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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: waspy on 07 October 2008, 17:14:33
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I was thinking today about the things i used to get up to as a child.
Sliding from one end of the bath to the other to creat waves, but i used to wet the floor through & my mum used to shout at me (never stopped me though) My brother used to was his hands over the cabbage & it took my parents ages to figure out why the cabbage tasted of soap. My dad kept many chickens on the farm & when they were out, i used to throw clumps of soil into the air & whistle like a bomb, my dad could never figure out why his chickens used to dive for cover when he went into the pen (i'd hide around the corner & whistle) ;D Tying things to the cats tail & watching run around the house ;D ;D
There was many a mischief to be had ::) Arh the memories.
What mischief did you get up to when you was young?
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Pushed my little bro down the stairs and broke his arm when we were about 6 and 4. Denied all knowledge and said he must have fell. I still deny it to this day ;D
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Charging capacitors up with a 500 volt Megger and then giving them to my younger brothers to play with. ;D
Kevin
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Grew up with a well known footballer and we used to nick clothes from the local clothing store, never got captured. Then we would take them back and say our Mam's thought they were unsuitable and could we have the money back ( no receipts then ). Promptly spent the refund on other things!!!!!!!
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Charging capacitors up with a 500 volt Megger and then giving them to my younger brothers to play with. ;D
Kevin
i like shorting capacitors like on camera flash's - bigger ones really do go bang!
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Charging capacitors up with a 500 volt Megger and then giving them to my younger brothers to play with. ;D
Kevin
i like shorting capacitors like on camera flash's - bigger ones really do go bang!
What's a capacitor then??
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something that holds charge like a battery until it discharges.. if you use them with the wrong polarity they go bang quite nicely :P
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most of the naughty things..
fight with other children in groups, stole fruit from neighbours trees,
play football and break window glasses , install nails under the cars
tires ,try every torture on girls ;D
But the special one that I remember was with the girls we tried to play
what we see in the cinema..I had a snotty darling that kiss me
everytime ;D
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My younger (five year old ) brother Nicholas and I were on our flat roof in Malta, and I had this brilliant idea that if I tied a rope from one side of our high roof above the wash house to the same on top of my friends adjacent house next door, he could swing on the rope.
Tied one end of the rope to a concrete column and the other to the same fixing on the other roof, and encouraged Nicholas to swing on the rope in the centre after climbing on top of a wall that separated the two properties. He wouldn't do it so as a good sister I did.......as I swung on the rope a whole section of concrete massonary came crashing down with a hell of a bang! :o :o :o :o
Mum come rushing up the stairs, to me explaining that it was all Nicholas's fault; she didn't believe me and went ballistic! ::) ::) ::)
The Admiralty paid the bill for repairs as it was discovered the the whole section of ballastrad that we swung on was defective! :o :o
............and I was found innocent of all blame!! 8-) 8-) ;D ;D ;)
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something that holds charge like a battery until it discharges.. if you use them with the wrong polarity they go bang quite nicely :P
Yes...another activity for which the school's brand spanking new electronics lab came in rather handy.
.. and did you know, that if you put a nail in each end of a sausage, and wire the two nails up to a 13 amp plug you can cook the sausage. :y
Tip: don't eat the bit near where the nails were inserted, nor feel it during cooking to see if it's done. :-X
Then there was their computer network. Sounds naiive these days doesn't it? Build a network of computers that have sweet F.A. in the way of security of any kind, and expect to be able to let loose a load of teenage geeks on it with no ill effects... :-/
Kevin
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and another moment that I really remember was my experiment with boiling paraffin and wax..(age nearly 9-10 if I remember correct)
I had hurry to cool it down and wanted to give shape.. So I take a big glass of tap water and drop over the boiling mixture..
Result was disaster :o :o
The fire covered the ceiling :-?
The curtains in the kitchen start burning.. :-[
When mom came home it was complete mess .But I was successful to
extinguish the fire :P
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;D ;D ;D ;D We where proper little buggers :y :y
I've just remembered when we had the really hot summer of 1976, there was hundreds of caterpillers everywhere, so my mate Pete & i collected loads of them in two jam jars, at the end of the day we said what are gona do with them all. There was a shop not too far away that sold plants & the guy that ran the shop was a really moaning old bugger, he would shout at us for playing near his shop, so i said lets climb up his fence & tip the caterpillers all over his plants, which we did, there was hundreds of them everywhere. I wouldv'e loved to have seen his face when all his plants had these caterpillers all over them ;D ;D ;D
He'll be dead now & i bet he looks down on me & curses ;D ;D ;D
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something that holds charge like a battery until it discharges.. if you use them with the wrong polarity they go bang quite nicely :P
Yes...another activity for which the school's brand spanking new electronics lab came in rather handy.
.. and did you know, that if you put a nail in each end of a sausage, and wire the two nails up to a 13 amp plug you can cook the sausage. :y
Tip: don't eat the bit near where the nails were inserted, nor feel it during cooking to see if it's done. :-X
Then there was their computer network. Sounds naiive these days doesn't it? Build a network of computers that have sweet F.A. in the way of security of any kind, and expect to be able to let loose a load of teenage geeks on it with no ill effects... :-/
Kevin
I will try that also ;D ;D
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I would collect ants then put them on a biscuit tin lid ,then I would put them on the gas cooker.
Then my friends and I would turn the gas on ever so slowly until................kids can be very cruel. :y :y :y
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I would collect ants then put them on a biscuit tin lid ,then I would put them on the gas cooker.
