Aye, it was as described. The rubber applicator needed skilful usage if you were to get a sufficient amount of the evil stuff on the paper without contaminating your hands with it. It must have been a by-product of the fish processing industry, made with the bones or summat. It wasn’t of sniffable quality. Had no active ingredients and was completely rank. Now the stuff we used to affix Airfix with. That was worth sniffing.
Was it white or are you more senior than myself? If it was white then getting it on your hands was the whole point. Then you could try and peel it off in one piece to leave Silence of the Lambs style skin gloves everywhere
My brother used to wear those and worse on an evening when heading out to various nefarious dens of iniquity in town during the 70s, thats why his feet are so ugly nowadays! Those plus 5 button waistband flares of course.
That's your bog standard PVA. My Dad used to tell me to 'stop genning' if I was whining about something.
They say fashions go around in circles. But some things, like these erm, 'shoes' will thankfully never return. Another one. Could you ever envisage footballers wearing tight little shorts again???
At the time most club goers were dressed in a similar manner so nothing unusual, and although being ridiculed now they are history, unlike the practice of wearing caps back to front.
10 years ago Mrs BT laughed at the shocking furniture we had in the background of pictures when I was about 5.... Today she went out and paid a ridiculous amount of money to buy the very same style.....
You wonder how people could be so daft as to support the Allams. Then you see their is stupidity everywhere. http://www.private-eye.co.uk/mediaballs
To get back on topic, that distinguished son of Norwich, Alan Partridge, is back at the Beeb. 9:30pm BBC 1 tonight. Jurassic Park. Back of the net!
