the slips with tubes though.
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Re: Do You Remember.....?
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2018, 07:19:36 PM »
I used to file my jacks to make caltrops.  :santa:

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Re: Do You Remember.....?
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2018, 08:12:23 PM »
I remember when my father's truck had mechanical indicators - a hand on a stick that you operated manually when you were turning. I would have been 2 or 3 years old at the time.
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« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2018, 11:57:57 PM »
I remember when you could  still walk into a pharmacy and buy potassium permanganate in tubs, for a couple of quid. And when anything  'chemical-ish', they'd not start talkingbollocks and telling lies,  inventing another lie after each one  is refuted with logic and factual information as a reason 'why we can't' sell you more than one bottle, tub, packet etc. of anything chemical-ey, even epsom salts, bicarb, or 50ml bottles of acetone, despite the  fact 200ml bottles  of  acetone/ethyl acetate mixture are available, or really pissing soaked through acetone that actually is so contaminated with H2O, it needs  distillation, formation of a bisulfite adduct and hydrolysis of the adduct with base just to get the  water out, so  MUCH fucking water it had to be listed on the 'ingredients'. But 2 50ml bottles of 'tone, of a reasonable cleanliness, that a mere going over with first anhydrous magnesium sulfate, then storing over 3A molecular sieves was  enough.

These days, even that, gets claims  like 'we can't sell you more than one because little children might drink it' (huh? they could  drink one bottle too, if it were not for the fact that the  youngest person in the household, is 32, and  is the one  buying,or who would have bought, said acetone, if he hadn't been lied  to so much he refused to put any money whatsoever in their tills, told the lying prick at the counter to drink bleach and die of cancer, and fucked off)

(this bear in mind was after that, then changing his lie after 'kids might drink it if there's more than one bottle', to 'but I can't, because it's a solvent' (DUUUH, really? thats  precisely the reason I was  going  to purchase  it in the first place. Because  it's a solvent, and because I needed some  acetone)

Then, to 'but, it's flammable' (yes, I am aware of that fact. You put a lot more flammable  liquid in the fuel tank of your car on a regular basis and you are still alive, and YOU don't even have any specialist knowledge of flammable materials..), even to 'you might huff it or drink it yourself' (I just lost my temper at insulting crap like that, being used both to tell me a lie, and to talk down to me contemptuously, imperiously and by a little neurotypical snot with a wasp nest up the eye of his peanut-dick, and  after refuting each and every lie, telling him to his face I knew full well he was lying to me deliberately and knowingly, going  on to tell him exactly what I thought of him, and what he could go do with his fucking  overpriced 'tone, and how he could end himself in a rather unpleasant way.

Might have  gozzed on him too, can't remember, on the way out :tard;

Fuckin' imperious neurotypical bovine gobshyte, he really needed both bottles turning diagonally, opening, setting alight, before being rammed, still diagonally, up his arse. Lying to me, talking to an autie like that..fucking christ. Hell no I'm not taking that shit.
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Re: Do You Remember.....?
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2018, 09:17:45 AM »
I remember when my father's truck had mechanical indicators - a hand on a stick that you operated manually when you were turning. I would have been 2 or 3 years old at the time.

Wait...they don't still?

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« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2018, 10:33:00 AM »
pedal pushers
jacks
slips with tubes near the hem.  You inflated the tubes to make the dress flare out.
Pedal pushers, yes. Jacks as in the game? I was a huge fan. I don't rember the slips with tubes though.

my sister and I played jacks incessantly
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« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2018, 10:33:43 AM »
I used to file my jacks to make caltrops.  :santa:

what's caltrops?
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« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2018, 10:35:04 AM »
I used to file my jacks to make caltrops.  :santa:

what's caltrops?
It's when you file the jacks to really sharp tips. Some leave them in the road to pop tires on passing vehicles.
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« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2018, 10:37:18 AM »
I used to file my jacks to make caltrops.  :santa:

what's caltrops?
It's when you file the jacks to really sharp tips. Some leave them in the road to pop tires on passing vehicles.

you learn something new every day.
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« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2018, 10:38:22 AM »
I used to file my jacks to make caltrops.  :santa:

what's caltrops?
It's when you file the jacks to really sharp tips. Some leave them in the road to pop tires on passing vehicles.
Very true. I had to google when I first read it.

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« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2018, 09:23:16 PM »
I used to file my jacks to make caltrops.  :santa:

what's caltrops?
It's when you file the jacks to really sharp tips. Some leave them in the road to pop tires on passing vehicles.

Some leave them in front of their trench line, to puncture sneakers

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« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2018, 11:36:03 PM »
I remember when my father's truck had mechanical indicators - a hand on a stick that you operated manually when you were turning. I would have been 2 or 3 years old at the time.

Wait...they don't still?

I can't even find a picture of a truck like that. If anyone could find a pic I'd be thankful.

It would have been the late 60s and the truck was ancient even then. I remember it being orange, and noisy, and having a flat bed on the back for carrying timber, and those mechanical indicators. One of my early memories along with learning to walk and blowing spit bubbles and standing in my cot and crying because I wanted milk and my sister putting me inside a tyre and rolling me down a hill.

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« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2018, 12:41:02 AM »
I remember when my father's truck had mechanical indicators - a hand on a stick that you operated manually when you were turning. I would have been 2 or 3 years old at the time.

Wait...they don't still?

I can't even find a picture of a truck like that. If anyone could find a pic I'd be thankful.

It would have been the late 60s and the truck was ancient even then. I remember it being orange, and noisy, and having a flat bed on the back for carrying timber, and those mechanical indicators. One of my early memories along with learning to walk and blowing spit bubbles and standing in my cot and crying because I wanted milk and my sister putting me inside a tyre and rolling me down a hill.


Something like this?




Looking for it, I also found this fascinating little bio

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/silent-film-star-and-inventor-of-mechanical-turn-signal-dies

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« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2018, 12:48:51 AM »
Thanks Cal. A lot more retro than that though, and it didn't have a light. My sister reckons she was about 5 when he sold the truck, so I would have been 3, making it 1968. The truck seemed ancient even then, I'm guessing late 40s or early 50s build, possibly even older. My sister vaguely remembers the hand as well.

Also I am pretty sure that the hand was manually operated - it hung down outside the window, and you pulled down on one end of the stick that was inside the truck and the "hand" stuck out straight. It was likely a cheap aftermarket "feature" so that you didn't need to stick your arm out the window.
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