I can still smell them

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• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  We used to just lay those strips on the ground and throw rocks at 'em. Good times.

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• AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I played with them few months back. How old am I?

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• dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  as a poor kid with lots of cousins born in the early 90s who got a shitton of hand me downs, oh yeah

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• JordanZ@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I still have one of these around here somewhere…it smells exactly as you’d imagine.

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  • Xella@lemmy.world ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    One of the coolest toys to have existed.

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• imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I know what they are but I have never seen them in real life nor used them. I had these:

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  • cdf12345@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I grew up with both, the paper ones were nice for “other” destructive purposes. And that you had a ton of shots on a roll.

    The rings were nice because they always stayed in alignment. The paper ones would sometimes lose their pacing and the hammer would hit the spaces between the dots.

    I remember seeing plastic 12 shot rings too.

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  • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wow, I remember having a revolver, it was loads of fun as a kid to actually have the shots go off. Probably infuriating to the adults, which may be why I rarely had any.

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    • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The revolver I had constantly burned my hand. Whenever it hit the “bullet”, sparks went straight towards my hand. Still, totally worth the pain.

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    • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Naw, the adults were at home. We were outside. 

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  • wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can I ask you when you were born? Because I remember using the paper strips when I was really young and then at some point they dissapeared and got replaced by those plastic rings. I was born in 94.

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    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      92, Baltics

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    • Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I used both. Am from 93.

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    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      similar age. I used both. I think the strips did get harder to find at the dollar store when I got older

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    • sulgoth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I can see why they went to the rings. You could do the whole strip with a thumbnail if you were a young idiot.

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  • GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They sold these and the strips next to one another at the dollar store when I was a kid. Born '95

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    During the pandemic, percussion caps for black powder guns were unavailable and I got those types of caps to work marginally well.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  • Step 1: Be a kid given a cap gun as a toy
  • Step 2: Pull the trigger two or three times
  • Step 3: Go find a hammer

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  • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I used to run my thumbnail across them. My fingertips were constantly black and smell like fireworks/hotdogs.

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  • LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pop the whole roll at once.

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Light it on fire… or so a friend told me

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    • Step 3: Go find a hammer

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  • Zomg@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We used the scrape them on the sidewalk with a rock

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  • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is that why afterwards they put the explody paper in those plastic revolver rings?

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    • greenbit@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Opening them, inserting all the powder into one. Russian roulette as a kid was a bit of a fucked up thing back then …

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    • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I thought that was just a different type, but you might be right. Not sure when each of those products were released.

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• ScottThePoolBoy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A friend and I had the bright idea to hit a whole roll of those with a hammer. We also were smart enough to know that it should be on something hard, like a garage floor. We also knew that we didn’t want anyone to see us. So, we made sure all the garage doors were good and shut. I swear, it literally blew his hair back, and my ears have been ringing ever since.

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  • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We did the same thing, but I was the smart dumbass who knew that’s how you lose fingers, so I had us hide behind a board and drop a bowling ball into it. It cracked the fucking ball! My parents were livid

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    • moonburster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Thanks for doing my intrusive thoughts

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    See? Scotty doesn’t know…about toy safety and hearing protection! This is why OSHA would be upset!

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    • Hazmatastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I gave these to my son to play with in a cap *** in 2008 when he was 8. He’s hardly old as shit. But I am.

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  • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    If you’re old as shit, then I’m older than shit, but I’m not old so you’re not old either.

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  • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you for making me feel younger (I’m 26). XD

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• Tedesche@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you see these and think, “I have no idea what those are, no cap,” you’re too young to be on the internet, go back to playing Roblox.

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• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cap gun caps?

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  • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep. We used to wrap the whole roll around a coin, then cover that up in sellotape and lob them over the fence at school, makes a good bang!

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I had at least a few and they never fucking fired right like 95% of the time. The clack of the hammer was louder than the damn cap itself.

  Later I got one of those that takes an orange revolver style cap set and they were so much more reliable. Except you ran out of ammo in like 3 seconds and getting a parent to go buy more of those expensive ass refill things was nearly impossible.

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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember it well…

  The smell of the gunpowder. In the play room.

