Than yourself entertained children in the USSR
Today I want to continue my masterpiece attributes of our childhood that have been unjustly forgotten in the previous post, and from which we often receive from parents. So sit back and get ready to taste the glorious minutes of nostalgia.
Slingshots
Who remembers homemade slingshot? They were of two kinds: Classical and drills. Classic cut from thick branches forked hazel, bought a gray harness at the pharmacy, got a piece of skin (you can cut a secret home of a traveling bag and put the blame on his sister) and all held together with copper wire or blue tape.
Charges such slingshot smooth pebbles, which is often brought into the courts with sand or unripe berries of mountain ash type, plums or cherries, which grow freely in the house. Sometimes power shots stone enough to smash a champagne bottle with three meters. This slingshot appreciated due to the fact that not everyone lacked the skills and resources to create it. It can be exchanged for other valuable things like inserts from Turbo, CinCin and Final90.
Walking and nothing to do, it was possible to make a slingshot easier - keyed. For this purpose it was necessary to find a dump thick aluminum wire braided and find flagellum. With the latter was not a problem - easily extracted from the panty elastic. The newer briefs - the better flagellum. This shot slingshot dowels - bent horseshoe pieces of copper or aluminum wire. Specialty harm she did not cause, but the pigeons and cats poshugat was approx. Sometimes this slingshot became the last argument in the yard brawls - thigh cauterize it's great! Basically just shot in the air, enjoying the sound of the flying key. This slingshot going for one day and night, usually merged mate for "drive on the bike."
Squirtwoman What do you think is sikalka? Something from the word "pee". It is. It is a popular melee yard water "fight" to the era of the emergence of disposable syringes in pharmacies.
sikalka masters of the empty bottle out of shampoo or liter plastic bottle "Whites." In a traffic jam on a hot plate and nail to make the holes there ballpoint pen inserted half without rod. All this is sealed with putty or clay. Bottle poured into water (for the first time at home after - from a pipe under the balcony) and squirting the opponent. It was an alternative to expensive and scarce water gun.Incidentally, sikalki was very cool to quench their thirst.
Darts The game "Darts" played just lazy. We also loved as a child throw darts. But that's just not sell them or they cost a lot of money.Therefore, almost any boy in our backyard could make it myself. Dart on their flight and vtykatelnym quality to receive no worse factory. See how we did them
A piece of paper, 4 matches, needles, stationery glue and thread. On the wall hung a homemade carpet target of notebook sheet and played. Once my friend and I were playing darts at my house and they had an argument. He threw a dart of anger in me and stuck it into his hand, and I hit him in retaliation in the stomach.
Outdoors made more darts of welding electrodes. Sharpened at one end of the kerbstones and another primatyvali doves feathers.Thrown into wooden doors and trees.
Boomerang Yes, it is now easily possible to buy any form of a boomerang in the store. And in the late '80s did not sell anything like that. We got out of the situation in the following way: buying stationery in two 30-cm wooden ruler and twisted their cross tape, and then at home steaming twisted blade. Obtained excellent boomerang that could even come back! They, again, frightened crows and pigeons. And ran from the ninth floor, where I lived all my childhood.
Plevatelnaya tube or harkalka Another boy was an essential attribute of a metal tube for spitting plasticine balls or mastic. Get a tube was very difficult, and she was highly regarded in the yard. Right on the tube lepilsya large supply mastic or clay from which pinch off a piece and charge the phone. Besides moral damages such spitting nothing gets in his victim. Later replaced by a tube from the rod blank gel pens, and clay - millet or buckwheat.
Knives I think every boy's childhood was a folding knife. It was always a matter of pride. His treasured away from his mother's eye and often carried into the street. The knife was constantly in the sand, remember? And all because he was only an instrument for playing the "knife."
Versions of the game were many, but most often played "zemelku", "Tank Battle". Each game was a lot of varieties. For example, "zemelku": draws a circle, divided it equally by the number of participants. Each stood on his land. Then he stuck a knife in the standing portion of the enemy and cut off a piece of his land. "Advance" (not stuck) - move to another crossing. And by the same rules we had all the time to stand on their land as long as you can. On the other - could stand outside, but in the event of a catastrophic reduction in your area, the enemy offered you three seconds to stand on it. If you can not resist - is eliminated. Could even stand on his toes of one foot - the main hold for three seconds. More interesting and long was the game of "Tank Battle". Recall its rules will not, but here's the form of a knife - remember that for the tank was placed in such a way?
Gunpowder "Semidyrka" Extracted we close it Zavolzhskaya from landfills, which in the Red Yar, near the sewage. Valiant military arsenal with overthrown under the open sky, these little yellow things that we collected. And once we were brought into the yard sand. Not just sand and a tubular powder. Of course, its concentration was small, but you can have 15 minutes to dial a handful of gunpowder. Apparently kamazist decided not to bother with sand and cherpanul it near landfills. So go to a landfill for a dozen kilometers we no longer had - Arsenal came directly under the windows.
What do we do with him? So many things: wrapped with foil and put on other "semidyrki" torched, and gunpowder in foil turned into a rocket. Just burned, making wicks for firecracker and so on.
Bombs As children we are already in full use condoms. Just not on purpose. Those who lived higher up periodically "bathed" passers-by dropping them on the huge balls of water, three-liter four. Specially frostbitten added potassium permanganate there.
Lamps and kinescopes Sin was not discarded in the trash beat fluorescent tube. They broke with a loud bang, if you throw a lamp on the asphalt ends. On the ecology of thought then.
But this find in the garbage was extremely rare and always brings great joy boys. toss up who will throw the first brick in the upper bulb (CRT beam gun). She was the most vulnerable point of the picture tube. When the bulb broke - kinescope collapse due to internal vacuum inside with very dull cotton, echoing courtyards. Neighbor boy immediately came running to look at this action. But often we find kinescopes already with a broken lamp.
Chafers Search beetles we have already started in April. Walked into the woods with a shovel and dig them out of the land. Chafers were very valuable in the yard while they were alive. Stuffed them full of cans. And even distinguished by the color of their heads: red - firefighters, black - workers. Were still with a greenish tint - border guards. Long mustache - male, short - female. Once in the yard was a rumor that the pharmacy take money nadkrylki beetles. Next I will not continue - it could be called genocide. Wings ultimately not accepted.
Gun All was the same legal weapon factory production. Remember what he shot?
Peace culture
From the peaceful hobbies recall braids out and colored wire. Found a piece of telephone cable and derbanit it.
Magnifying glass loupe considered one of our great treasures - using it and could see the beetle, and a bonfire in sunny weather Kindle. The latter function is used much more often. The larger the loop, so it is more productive in this regard.
