It was my birthday last week.
Despite being, in my opinion, too old for presents, I got money from my old man "to keep you going" he said as it fell out of the card.

the upshot is, I got a tank of petrol for my birthday. Not even really that much petrol either.

I miss the days of getting excited by a plastic gun that made sparks.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 5:09, 9 replies)

I had a spark gun
It was amazing! Firing sparks on your tongue was the height of coolness
(Dr Zoidberg is going for a scuttle, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 7:22, closed)

I had one too
Got it on my 5th birthday along with a big bar of chocolate.

My mum once used it (the gun, not the chocolate) to light the gas on the cooker because she'd ran out of matches. That wasn't a good trick to show a 5 year old.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 8:04, closed)

Oh man! I had totally forgotten about plastic spark guns
i'm amazed my parents bought me such noisy annoying things.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 9:34, closed)

Yeah- I'd completyely forgotten too.
THey were ace! My brother and I had one each. Drove my mum batshit-mental running round the house in the dark with 'em.
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 14:45, closed)

You could obtain a spark gun and fire it into the petrol tank next you fill up
THAT'd be exciting.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:13, closed)

Damn you Juan
You beat me to that one!
(AndyC4m Eject Eject [><], Mon 4 Oct 2010, 14:08, closed)

You have to get up VERY early
to be as silly as this!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 14:20, closed)

fuck me
what do you put in that then? orange? lemonade?
(shinypurplebit booked his tickets (yay) on, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 23:35, closed)

tank
Yep i would have been excited if i had learned i was getting a tank for my birthday when i was 8. Bit disapointing when its a tank of diesel as happened this year
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 12:22, closed)