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• a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Walmart sells these today. Free delivery.

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• Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Those were the newer ones.

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• duncan_bayne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I know what they are, spent pocket money on them, and loathe them. Ring caps are far more reliable (albeit more expensive; always a topic of debate when said pocket money was $3 / month).

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  • curiousaur@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The paper cap guns just need to be maintained. You have to clean out the residue that builds up or the paper won’t cycle smoothly through it.

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    • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      NOW you tell me.

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    • h3ll3rsh4nks@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      True but it’s also easier to pretend you’re a grizzled noir detective reloading his snub nosed revolver when you use ring caps

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    • duncan_bayne@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The experience I had was that the hammer wasn’t consistently firing the caps. Perhaps I just had a couple of bad guns? Either way, nothing like those reliability issues with ring caps.

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• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You can still buy these.

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• Canopyflyer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I can smell them too.

  It was fun to take a hammer and hit the entire roll at once. They actually made quite the noise.

  For reference, I was born in 1970 so yeah I grew up with those things.

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  • 0x0@infosec.pub ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We used to roll them out like trumps red carpet for maduro, grab some coin and just rip all of them in sequence, wonderful smell

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    • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m still slightly wary of them after (mildly) burning a knuckle attempting a whole strip

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• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  All I know is that they smelled good.

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  • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You mean the sulfur?

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah.

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• thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I shit practically every day, so tell me again how old I am?

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  • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Joke is flying over my head. Which age group shits poorly?

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• Frostbeard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  To all the “hammer people”. What you do is you fold it lengthwise down the middle (opening each “dot”) and then carefully pack several rolls into a cylinder. Let say the plastic cylinder these things came in. Then use electrical tape and tape it good and tight. Preferably several cylinders. Remember to put in a fuse. A rubber band clipped open will work in lieu of a proper fuse.

  These things blows like flash bangers

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  • vortexsurfer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes! I did this so many times as a t(w)een! Good times.

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  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wrap the strip tightly around a penny and then tape the whole thing is what I used to do. Remarkably potent when tossed on the ground.

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  • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I feel like a video of this in action would be classic 2000s internet.

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    • Frostbeard@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A scene that would have gone viral was when were 12 four of us pooled our money and bought a display box of the rolls.

      What commenced was an conveyer belt style production of the things. Being total idiots we had no real idea what we were doing so we taped together several cylinders and while one packed the rest folded. The “packer” used that back end of a fork to get the stuff real tight in the cylinder and since he was sitting with it between his legs in the crotch area he started simulating masturbation with the fork as an attempt to amuse. (Did I mention we were 12 AND idiots?)

      What happens was that the friction of cource ignites the damn thing. Luckily it was early in the production so he did not set of much. What happened was teared jeans, some spectacular brucing and a visit to the emergency room. No permanent damage.

      The thing is I still work with explosives in a professional capacity and I found that these things are still being sold… P1 pyrotechnic articles, “low hazard” so its still not to late to go viral…

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• SirDankbud@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you know what these are, your knowledge has capped!

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• orenj@lemmy.kde.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh huh, these came up in conversation at work this week. We smelled something nearly identical while some folks were welding something.

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• BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Haha, bought a couple of rolls of these recently to show the kids. Can’t believe no-one’s mentioned penny bangers yet. Take a roll, fold in half lengthwise and wrap radially around a penny, tape off the end, then throw it hard against a hard surface.

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• Noite_Etion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Can still smell the burnt sulphur

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I always wanted to see what would happen if I lit one of these on fire.

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  • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s fun enough, but not as fun as you would think. Better to use them the right way.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You mean, like this?

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• Cyclist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You can still get the plastic revolver style.

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah these rolls were way better though you got a lot more shots too.

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    even as a kid I disliked the waste

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Look who’s back shitposting!

  We missed you, Mickey.

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Looks like really shitty sandpappers/insulation tape.

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• Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hey!

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  • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had an idiot friend as a kid who set some off by hitting them against a metal gas canister and I ran away 'cause I thought it was going to explode lol

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is why we have to pay extra for dental.

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• saigot@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So is it basically the inside of a Christmas cracker?

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