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	Summer HolidaysThe end of the summer holidays is almost upon us. Tell me your tales of childhood adventures - trains, ghosts, dens, fires, swings, rape....
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 9:57, 148 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
 We had a caravan,
	We had a caravan,fucking horrible. Morning b3ta, how the fuck are you.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:03, Reply)
 Morning hippy. How wuz hawkwind? Any of the geriatric old buggere have an on-stage cardiac?
	Morning hippy. How wuz hawkwind? Any of the geriatric old buggere have an on-stage cardiac?(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:06, Reply)
 It was fucking brilliant, they're really good at the moment.
	It was fucking brilliant, they're really good at the moment.They did 'Motorhead' as an encore which I've never seen them play.
Good stuff.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:08, Reply)
 Not done trips for about 20 years.
	Not done trips for about 20 years.Last I did was psilosybin, absolute mentalist of a night.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:24, Reply)
 I ended up mentally cataloguing all the clothes I owned,
	I ended up mentally cataloguing all the clothes I owned,and cross referencing them with the activities they belonged to. I realised I had on the wrong trousers for tripping, and had quite a bad time of it. Put me off for ever, tru story innit.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:32, Reply)
 Are shrooms illegal now?
	Are shrooms illegal now?Never actually bought any, was lucky to grow up in a rural area, they were just there for the picking. Seem to remember some ambiguity as to their legal status.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:46, Reply)
 same as it's always been
	same as it's always beenthey are legal "as grown"
but if you do any preparation with them (make tea, dry them) they become illegal. Or at least a controlled substance.
I'm not actually sure what happens if you cook with them.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:49, Reply)
 how can something that grows naturally be illegal?
	how can something that grows naturally be illegal?that's fucked up, chief. What happens if you fall face down on one and accidentally nom it?
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:51, Reply)
 They'd never bollock a farmer for having them grow on his land
	They'd never bollock a farmer for having them grow on his landbut people exploited the law and sold them openly in shops, in tupperware or metal takeaway tubs so the law was changed.
I bought shitloads from a shop the day before the law changed and got an amazing deal.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:53, Reply)
 It was fucking ace for that brief period when you could just pop into town for a big bag of shrooms.
	It was fucking ace for that brief period when you could just pop into town for a big bag of shrooms.(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:55, Reply)
 They were taking the piss though, the law had been 'fine' for years
	They were taking the piss though, the law had been 'fine' for yearsuntil they started selling them on Oxford St.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:56, Reply)
 woah
	woahyou could buy something good on Oxford Street? I'm not fucking surprised they changed the law, can't have that sort of shit going on.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:58, Reply)
 So now you have to go back to the old foraging ways.
	So now you have to go back to the old foraging ways.It's not like the legal status of a drug ever affected its use.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:01, Reply)
 You ever tried Fly Agaric?
	You ever tried Fly Agaric?Just done that one the once, was the weirdest time mate, ended up drinking our own pee because as it's a poison, your body is desperately trying to expel it, and one way is through urine. Not sure on the legal status of that either.
Re the how can it be illegal, if it grows naturally thing, hemp is a natural product, and it's illegal. If it comes to that, ergot, the mould on bread is natural, and I'm not sure on the legal status of that. Ergot is a major constituent of acid, btw.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:06, Reply)
 This place gets absolutely covered in Fly Agarics when they're in season:
	This place gets absolutely covered in Fly Agarics when they're in season:countryparks.warwickshire.gov.uk/country-parks/pooley-country-park/
Check out pic 9 in the slide show.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:12, Reply)
 hemp isn't strictly illegal
	hemp isn't strictly illegalthe legal status of the plant itself, if growing naturally, is a bit complex I think. Cultivating it for the purposes of getting off your box on it is illegal.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:13, Reply)
 There's an excellent book on the subject, "The Emperor wears new clothes", by Jack Herer.
	There's an excellent book on the subject, "The Emperor wears new clothes", by Jack Herer. The guy's name is also a brand of weed, it won the Cannabis Cup I think , when I was over in Holland. It may not have done, because I was a bit smashed. If you're interested in shrooms, "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross", is a good one.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:17, Reply)
 I can relate to this.
	I can relate to this.The first time I was in Amsterdam, I think I was 17, I got hold of some white widow and things got .. interesting.
lol massivedrugzors. I also boffed a supermodel, natch.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:25, Reply)
 If it was white widow, I imagine the 'interesting' consisted mainly of being so monged you were unable to move for some time.
	If it was white widow, I imagine the 'interesting' consisted mainly of being so monged you were unable to move for some time.(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:29, Reply)
 We had to physically drag one of my compatriots through the streets he was so boxed
	We had to physically drag one of my compatriots through the streets he was so boxedI also have a photo taken in a pool hall mid-shot in which the cue appears in the photo, perfectly in focus, three times, with no blur in between. Which would suggest white widow is strong enough to affect inanimate objects like film.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:31, Reply)
 Strictly speaking the 'intelligent design' lot should really advocate cannabis use.
