Did anyone ever use a ghetto blaster with batteries?
I assumed that the manufacturers just put them there as some sort of joke.

A proper ghetto blaster, mind. The ones with roughly the same weight and dimensions as a fully stacked hod.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 12:38, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Me, it took those fat round batteries - about 12 at a time.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 12:40, Reply)

Heavy "D" and the boys

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 12:42, Reply)

Bit like YMs.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 12:42, Reply)

+vibrator

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 12:43, Reply)

Nah, that's powered by a two-stroke.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 12:45, Reply)

Could you get through a whole c90 without it running out?
I've still got this badboy in a cupboard somewhere.


( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 12:45, Reply)

I like the spoilers

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 12:46, Reply)

And the mains lead.
Might actually be of some use nowadays, you could probably stick it in an electric car charging point.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 12:49, Reply)

that's a BEAST
I prefer the more traditional silver, taller ones though
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 12:50, Reply)

Yeah.
I quite liked the look of some of the more cheap and nasty ones because they just went daft with their supposed bells and whistles.

Apparently some of the Amstrad HiFi's back in the day used to have planks of wood behind the speaker grilles to give the impression of 3 way speakers but behind that there was just one cone.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 12:54, Reply)

Alan Sugar:
conforming to negative racial stereotypes since 1984
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 13:07, Reply)

Black people on the street did obvs

( Peej, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 12:47, Reply)

We sure did!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 12:51, Reply)

Bludklut, in kingston we dont be havin no electricity for da music in da market.
Boy, doncha know nobody be lookin at your trades if you ain't got no muzik to get da juices flowin
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 13:13, Reply)

However in neighbouring Richmond, they *do* have electricity - it's a postcode lottery!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 28 Jun 2013, 13:20, Reply)