The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

[Taipan]

They're breeding;

PXL_20220611_123649636 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr
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I don't think I've seen a Fat Willy's Surf Shack sticker since 1991.

Need a Ron Jon for the full house!

[MrLongbeard]

I don't think I've seen a Fat Willy's Surf Shack sticker since 1991.

Old Skool Retro init.
I did also bow to peer pressure and get a T-shirt too

[MrLongbeard]

Need a Ron Jon for the full house!

Nah, but you reminded me to pick up a Fido Dido sticker to add to it

[Mr. Dazzle]

I had a Fat Willy's hoody - my first ever hoody probably - in about 1990. I still don't know who Willy is or the significance of the brand.

[KungFooBob]

I had a Fat Willy's hoody - my first ever hoody probably - in about 1990. I still don't know who Willy is or the significance of the brand.

Up here in the frozen North, in the 90's, a Fat Willy's bumper sticker was the epitome of cool. I'm still not sure why.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I know it must have been 1990 cause we went to Cornwall in the caravan that year. I remember thinking it was weird seeing the same brand back home after I'd got my hoody in a little shop in Cornwall on holiday.

[Count Steer]

I often wondered if people with FWSS stickers and kit thought they were tapping into some kewl American surfing vibe rather than a little outfit in Newquay that just went ballistic for a while (but is still going).

[Pirahna]

In 1995 my parents retired home to Ireland. At some point prior to this my mum noticed that kitchen bin liners were very keenly priced in Woolworths, so she stocked up. Today I've started on the last roll.

[Felix]

Trier Germany has a Woolworth if you are ever passing

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Woo ... authuser=0

[gremlin]

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A sight of pure beauty that brings joy to my heart.

And Gremlinette in the background.

[gremlin]

In 1995 my parents retired home to Ireland. At some point prior to this my mum noticed that kitchen bin liners were very keenly priced in Woolworths, so she stocked up. Today I've started on the last roll.

My FiL did a bit of 'five fingered discount' from the council stores when he retired some years back. Among his haul was a shed load of compostible caddy liners. A year or so into retirement he realised his mistake in respect of this part if his ill-gotten gains as they crumbled to dust when touched in any way what with being compostible and all. They ended up back at the tip albeit via a shifty and circuitous route.

[Dodgy69]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144535778230 ... media=COPY

[weeksy]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144535778230 ... media=COPY

Deffo what you need, the cheapest thing you can find to make fire.!

[Dodgy69]

It's a coffee making machine.

[weeksy]

It's a coffee making machine.

Right up until it's not, then it's an explosion and inferno.

Some things in the world you don't buy the cheapest shittiest thing from China of. Fire makers, well they're top of my list.

[Dodgy69]

I had one of those click and twist ones, that turned into a fire ball, so thought I'd downgrade.

[Count Steer]

I had one of those click and twist ones, that turned into a fire ball, so thought I'd downgrade.

At least it's got a connection hose so you can keep the fire and the bomb separate. Mine (MSR Pocketrocket) just screws into the top of the bomb.

(Got a multifuel that's supposed to run on everything from white gas to aviation fuel. You have to pump that to pressurise the bomb ).

[Mr. Dazzle]

I had one of those click and twist ones, that turned into a fire ball, so thought I'd downgrade.

At least it's got a connection hose so you can keep the fire and the bomb separate. Mine (MSR Pocketrocket) just screws into the top of the bomb.

(Got a multifuel that's supposed to run on everything from white gas to aviation fuel. You have to pump that to pressurise the bomb ).

What were those ones where you had to set a mini fire on the burner so itd get hot enough to start the actual fire?

[Count Steer]

I had one of those click and twist ones, that turned into a fire ball, so thought I'd downgrade.

At least it's got a connection hose so you can keep the fire and the bomb separate. Mine (MSR Pocketrocket) just screws into the top of the bomb.

(Got a multifuel that's supposed to run on everything from white gas to aviation fuel. You have to pump that to pressurise the bomb ).

What were those ones where you had to set a mini fire on the burner so itd get hot enough to start the actual fire?

Didn't you have to do something like that with the old pump up paraffin stoves? They had a circular cup around the burner iirc. My old man had one and I wish I had it, beautiful, heavy brass thing.

[Yambo]

Old army No 1, 2 and 3 burners used pressurised neat petrol.
The HPP (high pressure paraffin) / Tilley lamps used, you guessed it, pressurised paraffin and the silk mantles had to be kept in bundles of less than 50 as they were radioactive (COSHH regs iirc). You put meths in the little bowl to pre-heat them.

Nothing was safe!