We used to just lay those strips on the ground and throw rocks at 'em. Good times.
I played with them few months back. How old am I?
I still have one of these around here somewhere…it smells exactly as you’d imagine.
Edit: Another image for how this thing worked…
One of the coolest toys to have existed.
What about the Slime Pit TM
Hell yeah! I was born like 2 years after this came out so it wasn’t an option for me 😭 I got to experience the other ones through my older cousins though.
as a poor kid with lots of cousins born in the early 90s growing up hanging out in the boonies who got a shitton of hand me downs, oh yeah
I gave these to my son to play with in a cap *** in 2008 when he was 8. He’s hardly old as shit. But I am.
Did you censor that word or is that an instance rule? To be clear, the word was gun not ass, correct?
Cap gun… this Minneapolis thing has me wanting to never say gun ever again. Just broken about it.
Cap ass hahaa
If you’re old as shit, then I’m older than shit, but I’m not old so you’re not old either.
No… we’re vintage.
Thank you for making me feel younger (I’m 26). XD
My childhood was in the 70s and we absolutely loved this caps. Yes we played with them in ***s but also just on the sidewalk with rocks. Did you guys do the rocks method?
If you see these and think, “I have no idea what those are, no cap,” you’re too young to be on the internet.
I remember it well…
The smell of the gunpowder. In the play room.
Those were the newer ones.
Walmart sells these today. Free delivery.
Cap gun caps?
Yep. We used to wrap the whole roll around a coin, then cover that up in sellotape and lob them over the fence at school, makes a good bang!
I know what they are but I have never seen them in real life nor used them. I had these:
I grew up with both, the paper ones were nice for “other” destructive purposes. And that you had a ton of shots on a roll.
The rings were nice because they always stayed in alignment. The paper ones would sometimes lose their pacing and the hammer would hit the spaces between the dots.
I remember seeing plastic 12 shot rings too.
Wow, I remember having a revolver, it was loads of fun as a kid to actually have the shots go off. Probably infuriating to the adults, which may be why I rarely had any.
The revolver I had constantly burned my hand. Whenever it hit the “bullet”, sparks went straight towards my hand. Still, totally worth the pain.
Naw, the adults were at home. We were outside.
If you remember “playing outside” you must be very old.
Can I ask you when you were born? Because I remember using the paper strips when I was really young and then at some point they dissapeared and got replaced by those plastic rings. I was born in 94.
92, Baltics
I used both. Am from 93.
similar age. I used both. I think the strips did get harder to find at the dollar store when I got older
I can see why they went to the rings. You could do the whole strip with a thumbnail if you were a young idiot.
you could also get the whole strip with a thumbnail of you just wanted to have some fun
They sold these and the strips next to one another at the dollar store when I was a kid. Born '95
During the pandemic, percussion caps for black powder guns were unavailable and I got those types of caps to work marginally well.
Oh huh, these came up in conversation at work this week. We smelled something nearly identical while some folks were welding something.
I shit practically every day, so tell me again how old I am?
Joke is flying over my head. Which age group shits poorly?
- Step 1: Be a kid given a cap gun as a toy
- Step 2: Pull the trigger two or three times
- Step 3: Go find a hammer
I used to run my thumbnail across them. My fingertips were constantly black and smell like fireworks/hotdogs.
- Step 3: Go find a hammer
Pop the whole roll at once.
Light it on fire… or so a friend told me
I left mine on the carpet in my room. My mom came in to vacuum one day and thought it was just some scrap paper.
She was not amused by the 2 inch burnt mark it left on the carpet, or the shock it gave her.
Ah reminds me. My dad did smoke. And as tobacco was taxed differently he had once used one of these small sliding machines to put tobacco into “empty” cigarettes, sold separately.
He had stopped using these and was back to store bought cigarettes when I found his cigarettes and the machine.
I carefully pulled out all the tobacco from one of his Camel filters, and put it back in with the sliding machine - adding the tiniest firecracker I had.
Few days later he was sooooo angry. And the angrier he was the more I had to laugh.
It did explode in his ashtray when he was concentrating at his desk.
Oh fuck, thats was over 40 years ago and I still have to laugh like a madman.
Remembering him fondly, even when he was mad as hell at me the worst that would happen was him shouting.
I absolutely guarantee you he told that story to his friends with a huge smile.
We used the scrape them on the sidewalk with a rock
Is that why afterwards they put the explody paper in those plastic revolver rings?
Opening them, inserting all the powder into one. Russian roulette as a kid was a bit of a fucked up thing back then …
I thought that was just a different type, but you might be right. Not sure when each of those products were released.
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I can smell them too.
It was fun to take a hammer and hit the entire roll at once. They actually made quite the noise.
For reference, I was born in 1970 so yeah I grew up with those things.
We used to roll them out like trumps red carpet for maduro, grab some coin and just rip all of them in sequence, wonderful smell
I’m still slightly wary of them after (mildly) burning a knuckle attempting a whole strip