	Strictly speaking the 'intelligent design' lot should really advocate cannabis use.(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:18, Reply)
 On my youtube journey on Friday I found Enter Sandman covered by Motorhead
	On my youtube journey on Friday I found Enter Sandman covered by MotorheadVery odd indeed
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:10, Reply)
 I once went on holiday to Cornwall.
	I once went on holiday to Cornwall.It was a long weekend at the close of July 1989. The campsite was a bit rough and ready and some of the other campers were a touch on the grizzled side, but the entertainment at the resort was top notch. I really should tell you about it some time.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:03, Reply)
 OI! I'm a slow typer.
	OI! I'm a slow typer.I was only halfway through replying to the last thread.
Think I'll skip this one and reply to the next one now, try to catch up a bit.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:05, Reply)
 I've seen some adverts that will help.
	I've seen some adverts that will help.Using this one simple trick......
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:23, Reply)
 My childhood adventures consisted of shit boring caravan holidays around the UK with my Dad and his 'new' family.
	My childhood adventures consisted of shit boring caravan holidays around the UK with my Dad and his 'new' family.Usually just after they'd all come back from Florida etc.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:20, Reply)
 I'm beginning to see the origins of your crippling depression.
	I'm beginning to see the origins of your crippling depression.Tell us about your relationship with your mother.
*psychoanalyses*
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:25, Reply)
 I don't think they are the origins.
	I don't think they are the origins.I think I have been OK until recently.
*Does Rorschach Test* 'A vagina! A big hairy Vagina that hates me!'
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:27, Reply)
 We always used to borrow a double-decker bus, convert it to a holiday caravan, then drive across Europe, ending up in Athens.
	We always used to borrow a double-decker bus, convert it to a holiday caravan, then drive across Europe, ending up in Athens.Often we'd pick up some girl hitchhikers and occasionally a girl pretending to be a boy.
Then we'd all sing songs.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:20, Reply)
 I need to get to London in October
	I need to get to London in OctoberBut the train fare from Cornwall is fucking shocking and busses are full of druggies and alcoholics.
Oh childhood rapes, well you know how America and Britain have this "Special Relationship" well that what Uncle Frank used to tell me we had so I wouldn't tell mum.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:28, Reply)
 I went from London to Cornwall and back.
	I went from London to Cornwall and back.I drove.
Hope this helps.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:33, Reply)
 Don't think so, unless your car uses more than, what's the price of a train ticket, a tun?
	Don't think so, unless your car uses more than, what's the price of a train ticket, a tun?That's a lot of fuel.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:13, Reply)
 1st class Nottingham to London + return
	1st class Nottingham to London + returncosts all three of us costs about £135, well did last time I booked
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:22, Reply)
 I would normally agree with you, but in London their a bloody hindrance for a visitor
	I would normally agree with you, but in London their a bloody hindrance for a visitoreasier just to use the Tube to get about
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:34, Reply)
 Well I would need to first buy a car
	Well I would need to first buy a carthen tax and insure it, then put fuel in it.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:25, Reply)
 How do you live in the back end of beyond without a car?
	How do you live in the back end of beyond without a car?I couldn't manage without one and I live in London.
You Worzels confuse me.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:30, Reply)
 My wife has a car
	My wife has a carI cycle a lot. I have no need for a car so I won't waste money on one
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:32, Reply)
 I watched the new seies of "UK pawn stars" last night the went to look at buying a tank
	I watched the new seies of "UK pawn stars" last night the went to look at buying a tankIt had 16 forward gears and 16 reverse gears I thought to myself
"I bet they sold the French a lot of them"
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:40, Reply)
 I can't remember where I heard this.
	I can't remember where I heard this."America is like your uncle who used to molest you as a teenager, but paid for you to go to collage."
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:07, Reply)
 I used to rape ghost trains whilst they were on fire.
	I used to rape ghost trains whilst they were on fire.HTH x
/we used to go and camp in random fields by the river and have fires and drink stolen booze and that and it was all OK because there were NO PEEDOS in the 80s so our parents let us.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:47, Reply)
 There were only Strangers in the 80's, and they were harmless really.
	There were only Strangers in the 80's, and they were harmless really.With all their puppies and sweets. Why all the bad press?
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:49, Reply)
 I'd imagine if you were to rape a train, it would be something like the Orient Express.
	I'd imagine if you were to rape a train, it would be something like the Orient Express.And it doesn't supprise me that the act was so furious that the train caught fire and that the act was momentious that it created ghosts.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:11, Reply)
 Morning all
	Morning allI remember back in the summer of 78/79 after watching Spider-Man Strikes Back at the local cinema we started our very own spider man club which roughly translates as about a dozen 8-9 year old filling their socks with extra socks and jumping of ever increasing higher objects it was great fun till until somebody broke an ankle
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:47, Reply)
 was that the one set in Hong Kong?
	was that the one set in Hong Kong?If so it had an amazing soundtrack IIRC
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:50, Reply)
 I think thats the one I remember it had an actor in it called Pataki that used to make us laugh
	I think thats the one I remember it had an actor in it called Pataki that used to make us laugh(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:52, Reply)
 I would love to see Monty as a bus conductor
	I would love to see Monty as a bus conductor*Storms upstairs, Glares at bunch of teenagers playing tinny music via mobile speaker* "That's FUCKING shit music" *Grabs mobile and repeatedly stamps on it...turns around runs downstairs to a bunch of pensioners* "No FUCKING coffee morning CHAT" *Grabs said pensioners by the collars and throws them off the bus whilst still in motion.....Casts baleful eye around the other passengers*
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:03, Reply)
 And woe betide anyone with dark skin sitting near the front of the bus
	And woe betide anyone with dark skin sitting near the front of the bus(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:07, Reply)
 haha
	hahaV/good
*Face all purple veins pulsing* "Oi you get too the FUCKING BACK OF THE BUS", "Well who's gonna drive the bus if I did that?"