Then my friends and I would turn the gas on ever so slowly until................kids can be very cruel. :y :y :y
Insects (normally wasps) got justice pretty quickly around my way. Normally dished out by and old line output transformer from a TV. [smiley=evil.gif]
Kevin
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I cut the cats whiskers off and my sister got the blame :y ;D ;D
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Not quite a child at high school but I remember we didn't like one of our science teachers very much and she happened to have a mini clubman (the one with a lock on the drivers door and a lock on the rear van doors)
Well it doesn't take too many lads to physically move one of these so we repositioned it in the next space so that the drivers door and the rear van doors where against walls and of course the passenger door was locked ;D
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for the geography exam all the class make crowd around the teacher and begged to delay the exam.. ::)
while she was talking with us somebody stole one exam paper and the last mistake she made was accepting the delay ;D ;D
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good thinggs
scrumping, hedghodging, runouts, walk on the top rail of a bridge over the a40, climb up the drainpipe on the flats to get on the roof. i was in the scouts so used to go away with them most of the time. :y :y
bad things
threw a dart in my sisters forehaed as she was annoying me, shot my other sister with an air rifle, dad was a long distance lorry driver so didnt get a good hiding for a few days
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Could,nt possibly say for legal reasons :-X ... :y
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And we moan about the yoof of today ::) ;D
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Not quite a child at high school but I remember we didn't like one of our science teachers very much and she happened to have a mini clubman (the one with a lock on the drivers door and a lock on the rear van doors)
Well it doesn't take too many lads to physically move one of these so we repositioned it in the next space so that the drivers door and the rear van doors where against walls and of course the passenger door was locked ;D
Yes we did something similar by picking the Mini up & putting it down on the wrong side of a line of concrete bollards - then going home
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Absolutely nothing naughty that I can remember. I was a perfect child. :) :) :)
Actually, I think that I was probably just too lazy to get up and go out and do anything at all risky. :)
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Not quite a child at high school but I remember we didn't like one of our science teachers very much and she happened to have a mini clubman (the one with a lock on the drivers door and a lock on the rear van doors)
Well it doesn't take too many lads to physically move one of these so we repositioned it in the next space so that the drivers door and the rear van doors where against walls and of course the passenger door was locked ;D
Yes we did something similar by picking the Mini up & putting it down on the wrong side of a line of concrete bollards - then going home
Ahh, yes. the joys of moving minis around. We had about 5 of them who used to park in a row up the hill when we were 6th formers. One day we moved them all bumper-to-bumper. The owner of the front one did extra geeky stuff after school. The owner of the rear one had a detention. ;D The guys in the middle were stuffed.
Learnt to have a careful look at the state of decay of the rear wings before lifting them by the wheel arches though. :-X
Kevin
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At Poly I hid the rotor arm of a Hillman Imp parked blocking the motorcycle clubs garage :-[
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You load of rotton baskits, and you all come on here moaning about the youths of today.
Wonder where they get it from. ::) ::) ::)
We used to light all the gas taps in the sciece labs before the teacher came in. :-X :-/ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
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I remember, they were extending the senior school, so had a mooch about the building site.
Found a dumper with the key in it, started it up and went for a little drive, I did not know that diesel engines had a stop button and broke the ignition key trying to turn it off. :-[ Because I could not turn it off I just jumped off it and let it run till it hit a shed and stalled. :)
Remember banger guns? A piece of pipe with one end blocked, put a lit banger in the other end and will shoot out. Shot my younger brother on the bum, ;D ;D ;D his nylon underpants looked like they had been shot with a shotgun. Got into trouble for that. :(
Oh, and I used to collect car badges. :-X
And on the whole, I was a good kid. :y
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I remember, they were extending the senior school, so had a mooch about the building site.
Oh, that's something I'd miss as a kid today. Fences and security. No chance to have a play. I also remember playing on a dumper. Also set up a rope swing on the arm of a JCB. Could just roam around on building sites after the workers had knocked off! All sorts of interesting things to play with.
Kevin
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I remember, they were extending the senior school, so had a mooch about the building site.
Oh, that's something I'd miss as a kid today. Fences and security. No chance to have a play. I also remember playing on a dumper. Also set up a rope swing on the arm of a JCB. Could just roam around on building sites after the workers had knocked off! All sorts of interesting things to play with.
Kevin
Used to love playing on house building sites, not doing anything wrong, as such, just like an adventure playground around half built houses, can't do it now. ::) Seem to remember lots of stories about kids getting killed playing in big piles of sand though. :(
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We used to play with explosives...originally it was the heads of safety matches carefully broken off the stick and then packed into a nut with a bolt in each side. Now throw it up in the air and wait for the bang when it hits the ground.
We graduated to sugar/weedkiller and Jetex fuse (wonderful stuff that) packed a small car extinguisher with it, lit the fuse and ran like f^&%.....all we ever found was the base of the extinguisher 4 inches underground.
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We used to play with explosives...originally it was the heads of safety matches carefully broken off the stick and then packed into a nut with a bolt in each side. Now throw it up in the air and wait for the bang when it hits the ground.
We graduated to sugar/weedkiller and Jetex fuse (wonderful stuff that) packed a small car extinguisher with it, lit the fuse and ran like f^&%.....all we ever found was the base of the extinguisher 4 inches underground.
Ahh, yes. Used to scour the garden centres for Potassium Nitrate. Then discovered a mate's dad ran a nurseries. :y
Kevin
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We used to play with explosives...originally it was the heads of safety matches carefully broken off the stick and then packed into a nut with a bolt in each side. Now throw it up in the air and wait for the bang when it hits the ground.
We graduated to sugar/weedkiller and Jetex fuse (wonderful stuff that) packed a small car extinguisher with it, lit the fuse and ran like f^&%.....all we ever found was the base of the extinguisher 4 inches underground.
A brave man talking about making explosives, have you seen the news recently ::) Bet armed response are on their way as we speak, if not they should be. How can you sit on the net and describe how to make such a thing....................No further comment.