Danger Danger!
One of the guys in my office was just telling me how he brought his son a remote control car the other week and within five minutes of giving it to the kid he had to take it back again - His son kept driving it into his legs, the little bugger.

It got me thinking about dangerous toys I had as a kid, I nearly lost an eye during a game of Pop-Up Pirate. Did you ever have any scary experiences with childhood games?
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:03, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I think you're very pretty and have a lovely bubbly personailty.
Can I just avoid eye contact with you for a little while?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:13, Reply)

Why for?
Are you upset because I posted above you? Do you want a cookie?
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:16, Reply)

*confuses* I'm not upset, why'ld I be upset?
yes please, tow-house please.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:24, Reply)

Ignore me, it would take too much
typing to explain!

Why are you avoiding eye contact with me?
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:27, Reply)

It's what I tend to do around lovely people.
In case I get talking to them and they don't like me or something like that.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:28, Reply)

Ah I see
Why thank you mr, I happen to think you're rather lovely too. :)
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:29, Reply)

=)

HIGH FIVE
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:37, Reply)

I dunno if you remember Hopper Poppers?
I had one when I was eleven or twelve. They were made of rubber, almost like half a rubber ball. You'd turn them inside out and put them on the floor and they'd pop up into the air. One day I was messing about and I licked it and stuck it to my forehead, making my brother laugh. It was on there for ages. When I took it off the suction had burst a blood vessel and I had a huge purple bruise in the middle of my forehead for a week.

School was fun. I was an odd child.

Edit: phun.physics.virginia.edu/demos/hopper.html
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:16, Reply)

Hahaha
That sounds exactly like the sort of thing my brother would have done. He once stuck a Lego mans hand up his nose... we never did see it again!!?
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:17, Reply)

Heheh
I was the sensible one :(
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:19, Reply)

Haha me too
Well sort of!?
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:22, Reply)

Jesus, if you were the sensible one, there's no hope.
Now cook my dinner, woman!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:56, Reply)

those things were awesome
and that was a common occurance I think. not to me I hasten to add.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 18:34, Reply)

I had three inches of rusty nail
go through my foot whilst running along a wall in Cheltenham College once. Upon another occasion in Cheltenham College a springy branch sent me flying off another wall about ten feet down onto my head. When I got back from hospital (it was my birthday)my brother and his chums had eaten the engine section of my train cake. The cunts.

However not long after that my brother found a rusty grappling iron which, in an attempt to use it to scale a wall, he threw into the air, and it impaled itself upon his head.

I've also been shot in the arse with an air pistol (brother again) - and had a home made ball of nails and modelling putty pierce my big toe.

Will these do?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:19, Reply)

Christ.
Not so much fulfilling the 'dangerous toys' part of the question there old chap.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:20, Reply)

'scary experiences with childhood games'
was the bit I was responding to, in truth.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:25, Reply)

Its all good
I'm not going to shun you! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:28, Reply)

Haha
They will do indeed. I am slightly afraid of your brother! :S

I've never been shot with an air pistol but I did get shot a whole bunch of times by a 'mate' with a BB gun with ball bearings rather than the plastic balls... they hurt! :(
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:21, Reply)

He was a savage bully
until one magical day when it dawned on both of us that I was now bigger than him. I had him pinned to the floor with my knee on his head and he started crying. From that day on we've been the best of friends - I'd be fucked without him nowadays.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:40, Reply)