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:13, Reply)
 oh hush
	oh hushI'm polite and mild-mannered in real life as well you know.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:11, Reply)
 I bet you used to fling jizz at each other
	I bet you used to fling jizz at each otherwhilst shouting "go web go"
you disgust me.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 10:50, Reply)
 There was the Summer Of 69.
	There was the Summer Of 69.I believe it was in 1995, where I spent the whole summer creating a human YingYang with women of african decent.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:08, Reply)
 Prince lyrics innit
	Prince lyrics innit"Yeah I was working part time in a five-and-dime
My boss was Mr. McGee
He told me several times that he didn't like my kind
Cause I was a bit 2 leisurely"
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:19, Reply)
 I'll be honest, her choice of attire in that song was questionable
	I'll be honest, her choice of attire in that song was questionableif it was extremely warm I would sugget that the first thing to go would be the headwear, rather than "everything else"
Although it is a good to see a man like Prince doing his bit for "the larger lady"
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:22, Reply)
 We usually went to the south of France or Tuscany, which was lovely
	We usually went to the south of France or Tuscany, which was lovely(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:10, Reply)
 Usually southwest for us.
	Usually southwest for us.First three weeks of every summer holiday, without fail.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:16, Reply)
 Anywhere in Britain with a freezing empty beach where we could sit gibbering eating Sainsbury's own brand salt and vinegar crisps
	Anywhere in Britain with a freezing empty beach where we could sit gibbering eating Sainsbury's own brand salt and vinegar crispsand drinking room temperature lemon squash, before visiting a castle, we made a bee-line for, in my dad's shit fuel-smelling Reanult 4. All with a soundtrack of golden surfing greats, to enhance the irony.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:21, Reply)
 Still, you can't beat Sainsbury's own brand salt and vinegar crisps.
	Still, you can't beat Sainsbury's own brand salt and vinegar crisps.Those things made your nose bleed.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:23, Reply)
 They certainly were
	They certainly wereI remember one supermarket brand did a pickled onion flavoured crisp that was very intense to say the least
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:28, Reply)
 My Dad spent 4 years restoring a Jawa motorbike and side car
	My Dad spent 4 years restoring a Jawa motorbike and side carAnd proceeded to drag me to various Jawa club meetings, that was really embarrassing
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:25, Reply)
 He had a different one originally, but got it swapped out
	He had a different one originally, but got it swapped outwhen it blew its motivator.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:28, Reply)
 In the Summer of '69, I got hold of an  acoustic guitar.
	In the Summer of '69, I got hold of an  acoustic guitar.I taught myself to play it till my fingers were bloody. Truly was, best year of my life.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:21, Reply)
 I'd go on holiday with my mum, brother and grandparents to Brittany.
	I'd go on holiday with my mum, brother and grandparents to Brittany.Mum and brother would be driven by grandmother in her shitty old Volvo, whilst Grandpa would take me in his old Audi coupe. We'd stay in gites and the uncles and their families would stay a week each.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:23, Reply)
 ^French^
	^French^to visit in
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:37, Reply)
 I got shot in the arse with a pellet gun
	I got shot in the arse with a pellet gunStrikethrough bonanza.
This was before the days of the'where there's a blame there's a claim' culture, an to be honest it was my fault anyway as we were trespassing on a farmers field and throwing them massive bails round that they make.
Not warned enough by the dogs he set on us the day before we went back for more, and quite rightly got a pellet to the arse.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:42, Reply)
 My brother shot me in the arse with a Gat Gun once.
	My brother shot me in the arse with a Gat Gun once.'member Gat Guns? 'member?
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:47, Reply)
 I 'member.
	I 'member.Took a rebound to the face with one of those 'darts', 'member them 'darts'? Nearly went Dale Cregan.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:50, Reply)
 Gat guns were shit
	Gat guns were shitnow a black widow catapult with ball bearings for ammo was fucking scary
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:51, Reply)
 I really enjoyed caravan holidays at the time.
	I really enjoyed caravan holidays at the time.Looking back though, they were frightfully depressing places.
Plus my Dad, in an attempt to 'teach me to swim' let me go under the water about 4 times, before pulling me out, when I fell in the deep end trying to push someone in :(
(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:46, Reply)
 Sounds like he was actually teaching you not to be a prick around water :p
	Sounds like he was actually teaching you not to be a prick around water :p(, Tue 27 Aug 2013, 11:49, Reply)
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