The Reaction Game

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The Reaction Game
Created by Liam_Main on Sat 04 Jun 2011, 9:30 pm

Yeah, it's too long as well. might confuse some people.

Some people get confused very easily

Best to keep a clear mind in this game

well mine is empty so i should be alright

plenty of room here too

Mine's full of paint fumes!

i love paint fumes

That and aviation gas. (only in small doses...)

oh and those white board pens .................... i ,love them

and freshly laid asphalt of course, right Swanny?

Oh indeed LB!

is that tar-mac ?

yes it is, thanks... tar love!

tar tar for now ....................................

Good Morning. Read any good books/comics lately?

Stevo - Mike Stephensons autobiography

Good read? A nice Yorkshire bloke and a top player.

yes i enjoyed it , comes across better then he does on the tv

He probably had a ghost writer. I saw him play a few times as a kid and had his 'footy card'. Can still taste that gum and see this kid shuffling through a huge stack of cards when trading!

loved trading cards as a kid

They had some recently (probably now still) but haven't bought any. Thought twice about it though.

my lad has the football ones , but i refuse to buy any

Found out last year that the makers had never released two super cards that were supposed to be available so you could never complete the set

That's nasty. They were about 5c for 3 cards + gum in the 70s. I think they are about $3 these days.... and no Zac Oleanik!

Yes no gum either !! bloody health and safety

Remember when you gobbled down that gum you'd get that sort of painful air bubble sensation in your cheeks and eardrums?

we used to have this stuff called Anglo Bubbly , it was a hard pink bubble gum in a waxy twisted wrapper . That stuff made your cheeks hurt

yeah, we had something similar. In big squarish pieces.... like a chunky big centipede in segments. Jaws would ache for ages afterwards.

they dont make em like they used to

Nah, all this occ health & safety mumbo jumbo....

some lads were putting up a rope swing in the park the other day and some spoil sports rang the council to get it taken down

That's getting like Singapore. you never see kids kicking a ball there in the open spaces. the council is too scared that parents would sue if they fell over.

i hate the world now

I just saw some kids in a park near here. There's hardly any interesting things set up. Only a sandpit and a few log type things?? A tiny A-frame thing. Did you have those wooden turntables which used to spin around? They were great. Considered too dangerous these days.

the slide in our park is virtually horizontal !

There's this plastic single circular seat (like a flat toadstool) in the park near here. Doesn't spin (I don't think) it looks fixed!

It's getting stupid , soon kids wont be able to play with anything thats simulated on a computer

Maybe there will be a wave of kids with bent backs and poor eyesight?
I was shocked when a mate of mine told me his 2 y.o. spends about 4 hours every morning on youtube. Almost as bad as us, right?

Yes

i read in the news the other day that a clinic in the UK was treating a 4 year old girl for an addiction to using an ipad

That's so sad. Give me Stickle Bricks or Cuisenaire Rods any day.

Oh my! Stickle Bricks!!!! I'd forgotten all about them! Wonder if you can still get them? Might have to investigate that, my niece and nephew would probably love them, me and sis certainly did!

I was thinking exactly the same thing. I hope they're not banned for being too stickley. Good old plasticine is another one. I'm sure they have stuff you can eat nowadays... or prevent tummy aches in case of accidentally having a nibble.

Oh LB, look what I found!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bristle-Block-piece-builder-bucket/dp/B00770JBVA/ref=sr_1_8?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1366971366&sr=1-8&keywords=stickle+bricks

And this...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stickle-Bricks-Sticklebricks-Basic-Set/dp/B00577Y22I/ref=sr_1_3?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1366971999&sr=1-3&keywords=stickle+bricks

Shopping time!!!...

Excellent! Maybe get a couple of buckets?
I remember everyone (back in '71) wanted the stickle bricks first and if you did something bad (i.e. me... on one ocassion) you lost your rights to them for an hour or so.

Just discovered they were first invented in the year I was born

Oh the stickle brick deprivation punishment! that was mean! Kids today just get time on the naughty step

I think I may need to buy an additional bucket to keep at my house... for when the kids are over... obviously...

yeah... good idea. Only 6 buckets left it says but more on the way.

Those cuisenaire rods... I found them at Mum's place a few years ago. Now they are on my shelf. Remember them? Good for learning how to count - colour co-ordinated balsa blocks. Also, you can start with the 10s at the base and build an Eiffel Tower type structure.

1. white
2. Red
3. mid Green
4. Pink
5. Yellow
6. dark Green
7. Black
8. light Brown
9. Indigo
10. Gold-Brown

Different colours shown here.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=cuisenaire+rods&client=firefox&hs=KCi&rls=com.yahoo:en-US:official&channel=rcs&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=7GN6Ude-HKyhiAfxqYDoCQ&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=665

Mine are from 1968 in a plastic box with white base/grey lid.

http://www.vintagenostalgia.com.au/products/vintage-cuisenaire-rods-set

There is one (white) cube missing. I think I can make a new one (match as close as possible).

i miss my slinky

you can get them on the nostaligia website above.
I'd hate it when you got your skin caught between the coils... that hurt!

ouch

or when the coils got bent... that was so depressing!