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Obi Wan said:
I used to have dozens of those boxes of minature plastic soldiers, covering all different eras and wars. Used to love those. Apart from when it took about an hour to set up a battle scene, then our dad would come in from work, accidentally trample all over them and then throw a handful in the fireplace in a rage because he hurt his feet. <laugh>
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I used to often find chewed up lumps of plastic behind the settee where the dog had pinched a soldier
 
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Anybody old enough to remember Biggles books? Must have almost read most of them when I was a wee slip of a lad.

Amazed I am not a dyed-in-the-wool racist after a steady diet of stories of savages, chinkies and coolies from Burma, Malaya and Indonesia, as a young lad. Always had a slight mistrust of Germans and Japanese though.
 
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JakartaToon said:
Anybody old enough to remember Biggles books? Must have almost read most of them when I was a wee slip of a lad.

Amazed I am not a dyed-in-the-wool racist after a steady diet of stories of savages, chinkies and coolies from Burma, Malaya and Indonesia, as a young lad. Always had a slight mistrust of Germans and Japanese though.
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Errrr, my Old Man told me about them……

:bandit:

Anyone remember the Jennings books?

On the comic front I can remember getting the Hurricane which featured Hurry of the Hammers and then Tiger which had Roy of the Rovers.

A few years down the line I used to get 2000AD which was a bit of a ‘cult’ comic amongst students when I was doing my degree.
 
JakartaToon said:
Anybody old enough to remember Biggles books? Must have almost read most of them when I was a wee slip of a lad.

Amazed I am not a dyed-in-the-wool racist after a steady diet of stories of savages, chinkies and coolies from Burma, Malaya and Indonesia, as a young lad. Always had a slight mistrust of Germans and Japanese though.
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Erm.......got a few in the loft with a ton of Victor annuals if you want them :bandit:
 
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I remember finding a carrier bags full of mags when walking dog before work. Put them straight in car so my misses did see them. Got to work and put them on our bait table. They were Gay mags. . I got some stick. Funny as they slowly vanished from out mag locker.
 
JakartaToon said:
Anybody old enough to remember Biggles books? Must have almost read most of them when I was a wee slip of a lad.

Amazed I am not a dyed-in-the-wool racist after a steady diet of stories of savages, chinkies and coolies from Burma, Malaya and Indonesia, as a young lad. Always had a slight mistrust of Germans and Japanese though.
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Reminds me of when I tried to read one of Ian Fleming's Bond books, I gave up when it got to the point where every other word was negro. I distinctly remember some really awkward sex scene of Bond boning a black lady, and Fleming describing Bond's pale skin mixing with the woman's blackness creating beige sex....or some other such drivel.
 
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JakartaToon said:
Anybody old enough to remember Biggles books? Must have almost read most of them when I was a wee slip of a lad.

Amazed I am not a dyed-in-the-wool racist after a steady diet of stories of savages, chinkies and coolies from Burma, Malaya and Indonesia, as a young lad. Always had a slight mistrust of Germans and Japanese though.
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Im sure chinkies is on thr banned list these days.

I fancy some Asian cuisine tomorrow to be fair.
 
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