Photos from the "old days"
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Belorussian countryside. A friend took this photo today. Facebook (won't embed)
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More of the Belorussian winter (from the same friend). Also from FB.
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puredrifting
Major Contributor
Very cool looking. DLD, is that Plasticine the same stuff that the Beatles would be singing about in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?
You know, "Plasticine Porters with looking glass eyes"?
You know, "Plasticine Porters with looking glass eyes"?
I went-a-lookin'.
http://www.thebeatleshk.com/SongStories/LucyInTheSkyWithDiamonds.html
As a side note, Plasticine (or Plastilin, as it's called in Russian) is probably what every Soviet kid had in preschool. Below is what my set was (if I can remember something from over 50 years ago). I was never that good in sculpting things out of it. I think I tried making toy hand gun but it wasn't very stable and the barrel tended to quickly fall off.
But, now thinking about it, I remembered the smell! It was probably the die.
Gord.T
Still "Senior Member"
Yeah, the barrels were always tricky. I remember to this day accidentally breaking a potato in the sandbox when I was about 3. I am not kidding. It was devastating to me...for life apparently. I've never forgotten that.
Joking wise: Yeah, making potatoe guns are tougher than they sound.
Joking wise: Yeah, making potatoe guns are tougher than they sound.
puredrifting
Major Contributor
I went-a-lookin'.
http://www.thebeatleshk.com/SongStories/LucyInTheSkyWithDiamonds.html
As a side note, Plasticine (or Plastilin, as it's called in Russian) is probably what every Soviet kid had in preschool. Below is what my set was (if I can remember something from over 50 years ago). I was never that good in sculpting things out of it. I think I tried making toy hand gun but it wasn't very stable and the barrel tended to quickly fall off.
But, now thinking about it, I remembered the smell! It was probably the die.
Looking glass ties dammit, not eyes! Great photo!
Run&Gun
Veteran
I went-a-lookin'.
http://www.thebeatleshk.com/SongStories/LucyInTheSkyWithDiamonds.html
As a side note, Plasticine (or Plastilin, as it's called in Russian) is probably what every Soviet kid had in preschool. Below is what my set was (if I can remember something from over 50 years ago). I was never that good in sculpting things out of it. I think I tried making toy hand gun but it wasn't very stable and the barrel tended to quickly fall off.
But, now thinking about it, I remembered the smell! It was probably the die.
And the sad-ass society that we live in today suspends kids, throws them in jail and wants to have them psychologically evaluated just for making a “finger gun”. Of course, we also used to go outside and actually play- you know, run, jump, swing and climb on things- when it was still okay to fall down on the real ground. Who else remembers playing ‘Army’ or ‘Cops & Robbers’ or, God Forbid, ‘Cowboys & Indians’? I bet they don’t even let them play ‘Hide & Seek’ anymore, because someone said it’s somehow tied to some type of “anti-something” thought or behavior.
ahalpert
Major Contributor
They still play 'Hide & Seek' except now they call it 'Active Shooter Drill'. (I'll probably go to hell for that joke)
When I was in high school, my friends and I were not so imaginative. We just used to pelt each other with oranges from the grocery store, apples in the apple orchard, or goose eggs from the nest under Bryan's porch. (This was all upstate, not the metro area.) Or throw water balloons off the parking garage onto the town parade. We were such miscreants...
When I was in high school, my friends and I were not so imaginative. We just used to pelt each other with oranges from the grocery store, apples in the apple orchard, or goose eggs from the nest under Bryan's porch. (This was all upstate, not the metro area.) Or throw water balloons off the parking garage onto the town parade. We were such miscreants...
This is a "finger gun" we had in the 9th grade.
And I ain't kidding. We had to assemble and disassemble it in under two minutes. (which was a piece of cake, actually) Girls too. (I don't mean we had to assemble and disassemble the girls too but that boys and girls were in the same Military Readiness class ... only boys got to shoot it at the actual Army training ground though ... no earplugs ... and that's a loud MoFo)
Things are so tame now. In grade school, perhaps when I was 10 or 11, we had a gross of M-80s. Each of us would have our pockets full of M80s. We'd light them and throw them at each other. I wonder why I have tinnitus? Now don't confuse M80s with the fake and wimpy M80s of today. M80s were originally made by the military to simulate explosives or artillery fire. Nice! They were made illegal long ago and the fun ended; stupid Child Protection Act, it ruined my youth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-80_(explosive)