You used to be able get all square piece jigsaw puzzles, they were holographic,
you learned where the next piece went by leaning to one side and looking at 'the next piece' that appeared.
I always wanted to own one but at the time (sometimes in the '80s) they were ridiculously expensive for something that each person would only solve once.
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Sat 21 Feb 2009, 17:27,
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I always wanted to own one but at the time (sometimes in the '80s) they were ridiculously expensive for something that each person would only solve once.
all the cool stuff was ridiculously expensive for kids in the 80's
it was always the bastard spawn whose mammy and daddy bought them a BBC/B who had all the expensive toys
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Sat 21 Feb 2009, 17:36,
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I had a Sinclair Cambridge calculator in 1974
and I thought I was DA BOMB until it broke.
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Sat 21 Feb 2009, 17:47,
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crikey, in the space year 1974 you were able to add up numbers!
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Sat 21 Feb 2009, 18:09,
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have you ever seen those fiendishly difficult square one with the exact same picture on the back of them turned through 90 degrees
as that isn't bad enough, they are pictures of things like baked beans
and how fucking tedious is this?
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Sat 21 Feb 2009, 17:50,
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and how fucking tedious is this?