Far too much bike chat at the moment - any bizarre toys you had in a previous life? Outrage as toy company creates 'crystal meth lab' for children with Breaking Bad play sets | Mail Online
Used to race Scalextric cars in my 40's during the 90's. About 10 of us had rooms, garages, lofts with table high permanently boarded out tracks. The outside of the track was levelled with hardboard so wide F1 cars could drift without dropping off the edge of the track and had buildings, scenery and figures. Amstrad computer timing to 1/1000th of a sec. One of the guys wrote the program. Later he wrote in random pit stops, tyre wear and weather,(pull in pits and physically change rear tyres if computer say rain). 16 race championships with cups for top 3. After racing modified cars for a couple of years we ended up using box standard but tuned with hot motors and trued axes and wheels. Qualifying Friday night, race Saturday Afternoon. All got a bit serious plus threats of divorce from the Scalex Widows and fissled out after about 8 years. Great fun but it did take over our lives.
Outrage as toy company creates 'crystal meth lab' for children with Breaking Bad play sets | Mail Online[/QUOTE] Lets cook.
8 years...c'mon it wasnt cars really, it was coke and hookers and that was the ruse to keep wives away...right?!
I've raced on some circuits like that, Wood Green Club that also held the British GP and Holland, both 6 lane, Loughborough and somewhere near Windsor. Did a couple of 24hour races with lights too. Our Championship races were about 50 laps with 7-10 second laps. A good race could have both cars on same lap for the whole race, we were racing, as tense as the real thing. Whereabouts is that track
Yes, our thing got a bit too serious which is probably why it ended. A couple of the guys (2 competitive brothers particularly) would get stroppy if he thought he'd lost a race through no fault of his own(bad marshalling or a fault with his lane etc). A car being lobbed across the room puts a damper on a good fun day. Still got a few hundred cars gathering dust in the spare room, some are quite rare.
I was at an expo in Finland last year . They had a big model car expo racing , scalectrix huge sets. Best one Model drift car racing
So I can't get the Lego Meth lab to go with my massage parlour ( cough) remedial therapy play set ? Boring gits .
As usual the irony is completely over the heads of the repressed uptight journalists at the Daily Mail. It's a bit of light hearted fun which will bought by adult collectors, I doubt it was ever designed as a toy for your average 8 year old.
The Daily Fail is nonsense anyhow. its either so PC its a joke or they have found a wonder drug, or if we eat Jaffa Cakes we will all die it's about fit for loo paper in some outhouse somewhere .
Anyone on here actually watched 'Breaking bad' ? I have seen 3 or 4 of the series as I was lent them. Best thing to come out of America ever imo. Brian Cranston deserves the highest accolades for his performances along with his brother in law ( the cop). I'm looking forward to watching the next series.
Got it from a US colleague years ago when they first came out - but when he left he stopped sending me them Bit of catching up to do
Try looking up Shush.se - Watch TV Shows and Documentaries Online and you'll find lots of tv series and films all FOC, including a Breaking Bad. You will need Flash to watch them though. Enjoy