Airsoft Doesn't Sleep (Off-topic MADNESS!!) Mod warning in post #1

I just found a couple of old yo-yo's while doing a spot of tidying in my old bedroom, forget this airsoft malarkey, yo-yo's for the win

tell me about it, i remember cracking a friend of mine in the face with a yo-yo when i was a kid, it looked sore

Edit: accidentally of course

Gatling wrote: »

- future mod-bbs firing yo-yo

If you put bb's in between each side of the yoyo, they would then be expelled at speed when you used the yoyo. The string unravelling would propel the bb's out from the disk.

<---runs off to file a patent. Hell, at the very least the japaneese will use it.

bb yo-yos, sounds like a horrible idea, what they're on a string and come flying back at you!??!?!

zero19 wrote: »

I remember the Yo-yo fad...Ah memories lol

Was that with the Coca-Cola, Fanta, etc branded yo-yos? Bright colours, thick white rims? That was mid-eighties, I think. I was in 6th class or thereabouts.

kevteljeur wrote: »

Was that with the Coca-Cola, Fanta, etc branded yo-yos? Bright colours, thick white rims? That was mid-eighties, I think. I was in 6th class or thereabouts.

I was only a wee nipper back then, mid nineties for me lol

sorry fellow airsofters, i know ye will love this, just had to share it...absolutely tears in your eyes priceless...

*/Subject:/* An actual letter to the Canadian passport office....

Dear Mr. Minister,
I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this. How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and knows that I bought a t.v. cable from them back in 1997, and yet, the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date. For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand? My birth date you have on my social insurance card, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 30 years. It is on my health insurance card, my driver's license, on the last eight goddamn passports I've had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off the planes over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that are done at election times.Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Maryanne, my father's name is Robert and I'd be absolutely astounded if that ever changed between now and when I die!!!!!! ****! I apologize, Mr. Minister. I'm really pissed off this morning.. Between you an' me, I've had enough of this bull****! You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my ****in' address. What is going on? You have a gang of Neanderthals assholes workin' there! Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for **** sakes. I just want to go and park my ass on a sandy beach. And would someone please tell me, why would you give a **** whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone! Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other end of the city and get another ****in' copy of my birth certificate, to the tune of $60 !!! Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in the issuance of a new passport the same day?? Nooooo, that'd be too damn easy and maybe make sense. You'd rather have us running all over the ****in' place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some asshole to confirm that it's really me on the goddamn picture - you know, the one where we're not allowed to smile?! (****in' morons) Hey, you know why we can't smile? We're totally pissed off!

Signed - An Irate ****ing Canadian Citizen

.P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture and getting someone to confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this country since 1776 when one of my forefathers took up arms against the Americans. I have served in the military for something over 30 years and have had security clearances up the yingyang. I was aide de camp to the lieutenant governor of our province for ten years and I have been doing volunteer work for the RCMP for about five years. However, I have to get someone 'important' to verify who I am - you know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN COMMUNIST ****ing CHINA !!! Hamilton , Ontario
Canada


strangely...i know exactly how he feels!!! LOL!!!

kevteljeur wrote: »

Was that with the Coca-Cola, Fanta, etc branded yo-yos? Bright colours, thick white rims? That was mid-eighties, I think. I was in 6th class or thereabouts.

yup, mid-90s too, i have a coca-cola branded one and also an Opal Fruits one

Gatling wrote: »

80's TV

A-TEAM
KNIGHT RIDER
DUKES OF HAZZARD(daisey duke)
THE FALL GUY
STREET HAWK(knight rider on a trailey)
MANIMAL
AIRWOLF
MAC GUIVER
HILL ST BLUES
ELECTRO MAN
BLUE THUNDER
THE INVISIBLE MAN (with the watch)
MIAMI VICE(Ferrari cop car that wasnt a ferrari)
BATTLESTAR GALLICTA
BUCK ROGERS
DIFFERENT STROKES
MASH
V
TRIPODS(bbc scifi that used first original computer effects back in the early 80's)
Captain power and the soldiers of the future

Oh I remember MANIMAL. That was a strange and ambitious show. A guy who could transform into any animal. Only problem was...it always happened off screen
I remember/watched all those shows except Electro Man. Odd.

kevteljeur wrote: »

Someone refresh my memory on Time bars?

Perhaps it was 'Time Out' bars or 'Big Time' bars?

http://www.cadbury.com.au/sites/cadbury/index.php?pageId=64

Whhhhhhoa Wispa bars!!! I went mad and bought loads of em when they relaunched them!! they were lovely:D;):)

kevteljeur wrote: »

Someone refresh my memory on Time bars? But I remember the Wham bars alright - more plastic than food!

"Time Bars" were actually "BIG TIME" bars (though no one who ate them ever called them that. A slab of stick hard tofee coated in chocolate substitute that took about six weeks to eat. they cost 10p as I recall, great value

Wham bars on the other hand cost be a fortune in dental work - every single time I got one I managed to lose a frigging tooth to it

Does anyone else remember "flipper" mallows (white chewy things shaped like a dolphin) and "Batman" penny sweets (they came out just after the first Batman flick? Yellow and back bat-emblems).