Can you still buy that stuff? Magic jelly, but I’d assumed it was discovered to be as toxic as Krypton to Superman and now banned
I used to use Swarfega at work a lot but that was back in the 90s. Not sure if it's still on the go or not? I'm sure Ponders will know
You can still get it, yes. Not that I use the stuff. The dirtiest my hands get at work is chocolate from my mid-morning biscuits. I'm a messy bugger at tiffin time.
This brings back some happy memories of hard graft and then plunging your hands into a vat of Swarfega trying to desperately clean all the oil, grime, corrosion and most likely LSA scale off them. A pointless exercise in futility looking back. Happy Days though.
Since they invented cars which start pretty much every time you put the key in the ignition, I rarely get my hands covered in oil and carbon. Part of me misses the days when cars had engines you had to wrestle with. I had a Morris Ital van that I used to park facing downhill, so I could roll it and start it in 2nd. And a Renault 19 which I would whack the starting motor with a hammer. Happy days.
Young 'uns these days do not know anything except repetitive wrist strain from gadgets and resulting depression. Sweat and hard graft is an alien concept to their minds. We may not have had much back in the late 60s and 70's but we were happy. And if you were "down" you just got told to "pull your socks up and get on with it, there are plenty of people far worse off than you ya little ungrateful ****".
ER's dad Young 'uns these days do not know anything except repetitive wrist strain from ****ing over Twiggy and resulting depression. Sweat and hard graft is an alien concept to their minds. We may not have had much back in the late 20's and 30's but we were happy. And if you were "down" you just got told to "pull your socks up and get on with it, there are plenty of people far worse off than you ya little ungrateful ****".
My dad had an orange Datsun cherry with rust holes in the floor, salting the roads used to eat Jap cars
