Boyhood Pastimes

[DRT]

DRT, how do you know what hot rubber bands smell like?

Because I was a child before there were games consoles.

[djewesbury]

DRT, how do you know what hot rubber bands smell like?

Because I was a child before there were games consoles.

So was I. But your childhood sounds so much more desolate and affecting..

[DRT]

DRT, how do you know what hot rubber bands smell like?

Because I was a child before there were games consoles.

So was I. But your childhood sounds so much more desolate and affecting..

Surely you invented things that involved rubber bands and friction when you were a boy?

[djewesbury]

Surely you invented things that involved rubber bands and friction when you were a boy?

*remembers... family friendly forum*
Yes; here were those little balsa / polystyrene aeroplanes with the wind-up propeller. There were catapults. There were some little cars that worked on the aforesaid wind-up propeller principle. Probably there was also just sitting in the grass with an elastic band and winding it round a twig endlessly.

I just don't remember them getting that hot; or, when and if they did, I fail to recall the smell.

I can imagine it however. And it's a useful one to have in the tasting note database.

How did AHB connect it with citrus notes, though?

[DRT]

If you are going to start comparing my tasting note skills with those of AHB I'm taking my rubber bands home and telling my mum.

[djewesbury]

No no stay here with us. Look, I've got a newt in this jar and a really stinky bottle of old claret. Just watch...

[DRT]

Only if you let me pull its tail off.

[griff]

DRT, how do you know what hot rubber bands smell like?

Because I was a child before there were games consoles.

So was I. But your childhood sounds so much more desolate and affecting..

Surely you invented things that involved rubber bands and friction when you were a boy?

I recall a single case study experiment performed by a 10 year old boy titled "Can rubber be reformed after melting rubber bands?" The main finding was serendipitous. The surface used on a 1980s Tefal frying pan wasn't, as advertised, non-stick.

[DRT]

I recall a single case study experiment performed by a 10 year old boy titled "Can rubber be reformed after melting rubber bands?" The main finding was serendipitous. The surface used on a 1980s Tefal frying pan wasn't, as advertised, non-stick.

I really miss melting things. It was a boyhood passion. I was especially fond of melting and casting lead on the gas hob in the kitchen using a Heinz soup tin as the crucible. Melting crisp packets over a coal fire to around 10% of original size and still being able to read the print was an art form.

Don't get me started on cutting worms in half.

[djewesbury]

I recall a single case study experiment performed by a 10 year old boy titled "Can rubber be reformed after melting rubber bands?" The main finding was serendipitous. The surface used on a 1980s Tefal frying pan wasn't, as advertised, non-stick.

I really miss melting things. It was a boyhood passion. I was especially fond of melting and casting lead on the gas hob in the kitchen using a Heinz soup tin as the crucible. Melting crisp packets over a coal fire to around 10% of original size and still being able to read the print was an art form.

Don't get me started on cutting worms in half.

Good lord. I had forgotten doing both these things. I melted lead to make small toy soldiers, but I had a special crucible from the toy shop. I doubt children today are allowed to melt lead. Madness. Never did me any harm!! Except my mother was a chef and freelance caterer and the kitchen was, in theory, out of bounds. She could smell burnt toast 5 hours after the event.

[DRT]

Never did me any harm!!

[Alex Bridgeman]

Oi! Stop hijacking a proper serious thread!

Does anyone mind if the discussion of boyhood passions gets moved to the Other Discussions forum?

[djewesbury]

Oi! Stop hijacking a proper serious thread!

Does anyone mind if the discussion of boyhood passions gets moved to the Other Discussions forum?

Meaningless Drivel would be appropriate...

[Alex Bridgeman]

This thread was split from a tasting note of the James McCabe Crusted Port bottled 1984 to save on thread drift!

[griff]

I recall a single case study experiment performed by a 10 year old boy titled "Can rubber be reformed after melting rubber bands?" The main finding was serendipitous. The surface used on a 1980s Tefal frying pan wasn't, as advertised, non-stick.

I really miss melting things. It was a boyhood passion. I was especially fond of melting and casting lead on the gas hob in the kitchen using a Heinz soup tin as the crucible. Melting crisp packets over a coal fire to around 10% of original size and still being able to read the print was an art form.

Don't get me started on cutting worms in half.

In Australia, melting things in the playground was fun. Magnifying glasses were extremely effective. I also had a strange penchant for melting the wax encasing my mini Babybel cheese and sealing notes

[DRT]

Magnifying glasses were extremely effective.

Previously...

Don't get me started on cutting worms in half.

[griff]

Magnifying glasses were extremely effective.

Previously...

Don't get me started on cutting worms in half.

You shouldn't be embarrassed. It is the cutting edge of science.

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/early ... 03137fce56

[DRT]

I didn't realise at the time how pioneering my research was

[griff]

I didn't realise at the time how pioneering my research was

From little things, big things grow